There is a limited number of ways to evaluate people’s career vision and their career aspirations.
If you ask a person the following questions:
- What is your career aspiration? Or describe your career aspiration.
- What would you like to achieve in five or ten years from now?
- What is your long term career aspiration?
You may receive an answer that focuses on his or her long-term and short-term career goals and objectives based on his/her career path planning.
This article provides samples of career aspirations for people who want to set up their career road-map.
Career Aspiration: Examples
People’s career aspirations can be divided into a limited number of categories. The following are five examples of career aspirations:
1. Traditional career success:
People who are motivated and inspired to enhance their professional skills to achieve advancement in the organization’s hierarchy level.
People who seek a position that has potential to – Establish status, responsibility, higher salary and authority.
2. Security:
People who seek a solid job that represents stability and predictability.
Person who prefers to work at workplaces that offer a long term secured position over advancement.
3. Expertise:
People who seek positions that offer technical/professional enhancement and technological interest.
They would like to become experts in their professional area.
4. Freedom:
Person who seek individualism.
He wants to gain autonomy for his thoughts and activities. People who are motivated by values such as freedom and independence.
5. Balance:
People who perceive their job/career to be of equal or less importance than other non-work values and interests such as family, religion and personal issues.
They prefer jobs that respect their personal interests.
Another interesting point of views can be found here – What Is Your Philosophy towards Work?
“The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.”
Robert Frost
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