Short-term career goals are targets you believe will help you achieve your long-term career objectives. Short-term goals are achievable and meant to keep you motivated on your journey to your larger, long-term goals. Short-term career goals should also help you meet specific work-related objectives over a shorter period, perhaps in 12 months or less.

Clarifying your short-term goals is the key to delivering a memorable response. If you're unsure of what qualifies as a short-term goal, consider a few of these examples:

- Completing a new certification, workshop, or course
- Improving soft skills such as communication or networking
- Improving hard skills such as becoming a power user in a particular program
- Reading more business books related to your industry or profession

When discussing short-term career goals, be sure that these goals are clear and related to the job opportunity at Pfizer. You can break down your response using this simple framework:

"In the short term, I would like to (insert an achievable goal). So far, I have (describe the action steps you've taken so far). To meet this goal, I plan to (discuss the action steps you plan to take)."

The average HireVue interview takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. This one-way video interview typically includes three to five questions. Depending on the hiring company's parameters, the HireVue platform will generally give you 30 seconds to prepare a response and up to two minutes to answer each question. It's important to note that HireVue stops recording as soon as your time limit is up, so it's better to run under time than overtime.

"Having just started to thrive in my career path in quality assurance, my short-term career goals are to continue to develop my skills in defining process strategies, sampling, and completion of all regulatory documents in the quality process. At Pfizer, your Process Validation Manager position fits all my skills while allowing me to grow and thrive in the booming pharmaceutical industry."