Month: May 2018

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According to gti media research, more than half (54%) of the students who took part in the survey said that their parents tried to exert influence over their choice of course or career.

We have met a lot of people who are studying parents’ choice where Grishma, is the one, who is struggling to study on her interesting career. But she is unsure about she will be able to convince her parents or not for the study on her desired career.

Grishma is waiting for her SEE (Secondary Education Examination) result which is publishing after a few weeks. “I want to be the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of a bank and want to work on the management sector because I am good at maths, I think I will not be bored to work on my interested sector and I already researched on it too. But especially my mother wants me to be Doctor so I do not think that I can go against to my mother’s interest. I try to convince her frequently but I am not able to do so. So I decided to work on her interests for few couples of years and then come back to work on my own interested area” Said Grishma.

In the context of Nepal majority of parents try to impose career of their choice for their children. Children cannot defence their parent decision for many reasons. The most of the reasons for studying parents choice are, children do not know their interested area, children do not have enough information about labour market, children do not know the detail information about respective career, children might confuse to choose the one in varieties of jobs and others and parents to tend to take the decision for them.

A lot of things influence one to make a single decision in our life. Whether choosing the lifelong career is one of the crucial decisions. Sometimes, we do not think about the consequences of our decision. Deciding certain career means decide to live a life of your choice. Definitely, most of the people want to spend their life happily and successfully. For example, if you do not like the things what you have to do even for the all-day what will happen? You can imagine the terrible situation you have to face. And, think about the long-term situation what will happen if you choose the wrong career for whole life. Even if it means earning a high income or social status.

If you strongly interested in a specific career, be crystal clear, do some research, its demand, scope, benefits and challenges through the internet and professional person of same career. For additional help to define you to your parents who want you to select the career of their choice, here are some helpful tips for you to win your parent's heart for the study on your interest.

[fruitful_tabs type="accordion" width="100%" fit="false"] [fruitful_tab title="1. Tell about your Role model"] Working for the specific career is not only earning money but your values, personalities, and life satisfaction comes to play. Tell your parents successful stories who working in the same job, their reputation, and status. Tell thoroughly pros and cons about the respective career and education. This might influence your parents. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="2.Tell clearly about your career goal"] Before you ask other, ask your gut, you better know yourself than others do. Listen to your gut and tell your parents what you really feel about the respective career, and why this career is important for you. Tell your parents clearly about your career goals and your future in the respective career, why and where you are planning to land. Definitely, your parents will be convinced if you tell them concisely about your career goal. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="3. Explore the strong and logical reasons why you fit in the respective career"] Definitely, parents always want to keep you on the safe side. Talking about challenging subject directly to the parents can influence to say no to you. In this case, you should be able to tell them logical reasons why you are choosing the certain subject. You can tell them how your Personalities, values, and abilities match to the certain career. Explain the benefits of choosing the certain career. It doesn’t mean that you have to walk in other steps. You have your own destination according to your personality. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="4. Take help of the professional career counselor"] In the final step, if you are not able to convince your parents then take a help of professional career counselor. A professional counselor will talk to you first and will explain to your parents why interest is mattered for individual life and successful career. [/fruitful_tab] [/fruitful_tabs]

Sometimes, parents are not able to find actual interest and abilities of children. Each individual has unique qualities, if they work in the same sector they will be happy and successful.

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If you are the person who does not get scared to share your queries and ideas in a mass then choose the career where your personality will be applied.

Are you the person who wants to do something in career but don’t know what might be fulfilling? Then, you should know your personality first. Finding, what makes me, “I” that can drive your life to success in short period of time. The general evidence we found is that people try to change our personality according to their careers.

A personality of the person plays the vital role in the career of the person. There are multiple benefits of knowing yourself better.

What is Personality?

Have you ever felt that something excites you more than usual? Have you ever noticed that some things influence you to make a decision than others? If you know the above question’s answer then you are on track. You are inherently unique and there are numerous benefits by knowing you personality and use it in your career and day to day life.

Here are the 6 reasons why you should know your personality for the career.

[fruitful_tabs type="accordion" width="100%" fit="false"] [fruitful_tab title="1.You can change your strength into the career">You can change your strength into the career"] Finding your strength is one of the most crucial aspects of recognizing personality. If you know, your inherent strengths and use in the career it will give you more confidence, pleasure and make you happy. For example, you are an introverted person, prefer to be on their own, and looking for the job where you have to work in the crowd, what will be the consequences? “Think about it.” But in the same time, if you looking for the job where there will not be more people, you can work on your own way, definitely, you would love it right. So, you can choose the career where strength matches. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="2.You can approach your career in a new way"] Are you really satisfied with what you are doing right now? What kind of working responsibly do you want to carry out most of the time? You might like to innovate your own ideas but in reality, you are following others. These instances, the career tortures you rather than give you happiness. You can illuminate this gap by knowing your personalities. You can approach your career in your way by starting new entrepreneurship or by looking for the job where your personality matches. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="3. You can choose the working environment"] What kind of working environment do you like the most? What kind of place are you more productive? To be happy in the workplace is essential to be more productive and creative. After knowing yourself better, it will be easy to choose the working environment without any hesitation. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="4. You can be happy and successful at the same time"]Who does not deserve both happiness and success in their life! But there are lots of external and internal factor may determine you to be none of them. You might be the person who loves to help others and choose the career what gives you satisfaction. If you do the things, what you really love then you can conduct it in the best way which can be profitable too. Which could give you pleasure at the same time happiness too. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="5. You will always love to return to work after weekend and holiday"] Most of the people hate to go back work after weekend and holiday. Can you imagine what could be the reason behind it? Maybe they can give the various reasons for it but one reason can be that ‘the work they are doing is not what they love’. [/fruitful_tab] [fruitful_tab title="6. You can improve your weakness"]Everyone has an uncomfortable part in their life. Do not make mistake to carry out your weakness first. It’s a lot of work to improve your mistake and enhance your strength. Nothing is really impossible as frequent practices can help you to improve, but improving your strength can is the lot easier and can get you a long way. [/fruitful_tab] [/fruitful_tabs][:]

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Post SEE and midst of +2 exams it is not unsual for youths to be confused and possibly misjudge their further education and career. Some of the youths may have the specific career interests but might not know about the available education options while some of them might be completely unaware about the future career.

To really understand if that is the case, we conducted a small survey on 30 youths in Bhaktapur. The number of respondents according to their educational level were: SEE appeared 3, +2 level 9, Bachelor 17 and 1 respondent from the Master level.

We know that this small survey cannot generalize all individual Nepali youths as the answer could vary from individual to individual. However, it surely will provide us with an insight to the level of confusion for the locals. Here is the Bhaktapur survey’s findings:

Career Decision Source: Field Survey 2018

According to the survey, more than three-quarter want to career and education decision themselves while the rest let their parents and friends decide for them.

How are the youths making decisions by themselves?

If youth have enough information about individual personalities and available career, they become more comfortable to take career decision themselves. They recognize the matching career they are passionate about and change their inherent passion into a career. On the other hand, youths who really do not know themselves usually tend to follow other's trend, follow friends' interests.

Are the youths that are making decisions themselves completely clear about their career choices?

Yes, to some extent. According to the responses, half repondants were clear about what they want to do for their career.

However, we found a very high 23.3% youths that were completely unaware of their career choices. They were either confused about their choices or unaware of the possibilities in Nepal.

What was striking was that even after choosing the certain career, most of the youth seem confused about the education pathway to reach that certain career.

How clear are the youths to decide the best education to reach the targeted career option?

In short, not so clear. According to the responses, only 26.67 percentages were crystal clear about their education, whereas more than 70 percentages of youth are clear or somehow unclear about the education that will take them to their desired career.

Why is that the case?

Definitely lacking enough information is the major case. There are different educational option to reach certain career, without knowing these option regardless of whether one studies or not, this does not lead individual anywhere.

What form of information do the youths need to make the right career choices?

1. Know yourselves

We cannot make right choices without understanding ourselves. Understanding ourselves mean that we should be able to accurately answer the following questions.

• What are my interesting areas?
• What things give me pleasure?
• What are my values?
• Why do I like what I like?

If you are not able to answer the questions, or somehow confused, there is a different counseling tool that is introduced in Nepal for the first time. You can understand your personalities and interest through that.

2. Know the Job market

More than 300 jobs exist in Nepal. Just knowing that helps. Around 20 job sectors (Agriculture, Engineering, Social work, Media…) exists. When vast choices are provided, the youths can find their right career for themselves.

3. Know your ability and limitations

Without understanding what you can do and what you can’t makes career choices even more difficult. Even after completing the education, one might not be able to give their best in the said career sector. List out your individual abilities and limitations. This will be a step forward for a more reflective way to decide right career according to your inherent talents.

4. Understand the educational choices

Same career option can have more than one education choices. Not all education needs to be academic. Some jobs would be benefitted by either professional courses or training. There is education system which will help you to know education option that you can choose to have the certain career.

We learnt that the youths who consider themselves their own decision makers tend not to know about what education to choose. There seems to be an overwhelming amount of confusion regarding education and career for all the levels of youths (SEE, +2, Bachelors and Masters).[:]