BUILDING UP CAREER PATH
Career Path is very important altar for each and every individual to lead a happy life without any disturbances and obstructers. To establish an appropriate Career Path, one must make a Career Plan in a strategic manner to monitor and implement to succeed in his activities to lead a progressive and systematic life. After setting up the objectives and goals, a strategic plan has to be prepared for implementation to focus attention to create a Career Path.
Most of the people automatically leave the future activities once they entered into an Assignment/Job/Employment as per their qualifications and experience in the relevant field. They usually felt that they have secured a job and therefore it is time for them to lead a happy life with their family, friends and automatically turn their attention towards establishment of family, and existence to lead a comfortable life. It is not a wrong thing to do so, as the building up of the family and settlement in life, is really important in one’s own life, but at the same time, it is rather very important to build up and promote their career opportunities, by means of developing their abilities, interests, qualities, skills, expertise, either in their relevant field or in any field of their interest, in order to prepare themselves for better prospects in future. This aspect required for establishment of a Career Path to attain their objectives of improving their developmental activities. Development is a life long process. There is no end for it. In every corner of life, so many developmental activities generated in the interest of the Nation as well as Industry at large.
Building up Career Path is a continuous process in one’s own life. It may not end when you enter into a career. While doing job, we must analyze developmental skills in our day to day happenings and explore the possibilities for its enrichment to suit to the needs for future prospects. Showing expertise in your line of activity makes you perfect in your job, by proving your efficiency and skills in your duty chart. Create wonders in your dealings with utmost sincerity and integrity, will help you in your future career and it attracts the attention of your authorities to keep you in their mind for future developmental activities of the organization. It will retain confidence of the Managerial cadre and make them understand the reality works out with you. It helps you for promotion of your interests and leads to professional development.
When you entered in a job, you will get new knowledge and expertise in your duties. You will learn many things during your mingling with employees and able to attract many more experiences in your circle of job. It is a good opportunity for you to acquire skills, abilities, Attitudes, and expertise while discharging your duties. It may not be detrimental to you to build up new assignments/projects/programmes in addition to your normal duties. It is in your hands to make it convenient to gain expertise by means of utilization of existing resources available around you in your Organization/Institution/Firm. You have to allow your mind to take up these responsibilities as a secondary measure in addition to your own job. Nothing is impossible to any human being, if his will power and self confidence is maintained in a perfect way.
The first and foremost thing in your hands is to acquire additional qualifications. What type of qualifications you need to be acquired? It is to be identified in the first instance with reference to the interests, inclinations, commitment, desire, and aptitude with special reference to the field in which you are at present engaged. The adjunct qualifications must provide future benefits in your career, if you retain in the same field or to relocate to another interested field. Attaining additional qualifications not only strengthen your skills and expertise in your present job, but also help you to prosper further. Now a day, acquiring further educational qualifications is very easy thing as there are ample opportunities/methods to acquire additional qualifications. Learning while earning is to be our motto.
The secondary aspect is the development of your skills and expertise. There are much more chances to develop skills. Every human being is having his own inner strengths and simultaneously his weaknesses. In the first instance, we have to identify our weaknesses. If you gain victory over your weakness, automatically you will strengthen. Your development should not be confined to your job place only. If you have realistic self confidence, you can search for attainment of skills outside your job place. For this, you have to improve your social circle in your vicinity. Identify experts, intellectuals, Social workers around your circle, colony, and other peer groups, maintain sociability, make day to day interactions, discuss on contemporary issues of social importance, participate in friendly talk on various political, economical and social issues. These acts of involvement definitely make you rise to upper level of knowledge and understanding and acquisition of innovative skills and expertise besides improving inner strength and will power. Simultaneously, it is quite necessary to read the various articles developed and published in print media, by the Intellectuals and experts in the columns, editorials, and Research oriented essays and articles, to get awareness on the contemporary issues of global importance. It will pave the way to bring about a clear cut career path to go ahead in realizing the career objectives.
The third aspect in the line of activity, is reading professional books, Magazines, and Journals. It gives profuse knowledge and information on professional and business matters, which are necessitated to the individual employees to enrich knowledge and understanding on various aspects. In turn they will be in a position to adopt and explicit the methods and theories in the implementation of their programmes and plans effectively, to yield better results, and simultaneously, gain expertise for their future prospects to strengthen their career path.
Finally, efforts to be made to ensure for companionship with intellectuals, experts, senior professionals, Educationalists, Entrepreneurs, highly educated individuals, to mingle with them to elicit information/knowledge/power and capabilities to upgrade the power of knowledge and strengthening of intrinsic qualities. This type of activity strengthens the Personality Development and will power to withstand as a perfect individual in all aspects to build up for a better career path. More concentration, improvement of constructive habits, good communication skills, interpersonal skills, group behaviour etc., will develop at large in a cognizant manner leading the individuals towards a proper career path to establish sustainable future.
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