Career Goal-Setting Worksheet
Respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each:
1. Adjust your professional or career goal you created in Week Two based on the Career Plan Building Activities results from the My Career Plan assignment. How did the results of the Career Interest Profiler and Career Plan Building Activity on Competencies contribute to your professional goal development?
My career goal has not changed after I did the activity. The results of my career interest profiler told me what I had already known all my life. My profiler results and career plan goes right along with what I have wanted to do most of my life. It just helped me to see I know myself much better than I realized.
2. Describe how you will balance academic expectations and your personal and professional responsibilities.
I have made myself a very strict routine to help me balance my time and set my priorities accordingly. I have time set up in the morning and afternoon for job searching. I use a majority of the time in between for my schoolwork. I also have the evenings set aside for time with my daughter.
3. How can understanding the importance of SMART criteria and your career interests and competencies help you move toward your career and academic goals?
The SMART criteria are just a guideline to setting good achievable goals. It will help me to set more specific obtainable goals in order to be successful in reaching said goals. If you are smart in remembering the four types of goals and following the five guide words (SMART) to setting your goals, it will help you move closer to achieving your career and academic goals.
4. Now that you have set academic goals and identified your career interests, explain the relationship between academic goals, skills, and professional goals.
Academic goals can help you toward setting and achieving good professional goals. And it is a good idea to set those goals using your