This is an example plan. Use it as a starting point for your own Goal Map.
Choose one target use case
Define what competent work looks like in a real role before choosing courses or tools.
Assess current gaps against three job descriptions
Separate required analysis skills from optional tools and company-specific preferences.
Build a six-week practice plan
Protect weekly learning, applied practice, and project time around the ranked gaps.
Complete one guided analysis
Work from a clean dataset and explain each decision instead of copying steps silently.
Complete one independent analysis
Clean a messy dataset and answer a useful question without a step-by-step guide.
Publish both projects
Add a short explanation of the question, method, result, and what you would improve next.
Ask two practitioners to review the work
Request specific criticism against the target-role standard.
Fix the repeated weaknesses
Prioritize issues both reviewers notice or that directly violate the readiness standard.
Complete one timed case
Work under a realistic constraint and explain the result as if handing it to a stakeholder.
