Career counselling means self assessment of a person who are planning for ideal job or
professional studies. Teenagers just out of school always being confused about picking of career.
A large number of students continue to choose a career based merely on the fact that their friends
are doing the same thing or because their parents told them to do so. But the question takes on a
whole new significance for students fresh out of Class XII.
Career counselling helps students/teenagers to discover their true potential and
interest in various subjects in order to help them choose the right career.
So here are expert guidance to choose career that's right for you.
COURSES AFTER B.COM DEGREE
B.Com programme provides a good base for a range of careers. These are broadly of two types-those related to business & finance such as Chartered Accountancy, Company Secretaryship, and Cost and Works Accountancy (CWA), Banking and so on, and the non-finance fields such as Law, Civil Services, Mass Communication, Hotel Management and so on.
To enhance your qualification in accounts, you may consider C.W.A. Diploma in banking & finance, P.G. Diploma in banking law & practice which helps to go for C.S. or Law.
Courses for Banking & Finance include a P.G. Diploma in Banking Operations.
For non-banking financial consultancy, there are several courses in securities and capital markets. P.G. Diploma programme in treasury and forex management & a P.G. Diploma in merchant banking and financial services.
There are few short-courses in capital markets like Diploma in financial and investment planning.
There are short-term courses as Diplomas in export-import management through correspondence.
You may look at a P.G. Diploma in Insurance Management as Insurance & Risk Management is new growing field for B.Com students.
MBA Graduates: Need of corporates
The corporate industry in whole world requires a excellent, intelligent & useful MBA graduates. This course teaches the Excellency of management in the light of scientific views.This programme is of two years degree or diploma and called post-graduation course.
The basic requirement for doing MBA is graduation from any recognized university. The basic quality of the course is how to speak in scientific and skilled manner & handle the odd situation of the industry. MBA's aspirants have to qualify a common entrance test like CAT, MAT, SNAP etc. in India. Entrance test comprising test of aptitude skill, speaking quality & data interpretations as well as reasoning, logical exercise & presentation of facts in effective manner. English knowledge and speaking is most important thing in this course.
But there should also be fundamental knowledge of maths calculations. MBA's aspirants can take admission in coaching institute for preparations of entrance test or can prepare from guidebooks or from the related website. Here is very important that MBA's aspirants should read 2 or 3 papers per day in English as well as Current affairs & business programme should be viewed daily by the MBA's aspirants. Group discussion is an other important aspect for MBA’s aspirants.
Match actions with your values & potentials
Firstly, it is essential to identify your potential in which you can pay higher roles. Match your qualificatiions, skills, work experience, it any, along with subjective parameters like ambitions, talent, competitiveness, spirit, creativity and vision.
Secondly, choose a job, where you can display your fundamental abilities to succeed early in their career which placed you on the fast track right away.
This is the fundamental preprations which should be undertaken prior to making a decision about your career and personal development. It enables you to address the questiions 'Who am I and 'What do I want ?'.