Career options after taking humanities as a subject

Humanities: A Comprehensive Guide to Pursue a Successful Career

Humanities are academic disciplines that involve the study of different aspects of human society and culture. These aspects include anthropology, archaeology, classics, human history, ancient and modern linguistics, law and politics, literature, philosophy, religion, performing and visual arts and many more.

Humanities is all about studying the human condition revolving around socio-economic and political scenarios. It uses the critical, philosophical, and analytical approach in deriving answers, speculations, and premises in understanding humans. Moreover, it prepares you to think creatively and critically, to question and derive answers

Why study humanities..?

Firstly, education in humanities or liberal arts will lead you to a number of career options after 12th. You will be well equipped with the latest skills such as communication, creativity and critical thinking, problem-solving etc. that are most in-demand by the recruiters

Also, the world today is rapidly changing as we become more globally connected. This opens the road to various non-automated (i.e which can not be performed by machines) employment opportunities.

Likewise, humanities stream subjects go hand in hand with other areas of study. Moreover, a combination of soft skills and hard skills are becoming imperative in most workspaces nowadays.

As per the latest statistics, 75% of employers consider life skills such as problem-solving and critical thinking as the major employable skills. Employers seek a potential workers’ ability to think creatively and find solutions to the problems. Hence, the relevance of basic life skills and to think out of the box is higher than it was decades ago.