Setting Career Goals

Setting goals is the first step to reaching them! Goal setting is taking active steps to achieve your desired outcome. Whatever you dream of becoming in the future, it involves you setting and reaching small and big goals. Goals are a great way to hold ourselves accountable, even if we fail. Setting goals and working to achieve them helps us define what we truly want in life. Setting goals also helps us prioritize things. If we simply wander through life without a goal or a plan, that’s our choice.


A career goal is a result you intend to achieve professionally, which should be both long and short terms. There are three types of career goals: 

  1. Process

  2. Performance

  3. and Outcome goals.


Process goals are specific actions you take toward an objective. For example, studying for two hours before going to bed every day.


Performance goals are based on personal standards of the quality of work you desire. An example is aiming to achieve a certain grade. This type of goal pushes you to meet a minimum result. 


Outcome goals are based on winning. For a student, this might be landing a job in your field or at a particular place you desire. This type of goal is difficult to control because of other outside influences.


Process, performance, and outcome goals are successive by nature. This is because if you achieve your process goals, you give yourself a good chance of achieving your performance goals. Similarly, when you achieve your performance goals, you have a better chance of achieving your outcome goal.

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