Choosing a career from personal interests

Posted date 24/03/2018

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Posted date 24/03/2018

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Understanding one's career interests will help students choose a career, a major, or even a course that is suitable for their future career development.

Understanding one's career interests will help students choose a career, a major, or even a course that is suitable for their future career development.

Many excellent students are oriented by their families to take the general medicine exam. However, they confide that they take the exam but still do not know if it is suitable or if they like the medical field. This situation is also very common for many other students.

Choose a career based on your interests

Basic steps

Choose the right career, easy to succeed

There are many methods to discover interests, skills, personality, talents... of each individual, such as self-discovery test of career interests, color test... depending on the case, the user chooses the most suitable method.

If you choose the right career, you will feel happier, invest more in the career, stick with the career for a long time and feel less pressure during your studies and work later on, and the opportunity for career success will soon come to you.

To make the best choice, preparation must be done from the first year of high school, even middle school. First of all, candidates need to access recruitment information about job positions and employer requirements through the media (books, newspapers, movies, recruitment websites, online jobs...).

Candidates should write down the jobs that interest them the most, with information such as the requirements of the job position, the requirements of the field of study, and the level of training. Next, candidates should find ways to approach the actual job in many ways such as visiting factories or contacting and interacting with workers, civil servants or watching television, to select the jobs that they feel are most suitable.

At the same time, access training facilities through websites, media or visit schools, laboratories, interact with students and record basic information about tuition fees, learning and living conditions, admission conditions... compare with your own abilities such as suitability in personality, learning ability, family circumstances to make the final decision.

During the decision-making process, depending on the specific case, candidates may refer to economic development trends and human resource needs on the local website to make a decision.

Starting with learning about careers , opportunities , challenges and requirements of each career position, students will determine which career they like, whether their personality, values and skills are suitable for that career field or not. Then they will find out which major to study to do that job, which schools have that major, and what the admission requirements are.

Read more: Criteria for choosing the right career, in line with trends

Corresponding career fields

According to Holland's theory, people who are capable of engineering , technology , systems ; like to work with objects, machines, animals and plants; like to do outdoor work are people in the R career interest group , suitable for the fields of architecture, labor safety, carpentry, construction, aquaculture, engineering, marine machinery, driving, coaching, agriculture - forestry (farm management, fish breeding, forestry...), mechanics (machine manufacturing, equipment maintenance and repair, metallurgy, applied mechanics, automation...), electricity - electronics, geography - geology (surveying, cadastral mapping), oil and gas, oceanography, industrial management, biomedical engineering...

People with the ability to observe , explore , analyze, evaluate and solve problems in group I of career interests , suitable for fields in the fields of natural sciences (math, physics, chemistry, geology, statistics...); life sciences (biology, biotechnology); social sciences (anthropology, psychology, geography...); medicine - pharmacy (anesthetists, resuscitators, surgeons, dentists...); science and technology (information technology, environment, electricity, technical physics, nuclear engineering, construction...), agriculture - forestry (agronomy, veterinary medicine...).

People with artistic ability , intuition, high imagination , who like to work in spontaneous, non-standard environments belong to career interest group A , suitable for fields such as literature; journalism (commentator, MC...); cinema; theater; fine arts; music; dance; architecture; fashion; painting; history/English teacher, museum, conservation...
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People with language skills , explaining , like to do things like explaining, providing information, caring, helping or training others belong to the S career interest group , suitable for professions such as pedagogy, lecturer, athletics coach; career counseling; social work, public health, captain, librarian, specialist doctor, price appraisal, urban planning research, family economics, human resource recruitment, police, sociologist, midwife, radiologist, nutritionist...
Read more: The public relations profession is "thirsty" for human resources

People with business ability , daring to think and act , able to influence and persuade others, and capable of management belong to career interest group E , suitable for careers in business administration (hotel management, human resource management...), commerce, marketing, accounting - finance, law, customer service, flight attendant, interpreter, bartender, industrial engineer (industrial systems engineering), emergency doctor, urban planning, chef (cooking), journalism (reporter, editor...)...
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People who are good at numbers , like to do detailed work, like to work with data, follow other people's instructions or like to do office work belong to career interest group C , suitable for occupations in administration, office management, accounting, auditing, secretarial, statistical, industry inspector, babysitter, telephone operator...
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