With thousands of options, how will you choose a career that’s right for you? 【小题1】 Fortunately, when you follow an organized process, you will increase your chances of making a good decision.

Assess yourself. 【小题2】 Your values, interests and soft skills, in combination with your personality type, make some occupations a good fit for you, and others completely inappropriate. Use self-assessment tools and career tests to gather information about your traits and generate lists of occupations that are suitable.

Make a master list of careers. You probably have several lists of occupations in front of you at this point — one generated by each of the self-assessment tools you used. 【小题3】

Explore the careers on your list. At this point, you’ll be thrilled that you have managed to narrow your list down to only 10 to 20 options. 【小题4】 Find job descriptions and educational, training and licensing requirements in published sources. Learn about advancement opportunities. Use government-produced labor market information to get data about earnings and job outlook.

【小题5】 Finally, after doing all your exploration, you are probably ready to make your choice. Pick the occupation that you are most satisfied with based on all the information you have gathered.

Realize that you are allowed to do it if you change your mind about your choice at any point in your life. Many people change their careers at least a few times.