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Goal Setting

Once you are aware of your strengths and weaknesses you will want to set about taking advantage of these, setting some goals that you can achieve. Lets say your key strengths are that you are an engineer in mechanical engineering with 5 years experience in a support role within a blue chip electronic firm dealing with the utility systems. You might want to capitalize on this by getting a management role in a similar company. However your weaknesses tell you that you do not have experience of certain systems used widely in other companies but not in your own. You might want to look at a similar position to that which you have now but gaining the necessary experience with perhaps a little extra money.

This is an example of the usefulness of looking at yourself as a product, understanding what will make you more marketable and achieve your aims.
This is goal setting.

Setting goals requires having something to aim at. A big dream perhaps that you will someday achieve through a series of smaller steps. Its important to set your goals down on paper and to set down what will allow you to achieve them. Goals can vary from on the job goals, to job-hunting goals, to financial goals, to career goals to family goals to training goals to fun goals. One of the dublinHiring.com team has a goal to be in the pub on a Friday afternoon by at least 17.00hours. He calls it the Friday afternoon club. Great idea - his goal is to get out of here and enjoy life. By the way, he achieves it by 17.00 every single Friday and we all join in while 'Chucky' our pet computer network takes over with your job searches.

Basically, our colleague sets a goal deadline that is very specific and extremely measurable by the number of pints he can put away during the afternoon. If he starts later he has less. He is a two-pint man anyhow! His goal of getting to the pub is compatible with all our hopes on a Friday and it is realistic to get there by 17.00H. In fact it is very achievable because the pub is close by. The message, however, is that you should set goals that are achievable, that perhaps provide a challenge but ones that you can achievable. Having ten goals that you cannot reach is not going to motivate you. We are motivated on Friday because we know that the pub is just next-door and that we have done a good weeks work on your behalf at dublinHiring.com. The boss is always there and he even buys a few because his goals and those of the companies have also been achieved from Monday to Friday with new ones in place for the following week.