Exploring My Passion - Career Goals PDF

EXPLORING MY PASSION UNIT 4 ( LESSON 15) Work plays a significant role in the lives of people, and adolescence is a time when you begin to explore your career options and set a course for establishing career. Five stages of career development that an adolescent undergoes (Lum...

EXPLORING MY PASSION UNIT 4 ( LESSON 15) Work plays a significant role in the lives of people, and adolescence is a time when you begin to explore your career options and set a course for establishing career. Five stages of career development that an adolescent undergoes (Lumen Learning n.d.). GROWING STAGE First is the growing stage or a time when you start realizing that what you do now is connected to your future. It happens around 4-13 years old as you begin to understand that certain tasks and goals are linked to place in the world. EXPLORIN G STAGE As you step into your teenage years, you reach the exploring stage. This is where your interest and talents start to become more apparent. You can now see and figure out what you are good at and what subjects or activities really get you excited. ESTABLISHING STAGE As you hit your twenties and beyond, you move to establishing stage. This is when you start to focus on a field that feels right for you. You’re looking for stable job opportunities, maybe thinking about advance degrees, and aiming for that upward growth in your career.  MAINTAINING STAGE This stage typically forms in your mid-forties to mid-sixties. You’re in a phase of learning new skills and staying engaged in your field, but might also be merely “coasting and cruising” or even feeling stagnant. REINVENTING STAGE Finally, reinventing stage usually kicks in around your mid-sixties. Retirement might be on the horizon, but this can actually be a time for exciting new beginnings as well. The peak of technology provides avenue where you can teach, volunteer, do online business or even open consultancy.  WHAT IS CAREER GOAL? Career goal is a well-defined statement explaining the profession that an individual intends to pursue (CFI Team, n.d.). It includes a time frame to help motivate the person setting that goal and continually work towards its completion.  WHAT IS CAREER GOAL? Career goals can be short or long term and successful goals often follow the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time- bound) formula. SMART formula is a method for creating actionable goals that are possible to achieve.  CAREER GOAL STATEMENT A written statement can serve as a roadmap for achieving your short and long-term objectives. A goal statement is a written description of your long-term professional objectives (Indeed Editorial Team, 2023).  How to Write a Career Goal Statement Effective career goal statement is specific and clear. While there are various methods that you could use to write your own statement, doing the steps that follow from Indeed Editorial Team (2023) can help you get started:  1.THINK ABOUT YOUR PASSION. ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO REALIZE 3. ASK YOURSELF YOUR CAREER GOALS IS BY STANDING WHAT YOU’RE PASSIONATE ABOUT. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. 2. DO YOUR REFLECT ON YOUR PERSONAL INTERESTS PASSION AND MOTIVATION BY ASKING YOURSELF IMPORTANT RESEARCH. QUESTIONS. A CAREER GOAL STATEMENT HAS THE BEST CHANCE OF SUCCESS WHEN YOU’RE FULLY AWARE OF YOUR GOAL.  Specific: Goals that are clear and cocise reduce confusion about exactly what you want to 4. SET SMART GOALS achieve. As mentioned earlier, this Measurable: Goals should include a acronym stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, monitoring or ways to measure Relevant, and Time- bound. your goals. This will serve to know when you You can use this acronym to have achieved your goal or not. guide you as you add goals Achievable: Goals must be realistic that into your career statement. can keep you on track to actually Here’s what the SMART accomplish acronym means: your goals. Think about the resources available to you and make sure these resources can help you meet your goals. Relevant: After you’ve asked yourself the important questions, you can craft a career goal that’s relevant to your 5. DEVELOP AN ACTION 6. ADJUST ACCORDINGLY. PLAN. EVEN IF YOU USE SMART GOALS, ONCE YOU KNOW WHAT AND YOU ARE VERY CONFIFENDT YOUR LONG- TERM IN WHAT YOU WANT FROM YOUR GOALS ARE, DEVELOP AN OFFICIAL ACTION CAREER, CIRCUMSTANCES, PLAN USING THE PASSIONS AND EXPERIENCES CAN KNOWLEDGE YOU’VE CHANGE GATHERED. THINK AS YOU WORK TOWARDS YOUR ABOUT THE STEPS YOU GOAL. NEED TO TAKE TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS AND INCLUDE THESE IN YOUR CAREER GOAL STATEMENT.