1. CAREER COUNSELING ON ………….
Organized by
What After +2 ?
LINCOLN ACADEMY BIRATNAGAR

2. What do you want to be?
Understand
yourself…
What’s your
Interest, Ability,
Personality &
Value

3. Exploring Your Interests
Holland’s Hexagonal Model of Career Fields
Realistic Investigative
Conventional Artistic
Enterprising Social

4.  What is Rohit really going to do?
 Is Anita really going to get there? How?
 Is Kapil sure of his subjects ?
 If Udit doesn’t make it in the competition , does
he have any other option? What?
 Are Kalpana’s subjects appropriate?

5. ANSWER TO FOLLOWING QUESTIONS WOULD
INVOLVE...........

6. MAKING A CAREER PLAN

7. WHAT IS A CAREER ?
• The term `career’ refers to lifelong development of
an individual beginning with their education, their
achievement in different spheres of life, their lifestyle
and their vocational adjustment.
• Essential requirements for building career are:
• PERSONALITY
• INTEREST
• APTITUDE

8. Why Select a Career ?
• We have been created Unique [Eg. Fingerprint].
• We are born only once.
• We spend almost 40 years on our work.
• A total of over 80,000/- hrs we “work”.
• Ask yourself.
• A billion Dollar Question “How should I spend these 80,000
hrs before I die ????? ”
• Better an original cow than a duplicate Tiger

9. Choosing a Career
One of the hardest—and most exciting—choices you’ll ever make is
your career. Although chance may play a part, come prepared!
Rule#1: Choose a career that is something
you really like to do.
Rule#2: Do your research and choose
carefully and thoughtfully.
Rule#3: Make it meaningful to you.
You owe it to yourself to look for work
that is meaningful and rewarding!

10. Why does one go for a career that’s not a good match?
 Opportunity Perception
“This is a growing field, many opportunities”
“This will ensure a good job”
“I have read that it is a very good career”
 Parental influence
“My Dad is a doctor”
“My sister has done biotechnology and she has told me about it ”
“My brother is an engineer and I also want to do it”
 Peer pressure
“All of my friends will prepare for MBBS”
 Parental pressure
“My Parents say I should go for MBBS”
“My Parents want me to take care of the business”

11. HOW MANY CAREER OPTIONS DO YOU THINK ARE AVAILABLE?
There are 150+ possible career options available today…

12. CAREERS IN MANAGEMENT
• CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS • LAW AND RELATED OPTIONS
• COST & MANAGEMENT • LAW & COMPANY SECRETARY
ACCOUNTANTS • EVENT MANAGEMENT
• CHARTERED & COST ACCOUNTING • HUMAN RESOURCE / PERSONNEL
• FINANCE MANAGERS & ANALYSTS MANAGEMENT
• STOCK BROKERS & INVESTMENT • FINANCE MANAGEMENT
ANALYSTS • PRODUCTION & MATERIAL
• BANKING MANAGEMENT
• INSURANCE ACTURIALS / FINANCIAL • EXPORT MANAGEMENT
PLANNERS • HEALTH & HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT
• COMPANY SECRETARY • TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
• PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT

13. B.Com/ BBA/ BBM
• One can specialize in Financial Accounting &
Auditing, Auditing & Cost Accounting, Banking &
Finance, Cooperation, Taxation, Actuarial
Science, Company Secretarial Practice, Business
Management, Foreign Trade Practice &
Procedures etc
• CA

14. Careers after studies in Commerce
• Accountant, Banker, Actuary, Business Manager,
Export professional etc with wide scope after
higher study, M.Com, MBA (which offers micro
level specialization), CA, CFA, ICWA, CS etc

15. CAREER IN IT
• Scope for higher study :
 M.Sc. (IT)
 MCA
 MCM
 MBA
• Based on the subjects taken, you can pursue a career in Computer
Science as a
Operator Programmer
System Analyst Data Base Administrator
Network Admin. Computer scientist
Web Developer Internet Administrator
• Above all good career in Public Administration

16. HOTEL INDUSTRY
• Hotel Industry has a great variety in terms of size, clientele it aims to serve, and its location.
However, for the efficient functioning of any hotel – large or small, work is divided among key
departments – Management, catering, front office, housekeeping, accounting, marketing,
engineering, forecasting.
• Front Office
It is the centre of all activities. Important functions of receiving the guests, making room
reservations, handling correspondence and preparing bills and keeping accounts of the guest
services are handled at the front office.
• House Keeping
The work of keeping the hotel, the rooms, the bars, the restaurants etc. clean and making it
presentable to the guests and ensuring facilities and comfort to them is handled by this
department.
• Accounting Department
This department deals with both cash and credit transactions, i.e all the financial transactions
like purchase of materials, offering of services to the guests etc. This department also compiles
information required for budgeting, pricing of food and services and so on. Professionals like
cash, cost and works accountants are given higher positions in the department. Chief cashier,
cash clerk/bill clerk are the positions handled in this department.
• Sales & Marketing
This department keeps in touch with travel agents and tour operators as well as other potential
corporate clients in order to sell hotel facilities. Advertising and Public Relations is also normally
handled by this department.

17. Job Prospects
• Lots of lucrative and interesting openings are there for hotel
management graduates in various fields like:
• Hotel & Restaurant management
• Airline catering and Cabin Services
• Club management
• Cruise Ship Hotel Management
• Hospital administration and catering
• Hotel and Tourism Associations
• Forest Lodges
• Guest Houses
• Institutional Management (supervising canteens in college,
schools, in factories, company guest houses etc.)
• Catering departments of railways, banks, armed forces, shipping
companies etc.
• Hotel and catering institutes
• Self employment

18. EDUCATION IN INDIA
FAMOUS FOR APPLIED AND CAREER ORIENTED
EDUCATION SYSTEM ALL ROUND THE GLOBE.

19. 4 Ps
• You will survive only if you believe in the power of
your dreams.
• To believe in the power of your dreams-
remember the 4Ps - Purpose, Passion,
Possibilities and Power.
• Have a purpose in life, and a dream will follow,
trim this dream with passion in your heart and
possibilities will open for you. Choose today to
start believing in the magical power of wishing,
hoping and dreaming

20. Preliminaries to Success
Effort, Time and Commitment (ETC)
‘Success comes before work only in a dictionary!’
Mark Twain
SUCCESS ISN'T A RESULT OF SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.
YOU MUST SET YOURSELF ON FIRE.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW
SUCCESS IS THAT OLD ABC
- ABILITY, BREAKS AND COURAGE.
CHARLES LUCKMAN

21. “Vision enables you to glimpse into
the future, to sense its hope and power,
because you yourself are the means for
that future's creation."
- Team Indo-World