Common Mistakes Students Make while Choosing a career

 Every student is keen to choose a career that would lead them to lead a successful life. Choosing a right career is always a crucial decision and it is tricky. While choosing a career there would a lot of factors that one has to take into account. Well, it is not easy as it sounds. Most of the teenagers would have no idea as to which career to choose. For some the other reasons, they would choose a wrong stream.

Changing the career would be effortful. One should choose a career that would support them financially in a long run and basically that suits them. To make your dream career there are certain common career mistakes that have to be avoided and some of them are stated below.

Making decision on Parents Choice

Never choose a career path to full fill parent’s unfulfilled dreams. Do not let yourself pressurized. Take a stand. Parents should always understand. They should be supportive and never force their children to which they are not interested. Try to pursue your own dream rather than pursuing somebody else’s dream.

For example, if parents are forcing their children to opt for engineering or medical and forcefully making them prepare for various competitive exams like JEE Main, UPSC Exams, and NEET Exams even though they are not interested. It would lead nowhere suppose if the children do not pursue in the following stream and opt another field later after graduation.

Fail to Invest Sufficient Time

The first and the foremost step are to identify one’s own interpersonal skill, characteristics, and the area of interest, weakness, strengths, likes and dislikes. One cannot make decisions in haste. Spend some time and choose a profile that suits you a best for a specific job. Make a career choice forehand and do not run into any type of random conclusion. Keep in mind all these factors than make a best decision out of it.

Following Others Footsteps

A majority of students choose a career just because of their fellow mates, friends opted it or some even may follow their relatives. It’s just that fail to inspect what exactly they want to pursue and what they require in life. For instance, if their fellow mates are opting a career in Science stream or Math just because they consider it as one of the prestigious course it necessarily does not mean that even you should opt the same even though you are not interested.

There are some students who make the decision just because some person who they know is just leading a satisfactory life with their career path. Well, it is necessary does not mean that it would be same for them. So make the decision wisely and never make the decision based on someone else’s thinking.

Not Following Your Passion

There are people who fail to follow their passion and working purely on money even though they are not their area of their interest. It is one of the common mistake ones can make. For some, it may be easy in figuring out the career path and some it may be difficult.

It is important to know who you are and where you want to be before taking any decision on your dream career. It’s just that setting goals alone is of no help. When you start following your passion things around you just becomes easy. It may sound as a big word at the beginning. So you have to just start exploring things to the maximum extent. One has to take risks to achieve a remarkable career.

Opting for an Easy Option

Shortcut leaves you nowhere. There is always a series of decision that is involved while choosing a career that one would make as they pass through every stage of one career, experience and life. Check out various options that are challenging and never let your skills that come easily to you that would determine the job. Never opt a career just because of your convenience. Ensure that your skills would fulfil your requirement. Always look for a future and never compromise for immediate compromisation.

Not Choosing a Right Academic Program and Institution

The type of education and a proper training for a chosen program plays a vital role in choosing a career. Most of them have a misconception that the school life dictates what exactly they are going to do in the rest of their life. Your college major is your initial stage that decides your career path. But you cannot completely rely on this decision. Never give up your passion.

Networking

Networking plays a vital role in choosing career and job hunting. It would lead you to the better understanding various career options and companies that you may not find surfacing the web. To establish the contacts early it is better to start networking early. You can just people how their job hunting experience was like and about the approaches that worked best for them.

About Author: Bhavishya.S is presently working as a content writer at Byju’s. She loves to pen down her imagination through words. Since when she started her career she has written articles and blogs. If you wish to discuss any related concepts or ideas feel free to drop an email at [email protected]