Q: What are your career goals?
ANS: 1. The reasons of this question:
This question will test your ability and ambition to develop yourself as well as the ability to plan for the future.
2. Levels of career goals:
• You are not sure about your goals, then answer: I’m rather busy with my duties and goals of the Company; as a result, I haven’t focused much on my long-term personal goals.
• You have goals not or very little relating to the current job: For example, you are applying for a sales manager, but your career goal is to become the head of marketing department in the next 5 years.
• Current job oriented career goals: For example, you are working as a sales manager, you goal is to become the area sales manager in the next 2 years and in the next 5 years, you will be the regional sales manager.
3. “Career goals” tips:
a) You can state some of your goals as following:
• Study for an MBA certificate or other degrees…
• Become specialist in the sector…
• Get to the title of XYZ something.
Note that long-term goals must be set for the next 3-5 years.
b) When you have identified your goals, you need to answer the following questions:
• Are those goals suitable to the job you are currently applying for?
• Are those goals helpful to your current job?
• Are those goals helpful to the development of your current job in the next 3-5 years?
c) How to achieve those goals?
• Identify what you have to do to achieve your goals?
• In the next 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, what will you do?
Q: How long you would stay with us?
ANS : Admit that you want challenging career and you would stay with them indefinitely until you get challenging projects. But also mention to them you will give a lot of time to hop for jobs.
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