By Future of Jobs, Careers and Work in times of Covid – 19
The economic impact of Covid-19 across the world is expected to continue far beyond the impact on health. The economic leaders and government advisors are trying their best to mitigate the impact of coronavirus on their economies. However, despite economic stimuli packages by government, many sectors have witnessed job losses and salary cuts across the board. Industry is facing the heat with declining margins, steep fall in sales due to low or minimal demand leading to high risk of jobs of workforce. Today almost every salaried individual has this question in mind – Is my job safe? Or am I going to experience salary cut?
Let us understand which sectors are shielded from the impact of Covid-19:
Healthcare and Wellness: There is no recession in this sector. In fact, people are ready to pay anything to save their life. Be it medicines, medical testing labs, physicians or hospitalization, people will not give a second thought to keep themselves safe and healthy.
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IT&ITES: This is again one sector, which shall never witness fall in demand. Although you need to regularly update yourself with the prevailing technology and demand. There are some companies like Capgemini and TCS, which have given salary hike during the current scenario also. In fact, there is increasing demand of professionals in field of Cyber-security, Data Analytics/Data Scientists, Business Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing & Digital Marketing.
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Right Career Selection
How do you define a ‘Right Career’? Right Career has an altogether different meaning for every individual. Sadly, though, we’ve created a perception in our minds which define a decent job or a decent career as the one which pays well and hence the one which is within the latest trend or demand in the job market. In fact, as per prevalent perception, there exists a relation between the two that both are directly proportional to each other. But is pay-out the only criteria to define the right career? One works hard, spends entire life and lot of money to settle down on a career option. What if the person involved isn’t satisfied on an intrinsic level with his work profile? Research says that, over a period of time, people are most elated and satisfied when they are crazy with the fundamental nature of their work. Given a chance, every individual would like to switch to a career in which work profile matches with the comfort zone. If not, even a job with the foremost lucrative remuneration and perks wouldn’t be ready to fill the void in this deep dark place inside one’s heart, mind and soul.
Hence, the crucial, and therefore the first and foremost, step is to make the right career selection. Note that when I use the word ‘right’ selection and not the ‘best’ or the ‘correct’ one, it means in line with my comfort zone. Actually, these words – ‘Right’, ‘Correct’ and ‘Best’ are comparative. What is Right, Correct or Best Career for me, may not be the same for some other person. It simply implies that one must understand which career would be best suitable for him; one doesn’t have to be compelled to pursue Engineering simply because his elder brother is a terrific engineer, or his parents want him to become one, or because it’s the newest trendsetter. Every individual is born with a unique mind, sensibilities, skills, abilities, pace and interests.
Let’s take the instance of Mr. Chetan Bhagat. I mean, who doesn’t know him today! This IIT engineer and IIM management graduate couldn’t find solace together with his so-called well-endowed and reputable job with an enormous MNC bank and hence eventually turned to his passion for writing and brought a sort of revolution within the literary arena in India for the youth together with his natural, simple and articulate writing skills highlighting the main issues faced by today’s Indian youth in the most subtle manner. Do you think Mr. Bhagat would have been as successful as he’s today in his MNC work profile? I doubt. Eminent Career Counsellors say that Scientific Career Assessments (Including Psychometric Assessment, Aptitude test, Personality Assessment etc.) followed by Professional Career Counselling by an experienced Career Counsellor can help one to assess their potential and match the compatible Career for himself / herself. This can prevent dissatisfaction with employment later in career.
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WHY IS CAREER COUNSELLING IMPORTANT IN TODAY’S TIME
Let us talk about what CAREER COUNSELLING means before we understand its significance in today’s time.
Career counselling is all about sharing advises, giving suggestions and mentoring on an individual’s career. Career counsellors help individuals with the task of self- assessment and self- analysis. They conduct various kinds of aptitude and cognitive tests to find more about their client’s interests and potential. Overall, they help individuals make informed career choices and help them define their career paths to maximize the success in their chosen careers.
Let us now discuss about why career counselling holds its significance in today’s time.
Career choice is a very critical decision in one’s life and it should be taken after seeking guidance from, and listening to experiences of, people around him / her, and also exploring a bunch of things to arrive at a conclusion. This is the first and the foremost reason of career counselling taking up an edge in the recent times.
Career counselling is needed nowadays because the awareness of a new age careers is really low. People still have certain myths and boundaries they do not want to get out of and explore. Sometimes parents just want their kids to follow the career path they have been following because they feel that it would be more secure and risk free. Although there are times where you can have a productive excavation resulting in career options that are a step ahead. Career counselling is a field which is not widely accepted and appreciated but is still of utmost importance.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF CAREER COUNSELLING
Career counselling has made its way through the present times in a positive way and it is important for us to know what are the benefits of this aid before we decide to go for it.
WE GET TO KNOW OURSELVES BETTER
Career counsellors conduct various personality assessment tests and other activities which help their clients to know themselves better. When an individual knows about his/ her likes, dislikes, potentials, weaknesses and interests it becomes easier for him/her to carve a way out for future endeavors. Having a productive conversation along with other counselling activities brings out the best of the client. He/ she develops a clear vision as to which stream would be best suited for him/her to have a successful career in the future.
REMOVAL OF MYTHS – EMERGENCE OF NEW INSIGHTS
Having a healthy conversation with your counsellor can let go of many myths one might be having regarding a particular stream or career. For example, one might think that there are no such creative and lucrative career options for the humanities stream. There can be possibilities and opportunities which might go unnoticed by the client but your career counsellor would help you in understanding the new insights.There are a bunch of new age careers which are emerging and are not known to many. Interacting with a professional career counsellor would ease out the task of understanding contemporary career options available for the youth.
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