Career Goals
This type of goal focuses on building skills, earning certifications, or expanding your network in the near future.
What is a short-term goal?
Your professional brand appears here, on LinkedIn, and in your interactions with others.
What is a resume (or cover letter / online profiles)?
NACE's number-one transferable skill — used in every single workplace and industry without exception.
What is communication?
Arriving to work on time, every day, without needing to be reminded, demonstrates this professional quality.
What is punctuality?
This professional platform allows job seekers to showcase achievements, connect with industry professionals, and access job opportunities.
What is LinkedIn?
According to Locke & Latham (2020), individuals who set these kinds of goals achieve higher performance and greater satisfaction.
What are specific, challenging goals?
This platform, used by 93% of recruiters, is essential to building your professional credibility online.
What is LinkedIn?
This document should highlight your transferable skills using strong action verbs and quantified results.
What is a resume?
Taking ownership of your work, meeting your commitments, and accepting responsibility for outcomes describes this professional habit.
What is accountability?
Beyond maintaining a static profile, you can demonstrate thought leadership by doing THIS on LinkedIn.
What is sharing content, writing articles, or engaging in industry discussions?
This self-reflection process helps you identify where you are now and where you want to be professionally.
What is a self-assessment?
According to Brooks & Anicich (2023), job seekers who do THIS attract recruiter attention and experience faster career growth.
What is actively curating their personal brand online?
According to LinkedIn (2022), analytical skills built in a science class can translate directly into these three broad industries.
What are business, healthcare, and technology?
According to McKinsey & Company (2023), organizations with clear and intentional communication practices experience these three measurable outcomes.
What are higher morale, stronger teamwork, and greater productivity?
In addition to LinkedIn, building this type of online showcase highlights your projects, certifications, and professional testimonials.
What is a personal website or digital portfolio?
These two researchers are famous for their 35-year study on goal-setting theory and task motivation.
Who are Locke and Latham?
This section of your LinkedIn profile should include a compelling, skill-forward statement about who you are professionally.
What is the LinkedIn headline?
Candidates who use specific examples and do THIS in interviews are significantly more likely to receive job offers (Brooks & Anicich, 2023).
What is quantifying their impact?
This specific percentage of employers consider dependability a critical factor in decisions about both retention and promotion (Indeed, 2022).
What is 94%?
This term describes the overall visibility and professional image you deliberately build across online platforms over time.
What is digital presence (or digital footprint)?
Regularly setting and revising your goals helps build this essential quality for navigating career shifts and unexpected changes.
What is adaptability (or resilience)?
A personal brand is not a one-time task — it requires doing this on an ongoing, consistent basis throughout your career.
What is refining and updating it regularly?
This organization consistently ranks communication, teamwork, critical thinking, and adaptability as the top competencies employers seek in new hires.
What is NACE — the National Association of Colleges and Employers?
Observing how colleagues interact, how decisions are made, and what behaviors are valued helps you adapt to this element of every organization.
What is workplace culture?
According to Jobvite (2023), this specific percentage of recruiters research candidates on LinkedIn before conducting an interview.
What is 93%?