When they make you set goals at work

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I am about to start an internship where I am required to write two goals for myself. When people make me write goals, I become anxious, I don’t know what to write, and I don’t know what they want from me.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thank you.

I think it depends on what kind of job it is.

I have to write goals every year in my job and it's a nonsense because my job doesn't change. My boss thinks it's a nonsense too and we just copy and paste last year's goals.

One of mine is to "support the heads of departments with admin tasks."

Why did you take the internship? What do you expect to learn?

I am about to start the clinical training for the last semester of an associate’s degree to become an occupational therapy assistant. The site will be a nursing home.

What about "improve my skills on assessing people's needs in a care home environment".

"Help people to improve their mobility and independence within the care home."

"Improve my listening skills and ask the right to accurately assess the patients needs"

An easy goal is: “improving your ability to communicate with clients.” That would always work.

Also: “improve your ability to work with people of many disciplines.”

Works every year. It doesn’t mean you’re bad at either. Even people excellent at these acknowledge the need to get even better.