choosing career

1. Welcome
To take dip
In the everlasting,
To lose self
In the ever-flowing currents,
To be transformed
By the magic of the Maker…

2. Goal-setting

3. During this session you will
learn to:
• Clarify your goals and how to achieve them
• Handle people and projects that waste your
time
• Be involved in better delegation
• Work more efficiently with your colleagues
• Learn specific skills and tools to save you
time
• Overcome stress and procrastination

4. Goals, Priorities, and Planning
• Why am I doing this?
• What is the goal?
• Why will I succeed?
• What happens if I chose not to do it?

5. Planning to Live Your Life Your Way
Many people feel as if they're adrift in the world. They work hard,
but they don't seem to get anywhere worthwhile.
A key reason that they feel this way is that they haven't spent
enough time thinking about what they want from life, and haven't
set themselves formal goals.
After all, would you set out on a major journey with no real idea of
your destination? Probably not!

6. Personal Goal Setting
Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about
your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn your
vision of this future into reality.
The process of setting goals helps you choose where
you want to go in life.
By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you
know where you have to concentrate your efforts.
You'll also quickly spot the distractions that can, so
easily, lead you astray.

7. Starting to Set Personal Goals
You set your goals on a number of levels:
•First you create your "big picture" of what you want to do with
your life (or over, say, the next 10 years), and identify the large-
scale goals that you want to achieve.
•Then, you break these down into the smaller and smaller targets
that you must hit to reach your lifetime goals.
•Finally, once you have your plan, you start working on it to
achieve these goals.
This is why we start the process of goal setting by looking at your
lifetime goals. Then, we work down to the things that you can do
in, say, the next five years, then next year, next month, next week,
and today, to start moving towards them.

8. The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you
want to achieve in your lifetime (or at least, by a significant and
distant age in the future).
Setting lifetime goals gives you the overall perspective that
shapes all other aspects of your decision making.
To give a broad, balanced coverage of all important areas in your
life, try to set goals in some of the following categories :
Make sure that the goals that you have set are ones that you
genuinely want to achieve, not ones that your parents, family, or
employers might want.

9. Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals
•Career - What level do you want to reach in your career, or
what do you want to achieve?
•Financial - How much do you want to earn, by what stage?
How is this related to your career goals?
•Education - Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in
particular? What information and skills will you need to have in
order to achieve other goals?
•Family - Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going
to be a good parent? How do you want to be seen by a partner
or by members of your extended family?
•Artistic - Do you want to achieve any artistic goals?

10. •Attitude - Is any part of your mindset holding you back? Is there
any part of the way that you behave that upsets you? (If so, set a
goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem.)
•Physical - Are there any athletic goals that you want to achieve,
or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are
you going to take to achieve this?
•Pleasure - How do you want to enjoy yourself? (You should
ensure that some of your life is for you!)
•Public Service - Do you want to make the world a better place?
If so, how
?

11. Goal Setting Tips
• State each goal as a positive statement - Express
your goals positively – "Execute this technique well" is a
much better goal than "Don't make this stupid mistake."
• Be precise: Set precise goals, putting in dates, times
and amounts so that you can measure achievement. If
you do this, you'll know exactly when you have achieved
the goal, and can take complete satisfaction from having
achieved it.
• Set priorities - When you have several goals, give each
a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed
by having too many goals, and helps to direct your
attention to the most important ones.
• Write goals down - This crystallizes them and gives
them more force.

12. • Keep operational goals small - Keep the low-level goals that
you're working towards small and achievable. If a goal is too
large, then it can seem that you are not making progress
towards it. Keeping goals small and incremental gives more
opportunities for reward.
• Set performance goals, not outcome goals - You should
take care to set goals over which you have as much control as
possible. It can be quite dispiriting to fail to achieve a personal
goal for reasons beyond your control!
• If you base your goals on personal performance, then you can
keep control over the achievement of your goals, and draw
satisfaction from them.

13. Planning
• Scheduling activities at the right time
– Down time can be up time
– Preferred work time chunks
• Consolidating all planning in one place
– Long term planning at a glance (semester)
– Short term scheduling (week)
– To do list
– Action plans for each class or project
– Values and goals from the exercise

14. • Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Time-based
Set “smart” goals

16. CHOOSING A CAREER
Why to choose career?
•Udam karendaya jiuo tu
•Ghalkhaye kish hathon
deh
•For upliftment of society,
social and cultural values,
you need to be well
settled.
•Gursikh Engineer,
Doctor, teacher, player,
businessman etc.

17. One of the most critical decisions, which every young
person- man or woman has to make, is to choose the
right career.
On this depends the fulfillment of life’s desires, hopes
ambitions goals the success and failure.
Personal adjustment economic success social respect
and image and happiness in life depend on choosing
the right career.
Here are some of the considerations which young
persons may keep in view in choosing a career

18. 1. Fulfilling the Elders Wishes :
Many parents or grandparents advise, in fact exhort
upon their children to choose a career; Because
somebody they themselves wanted to be, but could not
due to certain circumstances such as becoming a
doctor, lawyer army or police officers.
Many an obedient children who have internalized this
desire and commit themselves will work hard to live up
to the ideals and aspirations of parents or grandparents.
Later on however if they do not like the profession they
will become maladjusted and curse the parents or
grandparents for messing up their lives.

19. 2. Educational performance
: Many young people will choose a career related to
performance in particular subject .
Performance in certain subjects may not necessarily
mean interest in the subject or nature of work. For
example performance in home science courses does
not mean a person would make a good cook, dietitian:
or performance in science courses does not mean one
would make a good engineer or a doctor .
Besides academic achievement one must have an
aptitude and interests.

20. 3. Current Market Value
: Employment Opportunities : Many people choose a
career keeping in view the current market demand. In
other words the careers which are more attractive for
prestige power financial rewards and employment
opportunities. Medicine engineering computer science
software development management education, exports
and even administrative services are such examples.
The trouble is that by the time a person completes the
education the market may be saturated and there is
less demand.

21. 4. Pursing Greener Pastures
: Many young people and mid career adults like to go
abroad in search of diamonds in the form of a rewarding
career abroad.
Merely getting a degree from a foreign university does
not guarantee career success.
Many experience adjustment problems golden
opportunities are available in one’s own country city and
village provided we know how to identify a problem ,
mobilize resources and deliver the goods.

22. 5. Rational approach to career
Planning:
A rational and effective approach would be integration of all of the
above approaches.
Here are some suggestions.
1.Set your goals for the next 10-20-30 and even 50 years. Ask
yourself what kind of person you would like to be at the end of
life? Why you would like to be? What will be the reward? For
whom? Self, family, Community County? What kind of rewards
2.What is the socio economic and political environment? Can
those goals be achieved in the environment of village, district
state and national level?
3.What are your strength and weakness?

23. A.. Examine physical health and characteristics. Can you work
hard? Can you take physical stresses and strains of travels work
without food etc?
B Examine mental resources ,knowledge, skills, attitudes ,learning
orientation ,,memory, vocabulary ,decision-making, problems
solving skills ,creativity besides formal education.
C Examine Emotional Orientation- how do you express or repress
your emotions- Love compassion, hostility, disgust ,anger,
disappointment ,failure ,rejection?
D Examine Social skill and resources- support from relatives’,
friends, contacts ,moral support, financial support, custodial
support.
E Examine your economic resources, financial needs ,resources
,land, buildings ,vehicles ,stocks and share borrowing possibility
form friends and relatives?

24. Based on the above analysis choose a career. Have full
determination to succeed.
Be enthusiastic towards what you wish to do.
Don’t get discouraged if you meet with initial setbacks
failures discouragements and delays.
Even almighty God or cosmic Nature also tests us,
before blessing us with success.
Positive attitudes analytical orientations, technical and
managerial development and social relations will help
you steer the sip of life towards successes and
happiness.

36. S W O T Analysis
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats