In today’s competitive world, each of us wishes to get the best career. Thus, pivotal to choose the career which shapes the future ahead.  As a result, most seekers fail to choose the right path. An important question which arises is “How to Step-Up Career?”. It could be better understood with the help of a “Food Thali”, which kind of Thali would you like to order? Do you consider just a yummy taste, or do you prefer to add on the balanced food full of proteins, minerals, and vitamins and include vital nutritional values? What are all preparations available, are you in a position to taste those preparations seeing your limitations/physical body.

Now, Understanding a career decision-making process in the same way. It starts with a micro analysis of your portfolio, analyzing your weakness and strength, seeing your potential levels, your subject strengths, your area of interests, and much more. Here are some of the steps one should apply to make a better choice.  

Step 1

SWOT Analysis

The first step in deciding on an excellent career is ‘Self Analysis’, obtaining thorough information about you. If possible, go for the SWOT analysis. Now the word SWOT means S stands for strengths, W for weakness, O stands for opportunities, and T stands for threats. 

The word strength and weaknesses are very much apparent in our minds. See your subject strength, your passions, your communication abilities, your expression power, your language capability, basic mathematics, intelligence, your generic life skills, etc.Coming down to the weaknesses, start analyzing weaknesses. If communication is a weakness, that can be improved upon with practice. But suppose by nature you are introverted, so it’s a suggestion to think for a more suitable career for an introvert. You have to identify the gaps in your current skill set in pursuing a particular course.

Looking at opportunities, we always see the complete picture, i.e. a premier show or a trailer before we see the movie or other way around is to gather information from the market, analyze the market trends, careers trending, Indian economy, and global economy. Remember, it’s a government policy that always plays a crucial role in technology career advancement. See what threats are; everybody globally is now fighting against COVID pandemic, which has taken almost millions of jobs worldwide. More than 100 million people have lost their jobs in India, and it has hit our economy, especially tourism and the hotel industry. So it’s advisable to select the career wisely seeing the threats encountering the current scenario. 

Step 2

Selection of right college

After SWOT analysis, the next step is the right selection of the college. . The selection of college/ institution to study, and the choice of the right college. You can select a place according to your criteria, but college selection is a very tedious process. There are some logical viewpoints in consideration for any college. Check the reputation of the college in terms of its faculties, their teaching experience, their scope index, how rich they are in writing journals, and many other factors. 

Facilities & Infrastructure

After teachers, the next aspect to consider is the facilities and infrastructure. Check for the library, online library software, national and international journals available in the library, computer labs with good internet connectivity, sports grounds, etc.

Activities

And last but not the least, activities are an intrinsic factor playing a vital role in the development of the students. Activities such as cultural, sports, literary, social service, national and international conferences and seminars, placements, etc.

Step 3

Future Prospects

The first step is to define what course you want to target and assess how it gets fitted with your overall career goals. Since every subject has its area of study and opportunities to look upon. Therefore, it is important to collect information and do thorough research on the subject with its prospects.

Don’t get influenced by anybody in the selection process

Assess which subject fascinates you the most. You will encounter many obstacles in choosing the issue from your parents, friends, peers because they may be significantly influenced by the market trend, lucrative people, VIPs. But remember this world is full of confusion and at times, the students are carried away with the emotions of their parents and peers. 

Course details

It is also important to understand what a course entails and what all does it cover? This means understanding what subjects will be covered, what will you learn, kind of teaching pedagogy followed in particular programs. At times students prefer to talk to seniors, alumni, people working in the same field before taking any decision.

Analyze each course

See the minimum eligibility criteria, subjects required in 12th, possible jobs, possible salaries, opportunities for add on courses, post-graduation, and competition available.Choosing the right career is entirely in your hand. And it is never an easy game to exercise the complete steps and then drawing the correct conclusion as to what to do or what not to do.

Selecting a college is an essential aspect of decision making. Thus we at Poddar Group of Institutions offer experiential learning for studnets to grow and make a prosperous career ahead.