When it comes to fulfilling one’s career dreams, countless factors come to play roles of different dimensions: factors like reputation of the institution and its location, the course and its content; personal attributes of the candidate and his or her commitment to the same are the three major ones.

• How important are these three in your opinion?


It takes a lot to enjoy career success in this world of competition. This write up is an attempt to see the importance of major factors like reputation of the institution, course content and personal attributes of the incumbent in terms of career success.

A cursory look at the three aspects of success, I tend to say they are equally important in several ways. Let me see how reputation of the institution works. Where a candidate is from is a matter of great interests for many recruiters. For example, high paying recruiters prefer candidates from premium institutions like IITs, IIMs and similar centres of learning located in metros. Doing a course at such an urban landscape attaches extra edges to candidates.

Besides this, what a candidate has studied is as important as where he has studied it from. This is very important today, because changes are taking place much faster, and those candidates who are able to do industry-friendly courses will be sought after by plum recruiters. For example, today success demands a lot of current market knowledge and technology innovations. So course content matters very much.

Where does personal attributes stand in this list? Where one studies at and what one studies and how successfully one is able to complete a programme meant for a career depends greatly on how committed, hardworking and talented a candidate is. Therefore, there is no wonder personal attributes come to play a decisive role in fulfilling one’s career expectations.

Over all, it is difficult to conclusively say that one aspect is more important than the other. All three are interdependent, and absence of any one may make the rest suffer, rendering career success difficult.

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