Monday 13 October 2014

By Estelle Larsen





The ultimate goal of every individual is to attain their goals in life. One such goal is to have the job that you want and start building a career around. There are some who work hard to achieve this. While there are others who settle for what is being given to them. These people were too discouraged to reach for what they wanted in life.



But even if this is the current statistics in the society today, you should not be discouraged in chasing for what you really like to do. Choosing a career path can sometimes be confusing and most of the time, it is challenging. And when you do not know what you need to do first, you get lost and eventually you give up.



People get easily discouraged when they do not get what they desire on the first try. If you are one person who is ready to try your luck, then you should be ready. To help you, you can follow these guidelines below so that you can jump start your career as early as now and begin reaching your goals.



First thing that you need to do is to evaluate yourself. It should be the number one step on your list because you need to see what are the things that you enjoy doing. You also need to see on what skills to perform these things well. Having an idol can be beneficial in this part because you can have an example for it to be easier for you. But in determining your skills, you need to make sure that it is what is the reality. Do not exaggerate what you can do.



After evaluating what skills you have that has a connection to the things that you like doing, next would be finding the different fields that are also related to it. There is more than one aspect where you can use your skills for sure. Having different ranges of fields would provide you with more options.



Try to see things in a broader perspective. Do not set your sights on one single job because this will limit your choices and the opportunities present. By looking at the entire field of work you can see all the other related jobs that you can do.



Having more options would make you practice on more things. This would give you more skills and a clearer vision of what abilities you should possess after you train. Having only one job instead of an entire field of jobs as choices could not guarantee that you would be employed moving forward.



While you are training for your desired field, also explore other options in other fields that could be related to the training that you have. One example is if you are training to be an English teacher, to expand your horizons more, you can also consider a job with proofreading or editing since you would be proficient in the language. When you consider cross field work, if you are lucky, these jobs are what you can do part time.



Be prepared for the future. One of the things that you should know are the qualifications so that it would be possible for you to work in that field. This way you can determine what kind of training you need to have. And you should be more optimistic at all times. You are bound to encounter several failures so you should prepare for that.









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