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“Choosing a vocation is not a determination to beryllium made successful a moment. It evolves implicit a play of clip considering assorted aspects and is simply a merchandise of your corporate decisions,” said Priyanga M., managing manager of North Western Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC).
She was addressing a gathering of students and their parents aft inaugurating The Hindu EducationPlus Career Counselling 2026, held astatine KLE Society’s Biotechnology Auditorium connected the B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology field of KLE Technological University successful Hubballi connected Saturday (May 16). She besides released The Hindu’s Career Counselling Handbook.
She pointed retired that arsenic the chosen way would devour astir 10 to 12 hours of their clip for the remainder of the life, they should beryllium cautious portion choosing their career. “Whatever you choose, it should support you blessed and contented. You should besides see what your chosen way volition connection you and whether you tin marque a quality successful your chosen path,” she advised.
Ms. Priyanga said that arsenic exertion kept evolving, 1 would person to look caller challenges, and the mode successful which 1 faces challenges would specify one’s personality.
Narrating her own experience of cracking the civilian services introspection successful her 4th attempt, she told the students that the civilian services introspection is not a trial of one’s cognition but of one’s property and resolve.
She narrated however a little middle-class miss similar her was capable to ace the examination and however astatine 1 constituent of time, she went done depression, mislaid hope, and adjacent thought of giving up. “However, I decided to proceed and decided to springiness my champion changeable arsenic I had thing to lose. This resoluteness helped maine impressment the aforesaid sheet of interviewers who had earlier rejected maine successful my earlier interview. I secured an All India Rank of 149,” she recalled.
Elaborating connected the civilian services examination, she said each year, astir 10 lakh candidates appeared for the preliminary introspection and of them, 15,000 suffice for the main examination. “Only 3,000 marque it to the interrogation and conscionable astir 1,000 yet wide the examination,” she explained.
She besides said that determination are nary fixed parameters for defining occurrence arsenic the occurrence of 1 idiosyncratic mightiness not look to beryllium occurrence from another’s constituent of view. But immoderate you do, bash it with your afloat heart, she said.
She called connected the students to marque an informed prime and not walk much clip connected societal media and retrieve that extracurricular the purview of societal media, determination are galore radical doing large things. “You should besides beryllium wide connected what you don’t privation to bash portion choosing a career,” she underscored.
Answering queries from students, she advised them, peculiarly the girls, to beryllium acceptable to look societal challenges arsenic those preparing for civilian services would person to deviate from the timeline connected idiosyncratic beingness acceptable by society. She advised the girls to go economically autarkic truthful they would past person state to instrumentality decisions connected their idiosyncratic lives.
