Your Learning Goal Orientation Is Key to Career Advancement
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iStock/Thinkstock(ANN ARBOR, Mich.) — It’s the end of January and you still haven’t started looking for a new job like you promised yourself. Maybe you need to improve your LGO.
It’s short for “learning goal orientation.”
Daniel Turban and Serge da Motta Veiga from the University of Michigan and Leigh University, respectively, say LGO can mean the difference between moving on in your career or staying stuck where you are.
Job seekers with a high LGO basically learn from their experience at looking for work, not to mention everyday situations. They’re also able to bounce back from failures more quickly than people with low LGO.
What’s more, when someone has a high LGO, they tend to intensify their efforts when things are actually going well and are better able to deal with the stress that job searching sometime produces.
That’s not to say that people who have a low learning goal orientation are out of luck. Turban and da Motta Veiga say they can learn techniques and behaviors to make their job search easier and less stressful.
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