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2 Apr

How to Research and Choose a Career

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The importance of research in planning your career [click to download the full pdf]. Excerpt:

How Most People Plan Their Careers

While you would have thought that people would plan something as important as their career much more carefully than when buying a piece of equipment, a surprising number of people take rather less trouble, resorting instead to methods such as:

  • Eliminating careers or work areas because of a bad experience in a particular job - this may have simply been due to an unpleasant colleague or boss.
  • Extrapolating from good experiences. Just as risky as the former, you work for a charismatic boss and mistake him or her for the work.
  • Falling into careers by chance, applying for jobs because you happen to be there when they pop up and it seems like a good idea at the time.
  • Taking advice from well-meaning onlookers. You meet up with someone who has just started a new career and they convince you that you would enjoy it too.
  • Following parental wishes. That old but powerful chestnut.

    • These are all high-risk strategies, and I should know, I’ve used most of them.

    If you want to maximise the chances of finding a career in which you will thrive, and which will be grateful to have you, you need to do some research.

    The three essential areas of career research:

    1. gathering information
    2. networking
    3. experience

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