A Goal Without A Plan Is Just a wish.

That is truly what I leant from this time, Goal Setting.

A SMART goal is made by fulfilling 5 criteria, that is "Specific" "Measurable" "Attainable" "Relevant" "Time-bound". At the beginning of setting this SMART goal, it was "Career Development". Apparently, it is not specific enough as I only mentioned the word "development". But the question is how to do it, so I break it into apart. Finding internship, attending career talk, inspiring seminar? As I would like to gain more working experience as I can since it is a good way to show how professional I am and I am ready to engage in future career while attending an interview. So, I chose to land a intership in summer before the end of May.

As most of the internship recruitment processes ends before early June, as well as they will start the internship in June or July. Specifing the phase "Summer Internship", not for long-term internship or one that need to work for a longer period, just summer time.

Moreover, it is a measurable and attainble goal. As the way that I search for internship is check email regularly and even reach out other websites (eg. youthexchange.org.hk, youthab.org). As these websites provide a huge amout of information regarding summer internship and really helping me land on a intership that suitable for me.

Summer internship is also related to my study as well as time-bounded. It could be done within a summer break and could help improving my CV/resume, which is a valuable experience for my university study.

After quite a long period of searhing and applying tons of them. I have successfully received a offer to work in Mainland. It is a good and bad news at the same time. As I have been working in Beijing for a month, I would like to try out more difference even though that would need to work in Hong Kong. The most important thing is to gain working experince rather than living at other places for a month. But that internship had been a candy for me, telling me that do not stop searching for it as there are many chances out there.

This Goal Setting method is somehow useful for me to plan for something. Maybe this method is just too new for me and I had not been fully utilizing to achieve my goal very well. I would try to use it while having my own way achieve my goal just the same as I have done in old days.