3.01 Key Terms
A list of steps including activities, work experience, and education/training needed to reach a career goal; step-by-step plan of action including career information influenced by the ultimate career goal; a written outline (time schedule) of what a person wants to achieve including details of how goals will be achieved.
Career plan
They are imaginary. And they don’t produce tangible results.
Dreams
The goal is able to be reached and very possible.
Realistic
A choice limited to one of two possibilities, as of things, propositions, or coursed of action.
Alternative
an essential document that concisely lists your background and qualifications
Resume
A specified area or discipline
Domain
These are easy. They are free, too.
Dreams
Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of each goal you set.
Measurable
Pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive
Characteristics
an additional document that complements your resume by providing detailed explanations of the most relevant parts of your resume.
Cover Letter
Able to be measured, quantifiable
Measurable
These require hard work to reach.
Goals
When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. You develop the attitudes, abilities, skills, and financial capacity to reach them. You begin seeing previously overlooked opportunities to bring yourself closer to the achievement of your goals. This would be..
Attainable.
The choice is made for you by someone else, with your permission.
Complaint decision making
states the facts – who, what, when, and how.
Resume
Having or needing some, but not extensive, training; having or requiring more training and skill than unskilled labor but less than skilled labor.
Semi-Skilled
These occupy your mind.
Dreams
A goal should be grounded within a time frame. With no time frame tied to it there’s no sense of urgency. If you want to lose 10 lbs, when do you want to lose it by? “Someday” won’t work. But if you anchor it within a timeframe, “by May 1st”, then you’ve set your unconscious mind into motion to begin working on the goal. This would be..
Timely
Something that combines qualities or elements of different things; to give up something to reach a decision.
Compromise
provides an opportunity to explain why you are qualified for the job.
Cover Letter
Short-, medium-, and long-term goals that can help you reach your ultimate career goal in realistic stages; allow adjustments to be made to the career plan.
Stepping-Stone goal
These take over your reality.
Goals
Would it be realistic if a goal is not humanly possible?
No
The process of choosing between two or more alternatives or options; most logical way to make a decision.
Decision Making Process
Does a Cover Letter or Resume give more freedom to explain personal views and details?
Cover Letter