How To Advance Your Career In your Specific Professional & Vocational Industry

ByNicole

There is a myriad of quite obvious and notable differences between a vocational career and a more regular and less engaging job, not least the reasons behind an individual taking on the role in the first place.

Vocational careers are essentially those jobs that involve the practical application of education experience and teachings in a professional institution. Additionally, vocational careers differ from more conventional ones in that they usually have a recognized proverbial ladder in order to progress professionally.

With that in mind, continue reading to discover how to advance your career in your specific professional and vocational industry.

Teaching

As a fully qualified and certified teacher, you are already in a position of authority, respect, and, most importantly, responsibility. Teaching involves becoming an integral part of young children, teenagers, or adults’ education, and teachers are the type of people that are reminded of and referred to long after they have worked with an individual.

General roles and responsibilities of teachers include, but are categorically in no way limited to:

  • Taking part in, running, or attending department meetings and whole staff briefings to assist and advise in the smooth running of the department and the school in general
  • The application of the most up-to-date and innovative teaching methods of the highest possible quality
  • Monitoring, assessing, and compiling various reports on the behavior and progress of individual students
  • Energizing, motivating, and encouraging individual pupils to participate in class lessons and other school-based activities
  • Following the requirements of the state’s national curriculum and all other legal requirements and legislations
  • Specializing in specific areas of study
  • Working with other educational professional colleagues, carers, social services, parents and support workers to guide, assist and educate those students with SEN ( Special Educational Needs).
  • Striving to boot and advance one’s teaching career and progression opportunities

There is a wide plethora of recognized academic and other ways to both expand your knowledge and background in teaching as well as opening the proverbial door to further career opportunities and progression.

Such ways can include:

  • Improving your CV
  • Striving to improve workplace relationships and connections
  • Offering private, extra-curricular tutoring services
  • Evaluating your current job role and deciding what most excites and energizes you
  • Using the multitude of available online resources to educate oneself

Nursing

Fully qualified and registered nurses are one of the most hard-working and respected vocational professions of them all. Throughout the last two years, during the detrimental and devastating worldwide coronavirus pandemic, nurses have had to ensure even tougher working conditions, even longer working hours and considerably higher levels of stress during each and every shift.

Additionally, many nurses across the length and breadth of the country have often been asked to cover other wards and treat patients who have issues or medical problems that are certainly outside of their professional comfort zone.

There are a multitude of different nursing specialisms, which include but are certainly not limited to:

  • Pediatrics
  • Oncology
  • Mental Health
  • Midwifery
  • Critical Care
  • Psychiatrics
  • Geriatrics

Additionally, if you have an undergraduate degree in an unrelated subject, accelerated BSN nursing programs will take your career in an entirely different direction and enable you to enter the professional world of nursing.

Veterinary Surgeons

There is a good reason why one of the most popular answers to the question ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ is a vet. Taking care of animals for a living, be those domesticated pets such as bunnies, dogs and cats, or larger farm animals, is certainly an extremely exciting prospect for not only children but for people of all ages.

Conversely, however, there is also a good reason why, as a child becomes an adult, they change their mind. To become a registered professional veterinary surgeon, you are required to embark on a veterinary science degree which takes five years to complete. In the United Kingdom, it is also required to register with The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

Typical duties, roles, and responsibilities of a vet who works with smaller and domesticated animals involve:

  • Diagnosing and treating poorly animals
  • Preparing and administering vaccinations
  • Euthanizing injured or terminally ill animals
  • Neutering animals so that they are unable to breed
  • Administering diagnostic tests such as ultrasound scans and radiographs
  • Operating on animals

Usually, typical animals that vets diagnose and treat daily include dogs, rabbits, birds, cats, hamsters, rats, mice, and gerbils, with farm vets generally working with cows, sheep, and horses.

Paralegals

Essentially, a paralegal is a highly respected and incredibly valued member of a legal company and team who has extensive levels of knowledge of the law but are not actually a qualified lawyer.

To become a paralegal, it is absolutely crucial to successfully obtain an undergraduate law degree and to graduate with at least a 2:2. Alternatively, you could also obtain a 2:2 in another undergraduate degree and a law conversion course. To be hired by a reputable, renowned, and established law firm, it is strongly advised to also obtain practical work experience in a practicing law office.

There are a wide variety of specializations within a paralegal career that you can choose to pursue:

  • Employment Law
  • Consumer Law
  • Family & Maintenance Law
  • Administration of Estates, Probate & Wills
  • Mortgage Repossessions & Debt Recovery
  • Corporate, Business & Commercial Law
  • Civil & Criminal Litigation
  • Dispute & Contracts Resolution

Typical responsibilities and roles of a working paralegal include, but are not limited to:

  • Building relationships and networking with clients
  • Conducting legal research
  • Annotating witness statements
  • Organizing case files
  • Attending court inquests
  • Compiling litigation bundles
  • Schedule meetings and planning diaries
  • Negotiating legal documents and contracts
  • Inputting and analyzing legal data
  • Office administrations
  • Proofreading documents
  • Filing documents at court

Conclusion

There are so many paths you could take to advance your professional career; even if you’re not ready to make any big changes right now, there are always short courses and professional development programs available that you can take to give your professional knowledge and reputation the boost that it needs.