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 results from the career interest profiler and career plan building activity contributed to my professional goal development because it encouraged me to plan out my goals and helped me to understand and determine which of my goals were essential to my career. It also helped me to clearly understand how with careful decision making I could advance in earning my degree.
2. Describe how you will balance academic expectations and your personal and professional responsibilities.
I will balance my academic expectations by managing my time effectively between my family responsibilities and my school time. For my personal and professional responsibilities I will turn off any distractions such as my phone and TV when studying for my classes. I will focus more on my school work when I have the extra time so that I can be successful in achieving my goals.
3. How can understanding the importance of SMART criteria and your career interests and competencies help you move toward your career and academic goals?
Understanding the importance of SMART criteria, my career interest and my competencies will benefit me by guiding me towards my career and academic goals. It will put me on the right path to achieving my goals and help keep me there so that I can progress on my goals that I want to succeed in life.
4. Now that you have set academic goals and identified your career interests, explain the relationship between academic goals, skills, and professional goals.
My academic goals, skills and professional goals are associated with one another because my