Career Goals
As you contemplate any new opportunity, (new job) carefully list those benefits that will attract you. Every new opportunity must offer at least three perks to you and your family. Among those could be:
- To make more money
- To have more professional exposure
- To broaden your professional horizons
As I said in another advisory, in today's market, you must be sure that your motives, goals, and career objectives are realistic, attainable, and in your best interests. Sometimes a third party's review is helpful.
Your objectives grid:
Pick five to seven goals or objectives that are of the most interest to you. The reason for choosing 5-7, is that it forces you to intellectually stretch to get to that number. Please remember, discuss these goals with your immediate family as well. One of the best ways of guaranteeing the failure of any new job assignment is to ignore the "family's input." Once you have chosen your goals, prioritize them in numerical order. Assign each a value of 1 to 7. Now re-prioritize the list, once more. If you have chosen 7 goals in the beginning, eliminate two. You now have your 5 real goals for your job search. In most cases, the goals you have chosen will reflect who you were, are and will be in any "new" job.
Use the web or a coach to validate your goals. Salary.com can help with a realistic assessment of your compensation and anticipated benefit programs. In today's market, competition for your "job" may influence your ability to command all of your chosen goals, especially for compensation or title. In soliciting that new job use a system of sending your information only to a carefully chosen group of decision makers. Mass mailings are counter productive. In fact, you may find that if you do the proper introspection in choosing your personal goals they might well coincide with the very goals of the decision makers of the firms that you are targeting.
There are five rules in opportunity hunting that all candidates need to focus on: realistic expectations and goals always negotiate the best deal possible from a position of strength the Hiring Authority's must have an apparent "Reward" for hiring you must demonstrate clearly those tangible accomplishments to validate your "real" worth to the Hiring Authority always focus on the Hiring Authority's needs first.
Most often hiring managers are very focused on their own personal "risk of hire" and they entirely miss the "reward of hire" you represent. Be sure all of your "paper" demonstrates that reward. The hiring manager's job is more important that your potential job.
Make the hiring process a win for the company, the hiring authority and for you.
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