This document discusses setting personal and organizational goals. It defines various types of goals like short term goals, long term goals, and planning goals. It explains the importance of setting goals and outlines steps for establishing effective goals and evaluating career goals. Various aspects of career planning, decision making, and research are also covered.

1. 1.02
Establish Personal
and Organizational
Goals

2. Goals
Terms & Definitions
 Goal
 Purpose of any plan or action
 Short Term Goals
 Series of accomplishments that add up to
a specific achievement
 Long Term Goal
 Has existed over an extended period of
time

3. Goals
Terms & Definitions
Strategy
The decision of how to accomplish
an objective
Desire
To long for an objective

4. Goals
Terms & Definitions
 Planning Goals
 The small steps you must take to get
from where you are now to where you
want to be
 Self assessment
 Profile of your talents, interests,
abilities, aptitudes, and experiences

5. Why Set Goals?
Life with a clear purpose and/or
destination
Turn dreams into desires

6. Why Set Goals?
Prioritize events in your life
Plan of action to guide you into
the future

7. Establishing Long Term Goals
Plan
Self-assessment
Personal action plan
Research
Career exploration
Review

8. Advantages of
Short Term Goals
 Long term goal into manageable
pieces
 Focus energy on specific steps to
achieve long term goal
 Setting & achieving short term goals
enables you to reach long term goals

9. Advantages of
Short Term Goals
 Better manage time
 Specific ways to evaluate progress
 If one short term goal does not work,
another can be set without losing sight
of the long term goal

10. Effective Goals
 Stated in clear terms
 “I will graduate with a 3.5 GPA”
 Realistic & Believable
 YOU must believe that you can reach the
goal
 Attainable & Reliable
 Interests, skills, abilities and strengths to
make it happen

11. Effective Goals
 Measurable
 Goal can be accomplished within a certain
time or in a quantity that can be calculated
 Desirable
 You REALLY want to achieve this goal

12. Evaluating Career Goals
 Indicators of possible career paths
 Values
 Aptitudes
 Skills
 Interests
 Hobbies
 Work
 Many people earn a living doing something they
used to do as a hobby

13. Living with your Career Choices
 Work is an activity that may result in
something useful
 A job is a collection of tasks or duties
that a person does to earn a living
 Work is the central activity around
which most people plan their lives

14. Living with your Career Choices
 As an adult, you will be identified
mainly by the kind of work that you do
 Only a few people satisfy their safety
and survival needs by working
 About 80% of Americans are not well-
satisfied with their work and lifestyle

15. Career Planning
 A process in which a student learns
about himself/herself, the world of
work, and the relationship between
the two
 Should begin in first grade if
possible, no later than sixth grade

16. Career Decision Making
 Life-long process
 Beliefs, values, skills, aptitudes, interests
 Involves your past, present, and future
work role
 Career plan may change when
significant new information, interests, or
desire appear

17. Career Planning Skills
 Identify long range goal
 Set short term goals
 Develop a career plan
 Update info from earlier career plans
 Career Portfolio
 Collection of information that demonstrates your
talents, interests, abilities, achievements,
experiences

18. Successful Career Planning
 Method of looking at your particular
strengths/weaknesses and the many
options and choices of careers
 Everyone needs a Career
Development Plan
 Individuals are responsible for setting
their own Short & Long term Career
Goals

19. Steps for Career Planning
1. Self Assessment
 Honestly determine talents, interests, skills, values,
personality
2. Career Exploration
 Investigate all career choices, options, opportunities
3. Goal Setting
 Establish intermediate short range and long range
goals
4. Evaluation
 Periodically evaluate your plan using a Time Log

20. Researching a Career
 Consider working
environment
 Indoor vs.
Outdoor
 Sitting vs.
Standing
 Extreme hot vs.
cold environment
 Consider desired
Lifestyle
 Family
 Friends
 Leisure activities
 Spiritual well-being
 Career

21. Researching a Career
 Career cluster
 Group of careers that have certain things
in common
 Best way to learn about a career is
working in it
 The more careers you are aware of,
the better your chances of finding one
that is right for you

22. Career Planning
for Your Own Business
 Describe costs and benefits of
self-employment
 Self assessment of skills and
personality traits
 Know how to start a business

23. Department of Labor
Occupations Classifications
 People
 Working for the betterment of others and/or
society
 Teachers, social workers, policemen
 Data
 Working with numbers, information
processing, policies and procedures
 Accountants, computer programmers,
researchers

24. Occupations Categories
 Things
 Working with tools, equipment, machines
 Cooks, air traffic controllers, drafters
 Ideas
 Working with concepts, themes or
inventions
 Musicians, artists, writers

25. Job Search
 Internet
 Trade Magazines
 Friends & Family
 Is it unfair for a friend or family member
to help you get a job?
 School Counselors & Teachers

26. Job Search
 Private employment agencies
 Make a profit for placement service
 Newspaper advertisements/Want ads
 Indicate new and emerging job skills
 Majority of job openings are unlisted
because employers try to prevent a rush
of applicants

27. Landing a Job
 Job Application
 Black ink
 No blanks
 Neat
 Letter of Application
 Resume
 Job Interview
 Employers choose best and most qualified
candidates for the job

28. Sources of Drafting Instruction
 Private trade/technical school
 Two-year community college program
 Four-year college program

29. Drafting Careers
 Manufacturing
 Electrical
 Transportation
 Fabrication
 Construction
 Architecture
 Public Utilities
 State & Local Gov’t
 Armed Services
 Colleges &
Universities

30. Drafting Careers
 Design & drafting skills
 Problem Solving
 Communication
 Processing Information
 Using Numbers & Data
 Using Technology
 Teamwork

31. Branches of Engineering
 Aerospace
 Architecture
 Residential and Commercial
 Civil
 Bridges, Roads, etc
 Electrical
 Mechanical
 Designing machines and devices

32. Engineering as a Career Goal
 Requires a 4-year degree in an engineering
specialty
 Concurrent Engineering
 Engineering design team allows everyone in the
company to have access to product information
 Traditional Engineering
 Engineering design team works on product
development alone