Program - Activity Writing Your Career Technical Training SMART Goal
My Career Technical Training SMART Goal:

This worksheet will help you develop your own SMART Goal for Career Technical Trainings at Job Corps. Let’s keep in mind the three milestones you have chosen to make sure the goal lines up with them:
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Name (First and Last) *
Your instructor *
Untitled Title
1. My Profession is _____________ *
2. My Placement Pathway is ______________ *
3. Now write a few basic goals you have for your Career Technical Training at Job Corps.  Use your answers to questions 4 and 5 of “What is the best Career Technical Training Program for your Career Pathway?” Make sure your goal will ensure that you can complete both of your milestones above.  Write the basic goals in the box below.  An example in italics is provided for you to adapt and use as a model:
Example: I want to get trained to be an Electrician.
Write your response in the space below. *
Now let us modify this basic goal to make it SMART and change it from a dream to a plan.  Let’s change it letter by letter, starting with “S” by making it more “Specific.”
Specific
Add details that are required of your milestones to ensure you have answered all of these questions:•What credentials are associated with that Training Program Area?

What industry is your Career Technical Training goal in?

Example: My career technical training program will be Electrical in the Construction industry and earn my Electrical Trainee Pre-Apprentice credential
SPECIFIC: (Write your response below) *
Measurable
Make sure your sentence or sentences have a way to track progress and measure your success:

How will you measure your progress towards meeting your Career Technical Training goal?
How will you know if you’re behind?
How will you know when you’ve met your goal?

Example: My career technical training program will be the Electrical career training program and I will earn my Electrical Trainee Pre-Apprentice credential in the next 8 months.
MEASURABLE: (Write your response below) *
Attainable
Modify your goal further to make sure it is realistic by making sure it answers these questions:

Is your goal realistic?
What skills are needed?
What resources are necessary?
Is the goal within your reach?
Are you in control of achieving this goal?

Example: I will spend a lot of time improving my math and complete the Electrical career training program and earn my Electrical Trainee Pre-Apprentice credential in the next 8 months
ATTAINABLE: (Write your response below) *
Recorded / Relevant
The first part should be pretty easy, since you are writing it down. Just double-check this item:

Are there grammatical or spelling errors that will make it hard to read?
The second part is the “why”. Is it clear to your reader why this is important to you and/or relevant to your career?

Example: In the next 8 months, I will improve and then apply my math skills towards completing the Electrical career training program. This will allow me to earn my Electrical Trainee Pre-Apprentice credential, which will allow me to get an Electrical Apprenticeship in San Diego, and to work towards my ultimate career of being an Electrician.
RECORDED / RELEVANT: (Write your response below) *
Time-based
In making sure your goal was Measurable, you make have already addressed this.  Please make sure you have answered these questions:

What is the deadline?
Is the deadline realistic?

Example: In the next year, I will improve and then apply my math skills towards completing the Electrical career training program. This will allow me to earn my Electrical Trainee Pre-Apprentice credential, which will allow me to get an Electrical Apprenticeship in San Diego, and to work towards my ultimate career of being an Electrician.
TIME-BASED: (Write your response below) *
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