Professional Objective My professional or career objectives include attaining the level of IT Vice President in a Fortune 50 company within five years. In particular, I want to lead international IT operations for a transnational company. To achieve this, I need to maintain an ‘exceeding’ rating on my annual performance reviews.
Financial objective
As an IT Vice President, I want to earn $250,000 per year, with a 40% annual bonus, and a 40% stock options grant. Furthermore, I want to save $3.5 million for my retirement at age 65. To achieve my retirement objective, I will contribute at least 15% of my annual salary to my 401K plan, and save a further $15,000 per year by investing directly in the stock market.
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Where the outsourcing of non-critical functions like technical support and low-level coding functions were a staple at the beginning of the millennium, the offshoring of more critical functions and entire projects are becoming increasingly common. That is having wide-reaching impacts on the U.S. job market where IT roles that previously were safe from offshoring, like project and program management, are increasingly moved offshore. It is a trend driven primary by cost savings and the high availability of educated foreign workers (Postma, Agarwal, & Mohal, 2013). As the IT workforce is changing and jobs are moving overseas, the challenges for U.S. based IT professionals, like myself, becomes how to remain relevant within the fast changing IT market (Clark, …show more content…
Beyond that, I am confident that I will achieve all of my future educational goals, including graduating with an MBA degree in 2020. Over the last two years, I learned that without a solid plan, and the discipline and motivation to execute that plan, even the most vivid dream is still nothing more than a dream. As such, I recognize the need for short-term and long-term plans to realize my future goals.
To achieve my short-term education objectives, I included them in my Personal Action Plan. I will review progress towards those goals weekly or monthly, and adjust my schedule and plan accordingly. As I prepare for enrollment in an MBA program, I will have several short-term goals as I collect and complete the necessary enrollment information. Those goals are tracked monthly. To complete the two certification programs I selected, I created a plan that tracks my progress weekly instead of monthly. I need to finish both certification programs before I start the MBA program, so time is of the