1. Setting Goals Planning for Success

2. Goals Open-ended May include a completion date Should address both your dreams and your potential May be implicit or explicit

3. You didn’t just become A driver: You watched someone else drive You studied the rule book You practiced driving You took a test to prove you knew your stuff Your implicit goal: get your license

4. “I want to be an engineer” Implicit goal - you’re here! Why? Money Prestige Accomplishment Life-long career Make an implicit goal explicit by describing what will happen...

5. GOALS Goals should describe in general terms the way you’d like to see things happen. “Someday I will fly in a plane that I helped design!”

6. Objectives Short-term plans to accomplish steps toward your goal SMART! S pecific M easurable A mbitious R ealistic T ime-specific

7. Objectives By August, 2008, I will have a job with Cessna, designing corporate jets.

8. Strategies Methods to forward your ambitions - How will you reach your goals? Based on Research Who does Cessna hire? What schools? GPA important? Other skills needed?

9. Strategies Based on research, you find: Cessna often hires Aero Eng grads from the U of Mn They interview a limited pool Based on GPA Last year, you needed a 3.3 GPA They value: Communications skills Teamwork Work experience

10. The Next Steps... To Get the Degree Maintain GPA Develop a Plan of Study Teamwork/Leadership Clubs and Activities - SME, APICS Internships/Research Cultivate Relationships With Employers With Professors Summer jobs

11. Goals = Success Set Goals and Objectives for Your career This year This semester Life outside work Write them down! Review them regularly Plan your work, work your plan!