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Setting Goals

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

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Setting Goals

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  1. Setting Goals Planning for Success

  2. Goals • Open-ended • May include a completion date • Should address both your dreams and your potential • May be implicit or explicit

  3. 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

  4. “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...

  5. “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.

  6. Objectives • Short-term plans to accomplish steps toward your goal • SMART! • Specific • Measurable • Ambitious • Realistic • Time-specific

  7. By August, 2008, I will have a job with Cessna, designing corporate jets. Objectives SMART

  8. 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?

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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!

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