Important factors that influence your career

• Parents’ Desire/Parental Pressure:

Choosing a career just to live up to the parents expectation is the most common decision taken by students at an early stage, which they tend to regret later. For ex. Most of the students from business families are by default expected to choose commerce and hence B.Com or BBA as their suited career course. Some who resist submit to the parental pressure leading to an unsuccessful career graph. Such influences under the garb of adhering to their guardians wish are considered unfruitful for the students in long run.

• Peer Persuasion:

This is the easiest way of getting away from making a self decision. Most of the students want to follow the crowd to get to their destination. ‘Follow your friends’ is the most trending exercise visible during the selection of a university/college. Majority choice is considered the best choice. This mindset has increased the count in the mediocre group where students fail to succeed in their career and just keep on with an average performance.

• Past Performance:

This is in fact the most unjustified and distorted basis of analysing one’s performance and interest area. In India, we are not only churned in an old education system of rote learning but we believe in the numbers to prove our calibre. This practice of determining one’s interest field based on one time exam performance has often led to a wrong career decision.

• Potential:

Potential of a student can be a legitimate criterion for choosing a career. Very few are able to identify their potential and choose their subject of knowledge based on it. A career selected on the basis of one’s potential has greater prospect of assuring success.

• Placements:

We wish to choose a profession that can provide for our bread and butter. Placement opportunities in a particular university are thus considered the most important factor for the students when they harp about their career choice. Good placement options are an important motivation driver for students in their Career Planning.

• Personality Driven:

Most people choose their interest field on the basis of their personality and character. It can be the other way around also, when a career chooses them based on their personality. Here personality includes not only the outward presentation of a student but the perception he/she holds about society. A good communicator, who has good command on their language skills, is more inclined towards a mass communication stream. Similarly, a good leader who has the capacity to influence masses chooses a management field. Personality traits always help in deciding a good career, for it is easy to hone the skills we already acquire.

• Affordability:

This is the basic and the most essential criterion for most of them who set out to make their career. Affordability or Paisa in lay man’s language determines the purchasing power of individuals who dares to dream. In India, when Right to Education aims to ensure education for all, it fails to distribute the standard quality of education. One, who can afford it, can only receive the ace quality training, knowledge and plum opportunities. Most of the students neglect their interest and choose a career that fits their pocket well.