Tuesday, November 26, 2013

The Way To Set Targets When Searching For Work

By George Dodson


Before you start thinking how to set goals while looking for employment, you need to understand what could be better performance goals for you. While it may be significant for you to improve your individual performance, you should not forget the importance of maximizing the performance of the company too. Then only your performance will be measured in the right context.

It is very crucial to take into consideration the objectives of your management and also your firm before you set your own performance goals. For setting your personal performance goals, you need to first make an assessment of the aspirations and aims of the company management. The company also may have done their homework to set individual performance goals for their employees and you need to consider this when looking for the job.

As an employee of the firm, it is your obligation to understand and work for the company's overall targets and goals. You should try to find ways to make the company more profitable.

While we plan to set our goals while searching for suitable jobs, many of us are tempted to make a common misconception. This misconception underlines the importance of appraisal to evaluate our performance on an individual basis but not on the basis of the entire work unit. The performance appraisal process is often considered for an annual cycle. Managers sit down to evaluate performance of the employees on the basis of their performance of the past year. Different types of forms are used for recording the performance attributes of the employees. This process may go smoothly for sometimes but may fail to help identify the performers sometimes. Thus while setting our individual goals, we should least value these appraisals.

While these performance appraisals are of significance, those are not the only aspect you should work at. It is always possible that while using set patterns of performance formats, many a times the employers overlook the actual work done by you. Constantly getting better at what you do is a way of life. The possibility of some unexpected developments also cannot be ignored. Hence the only way to improve your achievements would be to look forward and plan your goals.

In case you are in search for a new career, you can set a goal to make 5 job applications in a day. You can also try to contact at least one person in your area of interest. You can use those contacts to find new jobs. You can also keep abreast of the developments by reading at least one article or a report in a day. All of these will help you improved your chances at the job hunt.




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