How to choose career path which suits you..
By: Scm Design Institute
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It is time to take admissions. Exam Results are out and if you’re not sure which direction your career should go in, you’re thinking about making a career change, or you just want to feel more fulfilled in your career, these ten tips might help. We, SCM Design Institute (A Branch of Saraswati College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai) is one of the most credible educational institute from Navi Mumbai with some of the career building courses. We have all the branches of Engineering with new age professional courses like Fashion Design, Interior Design, fine arts. We also have a Digital Marketing Course which is a new way of leading life of young generation.

Ideally, everyone would know their true calling early in life and find happiness in their work, but it often doesn’t work that way. One survey (of professionals) found that they expected to change careers three times in their lifetimes; lifelong careers may not be the norm any more. World is changing every other day with new way of technologies and services and so is the human interest.

That said, we know there are better ways to choose a career than just following your parents’ footsteps or choosing randomly. Here are some ideas..

10. Think About What Excites and Energizes You

This one’s the first obvious step — we all want to enjoy and actually like our careers. (Perhaps the biggest sign you’re on the wrong path is if you dread talking about your job.) While passion isn’t the only requirement for being content in your career, many would say it’s still essential, if only because passion is what keeps you going even through the tough times.

9. But Also Keep in Mind What You’re Good At

Maybe you don’t feel that passionate about any specific career — or you love multiple areas and can’t decide on just one. Then it’s time to think about your personality and focus on the skills you have. “Don’t do what you love. Do what you are.”

8. Take a Test

Well, you say, what if you don’t know what you’re good at or even what you’re interested in? Career assessment tests in college or even high school help narrow down a field but if it’s been a while since you took those tests, there are other kinds of assessment tests you can take.

7. Try an Internship

If you have flexibility when it comes to salary, an internship could be a great way to test out an industry or type of career — and eventually get a full-time job(especially if you have no prior experience). Even if it doesn’t turn into a job or you find out it’s the wrong career for you, an internship can help build your network — from which you can get career and job advice. (Not all internships are just about picking up coffee. For example, Google internships, while hard to come by, put you to real work.)

6. Find a Mentor

A mentor could help you take your career to the next level and give you the insider insight to help you make sure you’re on the right path.

If there’s a career you’re interested in, you might also check to see if any companies or people in that line of work would let you shadow them for a few days to see what it’s really like.

5. Explore Unconventional Careers

We all know the popular careers available to us — doctor, lawyer, teacher, computer engineer, police officer, store owner, etc. If you feel uninspired by the typical choices, know that there are thousands of unusual jobs you might not have heard about, hidden, perhaps, in the Bureau of Statistics’ Occupational Handbook.

4. Ask Other People

Perhaps the best way to discover a new career is to ask other people about theirs — assuming you come into contact with people who don’t all work in the same field. Your LinkedIn network (or other social media sites, but especially LinkedIn) might be a good place to start mining for information. Also, don’t forget your local library’s reference librarian can point you to career resources.

3. Use the G+P+V Formula

The perfect career for you would most likely fit the G+P+V formula, which stands for Gifts + Passions + Values. Consider your strengths and passions, as we’ve noted above, and your values — what’s non-negotiable about the way you work?

2. Make a Career Plan

As with most things, your career will benefit if you have goals and a plan for it. Maybe you think you want to be a writer, but the next step after that, is editing. (Do you really want to do that?) Or maybe you want to transition from being an editor to a restaurant owner. (How are you going to get there?) Map out where you want to go, with concrete milestones, as if it were a four-phase project.

1. See Your Career as a Set of Stepping Stones, Not a Linear Path

Of course, all these plans and ideas are never set in stone. Your career is a marathon, not a sprint and it can turn out to be a very winding road indeed, knitted together from all of your experiences into, hopefully, a career worth having.

SCM Design Institute and Saraswati College of Engineering have set up a career counselling team where you can visit to the campus anytime and can discuss the modern ways of building careers. As a Educational Institute, we always aim to build our Nation with right educational recourses which need to be utilised by every dreamer.

Come and achieve your dream.