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1. Career Success Through Smart Goals
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2. Career Success Through
Smart Goals
Setting goals doesn’t have to involve planning your entire career.
Rather, it’s thinking about where you would like to be in
 SIX MONTHS,
 ONE YEAR
 THREE YEARS
And planning the steps or actions required in achieving your goal.
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3. Why Goal Setting Is
Important?
Studies say that goal setting can get better your performance in four ways:
 Direction:
 Goals direct attention and effort towards activities related to the goal
 Energy:
 Setting a challenging goal actually makes people work harder
 Persistence:
 People work longer when pursuing a set goal, and lose focus if the work isn’t goal-
related
 Knowledge:
 When working towards a set goal, people are more likely to draw on past experience – both directly
and indirectly related to the goal. This makes the work easier.
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4. Goal Setting
the
S.M.A.R.T.E.R
way
SMART Goal setting should be a well thought out process to understand exactly what you
are trying to achieve over a given time period.
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5. To improve your chances of success when you’re setting goals
and milestones for your career, make sure they’re:
S – Specific – Be precise about your goals
M – Measurable – Set goals that you can actually track
A – Achievable – Set yourself up for success by setting goals you can actually meet
R – Relevant – Make sure each achievement is directly related to your end goal
T – Time Specific – Set timeframes for each milestone and the end goal
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6. If your goals are SMART, you’re far more
likely to achieve them.
Remember!
Goals should be challenging yet realistic to achieve and
most importantly are aligned with your career path
For example, if your goal is to be a Web Developer by the
end of the year but you have no realistic plan to learn
programming languages, understand usability and
website optimization, you might be surprised when it
comes to New Years Eve and you are still not
developing websites
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7. Be Realistic In Goal Setting
The biggest challenge with setting goals is
establishing realistic goals that are achievable.
In order to do this you need to be thinking
about fact based goals.
To be successful with your realistic goal setting
you need to start with a big picture goal for
example:
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8. Broaden your understanding of your
chosen industry
• Up skill with education, training and specialization
• Get an entry-level job in your preferred industry
• Change your existing career, if you aim to start a new
one
• Land a promotion, if you’d like to progress in your
current company
• Set Milestones to stay on track
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9. What differentiates goals from dreams.
• Now that you have set something to work towards, it is
important that you break down your goal into the steps
or milestones required for you to achieve this end goal.
• If you start with an end goal and work back thinking
about the different things you can do to ensure you hit
your goal, you will begin to identity the smaller steps or
milestones required to progress.
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10. Some examples of milestones include:
• Studying a related course
• Mentoring to provide regular career advice
• Networking with people in the industry to discuss career
opportunities
• Sourcing professional advice from career counselors
• Volunteering or joining industry groups
• Once you have set milestones you should start to think
about the timing around each of your milestones and work
towards achieving them.
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11. • Now that you have set your goals, including
milestones with realistic delivery times.
• You can feel comfortable that you have given
yourself a great opportunity to achieve your
goals and further your career.
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