UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG

Clarification of your career goals, and self-knowledge

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Clarification of your career goals
Goal Setting, Decision Making, Strengths, Weaknesses, Career Direction

Clarify your career goals and work on how you put these across to the employer - Clarification of career goals will help you to select the correct avenues to look for jobs and improve your ability to communicate your goals in a clear and succinct manner.

Develop self-knowledge - what you are good at, what you enjoy, what is important to you and how others perceive you. A knowledge of what you are not good at and what you do not enjoy is vital.

Participation in organisations, part-time work and voluntary employment will give you a broader range of examples to help evaluate and market yourself .

Use the stepping stone approach in developing career direction. Identify some objectives that are attainable in your first job that can be used as a base for further growth and development.




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