Career and Emotional Self-awareness: Micro Initiatives for Macro Impact

The main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of emotional self-awareness in career and success, explore the emotional self-awareness competency level of Engineering and Management students in Southern Odisha and suggest the strategies to enhance the prospects of career success with micro initiatives. Self-awareness is tuning in to what is going on with one emotionally: recognizing and acknowledging emotional state. By developing emotional self-awareness, one will be able to effectively guide one's behaviour, improve judgment, develop bonding and connection, and help to identify opportunities for professional development and personal growth. To find out the self-awareness literacy level, 80 students of Engineering and Management were randomly selected as participants who responded to a well-structured questionnaire based on one of the core competencies taken from intrapersonal factor of Bar On/EQ-i model. The result of the study is measured on a five-point scale. The study reveals the self- awareness scores of the student participants, and discusses the need to understand the inner values for macro impact. The emotions of confidence, self-esteem, capability, efficacy, and potentiality continually well up and flow from this deepest level of self-awareness.