Predicaments in making a career choice

The gamut of exercising a career choice goes much beyond choosing a job. And making a good career choice is a significant decision because eventually the type of life that you aim to lead will be contingent on it. As a matter of fact, a career is an enduring venture capital that calls for serious reflexion. The picture of a fruitful career starts emerging when you amalgamate your fortes with your passions. It should not be forgotten that the process of making a career choice is a continual one, with a horde of facets that warrant consideration to make it a sensible one. 

There are several factors that contribute towards a wrong career choice. The commencement of a successful career choice is concurrent with the time when you begin to be cognizant of your penchants and preferences on one side and disinclinations and antipathies on the other. Ab initio, it can turn out to be a muddled affair and hence and hence, keeping this in view, you should catalogue each and everything that can propel you in the wrong direction.

There are various issues that influence an incorrect career choice. People tend to fall prey to the lure brought about by the brand image or name of an establishment that could be a college or an organisation. There is also a tendency to not let go the first job opportunity simply because it offers prospects of good remunerations. And last but not the least, pulls and influences exerted by parents and others on career decisions tend to bring about a wrong career choice. All things considered, the likely causes of people making an incorrect career choice gyrate around rapaciousness, apprehensions, domestic responsibilities, shared or community soppiness and absence of adequate openings or prospects. Much in contrast with what people may opine, the best method to adopt when making a career choice is to allow your heart of hearts to shape your judgement.

Every single choice that you exercise has some sort of a purpose and meaning appended to it. The reality is that it is the purpose and meaning that actually propels your decision. In actual fact, no career decision is right or wrong; you simply have to go for one that matches your knowhow, flairs and capabilities. Various issues involved as pertinent to your knowhow, flairs and capabilities are:

· Knowhow: Sans knowledge, you will always be at a disadvantage. You will not be able to undertake any extraordinary task related to your field of interest. Possession of knowhow automatically impels you to search for a job in that specific area of work.

· Handiness: The handiness that you possess is of two types – physical and mental. However, both these categories are deciding factors for the advancement that you may make in your career. If you lack appropriate comprehension and skills on how to go about doing a job, the knowhow that you may possess is as good or as bad as non-existent.

· Capabilities: Your capabilities are not an aggregate of your knowhow and flairs. Capabilities are a sort of guarantee that you will be able to finish an assigned task, despite any number of hurdles. However, your capabilities may be constrained by various factors too.   

Your capabilities should serve as a decision making point behind your knowhow and which, in turn should augment your handiness on your job. Going beyond, your handiness should the deciding factor behind your capabilities. To illustrate the point, if you are armed with an MBA, you will certainly want to enhance various skills related to decision-making, administration and superintendence.

If you were to seek career advice from all and sundry, you will land in trouble alright. But if you allow your fears and apprehensions to take a front-seat, the problems will be further compounded. All your prospects, including the remotest one will stand collapsed. That you are stuck in a wrong job will manifest when your enthusiasm plummets and you do not feel like working. It also manifests when remunerations and pecuniary matters fail to inspire you or when you become a loner at your workplace.

The enigma of job discontentment is rather widespread. If you happen to make a wrong career decision, the alternatives available to you will be only two. You can take remedial action to reverse your decision or you must learn to persist with it. Only the bold and daring opt to liberate themselves by moving out of the trap; others come to terms with their ever-rising feelings of insignificance and unimportance.

 A good career decision includes the blend of your interests, your financial concerns and a complete job contentment. Your career is required to meet all your professional aspirations as well as take care of your personal life concerns. The decision that you make should invariably be prompted by the foregoing.