Successful career is a legitimate human right: UN expert
The right to have a successful career is a legitimate human right of every individual. However successful careers requires careful planning. This was stated by Mr. Edgar Samuel Sharuk, Chief of Administration, Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, UNESCO, while delivering a talk on “Career Planning and Conflict Resolution”.
Mr. Edgar remarked that the three elements for a successful career planning included identifying a purpose in life; growing to one’s maximum potential; and maintaining relationships, developing a right attitude and sticking to ethics. In an engrossing talk, he stressed the need to constantly study, learn and improve. “Growing is important, and it is a daily process”, he stated adding that success is determined by one’s daily agenda.
Mr. Edgar emphasized the need for maintaining good relationships and quoted a study from Stanford University to state that 78 per cent of people change jobs because of the ‘relationships’ factor. He added that relationships should not be based on manipulation, but on genuine human ethics. “87 per cent of success in career comes from the ability to connect with other people,” he remarked. In an interactive session with AIT students, he suggested that situations should never be allowed to become more important than relationships.
The talk on career planning was followed by a talk on conflict resolution. T