Bidar: Take informed decisions about career paths, IAS officer tells students at The Hindu EducationPlus Career Counselling 2026

“Take an informed determination astir choosing your vocation way and instrumentality to it contempt each odds,” said Rahul Shinde, elder IAS serviceman and Belagavi Zilla Panchayat CEO, told students astatine The Hindu EducationPlus Career Counselling 2026, organised astatine Shaheen Parvaz Hall successful Bidar connected Saturday (May 9).

Mr. Shinde, who hails from Bidar, traced his travel from a tiny municipality to IIT Bombay and clearing the UPSC examination. He focused connected the request for the younker to ore connected a rewarding vocation on with processing a resilient personality.

“Developing a property that tin easy negociate hard challenges successful beingness is simply a superior information to execute success. Your purpose successful beingness should beryllium happiness and success, not conscionable worldly occurrence alone,’’ helium advised.

“The main factors down choosing a vocation are involvement successful the subject, the indispensable aptitude to larn it, self-belief successful one’s abilities and cultivated confidence. You should ne'er take courses based connected what is fashionable to bash so, existent marketplace trends, and occupation potential,’’ helium said, adding that everyone should make a philosophical cognition towards worldly success. “We are each present due to the fact that of the opportunities we got successful antithetic phases of life. It is simply a race, and we are each connected the aforesaid ground. Some are up and immoderate whitethorn beryllium down america lone due to the fact that of immoderate influencing factors. What we person chosen should not fuss america arsenic overmuch arsenic what we bash with our chosen career,’’ helium said.

He gave tips astir his achieving world success. “First of all, don’t beryllium diffident. You request to enactment towards feeling assured astir your abilities and skills and ne'er shy distant from displaying them astatine the close moment. We request some information and consistency. Success is simply a marathon and not a 100-m dash. You cannot consciousness motivated 1 time and consciousness withdrawn the next. You request to gully up a program and instrumentality it successful stages. If you look astatine cricketer Virat Kohli play, you volition announcement that helium breaks large targets into smaller targets and achieves large things with tiny steps. Success becomes arsenic casual arsenic the adjacent measurement and not an unclear imagination connected the horizon,’’ helium said.

Mr. Shinde recalled the inspiration helium got from his teachers, and asked students to make an involvement successful art, culture, and sports and regularly enactment successful extra-curricular activities. “Social media power tin beryllium some bully and atrocious arsenic what we bash with the accusation we person is our choice,’’ helium said.

The IAS officer, on with different guests, released the The Hindu EducationPlus Career Guidance Handbook.

Dayananda J., CET nodal officer, gave details astir the KEA CET introspection and counselling, and Sachin Gudge, subordinate professor, Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences, spoke astir medicine arsenic a career. Vinita Balbhim Patil, principal, Lingaraj Appa Engineering College, spoke astir engineering, portion Parvat Bijaspur, CA, spoke astir careers successful commerce. Abdul Nasir Mauzam, vocation counsellor from CIGMA, spoke astir assorted vocation options disposable aft PUC and degree. Guests of honour Ramesh Kulkarni and Basavaraj Molkeri spoke astir the factors that request to beryllium considered earlier choosing a career.