The unique title ‘Penguin India Career Guide Vol. I: The Humanities’ is the first of a two-part series
on careers in the
Humanities. The title (originally published in 1995), in its revised and updated form, focuses the opportunities available for students and professionals in the field of humanities. The author Usha Albuquerque is the Columnist on careers and a career counselor for several national dailies.
The modern day education system has been geared to finding jobs. The be-all and end-all of education is to get hold of a good job or career. The students of earlier times had stereotyped ideas about careers; they assumed that medicine, engineering and law were the best choices and everything else of no consequence. Those days the students had very little or no access to career related information. In contrast the present day students have greater access to such information through print and electronic media, besides the Internet of course.
This volume also attempts to provide meticulously researched, accurate and authentic information in an easy to understandable format. The unique feature of this title is its focus on Indian context. The volume deals relatively new career options in detail with all essential pieces of information for each career like essential qualification requirements, personal attitudes and aptitudes, career specific options, job and job elements, pay scales education & training institutions (inland & foreign), studying abroad etc.,
The volume also make the students to understand the art of collecting relevant further information for them to decide. The volume is written in simple English and the style is lucid. The book will be useful for all those on the threshold of a new career.