Question by london: What’s the difference between educational goals and career goals?
This class I’m in has to do with students interested in going to graduate schools, medical schools or any type of profession school after we graduate from college.
The teacher told us to make 2 lists: one list is our educational goals, 2nd list is our career goals.
I just don’t know the difference between the two.
I know that career goals could be something like: 1. Graduate from school. 2. Obtain my Bachelor’s degree. 3. Get good grades.
I need examples of both.
Best answer:
Answer by Jeanne B
London,
You’ve got the educational goals down, if a bit simply, but you’ve got a good start. To add more would be to plan your way through school. Are you in middle school now? I’ll assume that for this. So if you wanted to be a psychologist, you would want to plan to take classes that help you with that. In high school, some schools teach psychology. So you would plan to take psychology.
Perhaps you want to specialize in pyromaniacs (fire starters). So you would want to take chemistry, to understand what a pyromainic might be using to start fires. You look through a catalog and see some other classes that might help, so you put those on your plan, too.
Your high school plan will also include all the math, social science, government, and other required classes -and doing well in them so you can get admitted to Harvard, or Berkeley, or where ever you choose.
So, you’re planning for college now. The next step is to sit down with a counselor at the Psychology Department to plan for your Bachelor’s Degree. Next will be your Master’s Degree, and a Ph.D. Each degree you would plan to specialize further, and list those on your Educational Plan. You would plan for how many years this will take you, and when you will graduate.
CAREER GOALS
This is the time you will be working. You decide whether you’ll be diagnosing the pyromanics for government purposes (sending them to a mental health hospital, going to prison, deciding if they are safe to release back into the public) and for the attorneys who represent them. You could plan to work in a clinical setting like a hospital, your own office, or with other psychologists or doctors as a group.
If you plan to occasionally testify in court as an expert in pyromanics, you’ll want to include public speaking in your education. So career goals have to do with just what you’d do once you’re working. As a doctor you could specialize in all kinds of things for a career, and this is true for many jobs. I hope this helps you.
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