Every student has an area of interest, and tries to find a good career option out of that. Before pursuing a college degree it is important to know the prospects of that particular course, whether it will give you a good earning career or not.
Most students take summer jobs with the intention to learn about their career field. It gives them a glimpse of what they will be able to do in the future, whether it’s going to be rewarding or not. This is just one way of finding about a future career. There can be few more ways to do so.
Here are few ways you can find out about future careers
• The college degree that you decide tells you a lot about the future career. When you search about the courses, you get to know what these fields hold for you.
• Internet is a very strong medium which can help you to find possible career options for you. Go down and search for your interest field, and you will find many options. Go through them and compare. This will help you to know all about your career. There are few of these sites which will help to find good options. they are:
- Youth Central: it lets you know everything about life beyond school like ‘how to find jobs’, ‘choose right careers’, ‘government assistance’, etc.
- Job Guide: it describes about jobs and the qualification you need for them.
- Myfuture: it lists a range of education and training options.
• You know yourself well and can analyze what will suit your personality. Do something that you are satisfied with. There are various sites which help you to take a personality test, that help you to find career options based on the answers.
• One can find on-line information about your possible future career. Always remember while searching to give an appropriate search key word. For example if you write keyword ‘marketing’ it can give thousands of results and that will confuse you, to avoid that use specifying keywords.
• To choose right career option talk to your teachers, parents, friends, and mentors. They will always give a good opinion about the career options.
• Parents should take every chance to talk to their child about future plans. It will give them an idea of what’s going on in their child’s mind about the future. You can help them to identify their interests, abilities, skills and values.
