CAREER GUIDANCE SERIES :  MAKE AMAZING CAREERS

By :

Prof. (Dr. ) Trilok Kumar Jain

Dean, ISBM

Suresh Gyan Vihar University

Jaipur  302017  Mobile : 9414430763

Jain.tk@gmail.com

Great careers require great foundations. Great career start from schooling. Does it mean send your child to a great school? What do you mean by great school? Which school will be a great school? Is it a school  that charges great fees? Is it a school that gives heavy advertisement?

The best school is the HOME itself. Keep your child in home – as much as you can. The best teacher is the MOTHER. What is to be taught? The foundation of the child is the basic belief system. How do we build the basic belief system? Belief systems require you to have trust and confidence. No teacher can substitute mother. No teacher can be as trusting as mother.

Great careers are built on the foundations of great belief systems. Belief systems are based on trusts, confidence, attitude to life and the ultimate goals of life.

Building great foundations  -  6 Suggestions that can work ..

1.   Start with trust – trust  the child – accept the child, love the child, respect the child and look at the child with admiration

2.  Start with  positive attitude – enable the child to see positive in everything around

3.  Start with exploration – enable child to explore the nature, to see the nature, to live with nature – bare foot,

4.  Start with confidence – start small activities – play with sand, play with water, play with plants, play with trees, play with nature – and build confidence in the mind of the child – the child should be able to experience first hand creativity

5.  Create an apetite for learning – don’t teach anything – let the child develop an apetite for learning – don’t offer any knowledge to the child – let the child seek it and then offer it.

6.  Build imaginative faculty – tell interesting and inspirational stories,  show pictures, slowly build imaginative faculty of the child – enable the child to cultivate his imaginative skills at its own pace.  Let the child nurture wild ideas.

GREAT CAREERS – GREAT UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIMES TO COME

Careers are also dependent on understanding to changing times, changing technology, changing social trends, changing fashions etc. you have to find what is going to happen in the years to come. You have to predict the times of tomorrow. Careers should be flexible enough to move in the directions of changing times.

  A simple law of demand says – society will chase something which is in short supply. You have a simple relation between demand and supply. 100 units are in demand, 100 units are in supply – this is ideal condition. This is not possible. There is always an imbalance. This imbalance creates an opportunity or a loss. It is a simple law. Ten years back, we required large IT professionals due to arrival of IT related industries in India. IT professionals were commanding huge price. Today the situation is different. We have larger number of IT professionals than demand. The premium is diluting. People are blaming the government for un-employment – but they should understand this simple  ratio of demand and supply (law  of demand and supply).

5 things that can build a great career tomorrow : ----

I will not share with you my perspective on what will happen tomorrow – I leave that to you. However, I shall share with you some fundamentals that can always create a great careers. Let  us work on those fundamentals. Those fundamentals will always help you.

a.  Build leadership skills : - working with people, enabling people to work in team, enabling people to pursue goals and enabling people to develop their leadership skills. Great leaders are those who create leaders. Great leaders enable people to discover themselves. If you build this skill, it will always help you.

b.  Build entrepreneurship skills : great entrepreneurs look for opportunities when others fail to read those opportunities. Entrepreneurial skills are build  over a period of time. This is a skill which is again a combination of various skills. Build up these skills and you will always succeed.

c.   Build communication skills : it is not learning English – it is learning how to communicate. It is how to interact with others. It  is how to present your ideas before others. It is how to listen to others and create a common understanding

d.  Build negotiation skills  : it is how to create a win-win situation, it is how to find a common platform with others. It is how to build long term relation

e.  Build decision making skills  : analyzing different options and taking the best possible options after putting required analysis and after building the required background.

These fundamdnetal skills can be taught thorugh any programme – it may be BBA or BBM or BCom or B Tech, or any other programme. If you build these skills, you are sure to survive in the chaning times to come. Your fundamental skills will enable you to survive and grow in any situation. Build these skills even if you are doing any course – be it medical or engineering or management. These skills are fundamental for your great careers. All other skills have their own demand and supply – but these skills are universal and will always help you.

Build your careers around your capabilities and passion

Great careers are built around capabilities and passion. You must identify where you excel. Find your strengths and build those strengths further. Build your capabilities further. It should be a continuous process. You can be the most outstanding person in some capabilities. Build your passion for your field of career.

If you require even details discussions, feel free to ask me. If you wish to conduct a career guidance camp, do call me, it is my keen interest to help the next generation in building great careers, so I do impart career guidance with keen interest.