Commerce Careers After Class X

by Shraabona Sengupta Career Blogger

Finance, business, accounting and solving complex economics theories – these come so easily to you, right?

Being such a big finance enthusiast, you might have been thinking about a commerce-based career;
What intrigues you more? The serious planning and organizing in Accounts? Or pursuing an entrepreneurship after completing an MBA, maybe? Or just plain old business…or taking up teaching as a profession - no matter what your choice is, we are here to help you understand the depth of each one of them, and help you stand by the one you choose.

Finance is one of the most flourishing industry in the present world, with a yearly turnover of around 19.8% of the whole world’s industrial profit that is increasing by each day. Apart from the accounting, taxation and payroll services, there are various aspects of this subject that one can delve deep into. Besides the more common options of being a CS, CA, B. Com, BBA, MBA pass & all other common stuffs, commerce students have a wide variety of career options ranging from being a Bachelor of Law to a Journalist – but do you know who YOU want to be?

You must have had heard of various tests and career counselors and career guidance institutions who’ll help you find out a good job to make a living from, for the rest of your life – but what they won’t do, is to make you know yourself, and let you understand that “better than the best” can actually happen in real life. No, they will never be the one to make you realize that.

CAT will.

Career Aptitude Tests, or CAT as we know it, are primarily focused on measuring the capabilities of an individual’s mind, and how to put it at good work so that it benefits themselves. Based on an umpteenth number of age old psychometric analysis tools like CAPS, PaP, Myers-Briggs Type Theory and DiSC Behavior Type Inventory, this is an aesthetically structured, one of a kind test that peeks deep into a person’s mind with the promise of digging out the weakest motives and make them work the other way around;
Career Aptitude Tests were first applied around 19^th century to test the limitations of a soldier’s mind while being at a warfare – and it has been creating miracles all around the world since then. As a widely used quality assessment tool in scientific and artistic industries, CAT is gaining a widespread population in commerce-based industries now more than ever – financial & business firms, Banks, MNCs, TNCs, even most of the large & small BPOs & KPOs depend on CAT to choose employees who would later prove to be most beneficial for the company’s profit.

Some of the primary subjects which are taught within the Commerce stream are Economics, Accountancy, Business Studies & Business Law, followed by B.Com, BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration), BMS (Bachelor of Management Studies), BBM (Bachelor of Business Management), CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), CA (Chartered Accountancy), ICWA (Institute of Cost and Works Accountants course) & CFP (Certified Financial Planning) as Graduate courses; Most of the major commerce institutes offer subjects like Business Economics, Financial Accounting, Business Communication, Marketing, Business Law, Business Finance, Auditing, Cost Accounting, Income Tax etc. You can also opt for competitive exams like C.S./C.A. Foundation Course, ICWA Foundation Course, Business Studies etc. after passing 10^th, but before delving headfirst into anything, you must be sure of what you actually want to do, and which choices will be most efficient and profitable for you. Appearing for a CAT will help you derive and understand your options, guide you through the hurdles so that you may reap the best out of them, train you on how to work on your chosen fields and provide you proper career counselling equipped with all kind of information from an estimated PayScale & work ethics, to gaining a solid anchorage in the industry you could work in, and ways to prosper in a given time period. It all might sound as easy as reading this article, but you should always keep this in mind – working and becoming efficient in a field requires a huge amount of patience and persistence, and if you have those – no one, & absolutely nothing can stop you from achieving your dreams!

So, go on, learn a bit about how your future might look like with the help of our selected board of psychoanalysts and career counselors – Go rock the CAT!