Top 4 Ways To Choose The Right Career Path For You

With the increase in unemployment levels, most people end up taking jobs due to availability without every thinking whether that is the right job or career for them.

You are likely to be termed as proud if you don’t accept a certain job offer with people around you constantly reminding you how such and such a friend is still hustling for a job.

But when you come to think about it, ending up in the right career will save you a lot of stress and frustrations in future.

I am talking about that ‘shoot me please’ feeling you get when you have to wake up every morning to go to your uninteresting job and be surrounded by the most annoying characters ever to walk the earth.

According to Ms. Lucy Mutungi, one of the greatest career coaches in Kenya, the career you chose today impacts a great deal on every future decision you make.

Take a job just because it is the only one that was available after tarmacking for so many years, and you are on your way to a dead-end career.

Ever heard of that saying, that it’s no longer a job if you enjoy doing what you do? Yeah, that’s what choosing the right career does. Every day is like a holiday in the office.

Here are great tips from Ms. Mutungi on how to decide which career path is right for you.

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1. Understand the difference between a job and a career

So many job seekers, including myself at one point, have no clear understanding of what a job is and what a career entails.

They say beggars can never be choosers, which is why you will find someone who has done engineering working in customer care since engineering jobs are hard to come by.

I can’t count how many emails and phone calls I have received from distressed job seekers seeking to know what they should do about their careers.

One of the emails I can recall read, “I have been working as an electrician for ten years now but I had studied procurement. I now want to go back to the procurement field and I am wondering where to start.”

I understand that jobs are hard to come by, and we have to take what is available, but don’t let that job limit you from pursuing your career.

Keep looking for jobs that are in the career path you intend to take.

2. Review your options

As a job seeker, you will have so many jobs at your disposal. Review each job and choose the one that appeals to you.

This is the job that you know you will enjoy doing. Some of us ended up in a career we had not intended because we got to love what we are doing and in doing so created new career paths for ourselves.

It doesn’t matter what you studied in school, your career can be the complete opposite of that.

3. Get the right educational qualifications

You have already weighed your options, and have narrowed down to the one job you will enjoy doing. Work then towards that. Research on what educational qualifications you require to become an expert in that field and enroll in school.

In short, get out of the comfort zone and embrace opportunities out there, nay, create opportunities for yourself and going to school to study what you want is one way of choosing the right career path.

Don’t ever settle for something you are not and passionate about.

4. Get career advice

One of the most important people you should never overlook is career coaches. These are the people who guide you and help you make reasonable decisions pertaining to your career depending on your strengths and skills.

Melody Ms. Mutungi, a career coach at Corporate Staffing is one of the best in the industry.

If you are still struggling to determine which career path is right for you, you could consult a career coach.

Experts have it that most stress is caused by ending up in the wrong career path. Stress can take a toll on your productivity, not to mention your health. With these easy steps, get to know which career is right for you.

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