| Career means profession, which we want to adopt | | | | career planning. |
| for earning livelihood, and planning means proper flow | | | | It help us knowing the nature of the jobs that interest |
| or to make proper decisions. | | | | us, such as educational requirements, salary, working |
| Pre- planning in our life plays very important role in | | | | conditions, fringe benefits, promotion chances, future |
| every aspect of life, to work in a proper flow, and | | | | prospectus, and help us focusing in the right dimension. |
| pre-planning for career, which we want to pursue in | | | | Career planning directs us, motivates us, and helps us |
| our future ahead after acquiring certain level of degree | | | | to accomplish what we want. A career goal is a |
| is also very necessary in today’s competitive | | | | specific vision such as an architect or a teacher or a |
| world. | | | | career goal can be a particular field, which we want to |
| According to the Thorndike dictionary | | | | work in, such as Media, Education, Medicine, |
| “A goal that you desire to achieve in a selected | | | | Engineering etc. |
| field or occupation with a well-thought out plan, to get | | | | For those who will think about their future and career |
| you there is called Career Planning.” | | | | after completing education without any long term |
| The world is now moving very fast, and the time has | | | | desired goals are the one, whose all attempt might end |
| come when this meritocratic society accepts only | | | | in smoke. |
| those, having right qualification and right skills. | | | | There are some cases and situation, which bound a |
| Olden days are gone, when just a degree would help | | | | person to pre-plan in advance, such like family high |
| an individual to get high profile job by giving bribe or | | | | family business status, lack of interest in studies or |
| using some other mean. Now it’s high time, when | | | | traditional job, low motivation, low financial status etc or |
| the transparency in job recruitment has taken place. | | | | some past educational traumas, which had made a |
| Challenges and competition are the part of today’s | | | | person to plan after wards. |
| society, and therefore, Career Planning is the only task, | | | | Career planning is a life time process we are always |
| which can guide us to do what we want to do in our | | | | learning and growing, and as we do, our interests and |
| life, rather than just aimlessly changing job all the time in | | | | needs also change. Career planning is not just making |
| future. | | | | plans to obtain our career, but it also help us to make |
| We have seen many Pakistani, who after completing | | | | many adjustments there will be along the ways we |
| Intermediate don’t know where to go, what to do | | | | learn throughout our lives. |
| and we have also seen graduates, who aimlessly do | | | | Those who have successful careers like educators, |
| graduation without any specialization. As a result, they | | | | business man, manager, pilot, architect, banker, doctor |
| earns just in 6-8 figures. | | | | etc are the one, who has made their ways through |
| Career Planning is one of the broader aspects of | | | | proper guidance. |
| learning in our existence. We all have some intentions | | | | No doubt, that our parents have some wishes and |
| and we all think to have stability in our future lives, and | | | | expectations from us, but we have our own too. |
| for that purpose, CAREER PLANNING serves as a | | | | Therefore, we should also consider others opinion. For |
| key to success. | | | | that we could take guidance from an educational |
| Career Planning makes a person to think suitably about | | | | counselor to get better guidance towards new |
| their positive and negative aspects. All about their | | | | dimensional fields as well. Teacher, professionals, |
| interest, about their creativity becomes possible | | | | career guidance websites, Head educational |
| through proper analyzing ourselves. | | | | consultants can also guide us, to have a better |
| Career Planning basically starts, when a person | | | | approach for our future. |
| finishes Secondary/ Higher Secondary level of | | | | We must have freedom of speaking and freedom of |
| education. After that level, a person could opt for that | | | | choosing our career as we have to lead our lives |
| educational degree, which would help them out to have | | | | which interest us. We must try to have an open mind |
| a good job opportunity according to their skills at the | | | | in order to choose the right career on right time. |
| right time. | | | | According to one renowned professor, |
| Career Planning helps us to design and formulate our | | | | “Few of us like to opt for those degree courses, |
| future smoothly. Like, If a person wants to be a banker, | | | | which their family or friend has advised them to adopt |
| then he or she would choose to go for ACCA or CA | | | | and this inappropriate knowledge trapped them into a |
| or MBA in finance after completing Intermediate in | | | | great mistake and |
| commerce and Graduation in commerce/ business | | | | In this way, they are unable to get good job |
| administration.. Else he/ she would go for CAT course | | | | opportunities according to their interests. Only Proper |
| or Masters in Commerce or even upto doctorate level. | | | | Career Guidance would help an individual to be on the |
| This pre-planning would be effective and would give | | | | right path before hand. Few of us try to seek the right |
| him/her benefits after achieving educational targets | | | | path and take guidance from family or teacher to tell |
| effectively. | | | | them what is good for them, which career is in |
| It also helps us to evaluate our own personality, which | | | | demand and which career suits their interest.” |
| helps us to know that which kind of job would suit us | | | | The future is un-predictable, however, we could still |
| according to our need and capabilities. | | | | make our place in this meritocratic world by making |
| In short, Career Planning is like mapping our future. | | | | career goals and plans in advance, for getting better |
| Without proper planning, no one could think of getting a | | | | opportunities in todays pluralistic and globalize world. |
| desired job in future. | | | | We must pre-plan our goals under the supervision of |
| Think what we want to do and finding out more about | | | | professionals in conscious state of mind, so that we |
| the kind of training, education, and skills we will need to | | | | could strategically maintain our goals and follow it |
| achieve our career goal is the core objective of | | | | towards the path of successful future. |