How does one decide one's career? How does one decide and take a decision that may shape the life excellently or doom it forever? It is not as if nobody has the right or opportunity to choose their own vocations. Circumstances decide the way things will go. But it is true that many people when asked, will say that they would prefer a different job or career of their own taste and liking.
Most people now have a formal education before they step in the real world where each one is to his own. Careers start at a very junior level. There are very few people who actually start at the top. They either inherit or are extremely brilliant. You may consider artists. Art is considered by most of us as a hobby. Very few venture from the beginning to become artists for a living, since it is well known that an artist might take years before his work is recognized and gets some value. Till then they are non-entities and have to depend on some other vocation for their living.
May times careers are decided by an individuals belief in his/her capability. Bill Gates left Harvard to co-found Microsoft. If he had continued at Harvard, he might not have reached where he is today. He might have gone the conventional way of taking up the best job offering a good salary. Instead he pursued his natural talent in software. I needn't talk further about him. People actually take up jobs and see how they cope up with the same. It has been seen in many cases, where executives keep on flitting between different jobs and departments and ultimately take up something else which is very different from what they started with. Its this experimentation which helps them discover their natural talent. People learn about their own temperament with experience. They slowly move towards their goal. Very few are able to transform their avocations into their vocations.
People with determination try and succeed wonderfully in their own interest and work. Kalpana Chawla, the astronaut on the ill fated Columbia, nursed a wish to fly into space and become an astronaut. Scientists like Einstein, Edison with their independent thinking and research reached a position which is unrivaled. Abraham Lincoln chose politics and social work as his line and after numerous failures, became one of the most revered Presidents of the US. Gandhi and Martin Luther King chose the path of social change. They pursued their hearts and achieved their goals.
The opportunity for pursuing one's natural talent always exists. Its how one recognizes the same and then pursues the instinct that decides one's fate.
Theory Of Career Choice
If they say, we don't have a visionary, then move on quickly to your next interview.
DO NOT accept employment with any firm that fails to have visionary talent, a leader, that someone who works ON the business vision, it's future, searching, seeking, networking, doing all the important functions necessary for success.
Have you ever wondered why so many companies end up in bankruptcy or floundering, year after year, you have just discovered the firm without a LEADER, the pace setter, the visionary.
A company's net worth and stability are very important to their leader, the visionary with the smarts to make good decisions for your future career choice.
Do you know what I mean? Stealing company funds is not the sign of a leader or visionary, so be aware that such happens often where you'd least expect it.
A few years back, we saw white collar crimes happening from "inside" the executive suites. You'll never enjoy your dream job by joining a firm with dishonest leaders, owners or management staff.
I'm confident that you can find your dream job or career choice by using your own visionary talent to uncover some hidden treasures or flaws in most firms.
You have to become a private eye, investigator, even a snoop to dig out the underlying stability or weakness within your future employer as well as the staff, including the executives and owners.
Work on your contact list of prospective employers, networking through the Chamber of Commerce, go back to your alumni group or college friends, find out where they are, discover their career choice and if it makes sense for you to seek a position in the same field, even with the same employer if a position is available.
INTERVIEWING every competitor in a niche industry is a major KEY to your future success. Ask for an interview with all the firms you can within an industry or niche simply to learn all you can about the future prospects for career stability.
Your head will be spinning with all the insider details gleaned from these interviews with competing firms.
Your first choice for a new employer should be at the end of your current interview process as you learn about the niche industry you've chosen to be in your future. Our #1 goal is to get the inside scoop on what's happening within the ranks, to learn which competitors you don't want as your future employer.
Get educated about what's happening within a niche market, which firms are making money, which ones have been losing their market share.
Some firms in your chosen niche may be experiencing financial troubles, going backwards rather than moving forward, where YOU certainly don't want your career choice to be.
FOCUS ~ SEARCH ~ NEWWORK ~
A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY ~ has a visionary LEADER ~ never work for a firm that only has Managers. Learn the scoop from the inside by keeping your eyes and ears tuned to the internal pipeline.
Use the Internet to do in-depth research once you've begun to focus on a selected niche industry. Get help from a friend if necessary. If you have a mentor or mastermind group then you're way ahead of most folks seeking their career choice or career change in the marketplace.
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