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Everyone has their own dreams and aspirations, some are willing to sacrifice to achieve them, but many also have to give up their passion to enter the whirlpool of the job market. Despite the constant changes in today’s society, the question of whether to choose a career based on passion or market demand remains.

One harsh reality is that many young people cannot determine their future direction and their own passion. Choosing a career because it’s “hot” and seeing it as a tool to make money and advance in their career is a completely wrong concept in the process of career direction. However, is it easy to live with just passion? Let’s take the steps to career direction with NB Asia and find the answer.

What is Career Direction?

This concept is quite common in the field of education, especially at the high school and university levels. Career direction provides students with the necessary information and experience to determine the appropriate career path for themselves in the future. As a result, they will be better prepared when entering the professional work environment and when stepping out into society to develop themselves.

Why is Career Direction important?

Career direction in the future will help young people find their own direction, determine their study goals quickly, and create motivation for learning. Choosing the right career path will help young people not waste too much time, effort, and money investing in unimportant subjects and avoid regretting later if they choose the wrong school. This has an impact on the development and successful career path of many individuals. If the career direction is wrong, you may encounter many difficulties and frustrations on the chosen path.

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Steps to Career Direction

Step 1: Overcome the barriers of family and society

To determine the right career direction, you must overcome misconceptions and wrong ideas about choosing a career, especially choosing a career based on family arrangements, following trends, choosing a career that does not match your own abilities, choosing a career that is not relevant to social needs, et cetera.

Of course, you should still consult the opinions of parents, teachers, friends… to have a more objective view of the desired career path.

Step 2: Research careers thoroughly

Today, one can use various resources such as books, newspapers, the internet, or career orientation sessions to explore the diverse career fields in society, and then determine which profession is truly suitable for oneself.

Step 3: Determine one’s abilities and strengths

Before deciding on which career field to pursue, one needs to assess whether their personality, interests, conditions and abilities are suitable for the chosen field. Talents, strengths and academic performance are all important factors in selecting a career field that is suitable for oneself. One can try taking career aptitude tests in fields such as hospitality, information technology, et cetera, to further explore the chosen field.

Step 4: Research specific information about the desired career field to study

After discovering the career field that one loves, it is necessary to spend time researching and carefully considering the admission criteria in previous years, training programs, tuition fees, future job demands, advantages and challenges in the field, et cetera. A clear understanding of the desired career field will help one to easily integrate and succeed on the path of learning and working in the future.

Step 5: Enhance knowledge and skills

Plan for personal development to achieve success in the chosen career field. What skills and knowledge need to be improved? By striving to improve oneself every day, one can overcome any difficulties and achieve success in the chosen profession.

Step 6: Experience and self-discovery

From the time one is still in school, it is important to gain experience in some jobs related to the chosen career field to see whether one is suited for that profession or not.

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Should one choose a career based on passion or market demand?

Choosing a suitable job according to one’s interests is a way to live happily for eight hours a day. The job may not help one earn a lot of money, but if one has passion, they will always be motivated to work positively.

A common thing in today’s society is that students have to endure pressure from their parents in choosing a career. Remember that all parents want the best for their children. They have more experience than their children. Therefore, do not rush to create pressure for yourself and disregard the opinions of your parents. Also, do not choose a job beyond your ability just for the sake of family pride or expectations. Some professions require not just talent, but also perseverance, enthusiasm, and tireless dedication. Think carefully before making the final decision.

Living with dreams and aspirations is a beautiful way of life that helps one have clear goals to strive for in life. However, passion alone is not enough, life requires much more. Each profession has its own unique job characteristics, some require physical appearance and health, others require skilfulness, precision, and meticulousness. Therefore, facing difficulties does not mean surrendering to fate.

The indirect path is not always the shortest, but sometimes it is the fastest. Many people have done different jobs to “nurture” their dreams, and the reality shows that they have succeeded. Identifying passion early on to equip oneself with the necessary knowledge and skills is an effective solution to create suitability for one’s own dreams. Because only passion is never enough. Passion without suitability is like a lock missing a key.

By VINH PHAN, Practice Leader of Executive Search & Board Services

NB Asia is a highly experienced and strategic human resources consulting firm that specialises in providing an extensive range of executive placement, board services, organisational structure, and people solutions to business partners throughout Asia. We are privileged to have the opportunity to work with many great companies in various industries across Asia. Our executive search and board services offer the following advantages:

• Shortening the time required to find the right candidate.
• Saving time and effort for businesses.
• Ensuring confidentiality for difficult vacancies that companies do not want to advertise publicly.
• Ensuring high candidate compatibility compared to expectations.
• Bringing many innovations, new and breakthrough proposals to businesses.
• Helping businesses verify candidate reference information, ensuring part of the candidate’s capacity.

For clients, please contact us via email at SERVICES@nbvn.asia, and for candidates, please email us at PEOPLE@nbvn.asia. We will respond to your inquiry within 24 hours.