What About You? Your Career Preparation

What About You? Your Career Preparation

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What About You?

Your Career Preparation

Use the following grid as a starting point to assess your career strengths and goals as you prepare for job interviews. Write three descriptions of your skills, career goals, and life goals. Next, score the organizations that you plan on applying to from 1 to 5 (5 being the highest) as to how they match up with your skills and goals.

Organization
My Skills A B C
(Examples: strong writing skills, foreign-language proficiency, computer programming skills)
1.
2.
3.


My Career Goals
(Examples: become a marketing executive, work in the Dallas area, have a job with little mandatory travel)
1.
2.
3.


My Life Goals
(Examples: have children, live near siblings, retire at age sixty)
1.
2.
3.