How to Set Goals to Find Employment

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Tine Buechler and I’m from Business Growth Training and I am here today on behalf of Expert Village.com to talk about setting your employment goal. When you are looking for work, everything that you do should be tied to your employment goal. Your employment goal should be a three month target goal. What you are looking, what is the kind of work that I am working for and specifically you don’t necessarily need to have a job title in mind but you do need to have an idea of some key things. First of all, are you looking for full time or are you looking for part-time? What is the general area of work that you are looking for? Are you looking for office work? Are you looking for work in manufacturing? Are you looking for work in a company that promotes from within? Are you looking for a company with more than a hundred employees or fewer than a hundred employees? Are you looking for work 30 minutes commute of your home? Re wanting to travel with your work? Are you wanting to not travel with your work? All of these things are key fundamental parts of setting your employment goal? If you set a very clear and specific employment goal, you have a lot better chance of achieving that. Part of that is when you are building a resume, a cover letter, when you are creating your list of employers that you wish to apply to, all of those ties back to your employment goal. You look at your goal and you say based upon my employment goal, what information should go on my resume. Based upon my employment goal, what kind of references should I have? Based upon my employment goal, what kind of company should I be applying to? So what we are looking at setting your goal, the first thing you need to do is set a time frame. Specifically, let’s say in three months set a geographical area, set parameters associated with your goal and from there move to the next step. So, first thing is to set your employment goal. "