HSC Examinations results out in various parts of our country. Students are running for admissions at their favorite colleges with career dreams in their minds. But little did they know that this is career altering moment for them. I've carried out 5 points that an HSC pass out must know before joining their respective Colleges. 

Set Your Goals

Setting a goal before starting a graduation course is one of the most ignored thought by student. Most of the students nowadays doesn't have a dream or goals for their life. Setting your goals make you work hard in life and stay focused to your dreams. If we take example of someone who didn't set his goal for something, then we can see that individual will not be serious in the life because he/she doesn't have something to work for. Having a dream is easy, everybody has a dream but setting your goals to make that dream into reality is what every student must do.

Seek Advice from Experts

Seek expert advice

Many of the students choose their career according to their parents, friends or other relatives. They look for someone who's earning a good pay from their job, despite knowing how difficult their life is and eventually they decide to take the career like them. Some of the student just chooses what their friends choose because they didn't have any goals in their life at all. These are the mistakes an individual makes during the turning point of their life (i.e. choosing graduation course). So you must find someone in your career interest that has experience in that field. Ask that person about the income, growth, working environment, job opportunities, and future about that particular industry. This information will lead you in various aspects of your career and ultimately help you find your way in the future.

Visit Career Center

career councelling

Visiting a career center is another great way to shape your career and future. These career center has trained experts and have various techniques to find out what’s better for you and in which field you can do better in life. There are maximum people who waste their career just because they don't know what they're actually capable of doing. Career centers provide you the information about your hidden talents which in many cases the person didn't know about. They counsel you to choose what is best for your career and have you can achieve it.

Decide what to Take

decide what to take

Now, after you gone through all the process above, it's time you must take a decision based on what you have heard of all about. If in some case you couldn’t follow the above points, still you have to make a decision about your career. This is because there are many students who didn't take proper decisions on time and at the end make decisions which ruin their career. Like taking some course in which you're not at all interested and you just take it because your family or someone else want that for you. Don't get me wrong everyone must listen to their family, they don't want you fail in your life, but I think it's better to choose your career yourself.

Sort out your Finances

finance

This may look unfamiliar to you in this list, but trust me this as important as the other points in this list. Once you get into the college, there will lots of peer pressure you will face in your surroundings. There will be many things that will distract you from your career goals and most of them will be because of money. So just make yourself a spreadsheet of your expenses and set your financial limits before joining college. This will help you avoiding that peer pressure and will make you more focused in your career.


These were some points that I thing every students must know before choosing their career. Let me know in the comments below what you think students should know before joining their graduate school.