Sunday, 23 September 2012

Which are the aspects to consider while looking for a career

By Jean Cox


Before deciding on a new job, you have to set your own goals. It's important to improve your individual work performance but at the same time, it's equally important to optimize the overall performance of your company. That is the only way to assess your overall performance.

It is very crucial to take into consideration the objectives of your management and also your firm before you set your own performance goals. While trying to set goals from our employment's point of view, we need to examine what are the goals that the company or the management is vying for. The company also may have done their homework to set individual performance goals for their employees and you need to consider this when looking for the job.

You need to think about what a company needs when you want to work for it. While working with your employers, you need to set goals that can simply fulfill the goals of your employers while reflecting on your improved performance levels to help attain those goals.

While we plan to set our goals while searching for suitable jobs, many of us are tempted to make a common misconception. This misconception underlines the importance of appraisal to evaluate our performance on an individual basis but not on the basis of the entire work unit. Normally the performance evaluation of an employee is done on an annual basis. This means that the supervisors and managers normally assess the performance of their subordinates annually. There are various types of formats used by the management for this annual assessment. Though this is a smooth process, it is sometimes possible that the performance of an employee is not assessed properly. These annual appraisals of the employers should be the basis when we set our performance goals.

A performance appraisal can be important, but it's not the sole thing you should strive for. Many times, managers fail to focus on the vital points of your performance and merely follow the pointers mentioned in the appraisal form. Hence, it is important that you should not allow your past performance reports to affect when you set the goals to improve your performance. The possibility of some unexpected developments also cannot be ignored. You need to look forward and increase the effectiveness of your working for generating better results.

So if you are working, but want a new job, set goals like submitting 5 employment applications per day. Try to meet at least 1 new person in your company or field. You can use those contacts to find new jobs. Reading at least 1 blog posting a day in your field can keep you up to date. These are some of the factors which can help you go get a good employment opportunity.




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