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DECIDING YOUR CAREER CHOICE
Planning Your Career Planning a career path is more than just deciding you want a job.
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ou’re nearing graduation and you either have many potential career paths in mind or none at all. You may have no concrete ideas about your career yet, but you perhaps have an idea of what you want or don’t want from internship experience, and have only just begun looking around. Or maybe you already have a career in mind – you know what you want to do but don’t have a clue on how to get there. Perhaps the pandemic has caused you to rethink your career choice in terms of its longevity in the future. Alternatively, you may be considering further studies, have been offered a position upon graduation, or have other plans. It’s not unusual to be slightly confused when the topic of your career comes up. But we hope to address it here and help you plan your career.
GET AN IDEA Inklings of fear or intimidation when the talk of your future career comes up is not uncommon, and no one is going to judge you if you have not developed an idea of what career you want, or even when you are not ready to start thinking about it yet. You’re simply at the stage where you’re still deciding what career is the best for you as an individual. Remember that there is no one way to determine which path you should follow. Take the time to challenge yourself, get to know yourself better and develop your self-awareness. Audit your skills and continue developing them through internships or extracurricular activities, and, after that, assess them and find out what careers suit your skillset the best and which employers keep a look out for the skills you have honed. From there, make a decision and begin planning your career.
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