“Excellence endures and sustains, it goes beyond the realms of inspiration”
-Azim Premji

A rollercoaster ride of emotions, stress, nervousness and confusion, yes class 12th is over. It’s time to come out of your cocoons and face the beautiful yet extremely competitive world with the best of your competence.

Till 12th, we were all sailing smoothly with a little stress about the completion of our projects & assignments and the revision tests the next day. But after 12th, we have a colossal world with manifold opportunities in different avenues. At this time, most students undoubtedly need career guidance to identify the opportunities that they can leverage for a prosperous future. Since this one decision is going to affect your whole life, it should be taken with utmost supervision and confidence. You should be sure of whatever career path you want to choose as soon as you finish your higher secondary education. External pressure and peer influences should not be impacting your brain.

Most of us choose a certain course or a career path without having any thorough knowledge of it. We either select them following the footprints of our elders or it comes from the influence of our peers.

In some cases, we ignore our interests and choose an intractable course for ourselves following the advice of our parents. For this, we have the classic example of the movie 3 Idiots where Farhan gave up Wildlife Photography which was his age-old passion, for pursuing a B.Tech. in one of the premium colleges in the country. But it landed him nowhere and he later dropped out of college in the last year and pursued his interest. This led to a mere waste of his time, efforts and money. Thus, it should be avoided at all costs because it is you who want to build a successful career to lead an abundant life.

So, what should be done in this case? Let’s first discuss a few popular professional courses after 12th in India.

Popular Career Paths After 12th

Some of you might be well aware of your career path and must have started preparing for it at an early stage of your life. But, most of you are not well cognizant and even not well advised about innumerable career options available for you. Apart from the traditional courses, such as B.Com., B.A., B.Tech., etc. we have got a lot of interesting and easy-to-do courses which might intrigue you.

Some such courses which have gained a large amount of acclamation worldwide can be listed as follows:

1. Bachelor in Commerce
2. Bachelor in Business Administration
3. B.Pharma
4. M.B.B.S (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery)
5. Bachelor of Computer Applications
6. Bachelor in Fine Arts
7. Bachelor of Architecture
8. Diploma in Digital Marketing
9. Graphic Designing Courses
10. Animation and Gaming 
11. Professional Courses for Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Besides these, there are also certain courses that are developed in order to help you hone in-demand soft skills such as Leadership and Communication.

Now comes the most difficult part. From a pool of choices, you have to choose the one that aligns with both your interests as well as your professional goals while also keeping in mind all the eligibility parameters, future prospects and the feasibility of pursuing the course. For this, you need extensive research and a clear understanding of your interests.

How to Avoid Confusion? Let’s see:

Career Awareness

Career Awareness is the process of researching the prospecting career profiles in various streams. You must know of all conventional and non-conventional career paths, trending jobs, and high-paying jobs. Once you know what career path you want to have in future, you’ll be able to identify the most suitable course.

Nowadays, there are many career guidance services and counselling institutes available in the market that guide you to find the course that suits you the best. They help you in Developing Career Awareness.

Ask Us Education is one such example, they are renowned education industry experts helping you in making the right choice for your career. They not only provide you with unbiased guidance but also offer one-on-one counselling sessions tailored for you. 

Self Analysis

Choose the apt career option based on your passion, interest and aptitude in a particular field and your expediency for following a career path.

Therefore, you must do a SWOT analysis of yourself to identify your strengths & weaknesses and simultaneously recognise the opportunities and threats related to the same. After proper scrutiny of your options and passion, you might be able to come up with a list of courses that best suit your interests.

These courses should be articulated properly to the experts so that they can help you in choosing the appropriate one.

Career Guidance

After proper self-analysis and gaining information and awareness from certain sources, you are ready for comprehensive career guidance sessions. The sessions will consist of an extensive development programme that assists you in choosing a particular career by informing you about the various intricacies related to it.

The professionals and experts will guide you in the best possible way to identify an ideal career option for you. They cover all the related parameters such as the eligibility criteria, college fees, curriculum, scope of the course, career opportunities, etc.

A career guide will not only identify the best option available for you but will also guide you throughout the journey, thus clearing all your confusion and doubts.

Takeaway

You should always aim for excellence, and success will automatically follow you. Thus, after choosing an absolute career path through rigorous analysis and extensive research, you will be able to make an effective use of your capabilities and skills. These career guidance tips and self-aware behaviour will help you to choose the pertinent profession for yourself, thus, delivering lifelong contentment and happiness.