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Career Guidance & Development

Career Guidance & Development

Career Guidance & Development

What is career?

A person’s course or progress through life. It also pertains to his occupational  or profession that usually involves special training or formal education and is considered to be a person’s lifework. (Oxford English Dictionary)

What is career development?

Career development is an ongoing process of gaining knowledge and improving skills that will help an individual to establish a career plan.

Having the Right Career Can be a source of great pride:-
  • Give you a positive self-image and sense of accomplishment
  • Determine where you live and who your friends are
  • Largely determine your standard of living

Today’s Generation Students

  • Never plan for the future                      
  • Follow the crowd
  • Choose by influence of others.
  • Accept the parent’s verdict (decision) by force
  • Get tempted by current trends
  • Jump into any career
  • Lack motivation
  • Fail to ‘’discover their lives’’
  • Live in a fantasy world
How you achieving your life’s goals may ultimately depend on the career you choose.

Current Job Trends - When determining which career field is right for you, think about which jobs are in demand now and whether or not those jobs will be in demand in the future.
Some Of the In-Demand Careers are:-

The Most In-Demand Jobs

  • Health and medical services
  • Computer-related and technical fields/Information Technology
  • Education
  • Business and financial fields
  • Agriculture
  • Engineering
  • Human Resources
  • Manufacturing And Logistics

A look at Five chronological Stages of human development  life which may help you in your career choice

●  Growth, which lasts from birth to fourteen;
●  Exploration  lasting  from  age  fifteen  to  twenty  four  with  the  substages  of crystallization, specification and implementation;
●  Establishment  from  twenty  five  to  forty  four,  with  substages  of  stabilization, consolidation and advancing;
●  Maintenance from forty five to sixty four, with substages of holding, updating and innovating;
●  Finally  the  fifth  stage  of  decline  from  age  sixty  five  onwards,  with  substages decelerating, retirement planning and retirement living

The List of Bachelor Degree Programmes (Faculties) & Their Jop Opportunities

Top Quote - Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

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