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When the time comes for you to pick a career, you will discover that you have a multitude of options. It can be difficult to pick one, especially if you have no idea what you want to do ... or if many things appeal to you. Does it seem like an insurmountable task? It's not. Yes, you will have to put some effort into making your decision, but your effort will be well worth it in the end. If you follow these steps, you can successfully choose a suitable career and avoid making a big mistake.

ACCESS YOURSELF:
Before you can choose the right career, you must learn about yourself. Your values, interests, soft skills, and aptitudes, in combination with your personality type, will make some occupations a good fit for you and others completely inappropriate.
You can use self assessment tools, often called career tests, to gather information about your traits and, subsequently, to generate a list of occupations that are a good fit based on them. Some people choose to work with a career counselor or other career development professionals who can help them navigate this process.

MAKE A LIST OF OCCUPATIONS TO EXPLORE:
You will probably have multiple lists of occupations in front of you at this point—one generated by each of the self assessment tools you used. To keep yourself organized, you should combine them into one master list.
First, look for careers that appear on multiple lists and copy them onto a blank page. Title it "Occupations to Explore." Your self assessment indicated they are a good fit for you based on several of your traits, so it is definitely worth considering them.Next, find any occupations on your lists that appeal to you. They may be careers you know a bit about and want to explore further. Also, include professions about which you don't know much. You might learn something unexpected. Add those to your master list.

EXPLORE THE OCCUPATIONS ON YOUR LIST:
Now it is time to get some basic information about each of the occupations on your list. This step will make you thrilled you managed to narrow your list down to only 10 to 20 options. You wouldn't want to have to gather information about all the ones that were on your original list!
Use published resources to find job descriptions and educational, training and licensing requirements. Learn about advancement opportunities. Use government produced labor market information to get data about earnings and job outlook.

CREATE A SHORT LIST:
At this point, you must begin to narrow down your list even more. Based on what you learned from your research so far, you can start to eliminate the careers you don't want to pursue any further. You should have no more than between two and five occupations on your short list.
There may be jobs on your original list with duties that don't appeal to you. You may discover that a career that looked interesting has a weak job outlook. Maybe you are unable to or unwilling to fulfill the educational or other requirements of a particular occupation, or you lack some of the soft skills necessary to succeed in it. If your reasons for finding a career unacceptable are non-negotiable, cross it off your list.

CONDUCT INFORMATIONAL INTERVIEW:
With only a few occupations left on your list, you can start doing more in-depth research. An excellent way to do this is to conduct informational interviews with people who have first-hand knowledge about the occupations on your short list. You should access your network, including LinkedIn, to find people who currently work in those fields.

MAKE YOUR CAREER CHOICE:
Finally, after carry out all your research and analysis, you should be reasonable enough to choose the career that will bring you the most satisfaction, joy and fulfilment while committing the career in God's hands.

We will succeed....

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Nice post.youths still need to be guided on what career to choose.We parents need not impose what we want on our kids also.But my philosophy is that everyone sho uld try and be the best of what he/she can be. Many had a different career, but in the one they find themselves, we see them excelling.Many are lawyers for example, rather than practice, they ended up as movie stars and have really made name and money, much more than their original profession would have fetched.They are satisfied, fulfilled and happy

Wao! Thanks for this wonderful contribution

What a revealing piece for success in life

Thanks for the comment

Choosing a career is one of the major challenge of the youth. I must say I was confronted with that too. But thank God for his grace, He made a way for me.
Thanks for sharing.

More thanks to you for taken your time to go through the piece

Choosing a career is just like a talent but different, thanks for exposing some of this secret of choosing a career.

wrong careers affects destinies. lets be careful and prayerful in chosing our careers. good advice.

More thanks to you for taken your time to go through the piece

great content! and thanks again for following!

More thanks to you for taken your time to go through the piece

Great tips, very prscticable.

We shall succeed in all our chosen career in Jesus name

Life changing article, thanks for sharing

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