Aspirations and Goals in Your Career - Flyerjobs

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Aspirations and Goals in Your Career
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• Setting goals in your career is vital in one's
  life. It is also important to aspire to things in
  your career. Often times people want to use
  these terms interchangeably but they are not the
  same thing. Lets take a look at career goals and
  aspirations so that you can get motivated.
• A career aspiration is a path that you want your
  career to follow. For example, a big career
  aspiration for a lot of people is to become part
  of a management team. Being part of a management
  team is a big step up because it invests you with
  more power and greater responsibility. This is
  one of the most common career aspirations and it
  usually is fueled by wanting more money.

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• Not everyone aspires to move to management. There
  are higher level jobs that dont involve the
  stress of watching over people. A lot of people
  aspire to being a consultant where they can go
  and provide their knowledge as a job. This means
  that they also aspire to be an expert in their
  chosen field of work.
• Another career aspiration is to start your own
  company in a specific industry. This would put
  you at the top of the chain and would make you
  your own boss. This can be a big motivating
  factor and a crowning achievement to ones career
  aspirations. To a lot of people if they start a
  successful business they view themselves as
  successful too.

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• People at the top have aspirations too. If you
  own a successful company your aspirations may be
  to continue the growth of your company. Opening
  new locations and moving to bigger venues is also
  a sign of success and a big income booster. For
  those that have bigger companies already their
  aspirations could be to retire successfully.
• Aspirations do not always have to be to move
  upwards or expand. There are many people who
  aspire to move to an entry level job in a
  different industry. Imagine the recent college
  graduate who graduates without a job and moves
  into the first job that he can find so that he is
  making money. That recent graduate will aspire to
  move into his/her chosen career path. Not only
  recent graduates aspire to move to new career
  paths, there are plenty of people who enjoy new
  challenges and learning new skills.

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Here are some common career aspirations

• Enhance your professional skills in order to
  advance in your organization.
• Find stable job security.
• Become an expert in a field.
• Gain more autonomy at work.
• Better balance your home and work life.
• Network more on a professional level.
• Become better motivated to complete your job.
• Educate yourself more.

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• All of these are common work aspirations. They
  are similar to goals but less specific in nature.
  They often times take more time to complete than
  a goal too. You may not even complete them
  aspirations can be ongoing throughout your life.
  A general aspiration can be to better yourself
  but if you pick this as an aspiration try to get
  more specific with it such as better myself in
  the job I am doing now or in the line of work I
  am doing now. Bettering yourself in general is
  hard to measure and hard to tell when you have
  obtained any progress.
• If an aspiration is what you want to do with your
  career how is that different than a goal? A goal
  is a specific milestone or objective that is
  concrete. A common goal in ones work life is to
  make more money. This goal is one that people
  strive for because it means that they can live a
  better life and retire on time.

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• It is always important to set goals for yourself
  so that you know what you are trying to
  accomplish. It is best to set at least two goals
  for yourself so that you dont need to
  immediately set a new one when you achieve your
  first goal. Goals should be specific so that you
  can reasonably tell when you have achieved them.
  Aspirations are also important because they
  provide you with the drive to achieve your goals.
  They are much looser and tend to be more long
  term.
• Get a piece of paper and sit down. Think about
  your goals and write them down. It may sound like
  something that you do in school but when you put
  something on paper it makes it feel more real.
  Write down your aspirations. Leave room below
  each goal and aspiration and write about how you
  plan to achieve these goals. By finishing these
  steps you will be in the 3 of Americans that has
  taken the time to think about their career and
  chart it out.
• Take this piece of paper and post it somewhere in
  your office or cubicle if you have one. If you
  dont have a private place at work post it
  somewhere at your home that you will see every
  day. Doing this will help remind you of what your
  aims are. You will thank yourself for this level
  of planning down the road as it can only help
  you.

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