Career advice can help in giving right direction to life in several ways. Depending on the stage in life or your profession,, career advice can help you choose a career line or field, select a job profile, help with job search, interview preparation, help build a career plan etc. All these things are helpful in giving direction to life. Let us take a closer look at how career advice can help in giving direction to your life and career.
- Choosing a Career Line
Choosing a specific career line or career field is the first step in planning and building a career. Career advice can help in choosing a career line by providing you with information about various career fields that you can choose and the pros and cons of each choice. A professional career adviser can also suggest the field that is right for you based on your inclination, job market conditions and the results of the standardized aptitude and psychological tests. Alternatively you can make a decision based on the information provided to you by career advice. Having a specific career field to focus on can give direction to your life and also help you organize and concentrate your efforts.
- Selecting a Job Profile
When choosing a career field or line you should consider your preferences and inclination. The job market condition and other external factors should be of secondary importance. In the choice of a job profile on the other hand you should give primary importance to external factors such as job availability. Once you are in a job and did not like the work, it is easier to change a job profile compared to the whole career line. Career advice can help in choosing a career profile by providing information about job profiles available and other crucial information associated with job profiles such as, requirements, eligibility criteria, competition etc.
- Searching for Job
Career advice can help in giving direction to your life by helping you in finding and getting a job. It can provide tips that can help you complete your job search. These may involve giving information about major companies, current job availabilities, tips for optimizing your resume so that you'll get an interview call etc.
- Preparing for Job Interview
Career advices in form of interview tips and lists of expected questions can be of great help in preparing you for job interview and can be the difference between success and failure in the job interview. As job interviews are a major part of most job selection processes, we can see that career advice can be of great help in getting a job and thereby in giving direction to life.
- Making a Career Plan
Getting a job though an important step in life is not a decisive point in life. Getting stuck in a dead end job is barely better than remaining unemployed. Career advice can help you create a career plan for progressing in your career. A career plan helps give direction to your life and career by providing you with a certain goal to focus on. Having a goal that is achievable in relatively short term keeps you motivated and thereby improve you performance as well.
Overall we see that career advice can be very effective in giving right direction to life and career. The actual effectiveness of the career advice however would depend on how well you follow the given career advice and also on whether you have received and followed the career advice that is right and relevant to you.