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A Hire Calling: How Choosing the Right Major Can Land You the Perfect Job

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By Naresh Vissa

As the semester winds down, many of you will head into Winter Break deciding or reassessing your major.

For freshmen, this may mean eliminating what you don’t want to study. For sophomores, it’s a question of finding the correct major for you. For juniors, you might want to think about adding another one. And for seniors, this would be an ideal time to target companies in industries that are hiring.

The general environment may not be under your jurisdiction, but you can be the maker of your destiny. For example, people may want to become doctors because they perceive them as successful and powerful figures in our society. The reality is becoming a doctor is an extremely difficult process that requires hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition and years of dedication.

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The Science Of Majoring In “Undecided”

Lose your sleep before your college major decision. Photo: Scott McLeod

It’s All About You

Before even choosing a major in college, it is important to look out into the future to get an idea of what you can see yourself doing. I always suggest developing a 5-year or 10-year plan. What do YOU like? What are YOU good at? What can YOU see yourself doing 5 or 10 years from now? If you had $10 million in the bank, and chose to work, what would you do?

Get involved in extracurricular activities in high school or in college to get an understanding of the scope of future jobs. Keep your thoughts on 2 or 3 possible college majors as you might change your mind while in college.

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How to Avoid “Major” Indecision

Treat College Like a Sampler Platter

The worst way to pick a major is to take a semester filled with the same subjects of classes, then switch to another subject the next semester, and so on. This is a great way to blow a lot of tuition money. Treat your course load like the sampler platter at a restaurant: take many different types of classes at the same time. While you probably won’t like every class you take, that’s not the goal anyway. Hopefully you will be able to find a class that peaks your interest, then explore that major a bit more.

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How Students in Common College Majors Spend Their Days

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I was a music major for 3 years and I wish it would’ve been that glamorous. The Philosophy major is fairly accurate - hilarious!

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infoneer-pulse: The College Majors That Do Best in the Job Market Part of the reason people go to college is to get better jobs. It’s by no means the only reason, of course; a liberal arts education can enrich a person’s life in ways besides better employment. But better employment is surely one of the crucial goals, and jobs that require college degrees generally pay better than jobs that don’t. This is true for graduates of every major. Across all majors, the typical graduate who finds a job requiring a college degree will earn $26,756. The typical graduate who find a job that does require a degree, by contrast, will earn just $15,896. That’s about an $11,000 premium. » via The New York Times (Subscription may be required for some content)

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The College Majors That Do Best in the Job Market

Part of the reason people go to college is to get better jobs. It’s by no means the only reason, of course; a liberal arts education can enrich a person’s life in ways besides better employment. But better employment is surely one of the crucial goals, and jobs that require college degrees generally pay better than jobs that don’t. This is true for graduates of every major.

Across all majors, the typical graduate who finds a job requiring a college degree will earn $26,756. The typical graduate who find a job that does require a degree, by contrast, will earn just $15,896. That’s about an $11,000 premium.

» via The New York Times (Subscription may be required for some content)

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