Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.” – Katharine Whitehorn
The third monthly seminar under the banner of Conscientia was conducted on the topic: ‘Career Guidance’. This was conducted with the intention of providing our audience with an informative session on the professions available to them and the education necessary to opt for them. Additionally, advice was also given to the audience on how they could make a decision on their career.
The speaker for the session was Mr. Samuel Samarpan Ponaganti, who holds a degree in M.P.Cs. and is currently pursuing a PG Diploma in Geophysics at the esteemed Osmania University. With the experience he has gained from working with SoN and working among children and his peers, he geared up to speak on the topic of the session.
He began the session with a few exhortations to the audience as to what they should not do when choosing their career, and the most appropriate way to do it instead. He detailed and emphasized on how the audience are to explore themselves – become aware of their skills and intelligences – in order to obtain an ideal career. This led the audience to understand that it is not merely education that accounts into their future career but also the additional components they possess. Following this up with the 4P formula, he solidified in them an understanding of an ideal decision-making path, before leading them into a short brief on the factors that go into choosing a career.