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

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