Small Business Marketplace - Career Research before you make a wrong decision!

Career Research - Making the Right Choice

The problem with doing any type of career researching is that so many of tomorrows jobs haven't even been considered yet and won't be in anyone's research paper. Career resumes are filled with jobs that literally weren't jobs just a generation ago.

OK, there were computer jobs but inrelation to todays need, there is not comparison. Still everyone needs to start somewhere and the best place to start is to use career research websites. These web sites can offer a glimpse into job descriptions that will at the very least give you an idea of what to expect in the various fields. If you know blood makes you woozy, it's a safe bet that many positions in the medicaal field will not be a good fit.

Many students who plan to enter the workforce neglect to add career reseach to their lists of things to do before graduation. There are a great number of different types of jobs and sorting through them can be a real headache. You really don’t want to enter a field unless you conduct some career reseach to find out if the job really suits your personality.

A recent study suggests that the average adult changes careers over the course of his professional life. This may not seem like a lot but it is a staggering number if you really think about it. Career reserch states that the person not only leaves his job, he leaves the entire profession to seek out and entirely different field of work.

Consider individuals typically are changing jobs up to 8 times during a career. This no doubt has been caused by the ongoing loss of jobs in many sectors of our industrialized society. This is also a good reason why anyone with common sense like you should conisder opening or starting their own businesses. Even if that business is a part time effort, it still offers a security point other than just a paycheck. Below are several links to business opportunitiy idea centers that can get your creative energy moving in the right direction. You also have to recognize that the right career research may have helped the person find his niche earlier than the trial-and-error method most adults seem to be using today.

Let’s say that a person is graduating from college and he wants to dive right into the workforce. He has a degree in business but he has done no career reserch to point him in the right direction. This individual is most likely to be dissatisfied with his job and he will most likely see a new position somewhere else.

He may wind up finding a new job in the very general field of business only to repeat the cycle. Conducting in-depth career research could have helped this person make a viable decision about his future career path that suits him well.

Unfortunately, few students take the time to delve into career research. Many graduates see their first job as a stepping stone only to find that their first job is a dead end. It may take a few years, but the worker eventually leaves the dead-end job for another position that promises little more.

Part of any student’s career research should hinge on his particular goals for his own life. He needs to consider where he wants to be in five years and find a path that will take him to his goals. The student who completes career research in relation to his goals has already taken the first step towards success.

Here's a few Links to some real business opportunitiy ideas that will get your thought process moving.

Mentoree -- Someone learning from a mentor.

North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) -- A multi-phase effort by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to develop a comprehensive list of products, product definitions, and product codes that will be organized into an integrated demand-based classification framework that classifies both goods and services according to how they are principally used. It is intended that NAPCS will be used throughout the statistical community to coordinate the collection, tabulation, and analysis of data on the value of products produced by both goods- and services-producing industries and on the prices charged for those products. The focus in the initial phases of NAPCS will be directed at identifying and defining the products of services-producing industries. NAPCS will be a complementary but independent classification system to NAICS.

E-commerce -- E-commerce (or electronic commerce) is any business transaction whose price or essential terms were negotiated over an online system such as an Internet, Extranet, Electronic Data Interchange network, or electronic mail system. It does not include transactions negotiated via facsimile machine or switched telephone network, or payments made online for transactions whose terms were negotiated offline.

Annual Capital Expenditures Survey -- Part of a comprehensive program designed to provide detailed and timely information on capital investment in new and used structures and equipment by nonfarm businesses. These data are used by the Bureau of Economic Analysis as critical input to estimates of Gross Domestic Product.

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