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What is an underrated career field
Something that is good, but doesn't get much recognition #career #career-choice #career-path
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Kelly’s Answer
Hi Alex,
The field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology is very underrated. Experts in this field can help business leaders create a dramatically improved work environment and experience for employees. Most people spend 8 hours a day at their job, so why not make it enjoyable! Many people quit their jobs because of poor management decisions. A career in industrial and organizational psychology can help leaders understand the pain points for employees and provide solutions. This leads to happier employees AND happier customers. It can be a very rewarding career knowing that you are helping to improve a place where people spend so much of their time.
The field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology is very underrated. Experts in this field can help business leaders create a dramatically improved work environment and experience for employees. Most people spend 8 hours a day at their job, so why not make it enjoyable! Many people quit their jobs because of poor management decisions. A career in industrial and organizational psychology can help leaders understand the pain points for employees and provide solutions. This leads to happier employees AND happier customers. It can be a very rewarding career knowing that you are helping to improve a place where people spend so much of their time.
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Jeff’s Answer
If you want to become an executive of any company some day, I would strongly recommend you spend time early in your career in a sales or client facing role. Once you spend time with clients and meet them F2F in their offices and take the time to understand their business challenges and establish relationships of trust, you really start to appreciate how your products and services can best solve for the clients pain points.
I believe you will be more understanding of client issues and experience empathy for the challenges they face which allows the sales rep to be the "voice of the customer" and carry back this message with marketing and engineering.
These experiences will allow you as an executive someday in any company to be more client centric or promote the importance of a Customer Centricity vs Product led organizations.
I believe you will be more understanding of client issues and experience empathy for the challenges they face which allows the sales rep to be the "voice of the customer" and carry back this message with marketing and engineering.
These experiences will allow you as an executive someday in any company to be more client centric or promote the importance of a Customer Centricity vs Product led organizations.
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Janice’s Answer
The most underrated career field / path would be Teaching. Especially given the current shortage of teachers. Look back on your best teachers and who was most passionate about the job, being a role model for the students, and where you learned the most. Professionally, the career path is a quicker path to getting there - start track quickly and be able to get experience very quickly and tenured very quickly; perhaps starting out as a student teacher/long term substitute. Take those learnings eventually into another professional role that you can build upon perhaps going forward into the private sector.
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Frank’s Answer
Any type of sales position is very useful early in your career as it teaches you how to understand customers, what their needs are and how to connect with them in order to have them buy your product or service. It also helps you to gain self-confidence in how you present yourself and communicate to get your ideas across. Sales allows you to also work in many different industries as the sales process is the same, no matter if you are selling cars, music equipment, mobile phones or software.
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Drew’s Answer
A career / degree in accounting can open up quite a few doors and over a variety of career paths. Accounting provides a solid foundation of business, and is generally a basic requirement for any business degree. There a tons of accounting firms around the world, with lots of cool programs for young college students, especially within the Big 4 accounting firms. While not everyone stays in accounting for their career, starting off in accounting allows great flexibility to the next career choice. Accounting is also a very stable, in-demand field - and I don't foresee that changing.
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Gina’s Answer
A field that is underrated is to be a healthcare clinician (i.e. nurse) with an information technology background. There are many opportunities in the healthcare software industry that would benefit from a resource having both skillsets.
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Jeff’s Answer
Government/public service work, and this can be a great training ground to go into the private sector someday.
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Alex’s Answer
The grocery industry is very underratted. It is easy to move up into management by being a hard worker and showing up. There are company health benefits and 401k that match dollars available. The job will always be secure as seen in the recent pandemic, people will always need to buy groceries. There are plenty of companies to look into and to potentially job hop to in order to get the salary and benefits you want.
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A School Teacher... NOT just an information giver. One that teaches not just the subject matter but the students sitting before you. NOT to let them just get by.... Help them find their niche and passions. Directing them to those life jobs and careers where they can make a difference.. Don't let society tell you what they need.... you are the professional. Teach them!