Success The Turning Point

Author(s): Rajendra Rakhecha
Publisher: Rajendra Rakhecha

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Career is to describe an occupation or a profession that usually involves special training or formal education, and is considered to be a person's lifework. A career is the sum total of paid and unpaid work, learning and life roles you undertake throughout your life. The following definitions are important to an understanding of 'career' as a concept.
A JOB is a paid position requiring a group of specific attributes and skills that enable a person to perform tasks in an organisation either part-time or full-time for a short or long duration. An OCCUPATION is defined as a group of similar jobs found in different industries or organisations. A CAREER is the sequence and variety of occupations (paid and unpaid) which one undertakes throughout a lifetime. More broadly, 'career 'includes life roles, leisure activities, learning and work. CAREER DEVELOPMENT is the process of managing life, learning and work over the lifespan. CAREER GUIDANCE is an inclusive term that has been used to describe a range of interventions including career education and counselling, that help people to move from a general understanding of life and work to a specific understanding of the realistic life, learning and work options that are open to them. Career guidance is often thought to incorporate career
information, career education and career counselling Importance of education
1. Allows you to get a higher paying job, which allows you to be more financially secure. 2. Teaches you how to handle responsibility. 3. Gives you the necessary tools to think for yourself and back up your arguments. 4. Exposes you to more of your peers allowing you to see and experience diversity and different
points of view. 5. Helps you realize your potential, which allows you to empower yourself to do more than you
thought you could do before. 6. In the process of getting an education, you make new friends, and these friendships could last a
lifetime. 7. Gives you a better, more developed understanding of the world and current events. 8. Opens up the possibility of more job opportunities. 9. Allows you to learn the mistakes of those who came before you, so that you do not repeat the
same mistakes. 10. Learn time management skills and getting things done on time. 11. Discipline in life 12. Develop social skills for interacting with people you do not normally interact with. 13. Teaches you organizational skills which will one day come in handy. 14. Teaches developing passion to change the lives of living being positively
Teacher's section Following topics like understanding volume of study & calculating availability of the time are the best determined by the teachers. Most of the data generally remains the same like various books, note books, their pages, problems in each chapter, etc. Also no. of days for the school and holidays are better