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Would an employee feel honest telling their boss their 5-year goals? What if it isn't "leading a larger team at this company" ?
by gohrt 11y ago
Would an employee feel honest telling their boss their 5-year goals? What if it isn't "leading a larger team at this company" ?
- Quanticles 11y agoNot everyone can be a manger, strong technical people are very valuable too.
- forgottenpass 11y agoOK, but that doesn't change the point of their post. It can easily be rephrased as something like... "Would an employee feel honest telling their boss their 5-year goals? What if it isn't "leading a larger team at this company" or "designing and developing more and/or more-important portions of the company's projects"?
- rzzzt 11y agoWhat does a typical 5-year goal sound like? I always struggle to come up with anything when this sort of question comes up (not necessarily in an employer-employee conversation, just in general).
- taurath 11y ago"Be managing a full project on my own", "Manage group of people", "Become an expert in X technology", "Build 2 products into production", "Get to 100,000 users" etc etc etc. How do you want to grow? Do you want to stay in the same spot? Maybe for now, but do you want to be doing this exact same thing for the next 5 years? Not even minor improvements? Getting faster/better/stronger?
- xyzzy4 11y agoI have no clue what you're supposed to say, but the closest thing I'd have to a 5-year goal is "increase my net worth by at least 20% per year". Which has almost nothing to do with my job except staying employed.
- jkaunisv1 11y agoSo you have zero goals in life? You expect to die as you are now, but older?