I. Career Orientation
Career orientation can be described as a process of understanding yourself and learning about the jobs available in the market. From there, we can make an appropriate choice between personal factors and career-related factors.
An appropriate choice is the starting point for the journey of pursuing and achieving dreams and success; it greatly reduces the likelihood of changing fields later. Good career guidance reduces the risk of working in the wrong profession, changing jobs because they do not suit you, and becoming unemployed.
It is never too late for anyone to find a suitable job or career. Each person can find their own motivation to explore, develop their abilities, contribute to, and remain committed to a business.
II. Mistakes in Career Orientation
1. Lacking clarity about your abilities and career personality.
A person's competencies include:
- Professional qualifications
The results of each person's education and experience in their field reflect their professional qualifications at work.
For school and university students, their current competencies are measured based on examination results. They do not yet have experience and cannot be assessed through work results. Many people do not know what a particular job will actually be like. Only when they enter the real world do they realize that it differs from what they previously imagined. Of course, working is a process of continuous learning. Professional qualifications improve through effort and time.
- Work skills.
Work skills are how each person applies knowledge to real-world work. Skills can also change and be developed through learning. Many courses teaching skills needed for specific professions have been created in response to the development needs of students, employees, and even leaders.
- Work style/career personality.
Each individual's work style is greatly influenced by their personality. Many people have degrees and professional certificates, but their way of working is not suitable.
Would a free-spirited, detail-oriented person be suited to a data-focused career such as accounting or auditing?
Would an introverted person who is uncomfortable with communication be suited to work in Sales, Marketing, Customer Relations, and so on?
2. Not knowing your own goals and work motivation
Motivation consists of factors that drive the spirit. It affects the way we think and create, as well as our work performance and quality.
We lack motivation when we are unclear about the goal ahead. What are we working for? What makes us contribute to and remain committed to this career and this company? When difficulties arise and we become exhausted, what will help us recover our spirits? What will help us overcome those difficulties?
Identifying your goals and creating your own motivation is a way to give yourself renewed mental strength. Embrace challenges positively and overcome difficulties as an inevitable part of the career development process.
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3. Chasing market trends
Failing to recognize and assess your own career personality and simply following “hot” career trends will lead to mismatches later in your working life. Many people have to push themselves to bridge that gap. However, the risk of burnout caused by a lack of fit forces many people to change jobs because of excessive pressure.
Every field has people who are talented and successful in it. Committing to a career you love and that suits you, while exploring, learning, and developing your career in even a small field, can bring you success.
4. Letting family or others decide
This occurs for a small number of people whose families expect them to follow the family profession. If it suits them and they receive support, they may be able to learn from an early age and develop further later on. However, if they do not truly enjoy the predetermined career, it will take considerable time to redirect their career and learn the skills related to the work they actually love.
III. What problems result from a lack of proper career orientation?
- Frequent job-hopping after only a short period of training and work. These people do not know what their career direction is. They spend a great deal of time moving back and forth between companies or industries. Businesses also spend significant time and money on recruitment and training.
- Employees are dissatisfied with their current jobs. They may be unhappy with their salary, the nature of the work, or the working environment. What drives them to work may not come from genuine interest, but from some form of obligation.
- Low work quality and performance. Because they do not understand themselves clearly, they remain caught in their own thoughts without a clear path to choose. This leaves them constantly believing that the grass is greener elsewhere, while still being unable to decide whether to leave or stay.
- Lacking the motivation to explore and develop themselves in order to advance at work.
- A lack of career orientation leads to unemployment. In a competitive working environment, personnel selection is always taking place. Those who meet the requirements of the work and the business environment may be secure. Individuals who are not a good fit will be eliminated in order to maintain work quality.
- Businesses incur recruitment and training costs because employee quality and commitment to their careers and the company are not high.
IV. Competency Assessment Toolkits That Support Career Orientation
Today, many competency assessment toolkits are available to support individuals and businesses in evaluating competencies.
1. Trait-Map – Germany’s Employee Personality Tendency Test.
A test based on the Big Five model that helps identify participants' personalities, personality types, life perspectives, and work styles.
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2. Uchida-Kraepelin (UK Test) from Japan
A test that reflects work ability and measures work performance, behavioral tendencies, habits, and notable psychological fluctuations.
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3. EQ-SWOT ™ Test
An online psychological questionnaire designed to assess emotional intelligence. The test measures emotional intelligence, the ability to perceive one's own and others' emotions, and effectiveness in using emotional information to guide thoughts and behavior.
4. Motivation Questionnaire (MQ) – German Motivation Questionnaire.
Assessment results MQ Test Based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, one of the fundamental frameworks for understanding human needs. The MQ Test helps uncover each individual's motivation through a motivation questionnaire. It measures both the needs and the level of satisfaction of people's most basic and common needs.
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