How to Choose a Career?

How to Choose a Career?
What is a Career?
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A job is a specific type of work for which you are financially compensated, whereas a career is a broader type of work that encompasses multiple jobs of similar nature.
Assess your Academic Learning Experiences
To choose a career, start by assessing your academic learning experiences. Even if you just recently graduated high school, perhaps you took (and passed) classes on a specific career-related subject, or maybe you took a class at a local or online educational institute.
Academic learning experiences such as these are invaluable when choosing a career. They'll provide insight into a career's requirements, allowing you to make a better-informed decision on whether it's right for you.
Assess your Job Skills
You should also assess your job skills, including soft skills and hard skills. Soft skills are interpersonal skills that influence the way in which you communicate with coworkers, managers, customers and other individuals associated with a business. Hard skills, on the other hand, are technical skills that can be taught, learned and measured. Look back at your past employment to determine what type of hard and soft skills you used.
Evaluate Potential Careers
After evaluating your academic learning experiences and job skills, you can start to evaluate potential careers. Create a list of at least 10 careers in which you'd like to work. Ideally, you should have some level of academic learning experience in these careers, and they should also be enjoying and satisfying to you personally. If you don't find a specific career enjoyable, don't include it on the list. Once you've added at least 10 potential careers to your list, start researching the specific details of each to determine which may be right for you.
Look for the following information when researching a potential career:
- Salary
- Projected growth
- Demand for workers
- Average hours worked per week or month
- Company cultures
- Non-pay benefits
- Required education
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