Decide and Drive your Career

Can all decisions be Rational always? Inquiry into the question unveils that our decisions are not solely rational. In the process of choosing the best alternative, our instincts and guts often come in the decision making process. But sole reliance on guts causes a huge payoff sometimes. Hence, we seek advices and suggestions to justify our choices as we can’t commit all mistakes and rectify those at our own. Therefore, the decision making becomes a combination of rational, intuitional and dependent process. The availability of time and options also restrain the style of decision making.

While deciding about one’s career, the choice of “the Institute” and further “the Workplace” lends everyone into confusion. This confusion can be removed byinformation and advises. The ultimate choice is however made by the individual through self-instincts.Right choice of institution can be made with the help of data on teaching pedagogy, class regularity, discipline, intellectual capital, supporting infrastructure, placements efforts and records, success stories, historical background and amenities being offered by the institution. Priorities based weightages can be assigned to the aforesaid factors and advises from experienced people may also be sought in the process of comparing the benefits against the investment of precious time and money.

In this era of Protean Careers, the individuals are themselves responsible for their future and career movesprediction. Gone are those days when career planning and job offers were only organizational responsibility. Now days, everyone has to ponder in self-development plans. Right from choosing the subjects and domain, the career starts to shape up. Vocational courses on Management and Business administration are open for the students of varied backgrounds. Therefore, the foundation of career may be rectified and laid here as well. Here also, a crucial decision is involved while choosing for specialization like human resource management, marketing management, financial management, operations management and so on. Why it is crucial? Because the stepping stone in the career ladder in an organization is determined by the choice of the field of specialization.

Choices of career may be easy if based on Self-Analysis. Realizing own Strengths and Weaknesses, and the corresponding Opportunities and Threats can further enhance the chances of correct decisions. As the workplace and career in contemporary times has turned Protean (i.e. based on predictions, foretelling, foreseeing, adaptability, versatility and acclimating), everyone has to make decisions and drive their career through appropriate ladders and junctions in entire work life.