3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV

Issue # 38 /  March 30th , 2021

How do you find passion? If you do not have an articulated passion, how do you pick your career? if most jobs are going to be redefined with the Artificial Intelligence, Pandemic, Climate change, New world order… how does one even start out or preparing for one’s own or their student/child’s career? In the eagerness to define your passion – is it possible that you would end up prematurely foreclosing your own/your child/your student’s career choice? Have you kept scope for iterations in your career path? Here are some thoughts and tips for helping you move ahead in your process for making choices about career.

Start by answering these 5 questions as a good lead in to your interests:

1. If I could choose one friend/neighbour/family to trade jobs with, I’d choose ____________, because ____________.
2. If I would start my high school once again, I would choose ____________ as my subject/s because ____________.
3. My friends and family always say they would like me to help them with ____________, because ____________.
4. The part of my current job I enjoy most is ____________, because ____________.
5. If I had free time that had to be spent “working” on something, I’d choose ____________, because ____________.

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Three Images For The Week

Two Thoughts For The Week

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” — Steve Jobs

“The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi

One Video For The Week

Did you choose your career, or did someone else do it for you? Adult developmental psychologist and career counselor Sharon Belden Castonguay unpacks how personal identities intersect with cultural influences to unconsciously affect our choice of work—and how self-awareness will be the key to success in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Sharon Belden Castonguay, EdD, is an adult developmental psychologist and career counselor with twenty years of experience working with professionals at all levels of their careers. She is the Director of Wesleyan University’s Gordon Career Center and the host of two podcasts, Careers by Design: The Interviews and First Year Out. Prior to joining Wesleyan’s team she was the Director of the Graduate Career Management Center at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business.

She has also served as a career counselor at Harvard University and at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Through her career consulting practice she has worked with many other top universities, and has been an invited speaker at Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard Medical School, The New York Academy of Sciences, and Princeton, among others. She received her doctorate in human development from Harvard. She also holds an MA in Education from the University of Michigan and a BA in Government from Smith College.

Guest column:

I have done a simple job all these years

But I feel happy with their cheers

I feel proud when he plays with numbers

I feel amazed at her dream to go to outer space

I fumble when they ask me about AI and ML

I have done a simple job all these years

But I feel happy with their cheers

I have seen them cry and fight but still mingle

I have seen their fears in their tears

Many touched my heart and many my feet

I have done a simple job all these years

But I feel happy with their cheers

I entered their life as their teacher 

They gave me love to cherish for years

And come back to me when they want me to be their preacher

With teaching as a profession changing forms, the teacher’s role demands on going skill development to cope with technological advancement and the growing needs of the students. My course ‘Career Guidance – Facilitator’s Guide to Classroom Discussions’ has been designed to aid the teacher with tools to address the career planning needs of their students. 

Check the course : https://www.firki.co/courses/course-v1:Fermata+MCG_07+MCG_07/about

I am reachable at harmeet@fermata.co.in to answer your queries.

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Dear reader,

I have been a research scientist, a journalist and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and I write.  With this weekly newsletter, I intend to share what I read, learn and experience while I engage with students, parents and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions and ed-tech organisations.

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