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© 2006, All rights reserved; Article may be reprinted only with permission from Teena Rose FOR GRADUATES & ENTRY-LEVEL JOBSEEKERS: CHOOSING A CAREER PATH, PART#2 Teena Rose is a seasoned, certified, and new graduate resume wizard with GraduateResumes.com, a Resume to Referral site. She's helped many college students and new graduates over the last 6+ years. Contact Mrs. Rose if you need advanced career strategies to complement your college degree. Possessing a great resume and cover letter can mean all the difference in the world when packaging yourself as a "seasoned newbie." She’s authored several books, including Designing a Cover Letter to 'Wow" Hiring Personnel and Cracking the Code to Pharmaceutical Sales. (read Part#1 of Choosing a Career Path) June Rankin* grew up confident that she was going to have a career as a veterinary surgeon. As soon as she was old enough to legally work, she gained a part-time position as a veterinary assistant for a local veterinarian. She took the ACT in her junior year and scored a composite of 29. Offers of scholarships started to arrive. She was confident of her chosen career path – four years of pre-vet and then acceptance into the very competitive veterinary medicine school of her choice. What June did not take into consideration was her natural abilities. She had an IQ that put her in the “gifted” range and had worked for five years in a hands-on veterinary practice where she had seen nearly every type of procedure and participated in most of them. What she couldn’t do was balance a chemical equation, work the trigonometric equation for a hyperbole, or understand derivatives in calculus. Her natural abilities were simply not math-oriented. June ended up failing miserably at the beginning of her college career, finishing up on probation status with the university and very frustrated with her studies. She considered hiring a tutor but realized at best she would achieve a C average, not good enough to be competitive in the race for veterinary school admission. In the end, she changed her major and the following semester made the Dean’s List – she had found her natural abilities. She went on to success in a career field in which she loves to work. June learned a good lesson early on – do what you do well and career success will come. Unfortunately, many invest large sums of money and time in education only to discover after graduation they hate what their new career. An investment up front in career assessment, ability testing, and research of careers would be an investment that brings huge returns while saving a great deal in wasted time and funds. All successful people, however they define career success, all say they chose their careers because they love the job and because they are good at doing it. It is impossible to be truly successful in a career and hate it. (If you hate your career, you are not successful.) The key is to find activities you like to perform, find out in what tasks you are naturally skilled, and then find a career that combines the two. Research, introspection, testing, and investigation into career options can help you achieve career happiness. A career coach or career counselor can lead you through the process of finding your career niche. If you find yourself past college and in a career you do not like, it is time to start planning a career change. A career coach can support you through the process of career transition without career upheaval. Invest in professional coaching or counseling now for your career and bask in job happiness in the future. *not her real name.
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