Need to vent for a second. Is there anything more useless than goal setting during annual review time? Like yes, I promise to be a good employee and keep trying this year. Like what else do you need? I'm job hunting anyways and I'm not sure any recruiter out there is going to care or ask if I am currently meeting my 2026 goals at my current employer 😂

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This is finance, it’s a business of moving numbers around…! do all of my. 2026 business plans and goal setting in February…,

The recruiters may not care, the hiring managers cars… do you think they pay some company 75%-125% of your base salary for fun?

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Do you think that I think that?

That's just part of modern business, everything has to be quantified in some way. And there's probably some legal basis embedded in it. If you make people aware of goals, and have it on the record that they know what's expected, it makes it easier if the company decides to terminate them for not hitting the goals.

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That makes sense. I guess at my company it is so hard to terminate anyone due to underperformance that I feel like it makes goals kind of pointless for everyone.

Depends on your role but I generally agree with you

I'm in Operations. So I feel like I set the same goals every year. Keep things running smoothly, etc. Not like I'm hitting Marketing or sales targets

It’s the fact that my company doesn’t implement anything to measure these goals against. There’s no follow up. And they aren’t included in our annual review process. It’s literally just a box to check off at this point. A collective “we’re doing things” checklist.

If they're not even following up on goals then that's just bad management haha sorry you have to deal with that.

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