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How Important a Real Career Is

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How Important a Real Career is

Many young people today have difficulties in choosing a suitable job for themselves. A number of them are dreaming about perfect jobs that exceed their abilities, while others don't have the experience necessary to make right decisions for their career. Lastly, they are unsure how to start their career or make their career plans become a reality due to lack of information. Here are some steps to assist you in being successful with your long term career oriented goals, such as: Doing a personality test, being realistic about your dreams, recognizing a real career, and realizing valuable non-monetary rewards of your career.

An important aspect of career planning is recognizing which characteristics you have. It is very necessary and important element in choosing the right career. The first step in finding out which personality characteristics you possess is by taking the Jung Typology Test. The Jung Typology test is located on the website www.humanmetrics.com. The site will show a brief description of many tests, such as: Jung Typology Test, Jung Marriage Test, Visionary Test, and many others. The second step is by clicking on "Jung Typology Test." When you are ready to take this test, click button "Do it" to start and 72 questions will be presented on the screen of computer. After you finish the whole test, you should click "Score it" and it will reveal your score. The score includes 4 letters that explain about your personalities. This test will give you general information about your personality characteristics (humanmetrics.com). If you would like more detailed information, you can click "Full description" and will find more specific details for this test. The final step is clicking and reading about each letter you received and this allows you to identify your personal type. The following websites have information that describes and analyzes which careers are most suitable for your type of personality from a personality standpoint (keirsey.com, typelogic.com).

In addition, you need to be realistic about you career 'dreams to make them come true. According to article "The New American Dreamers" by Ruth Sidel, a professor of sociology at Hunter College of the City University of New York, the author talks about the hopes and dreams that young American women want to have in their future. However, no matter which social class they are from or where they live in the United States, they all want to live in the American dream which includes having a good job, owning a big house, and having a perfect family. One of the individuals, from the article, is Amy Morrision, whose dream is to become a surgeon and has a peaceful family life. Another individual is Simone Baker whose dreams are more difficult to realize. She struggles daily, even though she has been impacted by her parent and has gone to drug rehabilitation center many times. She also wants to live the American Dream even though it is almost impossible for her. Many young women desire and are striving to reach the American Dream, but not everyone has the abilitiy or the right conditions to do it. Finally, they need to be realistic

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