Choosing a college major is a problem that you need to overcome before becoming a student. Choosing the right major is very important for your achievements in the future, to keep you motivated to achieve the best and enjoy what you do. How to choose the right major? Here are tips on choosing college majors:
1. Get to know yourself deeper
You can start by rethinking what you like, what your strengths are, what skills you have, and what kind of career you want to pursue in the future. As another alternative, you can fill out an internet questionnaire about personality, but remember, you honest in answering it.
2. Ask the opinions of people around you
You can ask your parents, your family, your teacher, and even your friends about what your character looks like in their eyes.
3. Look for major's information that appropriate with your self-introduction test's result
For example, you are among those who like to explain the material to your friends and make them understand better, you are able to make difficult-looking theories seem easy. If you are included in a person with such characteristics, it means that you are appropriate to work in the field of education to become an educator or teacher.
Or are you someone who is active and good at getting along? You easily mingle with everyone, no matter its peers, uncles, and aunts, to neighboring grandmothers? These advantages are needed in the business world, where connection and information are very important. So why don't you consider a business major?
4. pay attention to future work prospects from the department that suits you. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
  It is unfortunate if your knowledge is not used later on.
5. Don't choose because you are following your friend's choices
Friends are not everything for us, we have a different vision and mission with friends it our personality is also different withmy friends. Likewise our personality with our friends, they maybe suitable for a certain major while we are not. And if we just  go along with friends, when he falls we will fall so do not let that happen to us.
6. Decide which university you want to study at
      Note also the accreditation from the campus and the department you want to choose, you should choose those with " A "  accreditation. Because accreditation from the university have significant effect when we want to work in the company in the future since  the company will choose the best of the good.
7.look for alternative majors
In this case, you can find alternatives by choosing the same department but at a different university or a different course. But it needs to be underlined, choosing an alternative major must also be suitable for our personality, don't just consider about enfering a state university.
 8.the last is the key that is communicate your desires with your parents, ask for their blessing and also ask for instructions from Him, so that it is given the best for you.
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