HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT CAREER THAT’S IDEAL FOR YOU

Everyone should choose the right career that is ideal for them. Because most people complain about their jobs to others that they are not happy with their jobs and work, they want to leave or want to switch careers. They didn’t choose the right career that was ideal for themselves, before getting or applying for jobs.  Therefore, I wrote HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT CAREER THAT’S IDEAL FOR YOU.

If you also want to avoid regretting in the future for your job then you should learn how to choose the right career that’s ideal for you. In which you feel free and happy, in which you can grow your knowledge and income. Choose the career that you can tell your children and relatives with pride.

In this article, I will teach you step by step process how to choose the right career that’s ideal for you. Therefore read carefully from beginning to end. All the materials in this article are on a research and practical basis.

1. ASSESS YOUR INTERESTS AND PASSIONS

Assessing interests and passions is the first step to choosing the right career that’s perfect for you. Many individuals can write but can’t speak the same content lonely or in public, because writing is their passion or interest. Same as many people stay happy when they edit videos and many enjoy graphics designing.

Many people want to work alone, but many want to work in teams. These all are passions and interests. Some people have one but some have many passions. But the question is how we can assess our interests and passions. 

For identifying interests and passions, you have to invest your precious time in them. But this invested time won’t be wasted; in the future, you will enjoy your work. Try different work on your own, and make a list of which you felt boring and which you enjoyed.

For example, try to write articles, books, poetry, memoirs, etc, and then try to edit videos, develop software, and graphic designing, then analyze, which work you enjoyed.

Many experts are also available in every city who will ask you a different question and they do different activities for you for assessing your passions and interests. These experts charge their fees for assessing and are mostly called career counselors. 

There are many online tools are also available that can assess your interests and passions. They also ask different questions and do different activities from you to assess and charge less than career counselors. These tools also have accurate data. If you have a budget you should try all three methods to assess your right and best passions and interests.

2. IDENTIFY YOUR STRENGTHS AND SKILLS / SWOT ANALYSIS

Due to interests and passions, everyone can’t learn everything, everyone has different skills, strengths, and weaknesses, some peoples are experts in public speaking and training but they can’t complete their work within a room, sitting at a desk with the help of laptop like writers, developers, and graphic designers. 

Therefore, SWOT analysis is necessary for everyone before choosing the right career that may become ideal. There are so many methods for identifying strengths and skills. You should practice different skills before learning complete and adopting careers. 

If you feel bored or at the beginning of practice then learn and try others. You feel happy and curious about learning many skills and these skills might be your strength and when you feel bored and exhausted, these might be your weakness. 

Experts can also identify your weakness and strengths for a charge or free. They have knowledge and experience in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of people and they also can suggest you learn and adopt skills that are best for you.

3. CONSIDER YOUR VALUES AND PRIORITIES

Same as interests, passions, strengths, and weaknesses, values and priorities are also different for everyone. You have to consider your values and priorities to choose the right career that’s perfect for you. You have to avoid others’ values and priorities.

Many times people prefer the parents, teachers, elders, siblings, relatives, and friends’ values and priorities, and people mostly failed. You can’t get success with others’ values and priorities. Therefore to get success in your career, relationship, and life, you have to set your values and priorities.

But how you can consider and set your values and priorities? It’s easy not very difficult, you have to know what matters to you the most and which qualities you admire above all else. Try to know the answers to these questions; these will help you to consider your values and priorities.

4. CHOOSE THE PROSPECTIVE FIELDS AND INDUSTRY FOR WORK

The dynamics of every field and industry are also different for everyone. Some industries are not fit for specific regions but are best for other regions. Knowledge about some fields is also doesn’t available in every region. The markets of some fields are also not available in different regions.

You can’t start a career in the field of agriculture-related in a region where no suitable area for agriculture is available. You also can’t start a career in the field of fishing where no sea, rivers, lakes, or water resources are available.

Therefore, research about the fields and industries before becoming a part of it. If you want to become a part of the agriculture field as a finance or legal professional, then analyze the market if the space of agriculture is available or not. Apply this strategy to all fields and industries to choose the right career that’s perfect for you. 

5. RESEARCH DIFFERENT CAREER OPTIONS THROUGH MARKET RESEARCH

Research different career options through market research, to choose the right career that’s perfect for you. Some careers are not right for your region, then how you can get success in these careers? Some careers are illegal and banned in many areas. 

Some careers are right for warm and some for cold atmosphere regions. For example, you can sell desert shoes where desert doesn’t exist and you can’t sell hiking materials where mountains don’t exist. You can sell heavy blankets in cold regions easily but not in warm regions.

You have to research the market, the market of the area where you want to start your career. There are many online platforms and data tools also available that may help you to analyze data of the career and may suggest you the best career.

6. EVALUATING EDUCATION AND TRAINING REQUIREMENTS

When you assessed your passions and interests, identified your strength and skills, considered your values and priorities, chose the perspective industry, and also researched different career options, now you have to evaluate your education and training requirements to choose the right career that’s perfect for you.

For each career, different education and training are required, if you evaluate whether my education, qualifications, and training match my selected industry, field, and career or not. Can I perform the duties in the selected field and industry or not? 

Evaluating education and training can boost your confidence; you will know yourself better than before, and you can’t hesitate during applying for your selected careers and during tests and interviews. 

There are many online platforms available that can evaluate whether you can join your selected field, industry, and career or if you have to require more work for this particular field. You can also evaluate yourself by experts, professionals, and career counselors; they charge a little bit fee for evaluation.

7. GET TRAINING (IF YOU NEED IT) AND UPDATE YOUR RESUME

If your education and qualification don’t match with a particular field and career then get training to update yourself and your resume. Even if you are qualified and an expert in the field, the training and education must require updating yourself and your resume.

Now getting training and education are become easier due to technologies. You can get training from a professor at Harvard or Oxford University from every part of the world. Many people are providing services in large companies but belong to underdeveloped countries, they learned online from the best teachers and in return got jobs at higher salaries in the world’s large companies.

You can also get success if you will learn, many online platforms like Udemy, Skillshare, digiskills, Coursera, edx, etc are the best and cheap for learning from everywhere. They teach emerging technologies and skills to get the right career that’s perfect for you.

8. SEEK GUIDANCE AND ADVICE FROM PROFESSIONALS

Trainings are necessary but you can learn secrets and hacks about any field from the professionals of any particular field. They will teach more than books, training, and universities because they invested their whole life in these fields and industries.

You can listen to their podcasts, read their books, and also can join their online and offline communities to seek guidance and advice. Some of them have paid online communities on platforms like Patreons, Whatsapp, Reddit, etc. They charge for a year less than your daily eating expenses. But you will learn more than a university and college degree.

9. TRY INTERNSHIPS OR JOB SHADOWING

After getting training you required experience in your selected field and career. The best option for getting experience is internship and job shadowing. During the internship, you will experience your skills and knowledge in real.

In an internship, you have to work as a trainee with many professionals and experienced persons. You will learn new knowledge and practice previous skills. This knowledge didn’t publish in any book that you will learn during the practice.

In job shadowing you work with one professional and observe his or her work deeply. You have to learn and absorb the knowledge of an expert and experienced person. This is also the best way of getting experience in some of the particular fields or careers.

If you want to become professional, experienced, and successful in any particular field you have to get an internship and job shadowing. Many companies and institutes also pay little remuneration for both ways and also teach more than books and universities.

10. MAKE A LIST OF JOBS TO EXPLORE

Make a list in your selected field and industry. Which position is best for you, and which region is best for you? In which language you can provide services, which skill have you learned, and which you will learn for choosing the right career that’s perfect for you?

When you make a list of jobs then start exploring them. You can make a resume on many online platforms and start applying in different ways. You have to check job platforms and newspapers and can also apply on websites, through emails, and by dispatching physical documents, as per the requirement of the employers.

11.  TAKE PRACTICAL STEPS TO GAIN EXPERIENCE AND TEST OUT POTENTIAL CAREERS

The best way to gain experience after an internship and job shadowing is to get a low-level job in your selected field. For example, if you want to become CFO in any field, join as an assistant accountant or data entry operator in the finance branch of any company after completing all the above-mentioned steps.

You will learn and gain experience in finance, accounting, and business more than if you join a senior position. The basic work in any field was done by juniors. Juniors have the option to read all the contracts, deals, strategies, and secrets about their field because they do filing and documentation work for seniors.

Employers will also provide these junior-level jobs more easily than senior level. They also test and inquire about you less than in senior positions. When you work as a junior for a selected period in your selected field and career with any employer, you can switch with the same or other employers in higher positions easily.

You also feel more productive, proud, and confident, when work as a junior and apply for a senior position. You have more knowledge than those who didn’t work in junior positions and directly joined senior positions.

12. CONTINUE GROWING AND LEARNING

Now is the time of growing in your life, selected fields, and career. It is possible when you learn continuously and keep trying for the best and higher jobs. Many people don’t try new jobs and companies after getting any one job, they also don’t learn regularly. They remain in the same position, as they joined. 

If you have a passion to be in a higher position in any field or career, learning and trying for new and better is necessary for you. When you analyze the life of any successful person, you will find a common habit or skill of continuing to learn and try for the better.

13. CONTINUOUSLY EVALUATE AND ADAPT YOUR CAREER PATH AS NEEDED

Continuing evaluation is necessary along with continuing learning and growth. During the evaluation, you can find weaknesses and strengths at every path of your career and also can adapt to changes and modifications when needed.

Many companies failed which were successful when they left evaluating and adapting to change. It is more necessary than learning because you can learn better when find weaknesses and strengths, and it is possible only with evaluating.

14. TAKE YOUR TIME AND BE OPEN TO CHANGE

What you evaluated, is best for what you are doing and what you learned or you have to change it according to the innovation and evaluation. If it required changing, take immediate action on it. If you will delay learning new technologies and changing yourself and your career, the world and people will leave you behind.

When you read you will see or observe one thing in books that are written on the main page or cover page, the number of editions, and how many times this book is edited and updated according to the new generation and innovation. The example mentioned in books also changed. Then why you can’t change yourself, your knowledge, your habits, your skills, and your behavior or your career?

15. CONSIDER YOUR LIFESTYLE AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Work-life balance is also necessary for anyone who belongs to any career. Consider if you are busier in your career and avoiding your relationship, entertainment, enjoying and exploring new destinations, then your abilities, skills, and health also affect you. 

You can’t be able to do more work and learn more like the world changing. Your abilities will also reduce. You can’t think positively and big, and your productivity and creativity will also reduce. Therefore, consider your work-life balance.

16. BE OPTIMISTIC

If you are failing again and again and don’t get success or if others are getting more success than you. Don’t worry be optimistic, God will gift you many other blessings and mercies. Many people have more knowledge, many people have best relationships and friends, and many have good health. Anyone has different opportunities.

If Elon Musk becomes the richest person in the world, it’s by no means that his class fellows, friends of childhood, and relatives are not successful. They are all successful in their life, and they also got so many achievements in their life, but the achievement of the richest person in the world is not their right. 

They don’t deserve to be the richest person but they deserve something other like the best relationship and good health, a happy mood, good looks, fairness, etc. They are all not worried but more happy than their friend. You should also be happy and optimistic, you will find the best in your life than your friend.

CONCLUSION

Choosing the right career is a personal journey that requires self-reflection, research, and guidance. Take the time to explore your options and make an informed decision that aligns with your passions, strengths, and values.

Choosing the right career is a process that requires exploration and careful consideration. By following these steps, you can increase your chances of finding a career that aligns with your passions and goals. 

FAQs

What Exactly Does The Job Market Search Entail?

Jobs market search entails evaluating education and training requirements, researching different career options through market research, choosing the prospective fields and industries for work, and making a list of jobs to explore.

What Functions Do Education And Skills Play In Choosing A Career?

Education and Skills play an important role in choosing the right career that’s perfect for you. Without soft and hard skills anyone can’t able to get and grow in career and even in life. Therefore everyone should get an education and hard and soft skills to be successful.

What Are A Few Tips To Decide On Your Career?

The few tips to choose the right career that’s perfect for you are to assess your interests and passions, identify your strengths and skills / SWOT analysis, consider your values and priorities, research different career options through market research, seek guidance and advice from professionals, and to try internships or job shadowing.