Short-term And Long-term Goals For Making A Career
The goal to make a career
The goal to make a career
It is said that man proposes, but God disposes. It means that it is very difficult to predict all the possible randomness and consequences of ones actions. Still well-planned careers are usually more successful. It is almost impossible to make a career by chance, unintentionally. The first step in the further career planning is the choice of the college. Actually, thinking over ones abilities and preferences before choosing the college the person is at the starting point of ones career.
The next step in the career planning is the college career. It is very important to remember about ones career plans studying at college. It is the period when every course and every class is important. The students receive the basic professional skills which will be necessary for their further professional growth. Involved in the college life and devoting too much time to entertainment and communication with peers some students forget about their career perspectives.
Breaking the long-term goal into smaller ones
In order to develop an effective career plan based on the long-term career goal one should break it into smaller ones. Becoming a leading engineer or a manager may seem to be unrealistic and discourage the person. He/she is to make a daily contribution to the achievement of the goal. Every evening before going to bed one should ask himself/herself, what he/she did for his/her professional and career growth during the day.
In order to have a feeling of gradual progress it is necessary to choose the attainable goals:
improving working discipline;
optimization of the working process;
doing ones job faster and better.
Only the most straightforward people can make a career. It is not easy to reach every separate short-term goal bearing in mind the most important long-term one. It is easy to get lost on the numerous life roads.