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                          Civil Services : An Alternate Career

                                                       Option

                                                     By Amrit Kaur


                    “The path is clear, but you have to          hardwork  for  coming  years;  will  be
                    be determined; to walk. You have             pleasurous  for  you.  It’s  easy  to
                    wings,  but  you  have  to  be               identify  your  interest  through  your
                    determined;  to  fly.  Success  is  in       skills,   capabilities,   desires   and
                    your  hands,  but  you  have  to  be         personality. According to my interest,
                    determined forever.”                         I want to see prosperous and peaceful
                    I wrote these lines to myself, when I        society and  want to contribute to my
                    first  thought  about  my  career.  I        society  for  education  of  children,
                    thought, our career is that portion of       equal  status  of  women   and   good
                    our life, in which you not only work         governance  at  rural  level.  For  the
                    hard  to  achieve  it  but  after  its       same        context,      I     believe
                    achievement  you  have  to  work  hard       implementation       of    government
                    to  sustain  it.  That’s  why,  in  quote;  i   policies,  is  a  best  way  to  fulfill  these
                    mentioned  that,  ‘you  have  to  be         key features of development. Hence, i
                    determined  forever’.  Definition  of        want  to  become  a  civil  servant  who
                    career  varies  person  to  person.  For     works  like  a  bridge  between  society
                    some people, career is an opportunity        and government.
                    to  proove  themselves  and  for  some,      Civil  servants  plays  majour  role  in
                    career is a medium to have luxurious         development and progress of society.
                    life. According to me our career is a        A  civil  servant  is  a  government
                    standard version of your life, in which      employee, who is connected to central
                    you  learn  with  progressive  manner        government  for  implementation  of
                    and  implement  it  in  your  career  life.   government policies, which are made
                    Roots of career begin in our mind and        by leaders. To become a civil servant,
                    then  it  starts  moulding  yourself  to     it’s necessary to clear entrance test of
                    achieve  it.  That’s  why  Buddha  said      Civil  Services  Examination,  which  is
                    “what  you  think  you  will  become”.       conducted  by  Union  Public  Service
                    Therefore,  it  is  necessary  to  decide    Commission. The test is divided into
                    your alternate career option.                three  stages  in  which  first  is
                    Interest  plays  majour  role,  while        Preliminary  exam,  second  is  Mains
                    choosing career. As disinterest in any       exam and last Personality Test.
                    career  option  leads  to  burden  and       Preliminary  exam  comprises  two
                    boredom. So, you should choose that          papers  in  which  first  are  paper  of
                    type  of  career,  in  which  you  are       General  Studies  and  another  is  Civil
                    satisfied   then    ultimately,   your       Services  Aptitude  Test.  Both  papers





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