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How to Achieve Your Professional Development Goals

Mar 26, 2020 |
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Mitchell Riley |
Achieve Your Professional Development Goals

Whether you landed your dream job right after graduation or had to work long shifts to make your way to the top, there will come a time when your job doesn’t excite you anymore. You will feel that there are no more skills that this job can teach you, and you no longer see any capacity for personal or professional growth.

While its primarily the employer’s responsibility to ensure their employees’ professional development, most often you have to take charge of it on your own—and if you’re in a similar situation, here are a few things you can do to set your professional development goals and ultimately achieve them.

Setting your professional development goals

The purpose of these goals is to ensure that you progress in your career by charting out a path to success. So how do you start making the plan?

Ask yourself

What is it that you want to accomplish? 

Think about where you’d like to see yourself in the next five years and if you possess the knowledge and skills to get there. Once you start answering these questions, a bigger picture will emerge in your head that will help you set goals for yourself.

Set short-term and long-term goals

You should keep in mind that setting a long-term goal isn’t enough. You must set short-term goals that come together to help you achieve the ultimate goal. Not only will achieving your short-term goals keep you motivated, but it will also allow you to be more measurable and realistic when it comes to fulfilling your long-term goals.

Achieving professional development goals

The only way to achieve professional development goals is through improving your professional skills so that you can advance to better positions in your field. Since learning is a life-long process, there are several ways you can work on your skills and gain knowledge to achieve your professional development goals. Here are a few of them:

Take advantage of free online resources

In today’s day and age, if you’re willing to learn, the internet is the best place to start. This infinite amount of information that’s available at your fingertips can make you an expert on virtually any subject. You could look for the latest advancements in your field and work toward attaining the skills required for it. You could also enroll in online courses to discuss a particular issue with experts in your field.

Enroll in training seminars and workshops

If you’re looking for a more hands-on approach to achieve your professional development goals, you could attend training seminars and workshops that will allow you to expand your network with people in your field. You will also find out about new opportunities that are more in line with your professional development goals than your current job.

Now that you have these tips to help you chart out and achieve your professional development goals, all that’s left to do is to find the right opportunity!

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Posted: Mar 26, 2020
Posted by: Mitchell Riley
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