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Five ways to get clear on your learning goal
In yesterday’s essay, I emphasized the importance of clarifying your learning goal before you start buying courses and doing the learning. We’re continuing with that same theme today — and I’m sharing five tools you can use to clarify your learning goal. These five are mostly geared towards professional, career-focused learning. Tomorrow, I’ll share a few ideas focused more on personal learning.
A learning goal is a clear, achievable statement of something you want to learn or accomplish.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is a free resource you can access at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/. The OOH hundreds of jobs and tells you what the employment outlook is for them as well as information about them. The OOH also links to O-Net which contains information about skills and tasks performed by that job.
Job Description Reviews
Read through a sampling of job descriptions that contain the role, certification, or area of responsibility you’re considering. You can get clear on what’s really required by reviewing sample job descriptions.
Informational Interviews
Reach out to people who hold jobs in the area that you are interested in or who hold jobs that use skills you are interested in…
