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Setting clear goals is essential for achieving success in your career and personal life. Whether your dreams are implicit or explicit, they should inspire you to reach your potential. Transform your aspirations into concrete objectives using the SMART criteria: Specific, Measurable, Ambitious, Realistic, and Time-specific. Develop strategies based on research about your desired field, cultivate relationships, participate in relevant activities, and maintain a focus on your GPA and skills. Write down your goals, review them regularly, and plan effectively to turn your dreams into reality.
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Setting Goals Planning for Success
Goals • Open-ended • May include a completion date • Should address both your dreams and your potential • May be implicit or explicit
You didn’t just become A driver: • You watched someone else drive • You studied the rule book • You practiced driving • You took a test to prove you knew your stuff Your implicit goal: get your license
“I want to be an engineer” • Implicit goal - you’re here! • Why? • Money • Prestige • Accomplishment • Life-long career • Make an implicit goal explicit by describing what will happen...
“Someday I will fly in a plane that I helped design!” GOALS Goals should describe in general terms the way you’d like to see things happen.
Objectives • Short-term plans to accomplish steps toward your goal • SMART! • Specific • Measurable • Ambitious • Realistic • Time-specific
By August, 2008, I will have a job with Cessna, designing corporate jets. Objectives SMART
Strategies • Methods to forward your ambitions - How will you reach your goals? • Based on Research • Who does Cessna hire? • What schools? • GPA important? • Other skills needed?
Strategies Based on research, you find: • Cessna often hires Aero Eng grads from the U of Mn • They interview a limited pool • Based on GPA • Last year, you needed a 3.3 GPA • They value: • Communications skills • Teamwork • Work experience
The Next Steps... To Get the Degree • Maintain GPA • Develop a Plan of Study Teamwork/Leadership • Clubs and Activities - SME, APICS Internships/Research • Cultivate Relationships • With Employers • With Professors • Summer jobs
Goals = Success • Set Goals and Objectives for • Your career • This year • This semester • Life outside work • Write them down! • Review them regularly Plan your work, work your plan!