Discovery of Career

Question: Discuss the results of your Career Exploration. Do these results fit in with your desired career path? Why or Why not? Were you surprised by the results? Why or Why not? Answer: Discovery of Career Here we discover ourselves, gain knowledge about our principles, benefit, personality and skills. Explore ourselves, acquire real life experience of job, attempt new stuff, and study your options, make associations. To identify Ourselves How to Start? We already understand ourselves. Now we should answer the below questions: What activities give us pleasure? What are our strong points, flair, aptitude and force When we busy in activities giving us pleasure, how do we use our skills for accomplishing that activities? What kind of job we are looking for? These answers had helped me to stand in my process of discovery of career. What else do you need to think about? What are things that are priceless for me? How I behave, mingle with others, and how it can be beneficial to me in making choice about my career? What will be my job or career path which will help me in putting my skills, and of my interest? Evaluating all above questions, I found Marketing will be best suit for my career. When I think of marketing, Im very much excited, as I will be getting chance to study the various markets for the product to become successful in it (Cheng, 2014). I will be able to determine, chart and execute the various policies and procedures for the marketing of that particular product. I will be analyzing the competitors product pricing and sales strategy and based upon the market conditions, I will be able to decide and control on our pricing strategy. In a way I will be deciding the growth of business and maximizing the profits and market share of the firm and at the same time I will see to it that the customers are satisfied. One more activity will be to observe the development of product, analyze the trends in market and find out that if there is need of new products. Job Tasks: In coordination with advertising and promotion managers, plan out the marketing strategies, policies to encourage, launch of the product or services. Categorize, build up, or assess marketing approach based on data of firm objectives, market uniqueness, and price and gain factors. Guide the recruitment, teaching and performance assessment of sales and marketing workforce and supervise their day to day actions Assess the monetary attributes of manufactured goods, such as expenses, budget, RD cost, assumed PL and ROI (Tieger, 2014). Prepare the cost structure of product or services keeping in mind the company goals and consumer satisfaction. Prepare the list of service offerings and product benefits. Bargain the contracts with distributors to handle the goods supply, developing supply network and preparing supply plan. Kick start the market study and investigate the findings. Discuss with goods development staff on goods specifications such as drawing, paint, or wrapping. Use deal forecasting or tactical preparation to make sure that the sale and effectiveness of goods or services, study business growth and monitoring market tendency. Organize or join in promotional actions or road shows, working with goods development manager and advertisers to promote products or services. Perform financial or marketable surveys to recognize likely markets for goods or services. Impart with legal personnel to resolve troubles, such as copyright breach or payment sharing with other manufacturers or distributors Suggest alteration to goods, wrapping, manufacturing processes, or other attributes to get better the ecological accuracy or sustainability of goods. Considering all above task the career path in Marketing will lead to grow the business and in turn will help to climb up the ladder in the organization and gain the top most position. References: Basalla, S., Debelius, M. (2014)." So what are you going to do with that?": finding careers outside academia. University of Chicago Press. Tieger, P. D., Barron, B., Tieger, K. (2014).Do what you are: Discover the perfect career for you through the secrets of personality type. Little, Brown. Wong, A. K., Tang, S. Y., Cheng, M. M. (2014). Teaching motivations in Hong Kong: Who will choose teaching as a fallback career in a stringent job market?.Teaching and Teacher Education,41, 81-91.