Career Goals and Development in Five Years After Graduation
Topic: Write an essay about your personal development plan or your career goals for the five years after you graduate. You will answer the question: Where do I see my career in five-years after I graduate? What do I want for myself and what will I have achieved in my career after five years out of college?
You will also answer: What will it take for me to make these goals happen? How do I develop or learn the skills I need? What will I have to have completed each year in order to rise to the level I want within five years? Who do I need to build relationships with? What will I need to study?
Summary of What’s Due:
A written essay of 520-650 words in MLA format with sources cited, if any.
Research method: Read an article from a scholarly publication and /or news publication, or reputable magazine, or LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Indeed or any other websites pertinent to your major field or occupation/career.
Your Paper:
Your career goals essay should be about 520-650 words and follow MLA format for your paper. You may use multiple sources and should cite each source used. Refer to the MLA formatting and style guide: https://owl(dot)english(dot)purdue(dot)edu/owl/resource/747/01/ Links to an external site.
Format:
You should begin with a thesis statement. A thesis statement is one sentence that summarizes the entire essay. It is used to introduce and end your essay. It helps the audience remember the overall message of your essay. .It identifies your point of view and narrows your topic. You need to support your thesis statement with at least three main ideas.
13 Examples of Achievable Career Goals:
https://www(dot)careeraddict(dot)com/examples-achievable-career-goals Links to an external site.
Resources to help you select a career or help figure out what goals you might like to accomplish or develop:
https://www(dot)16personalities(dot)com/free-personality-test Links to an external site.
https://www(dot)velvetjobs(dot)com/articles/insights/career-ideas-guide Links to an external site.
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Career Goals and Development in Five Years After Graduation
Five years after my graduation, I anticipate a successful career as a sales and marketing executive in a multinational company, where I exploit technological advancements to draw significant sales and improve my organization’s performance. I will prioritize improving my skills in sales and marketing, which includes focusing on communication, collaboration and networking skills and acquiring recent technology-related skills and emotional intelligence. In that period, I expect to have gained notable experience in customer service management, which thrives on effective communication skills, such as active listening and comprehension of verbal and non-verbal cues. Based on findings by Tan (1), customer relationship management includes prioritizing the role of information technology, which significantly influences sales and marketing. In the next five years, I will have learned SEO marketing strategy, which is one of the technological strategies that would guarantee success in sales and marketing, especially in the contemporary society, where consumers embrace online shopping for convenience, among other factors (Jiang et al. 191; Duarte et al. 161). To establish a successful career in sales and marketing, I will have to factor in digital marketing skills, communication, collaboration, and creative thinking, which, as noted above, guarantees customer satisfaction, among other factors.
One of the ways of achieving notable career success five years after graduation is to continue developing and improving my skills to match my career objectives. This includes excelling in sales and marketing, which can be characterized by rapidly improving sales and brand awareness among the target consumer segment. Developing skills such as technology-related marketing strategies, such as digital marketing through social media and SEO, will require enrolment in online marketing and career courses offered by reputable organizations such as Google and Harvard Business School. The objective is to ensure I develop skills such as problem solving that match the needs of the customers, attract a competitive advantage over other people in the same career, and increase efficiency and professional credibility, among other factors (Emeritus). Apart from the above, there is a need to champion a collaborative framework, which entails networking with other sales and marketing experts in the industry. The objective is to gain insights from their practice and increase exposure to other equally lucrative opportunities that can guarantee an upward career trajectory (Volmer et al. 555; Jacobs et al. 2055). One way of networking digitally includes social media platforms such as LinkedIn, where I can connect with peop...