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Career Opportunities for women
Career Opportunities for women

Career Opportunities For Women

Arriving at our best career option is possible, only if we gather as much information as possible on diverse professions and educational opportunities. There are host of new Opportunities at the work-place. Obsolescence and change have a significant effect on both decline of some professions and emergence of others. We should break the shackles of prejudices such as attaching unqualified superiority for professions like medicine, engineering, and the civil services. There is tremendous diversity in the matter of careers covering conventional as well as emerging fields.

Economic liberalization and the new freedom formulas has thrown open a new world of market opportunities for women. There is virtually no field of enterprise that women cannot enter, and fewer restrictions and pressures.

This roller-coaster environment in the job market makes it both exciting and confusing for young women, many of whom are the first generation of working women. Never before have there been as many career options as there are today, nor as much information as there is available today. In this dynamic work scene, you need to get a clear focus on the direction of your career, figure out the skills you need to develop so as to be ready for the jobs - areas that are in demand today, and will hold good for the future.

The career path of any individual has to be Chosen, taking into account factors such as aptitude and learning ability of the student, financial position of the family, opportunities for higher studies, duration of the course, the gender factor, proximity of the educational institution from home, and prospects for early employment. Here are some career options and opportunities for women:

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Career in Animation & Multimedia
Career in Animation & Multimedia

Careers of Women

1. Animation & Multimedia: Courses in animation and multimedia offer opportunities to those who are blessed with artistic talents and imagination, and have a passion for computer-based studies. The programs are of short duration. Anyone with a ‘plus two’ qualification can go in for this kind of training.

Multimedia may involve a fine mixture of text, graphics, photographs, animation, video, sound, and interactivity, offering boundless possibilities in effectively conveying a message.

Job opportunities are in the fields of video production, publishing, fashion designing, textile designing, interior design, and criminal investigation as well. Freelancing is a possibility in big industrial cities - jobs in CD writing, graphic design, and web design.

2. Architecture: Architecture is a happy union of art and technology. It merges gift of imagination, sense of aesthetics, and sharp precision.


Career in  Biotechnology
Career in Biotechnology

3. Biotechnology:

Biotechnology may be considered as any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use. It makes tremendous strides perhaps faster than electronics or computer technology. It is sure to play a vital role in our life in the coming years.

There are many universities that conduct programs at different levels. Public as well as private sector organizations offer facilities for research.


Career in Bioinformatics
Career in Bioinformatics

4. Bioinformatics: The nascent field of bioinformatics represents the marriage of biotechnology and information technology. It deals with computational management of all kinds of biological information. Sometimes it is referred to as in-silico biology indicating that it is performed on computer.

Proficiency in IT, biology, and mathematics is necessary for work in biotechnology. Those who come from anyone of these disciplines can enter the field and master the other areas as required.

5. Civil Services: Entry into civil services offers remarkable -opportunities for ‘crucial decision-making and other forms of significant service to society. This career path takes you to positions of authority and prestige.


Career in Defence Services
Career in Defence Services

6. Defence Services:

Although women have been traditionally recruited in the armed forces only in the medical and nursing corps, today the Army offers a satisfying career for women in most non-combatant areas including the Army Service Corps, Ordinance Corps, Education Corps, Signals, Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, the Judge Advocate General’s branch and the Army Intelligence Corps. The Navy recruits women in the logistics, air traffic and law branches, while the Air Force has openings for women even in the flying branch. Another ‘high-flying’ career for women is as a commercial pilot with a civil airline. In recent years, with the so many new private airlines taking to the skies, there is a crying need for trained pilots, and cabin crew, both men and women.


Women in Business - Balancing Family and Career

Other Career Opportunities for Women:

Those who take up Psychology have wide options as experimental/educational / industrial/clinical psychologists, counselors, psychometrists (experts in determining aptitude, intelligence, etc.).

Learning languages has its own charms. Proficiency in foreign languages will open opportunities to work as specialists in the diplomatic service, interpreters, translators, and tourist guides.

Graduates in any discipline after a course in journalism and communication join the challenging career covering print and electronic media. Advertising and Public Relations are two disciplines close to journalism.

Law, fashion design, film and TV, management, teaching, special education, library & information science, and sports coaching, are some of the areas open to university graduates in any subject, but gifted with the appropriate aptitude. Graduates with poise and skills can contemplate the job of an airhostess / flight purser.

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AC Gaughen profile image

AC Gaughen  says:
2 years ago

Great hub---you're mentioning a lot of interesting job fields that I, personally, hadn't considered!

guidebaba profile image

guidebaba  says:
2 years ago

Thanks.

MummyAnn profile image

MummyAnn  says:
2 years ago

Great hub! I'm glad you're bringing the many opportunities for women to the masses.

guidebaba profile image

guidebaba  says:
2 years ago

Thanks mummy.

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