Career success through smart goals

Career Success Through Smart Goals

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Career Success Through Smart Goals

Setting goals doesn’t have to involve planning your entire career. Rather, it’s thinking about where you would like to be in SIX MONTHS, ONE YEAR THREE YEARS And planning the steps or actions required in achieving your goal.



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Why Goal Setting Is Important?

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Studies say that goal setting can get better your performance in four ways:

Direction: Goals direct attention and effort towards activities related to the goal

Energy: Setting a challenging goal actually makes people work harder

Persistence: People work longer when pursuing a set goal, and lose focus if the work isn’t goal-

related

Knowledge: When working towards a set goal, people are more likely to draw on past experience – both directly

and indirectly related to the goal. This makes the work easier.


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Goal Setting the

way SMART Goal setting should be a well thought out process to understand exactly what you

are trying to achieve over a given time period.

S.M.A.R.T.E.R



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S – Specific – Be precise about your goals

M – Measurable – Set goals that you can actually track

A – Achievable – Set yourself up for success by setting goals you can actually meet

R – Relevant – Make sure each achievement is directly related to your end goal

T – Time Specific – Set timeframes for each milestone and the end goal

To improve your chances of success when you’re setting goals and milestones for your career, make sure they’re:



If your goals are SMART, you’re far more likely to achieve them.

Remember! Goals should be challenging yet realistic to achieve and

most importantly are aligned with your career path

For example, if your goal is to be a Web Developer by the end of the year but you have no realistic plan to learn programming languages, understand usability and website optimization, you might be surprised when it comes to New Years Eve and you are still not developing websites



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Be Realistic In Goal Setting

The biggest challenge with setting goals is establishing realistic goals that are achievable. In order to do this you need to be thinking about fact based goals.

To be successful with your realistic goal setting

you need to start with a big picture goal for example:



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Broaden your understanding of your chosen industry

• Up skill with education, training and specialization • Get an entry-level job in your preferred industry • Change your existing career, if you aim to start a new

one • Land a promotion, if you’d like to progress in your

current company • Set Milestones to stay on track



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What differentiates goals from dreams.

• Now that you have set something to work towards, it is important that you break down your goal into the steps or milestones required for you to achieve this end goal.

• If you start with an end goal and work back thinking about the different things you can do to ensure you hit your goal, you will begin to identity the smaller steps or milestones required to progress.



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Some examples of milestones include:

• Studying a related course • Mentoring to provide regular career advice • Networking with people in the industry to discuss career

opportunities • Sourcing professional advice from career counselors • Volunteering or joining industry groups • Once you have set milestones you should start to think

about the timing around each of your milestones and work towards achieving them.



• Now that you have set your goals, including milestones with realistic delivery times.

• You can feel comfortable that you have given yourself a great opportunity to achieve your goals and further your career.



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