Career Options after B.A. English Hons. from an average college

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There are various options, it entirely depends on your areas of interest, and career goals ahead:

You can pursue higher studies by doing Master's Degree and thereafter qualifying SET/NET to become Assistant Professor, you can also do your PhD if at all you're interested.

There are various governments jobs which you can apply based on the eligibility of education, such as

• UPSC Civil Service, this remains the most preferred choice among aspirants from all backgrounds, you may also appear for State PSCs.
• Banking for the post of PO/Clerk in SBI, IBPS, RRB.  In all these exams, candidates need to pass graduation in any discipline from a recognized university, there's no specific aggregate required in these exams.
• Or  NABARD Grade B-Officer or RBI Assistant with eligibility criteria of graduation with 50% aggregate, the best post in banking sector is that of RBI Grade B Officer, where eligibility criteria is having 60% aggregate at 10th, 12th and graduation.
• Insurance exams, of AAO/Assistant conducted by LIC, GIC, NIACL.
• SSC CGL/HSL/CPO or UPSC CDS(only OTA is applicable in case of females)

Apart from this in private sector, with the booming of Ed-Tech industry you may find opportunities in various job profiles that of educator, content developer for various competitive exams pertaining to English Section, if you better your skills and knowledge you can also do the same for management exams as well, so there are diverse job profiles from school level, to government job exams, management exams, UGC NET etc, apart from this learn certain in-demands skills such as Digital Marketing, Content Writing if you have any inclination towards learning, there are various platforms such as EdX, Udemy, Coursera, Alison,LinkedIn Learning to name a few.