Everyone dreams of work that, in addition to money, would bring moral satisfaction in order to go to it in the morning with a smile and return home in the evening with a smile. However, not everyone can make the right choice, taking into account all factors: prestige, demand, payment, required abilities. Someone else is standing in the way of choosing a profession, not knowing where to go, and someone has already managed to try something and be disappointed. One way or another, the choice of type of activity should be approached extremely responsibly.
5 basic tips for choosing a profession
The choice of a profession is complicated, but it is greatly simplified with the right approach, taking into account the choice method. Firstly, one should distinguish between a profession and a specialty.
A profession is the main direction of work, while a specialty is professional skills of a narrow profile.
As a rule, having a profession is easier to find a job, but having a specialty is easier to get a highly paid position, where specialists in a particular business are required.
Usually, the choice of profession arises even before graduation, at the end of the 9th or 11th grade, when a higher institution looms ahead. It is important to choose the faculty and profile on which the future profession will depend. Psychologists recommend choosing a type of activity based on 5 basic criteria that will help you choose a profession to your liking:
- Choose what you understand. If you have a humanitarian mindset, it will be difficult for you to master the mathematical profession and vice versa. If you prefer to work with your hands or create something than to communicate with people, then professions related to working with clients may not be suitable for you. Analyze what your skills are more suited to, and also make a list of what you could easily learn, so you will understand what activities will be easier for you.
- Choose what you like. Any work, even the most prestigious, if it causes only a desire to leave, sooner or later will bring you to dismissal. You should not rely on the principle “work is work”, your productivity directly depends on what emotions a work activity causes. Hateful specialization you will sooner or later get bored, and the time to change the profile may no longer be left.
- Choose a Highly Paid Specialization. If the work brings pleasure, it’s good, but if it also brings good income - it is doubly fine. Think about whether you can sacrifice a share of positive emotions from doing a certain job in favor of stable earnings.
- Choose an activity that is relevant to your area of residence. Look for information on the ranking of professions in the place where you live, ask your friends, make a short list and choose based on which option suits the three previous criteria the most.
- Base your choices on your feelings and not on the recommendations of acquaintances, labor specialists, and especially parents.It may seem to you that someone knows better, to someone nearby it may also seem that they know better, but you and not him should live and work. It is best to choose a profession yourself, while taking into account the four previous tips: your skills, preferences, payability and relevance of the profession.
These 5 tips in the order presented will help you choose the most optimal profession.
Is it worth dividing the specialties into female and male?
In the era of female emancipation, the issue of gender predisposition to professions is becoming less and less relevant. The woman at the construction site and the man at the hairdresser still look strange, but there are no particular prohibitions.
Nobody forbids choosing a profession that seems male or female if there are jobs and a desire to work in such a specialty.
Moreover, if a man chooses a “female” business is easier, then a woman will have to measure her strength and the severity of the work process.
Features of choosing a profession for a girl
The question of choosing a profession may arise after grade 9, or maybe after 11. Depending on this, the options for work will be different. After grade 9, the time comes for technical schools, vocational schools or narrow-profile courses. At the age of 15, choosing a profession is not so simple, but such a decision is usually influenced by two factors: time saving or inappropriate passing points.
If, after the secondary specialized education is received, the plans include admission to the university, it is better to initially choose a profession in which training can be continued. In this case, it will even be possible to work in a specialty after graduation, while continuing to study at a university.
After the 9th grade, you can get such professions as:
- Nurse;
- Stylist;
- The hairdresser;
- Visagiste;
- Master of pedicure or manicure;
- Pharmacist;
- Educator;
- Cook;
- Restaurateur;
- Software operator;
- Software technician;
- Manager, administrator;
- Cashier;
- Accountant.
A much wider choice opens after grade 11. Universities provide great opportunities. The most relevant are now faculties and professional private schools, graduating such specialists as:
- Marketer;
- Lawyer;
- Lawyer;
- Human Resources (HR);
- Doctor;
- Psychologist;
- IT specialist;
- Photographer;
- Tourism manager;
- Designer;
- Florist;
- Web specialist;
- Stewardess;
- Actress, singer, news anchor;
- Journalist.
The most popular specialties for men
A guy choosing a profession needs to approach this issue doubly responsibly, because he is the future breadwinner, and he needs to count on a good income. Among the highly paid specialties for men are popular:
- General practitioner;
- Surgeon;
- Dentist;
- Engineer;
- Programmer;
- Ecologist;
- Analyst;
- Businessman;
- Lawyer, judge;
- Policeman;
- Nanotechnology Specialist;
- Landscape designer, architect;
- Logistician;
- Translator;
- Diplomat.
Career growth in such activities plays a key role, so a man should be more forward-thinking and maintain a clear balance between “I want”, “I can” and “I need”.
A test to help you choose a profession
Career guidance or vocational guidance - a system of activities that prepare young people for choosing a profession, provides for a huge number of tests and methods. Thanks to these tests, compiled by professional psychologists, you can understand what type of profession suits you in character, preferences, interests, skills and characteristics of the mind. The most popular and effective methods are:
- Matrix of the choice of profession Klimov;
- Activating questionnaires: “Pros and Cons”, “How are you doing”, “Self-assessment of morality and citizenship”;
- Map of interests;
- The method of studying the motivation of professional activity Zamfir;
- Holland Questionnaire;
- Questionnaire DDO;
- Crossroads;
- Cup of professions.
One of the simplest and easiest tests for independent testing can be considered the Humanitarian Technologies developed by the Testing and Development Center of Moscow State Universityvocational guidance test. It will help to correctly calculate your own capabilities and strengths.
Choosing a profession is a responsible occupation. If you feel that you cannot stop at any of the activities, it is better to seek the advice of a career counseling specialist or professional psychologist.
