This document provides guidance on career orientation and choosing a career path. It recommends having a dream and sharing it with a mentor, making a timeline of goals for the short and long-term, getting professional career guidance, researching options and learning from people currently in fields of interest. It also lists some unconventional career options for commerce students, such as entrepreneurship, agriculture, entertainment, social work, journalism and debunks some common career choice myths.

1. Career Orientation
Santhosh Thannikat

2. Aim for Happiness

3. What you want to do with your life?

4. Career
• Have a dream
• Tell a friend / mentor
• Make a time schedule
– 20 years
– 10 years
– 5 years
– 3 years
– 1 year
– Quarterly

5. The Broadway

6. Career Guidance
• Get professional help
• Talk o people in the
field (mentors)
• Search / Research
• Make friends with
similar career path

7. Career Choice for Commerce Stream

8. Unconventional
• Entrepreneurship / Self Employed
• Agriculture
– Dairy / aqua farm
• Entertainment Industry
• Social Work (NGOs)
• Creative Writer (Novelist / Poetry)
– Animation
• Journalism
• Others ……

9. Be a Winner

10. Career Myths
• There is only one perfect career / job for you
• Your major (course in University) will guide
you to your career
• Your career choices are lifelong decisions
• Liberal arts, humanities and sciences are not
marketable majors
• Your career decisions should be based on the
current job market

11. Go ahead and enjoy your decision

12. Thank you