Question

Refer to the Smart Goal resources. List one short- and long-term professional and career goal (4 total), along with practical substeps to achieve them. Be sure to include dates. What might be some potential challenges for each? How can you prevent some of these foreseeable hurdles?

Answer 1

• My short term goal is that I need to become the General manager of my company and handle the entire recruitment process of the higher level. (Specific goal)
• For reaching this goal I would do the recruitment tasks given to me to post jobs on portals and recruit as many people as possible at lower levels in order to meet my target of recruting atleast 50 people.(Measurable)
• I am going to be tactful about and choose people not just on the basis of educational qualifications bu their life skills and communication skills too. I would assess people using psychometric tests to get an accurate insight into their personalities and whether they for the position or not. This will be dicussed with my head so that we can arrive conclusion with regard to the entire process. (Achievable)
• It will take a month to achieve this target since I want to be sure about every candidate I choose. (Realistic)
• I need to select atleast 10 people everyday and assess them so that within a month I am able to deliver my target and increase my chances of getting promoted. (Time-based)
• the challenges could be not getting right job profiles to choose from or even competition from my co workers since we all are fighting for promotion. The challenge can be overcomed by being as efficient as possible and working extra hours.Keeping coomunication with the head so that he knows I am serious about delivering my targets and getting promoted.
• My long term goal is to have my own recruitment agency. This would be achieved by gaining maximum experience for atleast 5-7 years in my job so that I am well equipped to do it myself. I need to collect funds to be able to open my own agency for which I need to work hard at my current job. Finding people for my company would not be an easy process and I will have to take help of my co workers who can help me choose people. This all would need time,atleast an year to set up my company right from finding location of the office to investors to employees. Hurdles would be many,setting up your own agency is not easy,rent of the office place,location,finding the right investors is all challenging and would require tactfulness.Have to convince people to join the company and invest in it and promise a good share of profits and also make them believe that they wouldnt be disappointed by investing. Finding the right people to work with me who can take the company forward is also challenging.