Dreams to Careers

In the earlier blog, we began with understanding the various dimensions of career and realized that its scope expands beyond merely the job an individual does, and the importance of these varying but related concepts to the individual.

Our childhood dreams ranged from visualizing ourselves as bus drivers, pilots, engineers, doctors, teachers and what not!! As we mature, and our realization of the world around us increases, we evaluate these dreams make them more “real”. While few of us begin realizing our passion early and decide to pursue it, while many take a longer time to realize their passion and dreams. It is but pretty common that one may wonder what their interest are for a long time in life, forget about pursuing them. Sometimes a long pursuit leads, very little time for the individual to accomplish anything when they decide to begin.

One approach that could be thought of to be able to find our pursuit is to begin early. It is better to begin as a kid (though many of us reading this blog may not really be kids any more, it would definitely help in the future ;), however its really not late today to begin with something like this ) - engage yourself in as many activities as possible. When I say activities, I mean, activities like learning martial arts, or painting, etc. Also go to social gatherings, where there are discussion on any topics. Activities of this nature begin revealing our skills and interest in a larger sphere; and help finding our passion early and achieving something substantially.

There is another approach to build a career, we shall discuss this at a later stage.

In the coming blogs we will get deeper into knowing the ways in finding our passion, goals which could reveal a larger number of career opportunities.

So Careers - Intro

Career today are used to represent the job opportunities that a company offers. But is this the meaning of Careers? Does it limit to only the job one takes up and the work that is done as part of it? Shouldn’t it also have the aspect of careers - what about my dream. The dream for which I want to realize - may be a childhood dream, may be at a later stage. Where did we miss the aspect of interest, hobbies, and passions?

It is sad that these should be missed any mention when the "career" tabs are put out on the navigation bar of the companies in such a way that is most noticeable to the visitors of the website? However there is another message that comes in - the companies are not able to retain their talent (yes we are talents - multipotential beings). These companies too need to understand that there is more to retaining people to employees that just money. It is the aspirations of the employee that gets him/her to their company. When these aspirations are not met it is inevitable that the candidate would leave the company.

They leave not due to the pay package every time - but due to the many factors; their team, the immediate supervisor, the growth opportunity, attitude and much more. This challenge of careers is found equally hard to solve for both the individual and the corporate alike.

Through these blogs we intent to do a few of the following things

• Assist people realize their careers and themselves
• Be the single point of information delivery for various career options for aspirants
• Understand to some extent the theory that is derived from the process of making career choices.