What are your professional plans for 5 years. How to Fill Your Life Goals on a Resume

In continuation of our conversation about life without haste (see article) - a new trend of our era, a new look at your life, I want to say this.

The idea of "slow life" does not mean "doing nothing" while lying on the lawn. Against. Adherents of this lifestyle specifically choose a job that will NOT “take away” all the time from them but only a small part of it. For what?

Yes, just in order to have the most time to do and try in your life. To have balance in life between work (business), personal life. To have more free time to communicate with your family, to achieve your goals, fulfill your desires. To make your dreams come true.

1. Are you curious to know which 50 goals in a person's life list are the most popular right now among people from different countries?

List of targets collected Internet edition of 43things.com. On this site, more than 3 million people from all over the world talk about their goals. It is interesting to know: what is the goal in the life of a person from another country, or rather, many people from many other countries?!

Here they are, 50 goals in a person's life - the most popular in the world:

lose weight
write your book
Do not put off dreams, deeds for later (the problem is called “procrastination”)
fall in love
Become a happy person
Make a tattoo
Spontaneously go on a trip without planning anything
Get married or get married
Start traveling around the world
To drink a lot of water
Keep your diary
See the northern lights
Learn Spanish
Keep a personal blog
Learn to save money
Take lots of photos
Kissing in the rain
To buy a house
Make new friends
Learn to play the guitar
run a marathon
learn french
Find new job
Pay off loans
Read a lot of books
Become self-confident
Actively live
Write a story
Jump with a parachute
Switch to a healthy diet
Do sport
Learn Japanese
Learn to cook delicious
Start your business
Quit smoking
Visit 50 states
learn sign language
Swim with a dolphin
Learn to play the piano
Become a surfer
Correct your posture
Find 100 things other than money to be happy
Don't bite your nails
Define an occupation for the rest of your life
Learn to dance
Learn to drive a car
Change, improve life
Get financial independence
Learn Italian
be organized

It struck me that there were so few financial goals on this list. The first places are occupied by goals about travel, self-development, love and happiness.. It's great that more and more people in the world have stopped listening to stupid advice at trainings on personal growth that supposedly, without exception, people should set themselves inflated requirements and goals, achieve them in order to become very rich. It seems to me that such recommendations cause anxiety and do not bring happiness.

2. Why do we need goals in a person's life (examples) and how can they change life?

There is, I would say, some kind of mysticism in this issue. Do you know what unites successful people who have become happy because they have been doing what they love all their lives? They are united by a common quality inherent in all of them - purposefulness and an irresistible desire to achieve their dreams or goals. All of them very early, even in childhood or adolescence, set before themselves and write down a list of goals and did everything to achieve them.

An example is the life of John Goddard, a Guinness World Record holder, explorer and traveler, an outstanding anthropologist, holder of scientific degrees in anthropology and philosophy.

But do not be embarrassed and compare yourself with this hero. Such people are the exception rather than the rule. It’s just that the example of John Goddard especially clearly shows how written down goals help to live more interestingly and vividly.

How many goals should a person have? The more you write them on your list, the easier it will be for you to find your innermost desires and dreams, make them come true and become happy.

3. Which goals are more important, financial goals or goals of spiritual and personal growth?

This question is very similar to the question "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?". Now I will explain why. Materialists will say that if you have money, you can easily fulfill all your dreams and goals. For example, start traveling the world. To buy a house. Learn languages. Therefore, first you need to fulfill financial goals - find a new job, build your own business, and the like.

For information: who are the Materialists and Idealists. Materialists believe that matter is primary and gave rise to consciousness. Idealists, on the contrary, that consciousness is primary and it created matter. This contradiction is called by many the main question of philosophy.

But my grandmother always told me (without knowing it herself, she belonged to the Idealists) that if God is in the 1st place, then everything else will be added and will be in their places. She also said: “You don’t have to wait for financial well-being in order to have a baby. Because if God gives a child, He will give a child!”

Using logic, prudence, pragmatism, it is difficult to understand this grandmother's principle and even more difficult to apply in life. Because it is difficult, impossible to explain it from a scientific, materialistic point of view.

But sayings and proverbs (I call them the quintessence of the centuries-old experience of our ancestors) seem to be trying to convey to us the knowledge and wisdom of previous generations.

This wisdom is based not on logic and pragmatism, but on observations of the connection between actions and events, both in the life of one person and entire generations:

Man proposes, but God disposes (Russian proverb)
Easy come easy go (English proverb "What is easily gained is easily lost")
What happens, happens in time (Chinese proverb "Accidents are not accidental")

The list of proverbs from different nations can be continued indefinitely. But how can even these three proverbs of different peoples be explained from the point of view of logic and materialism?

Based on these considerations and being an idealist, I made goals for myself in the following sequence: Spiritual improvement –> Personal growth and relationships –> Physical health –> Financial goals.

Spiritual improvement:

1. Do not judge, watch your thoughts

2. Conquer your talkativeness, listen to others

3. Charity: monthly transfer money to those in need (orphanage, children's hospital, old neighbors)

4. Complete the house for parents, help parents

5. Help children until they get back on their feet.

6. Do not interfere in other people's affairs, unless they ask for advice.

7. Give alms to beggars - do not pass by

8. Do not retell other people's sins (Cham's sin)

9. Go to the Temple for Sunday services at least 2 times a month

10. Do not store, but give unnecessary, but good things to those in need

11. Forgive wrongs

12. Fast not only on Lent, but also on Wednesdays and Fridays

13. Visit Jerusalem for Easter

Personal growth and relationships:

16. Get rid of your laziness, stop procrastinating

18. Take your time, live in a slow-life style, leaving time for communication with family, contemplation, reading and your hobbies

20. Learn to cook deliciously for family and friends, go to master classes

21. Learn to grow herbs, vegetables, fruits and flowers in your garden

22. Go to Latin American dances with your husband

23. Learn to take professional photos

24. Improve English - watch movies and read books

25. Spontaneously go on a car trip with your husband without planning anything.

26. Learn to do instead general cleaning whole house daily cleaning for 15 minutes

27. Meet more often with children and friends, go to concerts, performances, exhibitions

28. Travel the world 2 times a year with my husband, children and friends

29. Go on a trip with your husband not for 2 weeks, but for several months to Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Bali

30. Ride an elephant, swim with a dolphin, a huge turtle, a sea cow

31. Visit the Serengeti Park in Africa with your husband

32. To be alone with her husband in America

33. Take a multi-deck cruise with your husband

Physical health:

34. Get regular massages

35. Exercise every day

36. Go to the sauna and pool once a month

37. Every evening - a quick walk

38. Refuse harmful products completely

39. Once a month - 3-day hunger strike

40. Lose 3 kg

41. Drink 1.5 liters of water a day

Financial Goals:

42. Increase income from a vending enterprise - a network of payment terminals

43. Boost Your Monthly Blogging Revenue

44. Become a professional webmaster

46. Raise your blog traffic to 3000 visitors per day

47. Make money on affiliate programs

48. Write one blog post every day

49. Purchase products in wholesale stores

50. Swap a petrol car for an electric car

51. Build the work of your projects in such a way as to receive passive income

52. Learn how to save, open a savings account and top up monthly

Of course, you can write all your goals in any order. In fact, that's how they should be written. I divided them into 4 groups to make it clear that in life it is necessary to maintain a balance between the goals of Business and Finance, Relationships, Health, Spirituality. In general, I always write all the affairs, goals, dreams in a row. Below in section 4 “How do I list my goals?” I will talk about it in detail.

I've included my goals as an example. Everyone is different and changes over time. For example, there are no parenting goals on my list. This is because they have already been fulfilled - our children have grown up and live independently.

4. How do you list your goals? 50 goals in a person's life list in present tense

Working in large banks, on large IT projects, I went through a lot interesting trainings in psychology, motivation, stress management, time management, emotional intelligence, personal growth. In these trainings we were taught the techniques of setting goals and intermediate tasks to achieve them.

But I especially liked this simple and effective technique:

You need to mentally “turn off your consciousness” and, without hesitation, start writing by hand on a blank sheet of paper all your desires, goals, tasks - large and small.
It is necessary to write as much as possible, the main thing is “not to turn on the brain” and not to stop.
Write “today's” problems, for example, “for the son to pass the test” or “take out the trash from the garage” or “buy a live Christmas tree in a pot for the new year”. And global, for example, "so that children choose professions to their liking", "so that they successfully graduate from universities."
Then break down your goals into short, medium and long term. Also highlight the goals themselves and what can be called tasks to achieve these goals.

By the way, I often met this idea in the books of successful people, but did not attach any importance to it. They all say that it is important to write down desires and goals, and this helps in some incomprehensible way to fulfill them.

If you are thinking about goals, then you will probably also be interested in this useful article It will help you rethink your personal finance goals. After reading the article, you will understand how easy it is to secure a decent “pension” for yourself, without even waiting for retirement age! Be sure to pass on this simple but valuable knowledge to your children, because in our schools it is not customary to teach personal finance issues.

5. How to fulfill the goals, slowly and in the joy of yourself and your loved ones?

We know that all people are different. They have different psychotypes, abilities, charisma, efficiency, intuition. Therefore, everyone lives, creates, realize their dreams and goals DIFFERENTLY, based on their abilities and character.

Consider small example. I will now describe the “portrait” of my successful friend:

He is an optimist, it helps him a lot in business.
He has good abilities, but he is lazy.
At some moments, when you need to get together, do something important - laziness recedes and he becomes assertive and purposeful.
He is also a very spontaneous person. If he lights up with some idea, then he instantly embodies it, without arguing. Because of this, there are often losses, but in general the job is done quickly.
He often relies on intuition and if something "doesn't work", he easily puts it off, knowing that in "the time" it will be done easily.
He does a lot of things absolutely disinterestedly, helping people.

Now you can roughly imagine (based on this characteristic) how my friend achieves his goals: sometimes lazily, sometimes impulsively, sometimes assertively and purposefully, sometimes relying on intuition. But he never goes against his nature, character, his moral principles. And this is the secret of his success.

Do you understand what I'm getting at? I want to say that we are all different and what you definitely should not do in order to achieve your goals is not to break yourself. No need to drive yourself into a state of stress, no need to reproach yourself for sluggishness. And never go against the dictates of your heart and do not do what you do not like just because everyone has such a goal on the list.

For example, I don't like playing sports in gym. Let everyone go, but I won’t, because I tried several times and made sure that it doesn’t bring me pleasure, and therefore no benefit

Do not listen to anyone that you need to devote so much time to your goal every day that you need to schedule everything by day and hour. In this case, you will become a slave to your ambitions. You need your goals in order to live interestingly, to love, to be a happy person, to do what you love.

Live slowly, enjoy life, refuse to rush at home, at work and in relationships with all people. To this the idea of slow life Many progressive people from many countries have already come. And stop blaming your children for sluggishness the way your parents reproached you (I recommend an article on how to raise children happy and unleash their intellectual and creative potential :). Since we are talking about children, I also recommend that you read an article about progressive and about, which will be in demand in 10 or more years.

Conclusion: In order to start living more interestingly, without delay, sit back now and write, without hesitation, as many small and big things as possible, goals, tasks and desires.

And then, if the mood appears, you can divide them into financial, personal and others. For big and small. But I will tell you that I always write down my life goals, desires and dreams in a row. And I shared them today for the 1st time only for this article, so that it becomes clear what goals are.

Do you like this approach? No boredom! I love this new positive approach to life - do everything with joy, the way your heart tells you!

Finally, I propose to watch a wonderful video describing the ingenious and easy way, how to joyfully and at the same time effectively achieve results in 4 directions of life goals. I loved the idea of setting small goals on the way to big ones and celebrating the accomplishments of each one! At the same time, cover all 4 areas of your life and set at the beginning only one goal. I'm taking this awesome idea to heart!

I wish you all inspiration and self-confidence!

See you soon!

When asking the question “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?”, the employer wants to understand several things:

Are your plans in line with the company's expectations and capabilities? If you can realize your plans in a new place and are satisfied with the tasks and workload, the chance that your “romance” with the company will be successful is much higher.
What goals do you set for yourself, what do you want from your career. It is important to answer this question honestly and openly, because many companies have a certain career development logic. If the expectations will be very different from the company's capabilities, it is better - both for the employer and for you - to understand this in advance.
Is everything in order with your ambitions and self-esteem. "After 5 years? Yes, I will become a director! - if a narcissistic graduate with no work experience claims this, the HR manager will have to be wary.

What to answer?

You should not share plans with an employer that are not related to a career unless you are asked about it. Therefore, dreams of building a house, recording a music album and happy marriage better not to say. The answer to the question should be as related as possible to the work under discussion. It is also appropriate to ask a counter question: what is the practice of this company, is there a career development logic.

Here are some possible answers.

You are ambitious and focused on career growth:

“In a few years, with additional experience, I would be interested in moving from a technical role to a management role.”
"On this stage I'm interested in solving the problems you suggested. Especially those related to creation/modification... (please add): I would like to have such a project in my portfolio. And then take on new tasks in the company. Tell me, what is the fate of the previous person in my position?

You didn't think about career growth and are aimed at long-term stable work:

“These duties are clear and interesting to me. I am a person who knows how to work long and steadily within one specialization, it will be great if you expect the same from a candidate. Please tell us about your vision?
"The long-term plan is to grow with the company: I'm going to learn, expand my responsibilities and bring the most value to the company."
“At this stage, this is the ideal role for me. But if new tasks come up, I’ll be happy to try them.”

All your goals are personal, and work for you is in the background:

“This position is more than satisfying for me. I’m not a careerist at all, I just know how to do my job well.”

Do you have a dream that is not related to this company:

If your dream is not related to your current activity, it is important to understand why you are postponing its implementation and wasting time on this work. Most likely, the employer does not need to know about this, especially if this position becomes an obstacle to achieving the goal. You can find out in which areas of activity you will succeed in using the Career Guidance service: this is a professional test that determines your inclinations and abilities and suggests development paths in each direction. For those who work, but still doubt whether it is worth it to develop in this area, Career Guidance can help with self-determination.

Remember that the answer to the question “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?” does not oblige you to anything: both you and your interlocutor know that a lot will change in 5 years. And if there is no clear life plan, the process of reflection and the direction of your thoughts are important.

Good luck with your interviews!

Unfortunately, many people have a superficial or distorted idea of a professional goal. Although in fact this is a unique thing. can lead to results that entire institutions struggle to achieve. There are so many amazing things to say about her. Here we will answer a number of questions. How are professional goals different from others? How to define your own and declare in one goal? What to do if it is not possible to clearly articulate professional intentions?

How is it different from any other?

Not every goal that concerns your professional activity is strictly a professional goal. What distinguishes a professional goal from any other is that it reflects the content of a specialist’s work. Unfortunately, sometimes you can find such formulations of “professional goals” that are either not at all or do not strictly relate to them. If you want to recognize professional goals among many others, remember the following.

If you say you're going to find practical use the latest developments in the field of nuclear physics, are struggling to create a perpetual motion machine, are engaged in solving problems of reducing the risks of an enterprise, controlling the build quality of a unique model of a domestic car, or contributing to the development creativity fur seals - it becomes clear to everyone what you are doing. Because you are talking about the content of your work. Therefore, this information is directly related to your professional goal.

If you talk about your intention to receive a Nobel Prize or head the representative office of your organization on the North American continent, about an unshakable desire to improve your professional efficiency or be in the top ten richest people on the planet - everyone understands your intentions, but what exactly is your work remains a mystery. . Therefore, you spoke about your personal goals in your professional activities.

If you are talking about the desire to get the position of production director in order to increase the profitability of the sawmill at your enterprise, about the readiness to increase your income by increasing sales household appliances or win a prestigious state award for merit in the field of training astronauts for a long intergalactic flight - everyone gets an idea of both your work and your personal intentions. Therefore, such a goal is a combined one and is not strictly a professional goal.

In other words:

If the goal tells only about your personal intentions, it is personal and not a professional purpose.

If the goal speaks to both your personal intentions and the content of your work, it is combined rather than a strictly professional purpose.

If the goal reveals only the content of your work and tells you what kind of help you can turn to, what kind of results you will help you get in the course of solving your professional problems, this is yours.

To understand this better, let's look at concrete examples. Here is what people sometimes write in the column about their professional goal:

be useful to other people; engage in interesting, promising work; become the best specialist in your area; professional growth, development and self-improvement; career advancement, decent pay...

Do you understand what these people do? Do you know what kind of professional help you can turn to them? Personally, we, not possessing supernatural abilities, from such a formulation cannot even find out what area a person is an expert in. You understand that such formulations have absolutely nothing to do with a real professional goal. And now, as they say, feel the difference ...

:

provision of customer enterprises with souvenirs and stationery
construction of objects of any complexity "from scratch" and "turnkey"
promotion to the market of new types of products of the production company “…”
performing the functions of a personal attorney client in support of transactions for the purchase and sale of residential real estate
increasing the efficiency of gas production at various stages of field development

It’s a completely different matter, right? Employers see it too. Among the crowd of applicants and employers, customers and performers, professional goals immediately attract the attention of people who need each other. This is one of the most unique properties of clear professional goals. Why it happens? What valuable information do professional goals carry?

Clear professional goals reflect:

What are professional goals?

professional goals can be true and false, complete and abbreviated.

False goals are declared and never achieved. They can attract, but are unable to retain. What results a person actually achieves becomes clear pretty quickly. Therefore, false goals lead to the loss of partners (colleagues and customers).

True professional goals reflect the real ones of their carrier and are always focused on the interests of other people. Their achievement helps other people (clients, colleagues, specialists in related and other professional fields, etc.) to solve their own problems and tasks. In other words, such goals have not only individual, but also social significance. Therefore, they lead not only to professional development, but also to public recognition.

True professional goals indicate work that captivates a person, which he is able to do for a long time and with high quality. They are consonant with the tendencies of the inner world and are provided with the resources of the specialist himself (his actual and potential abilities, opportunities, etc.). Therefore, as a rule, true professional goals are always achieved.

Another unique property of true professional goals is that they are like fingerprints - they never repeat themselves.

What elements are included in the professional goal?

Professional goals consist of professional interests and intentions of a specialist. The nature of the emergence of professional interests is not fully understood. The only thing that can be said with some certainty about them is that any clear-cut professional interest falls into one of four categories:

problems (tasks)
means and methods, which he uses in solving these problems,
result, which he achieves by solving these problems,
a group of people, for which this result is important (important and necessary), because, using it, they can solve their own problems (tasks).

Complete professional goals consist of all four elements.

Complete professional goals provide comprehensive information about what a person is working on, how he does it, what result he achieves and whom he helps, i.e. fully describe the content of the specialist's work.

However, professional goals are not always complete. Sometimes they appear in more short form, reflecting those elements that are this moment have time for man paramount importance. As a rule, less important elements that are not strictly regulated or not yet realized by a person are skipped for professional purposes. And everything important, conscious and regulated, is indicated clearly and briefly.

To illustrate, let's look at the examples above:

writing articles on a given topic, editing texts
development of ear for music and singing skills of students, expansion of the range and correct intonation, development of repertoire
expansion of the network of salons cellular communication, provision of sales plan by salons

These goals include only one element. And it is absolutely certain that this element does not describe the target group. Of course, you can guess what kind of group it is. However, you can be wrong in your assumptions. For whom are texts written and edited - for owners of electronic, printed publications, and maybe for radio station employees or students? Who acts as "students" - children or adults, beginners or professional vocalists? Who most of all needs to expand the network of mobile communication stores - the owners of the company, its customers or someone else? But it’s better not to guess, but to make a small note for yourself:

the absence or lack of specificity in the formulation of the goal provides an opportunity for a free interpretation of the stated intentions.

How to define your own and formulate a professional goal?

The formulation of a professional goal usually occurs in two stages. First, find and clarify your intentions. Then you collect them in one sentence.

1. Definition of professional interests. You know what interests and intentions are the building blocks of a professional goal. You know that in a professional goal, all elements are interconnected. Therefore, in order to determine them, it is enough to “hook” on at least one such element and, starting from it, clarify the rest. We recommend taking as a basis, a starting point, only the element that is as clear as possible (does not raise questions, does not allow interpretations, reflects specific figures, facts, terms). Otherwise, others will also be "blurred." To find at least one specific professional intent, you can do the following.

AND) Answer four questions:

What problems (tasks) do I most want to solve?
What means and methods in my work do I give the greatest preference to?
what result do I intend to help other people (partners, colleagues, clients) get?
Who do I hope to help as a result of my work? who should benefit from the results of my work in the first place? What are the main features that distinguish these people from any other?

B) Refer to articles about individual elements goals (there are questions in the articles that can help):

problems (tasks) on the solution of which the specialist is working,
means and methods which are used for this
result, which is planned to receive,
a group of people for which this result is important and necessary.

AT) Use one of the following special methods:

set a goal researching work experience
set a goal getting out of the crisis
set a goal looking beyond problems
set a goal using imagination

G) Work out elements on specially created resources:

"Step by step wizard" - virtual assistant in professional goal setting.

When using techniques, remember why you turned to them. The task is not just to find the elements of a professional goal, but to understand your true professional intentions. The main thing here is “I want!”, Not “I can” or “I must”. Remember that you are clarifying your own interests, so start from your real desires. Check each answer to see if you really want it or not. Once you've identified at least one exact element, build on it by asking questions of others. Leave vague, fuzzy elements alone. When the time comes, you will understand them. Now we only need specific ones. These are the elements of a goal, and the goal should be clear, specific, and short.

The verification method is simple. Let any person read the final wording of the found element of the goal and ask: “What does this specialist do?” If in response you get an almost verbatim repetition of your version, most likely everything is fine. The element can be taken as a starting point. If you hear an interpretation of what was said in response, the element is most likely “raw”. We'll have to work on its specification.

2. Formulation of a professional goal. Specific elements must be collected in one sentence using small rules. Refer to article "How to formulate a goal - step by step recommendations" and collect all the elements in one sentence. Write the resulting goal statement in your resume.

What to do if it is not possible to clearly articulate professional intentions?

In the professional goal column, you need to write a clear statement of your professional goal, as constituent elements which are your intentions. If attempts to answer the four questions proposed above were unsuccessful, and the chosen methodology led to the formulation of a personal or combined goal, then remember the three rules.

Rule 1

If it is not possible to clearly formulate your professional goal, then in response to a question about it, you can list “raw versions” of professional intentions and interests. Your narrative will be like a list of jobs that you do or want to do. Variants of such goals are among the above examples. In principle, the presentation of such a list instead of a clear formulation of the professional goal is acceptable. Especially if it consists of a couple - three short options. However, keep this in mind. Any list is perceived as a list of equal and equivalent elements. Consider, for example, the list of your classmates' names in the school magazine, or the list of groceries you were asked to buy for the holiday. Please tell us which of them will cause you the greatest interest and personal activity? Most likely, the most important for you personally in life in general or at the moment in particular. Right? The same will happen to those who will get acquainted with the list of your professional interests. From the entire list, they emphasize (highlight, first notice) the most important options for themselves and, in accordance with them, will make you a business offer. Therefore, if you have the imprudence to equally enthusiastically list your most and not the most important ones, then blame yourself for being busy with “not the most interesting” work for yourself.

Rule 2

If all attempts to express your own and formulate a professional goal were unsuccessful, you can leave this column empty. But in no case should you write in it about what you would like to acquire as a result of your professional activities. Everything that you acquire or receive - from material and moral compensation to professional and career growth - refers to your personal gain ( personal goal), to what is most interesting and useful to you personally. When a person indicates such things as his professional goal, he demonstrates his incompetence, declares that he is not at all aware of what he was actually created for. workplace. After all, you are not a “great child” who is sure that employers and clients have come into this world to lay gifts and blessings at his feet. Be careful with professional goals. They are very informative.

Rule 3

If you don’t have a specific professional goal or specific professional interests, but you need to fill in the column in your resume about your professional goal, you can write in it something like this: “Quality performance trusted work" or "Quality performance of assigned duties." At the very least, it will be clear that you are ready to take on the work offered by someone (needed by someone) and perform it with due quality in order to get what interests you personally.

So, briefly about the main points.

1. can be true and false.

A false goal does not lead to the promised result and contributes to the breakdown of partnerships. True and articulate:

reveals the content of the work of a specialist (to whom specifically, in solving what problems the specialist helps, what result he strives to achieve, what means and methods he uses);
reflects the real and intentions of the specialist;
excludes the possibility of free interpretation of the declared information;

3. Setting a professional goal involves two stages:

search and concretization of the elements of the goal (to help - 4 questions, thematic articles, special , step by step professional goal setting master);
the wording of the found elements in one sentence ( step by step recommendations ).

4. In the absence of a clear professional goal, in the summary column you can:

provide a list of jobs that you do or want to do;
write: “Quality performance of entrusted work” or “Quality performance of assigned duties”;
do not write anything (this is not very good, but what can you do).

You now know everything you need to know about your professional goal. We draw your attention to the fact that by sincerely and accurately formulating your professional goal, you will be able to achieve all the benefits to which it leads, on your own - without outside help. Determine. Formulate. Reach.

Every person at least once in their life is faced with independent search work. Posting a detailed resume is the first step, which subsequently leads to the second stage - an interview with an HR (recruiter). And this is where the main problems begin. How to answer correctly questions asked, avoid mistakes and do not hate the interviewer.

In this article, we will look at the most common recruiter questions and prove that the interview is not torture, but an opportunity.

What are your plans for the next 5 years?

The main purpose of the question is to find out your aspirations for career growth. So, for example, in a small team, the chief accountant will never become a financial director, and a lawyer will never become a deputy director for legal issues. A person who dreams of career growth will lose interest in such a company in the next year or two, but the employer is counting on long-term cooperation. And vice versa: large companies constantly need ambitious people.

- if the vacancy you are interested in will be directly related to the increase in profits (managers, sales specialists, customer service specialists, etc.), then the only correct answer is: “I want to earn at least ... rubles a month and increase the company's income by several once";

- never, under any circumstances, say: “I dream of getting married and having a baby” or “I want to raise children as worthy people.” Everything personal, as most employers believe, should remain “behind the scenes”.

Your accomplishments at your previous job

The recruiter needs to find out about your abilities and capabilities, which is one of the most important criteria in the selection of personnel.

- talk about increasing profits, completing a successful project, etc. Your words are easy to check with additional questions, so exaggeration in this case is a bad choice;

- if there were no significant achievements, then it is necessary to focus on the knowledge and experience gained.

Your strengths and weaknesses

It is quite difficult to talk about yourself objectively, but recruiters are most interested in the personal qualities of a candidate, especially if you have not had any work experience before.

- describe positive traits required for a specific job. For example: a journalist is characterized by curiosity, the ability to logically and competently express his thoughts, an accountant - scrupulousness and love for numbers;

— negative qualities should become strongly positive. For example: excessive diligence (impossibility to stop in case of interest in the project), desire to be the best. Knowledge that is not needed to get the job done can also be yours. weaknesses»;

- in no case do not talk about relationships with the opposite sex, about the inability to earn or save money, about love for feasts - about things that do not concern work.

Who are your parents?

Many applicants are often outraged by this issue, because it is not the parents who are hired. In this case, recruiters are trying to protect the employer from unwanted problems. Father, chief tax office, - pride for the child, but for the employer - headache. This opinion exists in many private companies, so the story about the presence of family ties in the regulatory authorities is a failed decision.

Why do you think we should choose you

This question often confuses many candidates, although everything lies on the surface: you only need to tell about the compliance of your experience and (or) qualities with the requirements of the vacancy, about the desire to work in this particular company and position.

It is necessary to think about the possibility of such a question even before the start of the interview, with the support of former leaders(director, his deputies, head of department, etc.). Written references would also be an excellent option.

Of course, we have not considered full list frequently asked questions, but following interview tips will turn an interview from a challenge into an opportunity, greatly increasing your chances of getting hired.

although not an applicant, he still didn’t understand what such a question gives the recruiter, having heard such a couple of times, he would probably suggest that she write in her own way ....

HR wants to know your plans in order to compare them with the real state of affairs in the company. - this made me happy, thanks for the half-tale, now at least I’ll know from whom I can learn about my plans for 5 years and the true situation, otherwise they came up with GB. figs - a recruiter - that's who is aware of the true situation))))

And who said that in business someone plans for 5 years, and if there is such a thing, then where is the confidence that this is achieved. For example, on Thursday I was offered an investment option with the Swiss, I refused, I was not satisfied with the share of profits they requested and, most importantly, a long time period ..... behind my back, my friend who brought them to me sent our business plan, they grabbed it, offered more interesting conditions for me - if we agree tonight, plans will change again, only 4 working days have passed, the amount is such that it will dramatically change the position of the company for the better .....

4 days - and it came up from the outside, just the son of one of the investors wanted to join us ...... and then 5 years, and even the applicant - utter absurdity, all these American benefits are racist on their mentality, were compiled knowing them methods - probably with a bunch of other specialists, psychologists, etc. - ours have a different mentality and the economy is zero - Russia, unlike the states, like China, Brazil belongs to developing countries with a promising economy, but at the same time, Russia has an unstable political situation - here businessmen are afraid to plan a couple of years ahead, so what then to demand it from the applicant???

And most importantly - how can he know whether the company will deceive him or not, what are the real conditions in the company, what are the prospects, attitude towards employees, salary, social package, etc., if he has not worked there for a single day ?? ??? How can he plan for the future there? maybe his employer's abilities will not suit the company and what's the point then of such plans? well, you can understand when such a question is asked in an informal conversation to an employee who has worked for a couple of years and knows the company firsthand .......

And you never know what a person says about himself or is written in a resume? He can be silent, shy, shy - but at the same time good worker, another to chat, find a way out of any situation, and at work he will also start to find a way out and bring down, then he is to blame for the work not being done, then the sky collapsed yesterday in Kapotnya, interfered with work ........ And here is character, sociability , secrecy-openness of the applicant and his abilities and skills? apparently, completely stupid - well, I don’t understand such questions at all ....... I always used intuition, it didn’t work out, the person left, worked out - it works ..... without work - you can’t determine ANYTHING!