Introduction
Globalization
has led to phenomenal growth in the commerce and industry in recent past. Hence
the last couple of decades saw more emerging sectors in education and careers to satisfy very complex requirement of manpower and that too in
huge volume to cope up with the industrial growth. Once what was called as
“Industrial Worker” now comes to be known by a more sophisticated term “Human
Resource”. Now a person needs to be innovator, wizard and master juggler apart
from of course, educated. It is no more like – acquire some university degree
and then find a job. There was no targeted approach earlier, except for few
considered to be brilliant who used to opt for a professional stream mostly
either engineering or medicine.
Career Planning – When?
There is a
point you can draw from the preceding introduction that choice has to be made
these days at a very early stage of education itself if not in cradle
and this choice has to come from wider range of options. Cooking could have
been a hobby and creative pastime a decade or two ago but now a lucrative
profession even may be leading to a celebrity status to the incumbent. The
parents must have to start thinking about converting such inclinations and
inherent likings of their children into a vision for the career; for
that they have to first themselves come to terms that career option could exist
in any bizarre hobby. They have to stay current with the ever changing
education patterns, emergence of avenues of career, courses and latest
happenings in the sector of career building.
This has
become quite an irony that knowledge and information has become so easily
available in this cyber age, but the parents, because of the reluctance to utilize
this medium or for merely an orthodox approach ignoring it, has resulted into
much lower awareness among the them about career building if the child fails to
make it to traditional engineering and medicine. The first thing the parents
must do is shed their inhibitions about other educational options and careers
other than traditional. How can they do it? Obviously by knowing the latest and
the newest -
Daily Educational News
There are a
large number of websites like http://ssc2pg.com which bring you the latest
happenings in the field of education and career. A search on google with “daily education news” can list other thousands of sites. Sparing just 5 minutes
scanning the headlines and click on the one that you may like to explore can
gradually build your awareness about the latest trends in education andcareer.
Student Career Articles
The web is
full with career articles written by experts in the field of career counseling.
Use search on google with keyword / phrase “student career articles” to
reach to such articles. Such articles provide you information about the
eligibility criteria, job profiles in the field, universities and colleges
where such degree, diploma, certificate courses are provided etc.
Career Forum for Students
Careerforum for students
provide a very live discussion on various aspects of career. Career forum is the networking of students, teachers, career counselors and parents where
they meet virtually to share information about education and career. You
may put queries and expect the answers sometimes within short time.
