Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Career Planning Tips For Parents



Introduction

Globalization has led to phenomenal growth in the commerce and industry in recent past. Hence the last couple of decades saw more emerging sectors in education and careers to satisfy very complex requirement of manpower and that too in huge volume to cope up with the industrial growth. Once what was called as “Industrial Worker” now comes to be known by a more sophisticated term “Human Resource”. Now a person needs to be innovator, wizard and master juggler apart from of course, educated. It is no more like – acquire some university degree and then find a job. There was no targeted approach earlier, except for few considered to be brilliant who used to opt for a professional stream mostly either engineering or medicine.


Career Planning – When?

There is a point you can draw from the preceding introduction that choice has to be made these days at a very early stage of education itself if not in cradle and this choice has to come from wider range of options. Cooking could have been a hobby and creative pastime a decade or two ago but now a lucrative profession even may be leading to a celebrity status to the incumbent. The parents must have to start thinking about converting such inclinations and inherent likings of their children into a vision for the career; for that they have to first themselves come to terms that career option could exist in any bizarre hobby. They have to stay current with the ever changing education patterns, emergence of avenues of career, courses and latest happenings in the sector of career building.


This has become quite an irony that knowledge and information has become so easily available in this cyber age, but the parents, because of the reluctance to utilize this medium or for merely an orthodox approach ignoring it, has resulted into much lower awareness among the them about career building if the child fails to make it to traditional engineering and medicine. The first thing the parents must do is shed their inhibitions about other educational options and careers other than traditional. How can they do it? Obviously by knowing the latest and the newest -

Daily Educational News

There are a large number of websites like http://ssc2pg.com which bring you the latest happenings in the field of education and career. A search on google with “daily education news” can list other thousands of sites. Sparing just 5 minutes scanning the headlines and click on the one that you may like to explore can gradually build your awareness about the latest trends in education andcareer.

Student Career Articles

The web is full with career articles written by experts in the field of career counseling. Use search on google with keyword / phrase “student career articles” to reach to such articles. Such articles provide you information about the eligibility criteria, job profiles in the field, universities and colleges where such degree, diploma, certificate courses are provided etc.

Career Forum for Students

Careerforum for students provide a very live discussion on various aspects of career. Career forum is the networking of students, teachers, career counselors and parents where they meet virtually to share information about education and career. You may put queries and expect the answers sometimes within short time.