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What are your long-range career
objectives, and what steps have you taken
toward obtaining them?
Discussion:
This question is an opportunity to show a logical
progression in your career. Even if you have worked as a temp at
various jobs, or worked in multiple different industries, you can tie
your jobs together by showing how you developed new skills and
honed existing skills at each of the positions you have held. Don't
retell the journey of your career path, but do touch on jobs or skills as
a connected progression that build on each other. Make sure you
communicate that you CHOSE each job for a specific reason that is
related to your overall goal.
Make sure you state your overall goal as it relates to the job at hand.
Show that all of your career experience has been moving toward the
job you are interviewing for. Consider stating that your long term goal
has always been working for the company you are interviewing at.
State that you are aiming for a promotion from the position you are
interviewing for to a position higher up within the same company. This
is a good time to demonstrate that being at the company for 3 to 5
years is part of your long-range career objectives.
"My long term objectives involve increasing levels of challenge and
responsibility in the field of Industrial Engineering. Throughout my
career I have been working toward a position just like this. Even at
jobs I've held that might seem somewhat unrelated, I have always
been developing the energy, initiative, creativity, and analytical ability
I would need to be a success for you and your department. If I am
hired in, I would like to stay at this company for three to five years – if
not longer – and hopefully be promoted and rewarded for my hard
work and dedication. Does that make sense?"
objectives, and what steps have you taken
toward obtaining them?
Discussion:
This question is an opportunity to show a logical
progression in your career. Even if you have worked as a temp at
various jobs, or worked in multiple different industries, you can tie
your jobs together by showing how you developed new skills and
honed existing skills at each of the positions you have held. Don't
retell the journey of your career path, but do touch on jobs or skills as
a connected progression that build on each other. Make sure you
communicate that you CHOSE each job for a specific reason that is
related to your overall goal.
Make sure you state your overall goal as it relates to the job at hand.
Show that all of your career experience has been moving toward the
job you are interviewing for. Consider stating that your long term goal
has always been working for the company you are interviewing at.
State that you are aiming for a promotion from the position you are
interviewing for to a position higher up within the same company. This
is a good time to demonstrate that being at the company for 3 to 5
years is part of your long-range career objectives.
"My long term objectives involve increasing levels of challenge and
responsibility in the field of Industrial Engineering. Throughout my
career I have been working toward a position just like this. Even at
jobs I've held that might seem somewhat unrelated, I have always
been developing the energy, initiative, creativity, and analytical ability
I would need to be a success for you and your department. If I am
hired in, I would like to stay at this company for three to five years – if
not longer – and hopefully be promoted and rewarded for my hard
work and dedication. Does that make sense?"
