Career counselling is an essential part of career development. It is not a one-way street; oftentimes, career counselling is like a square, on which you will come again and again throughout your career. From choosing your path, to switching your jobs, and to making strategic moves later in life, career counselling is the skill and road you will need many times. Let’s explore them to help you as a student of FSC to choose the field of biology and applied health sciences.
STEP 1: Do Self-Assessment & Process Initiation
Once you have completed your intermediate, it is high time to choose the line for the undergraduate degree in medicine, biological, and applied health sciences. Though doing MBBS is the dream of a lot of FSC students. However, this is not the only line of modern times. Rather, in 2025 and beyond, the students can easily explore diverse options in biological and applied health sciences.
Therefore, you can choose the relevant line but try the systemic approach through the five steps of career counselling. The first one is to identify your interests, values, skills, and other affecting factors like geographic locations, if you have local, foreign, domestic, and international preferences.
Students can start by looking at the industries and their relevant functions. The funnel method would work well for well-sorted career preferences. Once you go through the industries and functionalities aligning to your interests, values, and personality, you can further look for skills demanded in the chosen industry and fields.
The skills are often divided into further subsets like hard skills, soft skills, industry-based skills, cognitive skills, behavioural skills, and transferable and non-transferable skills.
STEP 2: Identify & Research to Explore the Available Options
Since you have seen through industry options, let’s move forward. For example, we take the behavioural and applied health sciences here, as we are keen to help you understand the diversity you can enjoy. For instance, around the world, the UK, US, Canada, Germany, and Australia are the top destinations to excel in the biological and applied health sciences.
However, as we are in Pakistan, now there is no compulsion to move abroad if you are opting for quality programmes in similar fields. Lahore-UBAS is the top university for biological and applied health sciences in Lahore, Pakistan.
Lahore-UBAS offers six different faculties, namely, pharmaceuticals, allied health, food & nutrition, social, biological, and rehabilitation sciences. The degree programmes are offered at the BS and MS levels of education.
Moreover, all our degree programmes are well-planned and properly designed after a close collaboration with industry specialists. In this way, we have included the latest curriculum, with modern teaching methodologies, and the way-out to learn the industry-demanded skills, which are certainly the major factor for starting a successful career.
STEP 3: Evaluation & Decision Making
Now make a choice for your top three careers, or fields you would like to be a part of in your future. In this way, you would be able to get the most out of your career counselling practices. Top questions to address the core elements to success could be as of the following.
In addition to the personal alignment, there are some other major points to address to get a fruitful result from personalised career counselling. These questions you must see before opting for a career choice.
- What is the demand of the career or field you choose?
- Job titles, you can start with earning potential.
- Opportunities are available in the government and private sector with job security and benefits.
- The opportunities you can explore in the local and foreign markets.
STEP 4: Time to Take Action & Prioritise
Congratulations, you have made around 80 per cent of the career counselling. Now you have reached the bottom of the funnel. By the time you would have 3-5 fields from biological and applied health sciences.
These fields would be suitable for your values, personality, and career choices. Therefore, it is high time to take practical steps to turn your dreams into reality. The career counselling would be successful once you take practical steps by taking admission in any of your chosen fields. In Pakistan, Lahore-UBAS offers modern education for the modern fields of biological and applied health sciences.
STEP 5: Implement & Polish
This is the last step of career counselling, in which you would have to see the options for improvement. It is high time to remember that implementation and skill development are a continuous process that depends upon various external factors like industrial development, research and development, and modern ways to complete jobs, with the technological advancements and adaptations.
The best way is to remain in touch with the industrial insights and to follow the seminars and on-site visits during the course of your education. Furthermore, you may need a career counselling service from a professional career counselor. However, this would be best to choose when you feel stuck among the top choices and you have to make a further decision at any moment in your career.
Lahore-UBAS also has the facilities to guide its students for the same.
Final Verdict
Career Counselling is a five-step journey to choose the career that aligns well with your personal values and professional preferences. Those students who have done FSc and are willing to choose medicine can opt for any of the fields from biological and applied health sciences. MBBS is not the only option to choose from.
