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Career goals are a way to gain experience and improve your skills in the workplace. You can set personal goals or collaborate with team members to enhance your skills.
In this article, we discuss why career development goals are important and provide examples that you can use to set your own goals.
Why Career Development Goals Are Important?
Career development goals are goals to improve your skills and motivation. You can combine personal interests with skills or performance goals to achieve success in your job. For example, if you want to improve your computer programming skills and your manager needs help creating a website, you can propose to learn more about this topic to assist.
Setting career development goals encourages skill improvement. You can learn enough to propose advancement opportunities or you can change careers based on your new abilities. Setting goals to achieve in a certain period of time helps you actively work diligently, stay motivated, and advance in your role.
Career development goals can make your job easier as you become more agile and efficient based on what you’ve learned. Setting career development goals also shows your manager that you’re serious about your job and want to continue to excel in that role.
How to Set Career Development Goals
When considering setting your career development goals, the first important thing is to consider long-term goals, then focus on smaller short-term steps that you’ll need to take to achieve that goal.
- Identify Your Career Development Goals:
First, identify what you want to achieve in your career. Goals typically fall into four types: productivity, efficiency, training, or personal development. Do you want to surpass goals for products or services? Do you want to focus on speed, accuracy, consistency, or time management? Maybe you want to get additional skill training? Or do you want to improve yourself with communication skills, networking, self-awareness, or leadership?
- Outline Short-Term Goals:
Identify the short-term goals needed to meet that long-term goal Consider tasks that will drive your short-term goals and select activities to drive motivation or change positive behavior. Make sure these are tasks that you can envision yourself doing regularly and won’t require significant changes to your usual habits. Applying small, incremental modifications, such as increasing focus or improving efficiency in your output, is often easier.
- Use the SMART Method
The idea of setting goals can be overwhelming, but there are tools that can help you. The SMART method is one of the most popular tools. It stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely. Essentially, ideas are broken down into smaller milestones to be easily managed. Identify short- and long-term steps, then ensure they are measurable so you can track your progress.
Examples of Career Goals:
- Obtain a professional certification or degree
- Learn how other departments operate
- Improve performance metrics
- Propose a promotion
- Enhance networking skills, expand new relationships
- Develop communication skills
- Collaborate effectively in teams
- Learn new information technology skills
- Create a website
- …
Wishing you success!
Source: Compiled & Translated by Athena I&E
