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Setting Goals
Planning for Success
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Goals Open-ended May include a
completion date Should address
both your dreams and your potential
May be implicit or explicit
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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
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“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...
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GOALS
Goals should describe in general terms the way you’d like to see things happen.
“Someday I will fly in a plane that I helped design!”
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Objectives Short-term plans to accomplish
steps toward your goal SMART!
Specific Measurable Ambitious Realistic Time-specific
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Objectives
By August, 2008, I will have a job with Cessna, designing corporate jets.
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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?
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StrategiesBased 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
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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
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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!