5. What goal setting and career exploration activities did you do?
Crystal: We did a variety of different goal setting activities. We talked about long-term and short-term goals. In reality, I think many people don't know how to set long and short-term goals. So we even had a guest speaker come in and talk about goal setting and how to do that properly and how you need to sometimes stop along the road to a goal and re-evaluate--maybe that's not the way want to go. We also talked a lot about barriers and barriers to achieving goals. In reality, people have to re-evaluate their long and short-term goals all the time and those have to be modified.
Career exploration activities; we had manufacturers come in; we had people in retail; we had people from the restaurant business come in and speak about different career tracks. We had the community college person come in and talk about a variety of career tracks. And we had a hospital person come in and talk about careers in the hospital industry. So we tried to cover goal setting. We tried to cover career exploration in a variety of different ways with a variety of different speakers on each topic.
