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# Step 4: Your goal

Onto the next step! Time to define your career goal 👊

A career goal is a well-defined statement explaining the profession that an individual intends to pursue throughout his career.

Career goals can be long term or short term - the important thing is that they are time-bound. We like to separate career cycles into 3 - 5 years.

It is important for every employee or job seeker to define their career goals clearly, as it helps you to come up with effective action plans.

So, now that we know what a career goal is… let’s talk about what goals should look like. To learn how to develop short- and long-term career goals, remember that they should be SMART.


>“Total world domination!” - Bad goal
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>"Land my first job as an SDR by December 15th 2020 in a company in line with my values and a clear growth path" - Good goal
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> "Work for 2-3 years in a company with a structured learning path and a strong mentor to learn how to work within a team and master sales basics to decide what I want to specialize on in the future" - Good goal
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## Your task

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**🎯 Objective: Define your SMART career goal**
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**Instructions**
 
- Taking into consideration your values, your top skills and your brand attributes, now it's time to define your professional goal.
- Don't worry if it's not clear or a little vague right now, write what you can.
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The following might help:

**Think of the following questions:**
- Why did you join Hyrise?
- What do you want to achieve after the course?
- When do you want to achieve it?
- What's your plan to achieve it?

**Now that you have your goal, let's check. Is it:**

- **S**pecific
- **M**easurable
- **A**ction-oriented
- **R**ealistic
- **T**ime-bound

Cool! Add it to your Personal Branding Canvas and let's keep going!

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