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4.21 TIME MANAGEMENT
Why use time management skills?
It's important that you develop effective strategies for managing
your time to balance the conflicting demands of time for study,
leisure, earning money and jobhunting. Time management skills
are valuable in jobhunting, but also in many other aspects of life:
from revising for examinations to working in a vacation job.
Sometimes it may seem that there isn't enough time to do
everything that you need to. This can lead to a build up of stress.
When revising for examinations, or during your final year when
you have to combine the pressures of intensive study with
finding time to apply for jobs good management of your time can
be particularly important. Once we have identified ways in which
we can improve the management of our time, we can begin to
adjust our routines and patterns of behaviour to reduce any
time-related stress in our lives.
What skills are required for effective time management?
Some skills involved are:
Setting clear goals,
Breaking your goals down into discreet steps
Reviewing your progress towards your goals
Prioritising - focusing on urgent and important tasks rather
than those that are not important or don't move you towards
your goals;
Organising your work schedule; list making to remind you of
what you need to do when; persevering when things are not
working out
Avoiding procrastination.
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