Professional Goals Statement

The combination of my past academic performance and my personal standards of excellence in all that I do will provide the foundation for my success in Rehabilitation Counseling. It will require great time and energy, but I am excited to pursue the challenge. My study habits and skills enable me to gain a full understanding of the subject. I work well in a team or I can function on my own. I know how to seek out help when necessary and I will not settle for being average. Drive and desire for excellence is balanced with a good sense of priorities and I do not often lose track of what is important. I am very aware of what I need to do to be ready for any given situation and am able to manage stress in healthy ways. My wife and family fully support this endeavor and I am mentally, physically and spiritually ready for the task. The rigorous and intense demands of Rehabilitation Counseling match my capabilities.

Furthermore, when I first sat down to write my professional goals statement; I thought it would be easy.  I am an extremely goal oriented person, with my entire life being spent focusing on “what’s next”.   So, how difficult could it be to simply write down those goals?  When I began writing, however, I discovered it was going to be a little more difficult than I anticipated.  I realized that it may be possible to have too many goals.  My list was long and confusing with some goals very specific, and others vague.  I thought to myself, how can I produce a professional goals statement out of this?  So I re-evaluated my list and discovered that my goals could actually be divided into three predictable categories:  immediate goals, short-term goals, and long-term goals.  I decided then to choose one from each category to focus on for this report.

Therefore, my immediate goals were fairly general, but all related to my academic success.  As with most people, one of the reasons I want to become a Rehabilitation Counselor is to be happy. I want to be satisfied...