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3 Careers for Leaders

By Wendy Croix
Learning & Life Columnist

You've been given a checklist of traits, and asked to pick the words that other people use to describe you. At the top of your list you put passionate, responsible, and fair. Chances are you checked off empathetic, patient, and loyal, too. If so, you're a natural born leader and people have always followed you. Now, how about turning that into a career?

If you're a problem solver with personal initiative, your gift for leadership means you'd be a great project manager, entrepreneur, or business administrator.

Project Management

Project managers work in industry or construction, wherever a job needs oversight from beginning to end. Their leadership abilities keep employees productive, and their abilities to multi-task help them carry the responsibility for scheduling, production coordination, interdepartmental communication, and job completion. Industry experience and a bachelor's degree are musts for this career. If you become a project manager, you'll shine as the hub of your company's productivity.

Entrepreneurship

Every entrepreneur who ever turned his or her great idea into a business did so with the help of co-workers and employees. Consequently, carving out your own path means leading others down it. Even if you're the next Bill Gates or Google guys, you'll need an education in your area of interest to create the product for your people to produce and sell. Fortunately, you've got a compelling vision, patience to see it through, and conviction that compels others to join your enterprise.

Business Administration

If your leadership skills tend toward the corporate, then your ideal career path is in business administration. You'll need a bachelor's degree in business or a related field such as finance - or even the liberal arts. You'll also need both practical experience and theoretical knowledge to devise and implement your company's goals. Your talents will be well-rewarded, but they'll be personally rewarding as well, since your executive position capitalizes on your leadership talents.

Using your natural abilities to influence and manage others to achieve large scale goals means finding a career path like project management, entrepreneurship, or business administration where you can lead the pack.

Sources:

• Exploring Careers. JIST Publishing, Inc., 2003.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard N. Bolles. 10 Speed Press, 2005.
• Wishcraft by Barbara Sher. Ballantine, 2003.

About the Author
Wendy Croix, Ph.D. is a freelance writer, cultural critic and university professor. In her twenty years as a professional educator, Wendy has guided hundreds of students toward the careers of their dreams.

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