There are limited numbers 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 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 sample of career aspirations for people who want to set up their career road-map.
Career Aspiration: Examples
People’s career aspirations can be categorized into limited number of types. The following are five examples of career aspirations:
1. Traditional career success: People who are motivated and inspired to advance their professional skills for achieving a progress in the organization’s hierarchy level. People who seek a position that has a potential to establish status, responsibility, higher salary and authority.
2. Security: People who seek a solid job that represent 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 get an autonomy for his thoughts and activities. People who are motivated by values such as freedom and independence.
5. Balance: People who consider their job/career equal or lower as compared to other non-work values and interests such as family, religioun and personal issues. They prefer jobs that respect their interests on their personal life.
“The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.”
Robert Frost
Read further at -
• Examples of career goals and objectives.
• How to reach you career goals.
• Sample career objectives for resumes.
