Project: Personal SWOT

In this project, you will conduct a personal SWOT analysis and set goals to guide your career.

A Personal SWOT Analysis

📺 Watch the video to learn how to conduct a personal SWOT analysis (2:20)

📖 Read: Using a SWOT Analysis in Your Career Planning

Step 1: Create your personal SWOT analysis

You’ve already considered your strengths, weaknesses, and purpose. To finish your SWOT analysis, you will need to consider opportunities and threats, as described in the resources above.

To complete this project, make a copy of this template and add your SWOT analysis on page 1

Step 2: Goals

The final step of this project is to set short and long-term goals.

• Your short-term learning goals should describe your goals for the training period. Set concrete goals for what you want to accomplish by the end of the training
• Your short-term career goal should be related to the job or internship you aim to have after completing this training
• Your 5-year career goal should relate to your professional aims within 5 years of completing the training

📺 Watch the video to learn how to set SMART goals (4:08)

As you set goals, ensure that your goals are SMART i.e.

• Specific: What do I want to learn?
• Measurable: How will I know you have achieved my goal?
• Attainable: How will I do it?
• Realistic: How will I do it given my current responsibilities, needs, etc.?
• Time-Bound: When is the deadline to achieve my goal?

Here are some typical goals that a computer science student might set. For each goal, you will see a non-SMART version and a SMART version.

Submission

Submit a link to your SWOT document here

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