Target Review 2

Few things have changed since I last reviewed my targets dating 4^th March 2015, over 2 weeks later I will be reviewing my targets now.

Targets I set myself to be working on since my last review were to

-          Improve ability to deal with multiple deadlines by starting work straight away.

-          Improve self-confidence

-          Improve self-initiative

Over the course of this course, it is often that deadlines are placed together in a very short period of time, and not much time is allocated to complete long and difficult assignment tasks. So having the ability to better deal with these situations would most certainly benefit me, the most best way about approaching this is to start the work at the most earliest time possible, as oppose to leaving everything closer to the time near when the deadline was due. While attempting to achieve this target I also managed to achieve other things in the process such as better time management and organisation.

I have tried to tackle improving my both self-confidence and self-initiative, as these are both targets that can only be achieved within myself, approaching these targets are more difficult than most. Having a better self-initiative can allow me be most self-sufficient, I can make decisions based on my own thinking and feel confident in what I feel is right. This skill would be very important to have in all stages of life in both general and work related skills, therefore is very important I develop on it. I believe the only way to improve on this is through development and doing things I normally wouldn’t do to help me improve. I believe heavy use of my self-initiative was used earlier this week when I was looking for work experience, I had to decide which places would be suitable in the area to find a work placement as it had to be experience in an IT related sector, I then had to contact them in a suitable way and decide what to say, using my initiative to alter what’s being said based on the company I might addressing, I feel this has been a good development of using my initiative to find a work experience placement.

I too feel that while trying to find a work experience placement I came across the biggest challenge yet in terms of achieving my targets. That was to improve my self-confidence. I had phone in some places when questioning availability of a work experience placement, this was a very scary process for me as I am least confident when talking on the phone, I spent several nights stressed and worried about this and tried to avoid where possible, such as using alternatives such as use of E-Mail, however no reply via E-Mail had forced me to phone in. As much as I did not enjoy doing this I believe it truly was important in helping me develop my self-confidence, as for some people such as myself confidence is a big issue and lack of it will make you miss out on a variety of opportunities in life, many related to the world of work, being able to make phone calls and come across as confident and deal with interviews is very important and imperative to helping me with employment.

So altogether I can say I have worked on my new targets that I had previously set myself, and at the same time made some other developments in other areas along the way, I am certain that by developing on my  targets these past few months will greatly help me in life, specifically more in terms of employability.