Show Personnel Officers Peaks 0 To Delta Epsilon Chi x by Ed Lile Reporting Layout Editor It is important to continue to to analyze where you are going to receive feedback You need to continually lly define and redefine goals stated Sally L. L Livingston personnel officer for the First Security Operations Center Every employee wants to know How am I doing and how can I improve Livingston said as she began her talk to a meeting of s. s business marketing Delta club-Delta Epsilon Chi DEX Livingston emphasized the need to set goals Without goals people frequently end up in places or positions that they are not particularly happy with She went went went-on on to say that life is a continued process of growth and change chang avery dynamic change My point point- is that your directions goals perceptions and attitudes can change consid considerably through different stages t-L'- t of life She continued i on onto to say But 4 L j a what have v through my education p 1 v and teaching Reaching ac experiences C YI we some t t basic skills of written and verbal communication Livingston continued on to tell members of DEX that By setting goals professional as well as personal day to day goals you will have a better sense of well being direction and growth A significant amount of applicants that are interviewed by Livingston aspire towards management She added that Too frequently people set unrealistic goals such as the mail room clerk who wants to become a systems analyst but is unwilling to spend the time to enhance their education or to move the stepping stones and learning grounds to move into the systems analyst position If someone would have predicted ten years ago that I I would be in the position Im I'm in today I would have reacted in a very startled disbelief said Livingston At that time she was completing her undergraduate degree in English and Fine Arts She attended the University of Wisconsin and the University of Utah gr graduating Magna Cum Laude At the time of graduation she was in inthe the pr process ess of enlisting in the Peace Corps to teach second grade in Ch Chi Korea Elementary School Livingston had aspired to return to the states to persue a career as a playwright or author possibly to teach after that however when she returned from her term in the Peace Corps she sp spent nt the next eight years in business She has been in the field of personnel for the past six years She She She-is is active in the American So Society Personnel Administrators ASPA Job Placement Division During the question and answer portion of the program Livingston I i outlined the jobs at st Security and h handed nd tt m material al on h how w t to get a aj ajob job b yo you are are seeking She ended by telling DEX members that in order to succeed you must adapt and assimilate learn to be resilient play by the rules |