Importance of choice of Career for leading a happy life by Prof. Amrita Pandya, SICA College, Indore

 Importance of Career choice for leading a happy life 

In our personal lives, it is important to have a career development plan. We will be able to make our families and friends happy and proud by following an optimum career development plan and through this we will be able to reach our goals that we have always dreamt of.

Sometimes, people work for a long time in the wrong field just for the sake of fulfilling their financial needs and for survival. Actually, this problem must be solved by changing the career itself which is the most difficult step.

Career development is a very important aspect of our work as well as personal life. In our work life, it’s important because none of us wants or wishes to stay in the same job and the same position for ever. It is important to have growth in life. Without the career development plan we will not be able to improve ourselves and get promoted. 

Self-assessment is the first step of the career planning process. During self-assessment, you gather information about yourself in order to make an informed career decision. A self-assessment program should include a look at the following:

Values: The things that are important to you like achievement, status, and autonomy.

Interests: What you enjoy doing i.e. playing golf, taking long walks, hanging out with friends.

Personality: A person’s individual traits, motivational drives, needs, and attitudes. The personality is when you ask yourself about what type of person are you? Do you like to work alone or with a team? For example, if you have an introvert personality, you are going to face a lot of problems if you work in a job that requires presentations or public speaking. 

Skills:

You have to look at what are you good at and what are the skills that you have to improve. This is a very important question that you have to ask yourself about in order to find a job that meets all your skills otherwise you will have to face obstacles. For example, if you get a job that requires using the computer as a major tool and you are not good at using it, you will face problems.

In addition to determining what you’re good at, a skills assessment program also helps figure out what we enjoy doing. The most important goals of Self-Assessment are:

• To enhance the self-awareness and confidence of your decisions

• To know what are your strengths and weaknesses.

 

Setting- up the Direction Process- You should work on yourself. You should create a network with professional experts, experienced personalities, attend some workshop, seminars etc. Information and training sessions for employees such as seminars presented by professionals on a broad range of topics are of interest to job seekers.

Workshops can be carried out in order to gather the maximum number of people with different culture and knowledge and then divide them into groups to share ideas and points with each other besides learning from other’s mistakes and experiences.

A good career choice is that which takes into consideration our nature, interests and short-term as well as long-term needs and it is important for satisfaction and happiness in life. The more we are satisfied and enthusiastic about our work, the better our emotional and psychological health becomes.