1) The document provides guidance on career planning for commerce students, outlining steps like goal setting, education planning, and analyzing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges. 2) It discusses various career options such as M.Com, CA, ICWA, CS, CFA, management, and competitive exams, along with details on the courses and requirements for each. 3) Tips are given on creating SMART goals and developing the right attitudes and mindset for success.

1. Career Plan
for UG Commerce Students
Presented By
Sukumar Paitandi
Dept. of Commerce
Raniganj Girls’ College

2. How and Where
“My will shall shape the future, whether
I fail or succeed shall be no man’s
doing but my own. I am the force; I can
clear any obstacle before me.” – Elaine
Maxwell.

3. Steps in Career Planning
GOAL SETTING
How to arrive at goal
Area of interest
area of strength
skill & aptitude
personality
aspiration & values
EDUCATION PLANNING

4. SWOC
STRENGTHS
What are your advantages?
What are the things you do well?
What things are you better than anyone
else?
What comes naturally to you?
WEAKNESS
What areas are you weak at?
What is done badly?
Which are the areas that need
improvement?
What is not easy for you?
OPPORTUNITIES
What are the good chances facing you?
What are the interesting trends?
Opportunities can come from events such as:
Changes in technology and market
Changes in Govt. policy
Changes in social patterns such as population
patterns, lifestyles etc.
Local events
New Skills learnt/ developed
Demand Supply gaps, which you can fulfil.
CHALLENGES
What obstacles do you face?
What is your competition doing?
Is changing technology threatening your position?

5. GOAL
GOAL
Satisfaction
Strength
Vision
Opportunity
Interest

6. SMART GOALS
• S - Short term & Specific
• M - Meaningful
• A - Achievable & realistic
• R - Recorded
• T - Targeted & time frame

7. ATTITUDES AND MIND SET FOR
SUCCESS
• Have well discipline
• Focus on activities to achieve your
goal without disruption
• Work systematically
• Have dedication to your goals
• Focus your energy towards your work
• Be constant in your efforts
• Have determination and work hard.

8. Career Options
• M.Com
• C.A.
• I.C.W.A.
• C.S.
• C.F.A.
• Management
• Competitive Exams.
• Foreign Languages
• Law
• Hotel Management
• Public Relations & Mass
Communication
• Computerized Accounting
• Fashion Designing
Major Minor

9. M. Com.
Introduction
• M.Com. is a Post Graduate course in Commerce. It is an
academic degree course. Those who are really interest to start
their career in teaching area, can opt this course.
Career Opportunity: On completion you can apply for several
teaching posts in school / colleges, etc. As well as you can
apply for several managerial posts in private concern also.
Universities:
• Burdwan University
• Kazi nazrul University
• Calcutta University
• Benaras Hindu University
• Delhi University

10. CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS
Introduction
• Chartered Accountants are found to be working in private
practice or as employed in a firm. The range of work in private
practice can vary enormously according to the size and place of
practice.
Web Site: www.icai.org
Office:
• Kolkata: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
'ICAI BHAWAN', 7 Anandilal Poddar Sarani, (Russell street)
Kolkata. Email : ero@icai.org
• Asansol: Asansol Branch of EIRC of ICAI
ICAI Bhawan, Kalyanpur Housing More, Sen Raleigh Road,
Po - Asansol,
Email - asansol@icai.org

11. COST & WORKS ACCOUNTANTS(ICWA)
Introduction
• A Management accountant collects, organises, collates and
analyses information from all parts of the organization,
including all the financial departments.
Website: http://www.icwai.org
Asansol Chapter of ICWAI
Shri Utpal Majumdar, Chairman
Shri Jaydip Ghosal, Secretary
Address
ICWAI Bhawan, Rajpara - Budha,
P.O. Asansol
Asansol
Email # asansol2icwai.org
Career Guidance Center
EASTERN INDIA REGIONAL COUNCIL
84, Harish Mukherjee Road,
Kolkatta - 700 025
Ph : 033 -24553418 ,24555957, 64563600
Email :eirc@icwai.org

12. COMPANY SECRETARY
Introduction
• It is essentially an office-based job, combining a vast amount of
documentation with a good deal of discussion in committees and
meetings.
• The work of a secretary is basically of an assistant. He/She manages
all office work, receive phone calls, takes messages and carries out
the bosses instructions.
Web Site: http://www.icsi.edu/
3-A, Ahiripukur, Ist Lane
Near Beck Nursing Home
Kolkata
West Bengal
Email: eiro@icsi.edu

13. CFA
• Chartered Financial Analyst designation, or CFA charter, has
become the most respected and recognized investment
credential in the world.
• The CFA Program is organized into three levels, each culminating in
a six-hour exam. Completing the Program takes most candidates
between two and five years (there is no limit to the number of times
you can take each exam), but you can take as long as you need to
complete the program.
• http://www.cfainstitute.org/cfaprogram/pages/index.aspx
• Icfai
• Location-KB 25, 7TH FLR, Sector 3, NR Amri Hospital Salt Lake
Beside Charnock City Mall, Salt Lake, SAI Complex, Kolkata -
700098
• Call -+(91)-33-66347148
Career Guidance Center

14. MANAGEMENT Related Courses
Courses & Work Area
• MBA degree course from a reputed University
• Diploma in Personnel Management, Industrial
Relations, Industrial Management, Retail
Management, Banking Management, Shipping
Management, Operations Management, Logistics,
Supply Chain, Production Management
• Diploma in Marketing Management
• Diploma in Personnel Management & Labour Welfare
• PG Diploma in Business Management
• PG Diploma in Industrial Management/Relations
• Diploma in Export/Import Management
• Diploma in Materials Management
• Diploma in Project Management
• Diploma in Production Management

15. Other Career Options
• Competitive Exams.
• Indian and Foreign Languages
• Law
• Hotel Management
• Public Relations & Mass Communication
• Computerized Accounting
• Fashion Designing

16. Competitive Exams.
IAS
Banking &
Insurance
Rail
Army &
Navy
UPSC SSC
State Public
Commission
Services

17. INDIAN AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Introduction
• Languages specialists who work as interpreters meet and work with
different people from diplomatic circles to tourists, hence the working
conditions can be very different.
Working Conditions
• Considerable time may be spent in very formal settings.
Personality
• Linguists must have the aptitude to grasp the use of languages.
Verbal ability is nurtured from an early age stage and proficiency
comes through correct and regular usage.
Courses & Work Area
– Interpreter/Translator
– CIEFL (Central Institute of English & Foreign Language),
Hyderabad/Lucknow/Shilong - Diploma/Bachelor/Certificate
– Translate government / official documents
– Newspapers / journals / Radio / TV
– Book translators: Staff selection commission conducts exam

18. Law
Law is a degree course under a recognized
University.
Degree:
LLB & LLM
Career Options:
•As a working professional or as a Public Prosecutor.
Even you may be Magistrate in future.
University:
•Burdwan University
•Calcutta University
•Pune University

19. HOTEL INDUSTRY
Introduction
• Hotel Industry has a great variety in terms of size,
clientele it aims to serve, and its location. However,
for the efficient functioning of any hotel – large or
small, work is divided among key departments –
Management, catering, front office, housekeeping,
accounting, marketing, engineering, forecasting.
Courses & Work Area
• Catering, Front Office, House Keeping, Forecasting,
Marketing, Engineering, Diets/Nutrition
• Diploma / Degree in Hotel Management

20. PUBLIC RELATIONS and
MASS COMMUNICATION
Courses & Work Area
• TV/Radio
• Vellotype (Speech to Text)
• Newspaper
• Press trust of India
• Engrave/ Proof Reading/ Composing/ Program Announcer
Institutes
• Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Jawaharlal Nehru
University Campus, New Delhi

21. Computer Oriented Courses
General Courses SAP ERP

22. SAP operates a network of 115 subsidiaries, and
has R&D (Research & Development) facilities
around the globe in Germany, India, the US,
Canada, France, Brazil, Turkey, China, Hungary,
Israel, Ireland and Bulgaria.
SAP focuses on six industry sectors: process
industries, discrete industries, consumer industries,
service industries, financial services, and public
services.[It offers more than 25 industry solution
portfolios for large enterprises[ and more than 550
micro-vertical solutions for midsize companies and
small businesses.
SAP

23. Enterprise resource planning software, or ERP,
doesn’t live up to its acronym. Forget about planning—
it doesn’t do much of that—and forget about resource,
a throwaway term. But remember the enterprise part.
This is ERP’s true ambition. It attempts to integrate all
departments and functions across a company onto a
single computer system that can serve all those
different departments’ particular needs .
More than 85 percent of respondents agreed or
strongly agreed that their ERP systems were
essential to the core of their businesses, and that
they "could not live without them."
ERP

24. FASHION TECHNOLOGY
Courses & Work Area
• Garment Manufacturing Technology
• Diploma in Dress designing and manufacturing
• Textile designing
• Fashion journalism: Freelance; fashion photography
• Degree in Fine Arts and Commercial Art
• Leather: Leather, Footwear Tech
• Photography: Creative, Press, Medical, Industrial & Scientific
Institutes
• National Institute of Fashion Technology
• National Institute of Fashion Desinging

25. Wish You A
Successful Career