Choosing a Career
The opportunity to interact with young people, especially the curious, inquisitive, challenging and innocent is always such a delight. At a recent event at a B School in Mumbai, I had the occasion to engage with about 300 such fresh students beginning their MBA journey. It was indeed a pleasure to spend time with them and my hope is they found the interaction as enjoyable. Careers were often made by accident but increasing today people have choices and options that have emerged both in the approach and the nature of careers that are opening up for them. to be able to the best for your self, these need to be thought about with some care and realistic assessment of oneself and the opportunities as well.
The key aspects that need to be thought through are four :-
- What you LOVE ?
- What you are GOOD AT?
- What the world will PAY FOR?
- What is GOOD FOR THE WORLD?
Using a depiction that is fairly common place these aspects can be brought alive in an engaging way to be useful and fun for people to begin thinking through such choices. it is also a valuable to revisit these thoughts and choices from time to time. below is a presentation of one slide (a first for me!).
If seen in paired combinations it brings alive some interesting insights and the likely impact / consequences of choices relating to the four aspects.
If I love doing some thing - Painting, and I am really good at it the question i have to address is "what will the world pay for"?
If I love a sport but am not really good at it ?
If i am really very good with numbers but don't love that kind of stuff?
This kind of conversation allows people to see themselves inside these choices from their own location of capabilities, liking, judgment an realities of the world we live in.
I would really welcome feedback on this!
