Setting Goals and Objectives. ~ JK Just Knowhat

The following steps illustrate a goal setting exercise :

1. Analyse and Understand your own SWOT (परिश्रम से अध्ययन करना) – Strength and weakness and know about your personality and threats of the job market.

2. Set a Realistic Objective in life; for e.g. you may desired to setup and own a company of repute providing ITES ( information technology Enabling & Service ).

3. Determine the milestones you have to cross the achieve this objective. For example, exposure to the business process and environment, knowing the national and global market opportunity, garnering support and establishing contacts, arranging for finance and other resources, etc.

4. Set goals has for the milestones to be crossed. For example, the milestone could include joining a reputed ITES company gaining adequate experience and exposure to the business process and then moving on to set up one,s own company.

5. Goal setting should then followed by adequate planning and preparation. Because that is the ultimate step to realise one's goals.

Many a time, you may want to know what to ask yourself before you can set your goals. Knowing one strength, in particular, and weakness in general, is very important. And to find those characteristics, you may have to question yourself on the following lines:

1. Do you Aspire to be comfortable in life or be well-known and admire in life?

If you aspiration is for Fame and admiration, your career goal could be in entrepreneurship or in the area of creativity.

2. What is your attitude towards work ? are you comfortable and willing to do all kinds of jobs or do you have some reservation and hesitation? are you prepared to put in constituent consistent and hard work?

If you want to be an entrepreneur, you may have to do various kinds of jobs yourself and be committed to put in continuous hard work. However, one should not that hard work is also a critical factor for a rewarding career in service.

3. How good are you at leadership? Can you inspire and get jobs done by team members.

This is essential for both and entrepreneurs and one who wants a successful service career.

4. Are you a risk taker or are you averse to risk?

At times, entrepreneurship calls for strong determination and mental capability to take a risk. If you are a person who treads a safe path, a secure job with a good potential for growth through intelligent and hard work, could be your choice.

5. Do you plan before you act or do you mostly act impulsively in reaction to be happening?

To do well in career and life, you have a to be 'proactive' and do things with careful planning. Being proactive means thinking and anticipating what can be done to get the best dessert or outcome, and then acting as per plan.

6. Do you easily accept a change in a situation?

Change is constant with time in our environment. You must be ready to change with the time and also according to the environment, be it is social, economical or political. If you are adverse to change, you need to correct that attitude. coping with change in is necessary and a part and parcel of one's career and of life.

7. How creative are you?

A creative person is a likely to do well in a challenging career, whether as an entrepreneur or in a job.

8. How good communication skills?

This refer to your skill to effectively communicate as well as your willingness to communicate with others.

9. How (mentally) disciplined are you? Do you have control over the things that you do or are you often swayed by others?

This is an important ingredient of yours character, which greatly influences your commitment and ability to achieve good result and respectable position in your career.

10. How do you look at your future? Are you optimistic and enthusiastic about your career and future?

To achieve a desired result, one should be optimistic and enthusiastic in a life.

These are a few general points which one should consider while setting one's career goals. However, It is not essential that you have to choose your career goals at the very beginning, and stick to them all through your life. There will be changes ahead in situation and circumstances. You may also change your career option as well. The important thing is to understand yourself and your inner qualities when making a decision about your career goals, and then make a tentative plan to achieve them.

As mentioned earlier, This goal setting exercise may not be fixed at the very outset for your entire career; though having an idea about your long term goals in important. For your first interview, it may be enough to know your tentative or immediate goals. Accordingly, you have or acquire the attitude and skills, and search for a job that offers you the opportunity for the growth that you desire. However, your short term goals and objectives should be supportive of your long term goals and objectives in order to lead you to define direction in your career.

For example, many may Aspire for outstanding growth and success in career and in life. For this, one has to be focused on the long-term vision from the very beginning. Long-term vision and goals of life distinguish the successful from the rest. What this implies is, that to achieve one's cherished vision and outstanding success in life, should have a clear direction, tremendous ability, undeterred motivation and high-level commitment, right from the early stages of one's career. This demands a strong personality combined with a clear focus in life and determination.

Setting one's goals and objective require awareness of oneself, which is got through the SWOT analysis ( strength weakness opportunity Threat).