Simple Guidance to Make a Good Career Choice

As you can find plenty of career options, you may be confused to select a good career option. It is however not an overwhelming task to determine the best career choice. Before making a career selection, you need to assess your skills, interests and personality traits. This can help you to decide which career would be more suitable for you. It is advisable to make use of some self assessment tools like free career tests available online to get 99% accurate results. You can even opt for a career counselor who can aid you to select a good career option.

While making self assessment, you can get to know various types of occupations available in your locality. However, the occupation list may be lengthy and you need to make it shorter by eliminating the occupations that are not suitable to your interest, skill and traits. You can then mark down the occupations that you feel appealing and write down those occupations separately.

Exploring the occupations in the list is the next important step in making a good career choice. You can try to gather as much information about the occupation on the list as possible. You need to know some basic information like educational and training requirement for that career, salary details and so on. You can utilize some useful online resources like careers by field or career briefs to get some fundamental details about a career. It is then easy for you to eliminate the career types that offer lower earnings than you expect.

After exploring the careers in the list, you would have only a few career types left in the list. You can collect more comprehensive details about such career options. You can seek the help of people who have great knowledge about the career types you are interested in. You can arrange for an informational interview with them to learn about the occupations. It is wise to ask some important questions like the working hours, potential growth in that career etc.

You can narrow down the list of occupations based on the details you gather in the informational interview. If any career type requires putting forth more time and energy to prepare for it, you can consider another career option. It is worth to set your career goals and take actions to reach them. Developing a career plan map can help you to select the right career option and to achieve your long term ambitions. 

John Brady is a career and job counselor, who also owns a blog on job search [http://www.localjobjournal.com]. He regularly writes articles on local and government jobs and careers [http://www.localjobjournal.com/articles].