Career counselling: questions and answers

Q). I’m a student of MBA (Banking) and in my last year but I really don’t want to join banking sector neither conventional nor Islamic because of my religious issues. Now kindly help me out as I also have very limited resources and I have to do job in my future due to financial conditions. Kindly tell me about any short courses that would be highly beneficial for me to get good pay scale. (Nazia Qureshi- Karachi)
Ans: It is not essential to work in a bank with this qualification you can look towards finding career opportunities at other financial institutions or multinational groups that are ready to use your services in their financial section. If you don’t find an exact career match you should at least begin your career in anything which deals with management and then review it after a while and see if you can move to the financial sector again.
Q). I have done LLB (Hons) and now I am confused to choose the major in between LLM Corporate Law or LLM Human Rights. I am interested in doing LLM Human Rights. Please guide me what to choose further. (Saad Bashir- Islamabad)
Ans: An LLM in human rights has greater opportunities with world renowned agencies such as UN, UNESCO,UNICEF and other private NGOs working towards human rights. Corporate law is limited to your own personal growth but is of commercial value if you are looking to make a career in commerce and business.
Q). I am doing Bachelor of Computer Science and Information Technology (BCIT) from NED University of Engineering & Technology and it’s my final year and last semester and it will be completed soon Insha'Allah. Kindly suggest me what should I do after the completion of my graduation. Either job, masters in the same field (MCIT), MBA or anything that will help me in my better career. (Zahra Nadeem, Karachi.)
Ans: I would suggest your first complete your bachelors in a good grade and try to get some hands-on experience before planning any postgraduate studies. Once you have spent few years in a job environment this will help you in finding the right specialization that you should go for.
Q). I passed intermediate in Pre-medical, Bachelors in Commerce and Masters as an MBA (finance). I need your guidance to proceed further because my family is insisting me to do MPhil and then PhD in economics from IBA Karachi. Please suggest me what to do next and one more thing I have only teaching work experience. (Fakhar Niazi- Karachi)
Ans: Having done your MBA the most important thing you need is work experience before planning any further studies such as MPhil or a PhD. Work experience will enable you to look around and interact with people which in turn will help you to focus on a subject area that you would like to choose for your research. Attempting to do any MPhil or PhD will not help at this stage.
(Syed Azhar Husnain Abidi is a renowned educationist in Pakistan, with more than 20 years of experience as a provider of education counselling services. He has represented Pakistan in over 100 national and international seminars, conferences and fora. He is the recipient of the most coveted civil award Tamgha-e-Imtiaz.