Career Mantra

Career Mantra is inviting application for trained and experienced candidates with proficiency in English literature especially written and communication skills.

Interested candidates may contact at:
Career Mantra, S. P. Kothi Road, Abadganj, Daltonganj.
Phone: 9162932114/9934378985/9708212777

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IMPORTANCE OF CHOOSING RIGHT CAREER

It is said that if you love what you do, you never have to work a day in your life. Not all of us are lucky enough to be working in jobs that we really enjoy. When generation Y was growing up in India, the more accepted and therefore preferred education streams were medicine and engineering. Not much attention was given to where the interest or the competence of the individual lay. As the Indian economy and the job market in the country began to open up, parents and their wards became aware of a more diverse set of career choices. Role models in sports and other off beat careers began to emerge. Movies such as Aamir Khan’s 3 Idiots helped expose an entire generation of parents and students to the perils of forcing the wrong career choice onto children.

More choices always come with more questions and more confusion. A survey of class 10 students revealed that a large number were not sure what careers they would like to choose, yet they are at a critical juncture where they need to choose which subjects to keep, in class 11 and which ones to give up. The wrong choice is causing organizations to lose millions of dollars, every year, in attrition, re -training and low morale costs. But the costs of choosing the wrong career are not limited to companies alone, young professionals go through de motivation and even depression. How can we help young students identify the right career path during high school?

Deciding on a career: Deciding a career boils down to assessing 3 primary requirements:

Understanding ones interests
Determining financial feasibility
Gauging future prospects
A lot of schools are introducing personality and SWOT analysis early in their curriculum. A student’s interests, strengths and personality play a big part in determining which careers will provide them with the most personal satisfaction. There are many free resources available help high school students figure out which careers they’re best suited for. These online career assessment websites give students the opportunity to answer questions about themselves and their interests, and then get immediate feedback about the careers that best fit their personality.

Career counseling is also a useful tool in choosing a career. Career Counseling is not a one day event; rather it is a process which occurs over time, which can help a student feel confident they have explored their options and made the most appropriate choice. The earlier the process of Career Counseling is begun, the more thorough and effective the search process can be for the student. The process of Career Counseling is an active one, which can help assure a student will have chosen a major from the wide range of existing possibilities. The ultimate aim is for a student finds the major which is consistent with one’s values, interests, skills, and abilities, through individualized interpretation of career interest inventories.

Internships can teach students more about what they do and what they don’t want to do. No one’s career path is a straight line. Everyone starts off with a vision of their ideal job, but this vision is really just a guess based purely on hypotheticals. A funny thing often happens when someone starts working at their ideal job, they realize it’s not so ideal for them after all. Internships are a unique opportunity to test drive different positions to see which ride students enjoy most. Students should utilize their summer holidays to intern in different roles and organizations to see which roles excite them and could financially sustain them, through their careers.

Pitfalls for students to avoid when deciding on a career:

Choosing the same career as that of your parents or one that they want you to choose: Granted that parents always want your best. That however does not mean that the career that worked best for them, will also work for you. The economy has changed, business has changed, options have increased, choosing a career should be a personal choice. One that plays to your strengths and to your interests.
Choosing the first job that you get: Day one during campus placements are a big deal for students, often day one companies are the most coveted on campus. Just because they work for the majority of the students, does not mean that the companies work for you too. Along with the role being offered, it is important to consider whether or not the culture of the firm fits in with your personal values.
Choosing a job that has the best title: The younger we are, the more lured we are by big titles, students want to be vice presidents as soon as they start working. Most organizations are however moving to flatter structures, where a manager would have more than 15 years of experience and one would not expect to make a vice president before 20 years. On the other, even if you do get the title of a vice president, you will probably still be doing entry level work that is suitable for your experience levels.
Choosing a job based on compensation: This one is probably the toughest pitfall to avoid. The key is to remember that if the role that you are choosing, does not interest you, or does not play to your strengths, you will likely not do well in it. That will lead to getting branded as a non-performer, very early in your career. That is not a tag that you want or one that you can get out of, very easily. You may also find yourself bound by ‘golden handcuffs”, where your high salary does not permit you to take another lower paying job, even though you may realize that the lower paying job is better for you.
Finally, a word of caution. It is not enough to just choose the right career. Making the right career work for you, takes effort. A lot of us believe that once we land the dream job, we can take it easy. Making a true success of your career takes continuous learning. Research shows that interns that took initiative and made the effort to learn more about their jobs and for the tasks at hand, performed better on their jobs than those that came in from better educational institutions or fit the role’s education and competency and experience requirements.

Career Mantra prepares you for several competitive examinations including their Preliminary Tests, Mains, GD and PI.
At Career Mantra, preparation for the below given entrance examinations is provided
1) CLAT- Common Law Admission Test
2) CAT/ MAT/XAT
3) Civil Services
4) Staff Selection Commission
5) Railway
6) CTET- Central Teacher Eligible Test
7) JTET

And many more other examinations

Other than these, main focus will be on English Language and communication. As we know, Personality Development plays the most important role in any field including professional and social life. Keeping this in mind, we will focus on complete Personality Development and communication skills.

Career Planning...

Career Mantra is a platform for students to nurture their career in a better way. We counsel and prepare students for a better future. We at Career Mantra focus on complete personality development of students so that they can show the confidence in the respective fields were they go.

Personality Development

Personality Development quintessentially means enhancing and grooming one’s outer and inner self to bring about a positive change to your life. Each individual has a distinct persona that can be developed, polished and refined. This process includes boosting one’s confidence, improving communication and language speaking abilities, widening ones scope of knowledge, developing certain hobbies or skills, learning fine etiquettes and manners, adding style and grace to the way one looks, talks and walks and overall imbibing oneself with positivity, liveliness and peace.

The whole process of this development takes place over a period of time. Even though there are many crash courses in personality development that are made available to people of all age groups, implementing this to your routine and bringing about a positive change in oneself takes a considerable amount of time. It is not necessary to join a personality development course; one can take a few tips and develop his or her own aura or charm.

You may have heard this a million times “Think Positive”. It works.
Smile. And smile some more. It adds to your face value and to your personality as well.
Read a few articles in the newspaper loudly. This will help in communicating fluently.
Follow table manners and dining etiquettes
Take good care of your health, dress well, be neat and organized
Prepare a chart that mentions your strengths and weaknesses. Now concentrate on the latter and find ways to improve upon the same. Do not forget to strengthen your strengths.
Spend some time alone concentrating on you and yourself alone.
Practice meditation and yoga. It will help you develop inner peace and harmony that will reflect outside.
Do not live a monotonous life. Be creative and do something new all the time. Nothing bigger than the joy of creative satisfaction.
Personality development is gaining more and more importance because it enables people to create a good impression about themselves on others; it helps them to build and develop relationships, helps in your career growth and also helps to improve your financial needs.

After all, personality development is nothing but a tool that helps you realize your capabilities and your strengths making you a stronger, a happier and a cheerful person.

Mantra to success..

Career counseling

Choosing a career is not a serious affair until 12th grade. However, once you are done with 12th, it is necessary to choose a definite career and decide a career goal. Choosing the right career option keeping the market in mind is necessary. In addition to this, selecting the right education institution is equally important. Unfortunately, not many students are able to discover their potentials and interests at the stage and this is when pressure starts building.

In this scenario, seeking the help of an experienced and qualified career counselor becomes necessary who can assist in discovering your potential and aptitude and accordingly suggest the right course. Career counselor usually employ through testing of three factors – aptitude, interest and personality. These aspects help these counselors in deciding the right career path for a student. With an increase in the number of opportunities in the market, the importance of career counseling has also increased manifold. People have begun to realize the fact that not all can become engineers or doctors and started exploring other fields depending on their talent and interest in alternate domains.

Benefits of career counseling
Approaching a career counselor is essential when you are not sure about choosing a suitable career option. Selecting a career option determines your course of life. While a good decision at the right point of time can make your life pleasant, a wrong one can ruin it. Remember that these decisions are irreversible. In case of dilemma, it is also better to take professional help. Career counseling is probably the best option in this case. Benefits of career counseling is as follows-

Helps in determining a student’s true potential: There are students who are clear as to what they want to become. On the other hand, there are others who are either confused or have no idea about their career preferences. Regular aptitude tests and counseling sessions conduct by career counselors can help students in finding out the right career options and the fields that interest them. On the basis on these counseling results, students make the right choice regarding what course they want to enroll into in order to accomplish their career goals.
Clear doubts: Despite having a clear idea of what they want to achieve in life, some students do not know the career path they need to follow to have the requisite academic qualification to join a particular course. Career counseling can help students clear these doubts by giving them a clear cut view of what they can expect from various educational courses. Some students might also have preconceived beliefs about certain fields. Career counseling also helps students overcome these by knowing the true facts.
Support and motivation: A career counselor also provides essential support and boosts the morale of a student by understanding the kind of requirements. Building the motivational level of a student is necessary for long term success. This aids in improving overall performance of a student. In addition to this, career counseling also teaches how to expand your network which in turn enhances emotional support.