At present, building a career has become an important aspect of human life. By "career," we generally refer to professional life or one's occupation.
Therefore, it is essential for everyone to have a clear goal, objective, and career planning. Alongside this, one must be well-prepared to achieve their cherished dreams and expectations.
A key aspect of this preparation is extensive education—both theoretical and practical—along with perseverance, training, and practice to become skilled and competent. The modern world is highly competitive.
Whether in politics, economics, culture, sports, or any other field, there is no substitute for hard work and dedication.
Constant effort is crucial to shaping oneself successfully. Only through acquiring education, experience, training, skills, and capabilities can one eventually achieve a successful career.
We believe that every individual should have a roadmap for their professional life. This requires a positive mindset, self-awareness, confidence, experience, honesty, responsibility, discipline, transparency, and accountability.
Additionally, awareness of physical and mental health, empathy, emotional control, stress management, and time management are essential qualities and skills. In other words, academic education alone is not enough for success in real life; acquiring specific skills and qualities is equally important.
Similarly, governing a country also requires specialized knowledge, skills, competence, and experience. Just as achieving success in any profession is not easy, governing a nation is extremely challenging.
Nowadays, even to become a skilled carpenter or barber, intensive training is necessary. Recognizing this need, developed countries like Singapore, Germany, and South Korea often take the initiative to train workers from developing nations to import skilled labor.
To facilitate this, they directly or indirectly assist in establishing various technical institutes.
In the same way, is it unreasonable or illogical to expect those responsible for running a state to have specialized knowledge, skills, and competence?
Is merely giving speeches or being able to excite or influence the public in any way the only qualification for leadership? In developed countries, we see that appointments to important state positions go through rigorous procedures.
In the United States, for example, special hearings are held in the Senate, and candidates must face ethics boards before being appointed to government positions. Those elected directly by the people also require special qualifications.
Edward Kennedy did not run for the U.S. presidency after being accused of failing to report his car accident to the police within nine hours. This indicates that irresponsible or unaccountable individuals are not fit for state leadership.
Even in countries like the United Kingdom, if a minister faces allegations of corruption, misconduct, or incompetence, they must answer to the Ministerial Standards Department. Often, they voluntarily resign as soon as such allegations arise to allow for a fair investigation.
Therefore, it is evident that governing a country is a difficult task. However, why is career development in this field not given the same importance as in other professions?
Until developing nations can produce skilled, competent, experienced, and ethical politicians with foresight and integrity, they cannot hope for lasting peace, prosperity, and stability.
