Career Exploration

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4 Steps Career Exploration and Transition

Step 1: Understand Self - Anatomy of a Self Assessment:
A self assessment should include a look at your interests, values, personality, and skills. Here is an overview of the tools you can use to accomplish this.

Interest Inventories
The questions in an interest inventory ask about your likes and dislikes regarding various activities. The premise of this self assessment tool is that people who share similar interests will also enjoy the same type of work. Examples of interests are reading, running, playing golf, and knitting.

Value Inventories
Value inventories measure how important different values are to you. Examples of these values, which play an important role in one's job satisfaction, include autonomy, prestige, security, interpersonal relations, helping others, flexible work schedule, outdoor work, leisure time, and high salary.

Personality Inventories
A personality inventory looks at one's individual traits, motivational drives, needs, and attitudes. These are important in exploring a career which meets your interest, values and skills apart from personality.

Skills / Aptitude Assessment
In addition to determining what you're good at, a skills assessment also helps you figure out what you enjoy doing. The skills you use in your career should combine all characteristics. You can use the results of the skills assessment to make some changes by acquiring the skills you need for a particular career.

Roles Assessment
Based on your skills and aptitude assessment and your level of education you need to ascertain what will be your current role and what may become your future role.

Preferred Environments
This is equally important to know what environments are preferred to develop and pursue your career.

Developmental Needs
Based on the skills gap, competency gap we need to work on the Developmental Needs. This enables to map role based competencies with your developed skills and competencies

Your realities
This defines the ground realities like how much you would invest to pursue a career of your choice, how much effort you can put in, in what time frame you intend to acquire and above all how much time would you squeeze in from your normal routine to achieve all these.

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Step 2: Explore Options

What Options will suit you
Explore the occupations in which you are interested - During this stage of the career planning process, one researches a variety of careers. Find out what information you'll need to have as you consider which career is best for you.

Why Should I Choose This Occupation: Quiz

This quiz will help you find out if you are choosing the right occupation. Questions about compensation, job description, job outlook, and qualifications help you decide if you should pursue a particular occupation.

The Fastest Growing Occupations

Prior to exploring further this gives a picture of fastest growing occupations that require a bachelors, masters, doctorate degree or only on-the-job training.

Occupations with the most Job Openings

These are the occupations that will have the most job openings through 2020 according to the Ministry of HRD, Government of India.

Best Suited Careers after a Masters or Bachelors Degree

Explore these careers which are the best suited immediately after a Masters or Bachelors Degree, however, it may require some post degree orientation training.

Highest Paying Occupations for which a formal Degree isn't required

Here you can explore some highest paying occupations for which you don't need a college degree.

Informational Interviews

Informational interview is to learn about an occupation from someone who has firsthand knowledge. Through this you would acquire what questions you should ask, and what to do during and after the interview.

Research the Industries and Labour Market
Research the industries and Labour Market in which you would like to work. Get more specific information after you narrow down your options by:

▪ Job Shadowing ▪ Part time work ▪ Internships ▪ Volunteer opportunities ▪ Written materials ▪ Informational interviews

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Step 3: Match Possibilities

During this phase of the process of Decision Making, you will:

▪ Identify possible occupations ▪ Evaluate these occupations ▪ Explore alternatives ▪ Choose both a short term and a long term option

Step 4: Action Execution

You will develop the steps you need to take in order to reach your goal, for example:

▪ Investigating sources of additional training and education ▪ Developing a job search strategy ▪ Writing your resume ▪ Gathering company information ▪ Composing cover letters ▪ Preparing for job interviews

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