People with goals succeed because they know where they're going - Earl Nightingale

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Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn this vision of the future into reality.

The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts. You'll also quickly spot the distractions that would otherwise lure you from your course.

Mr Teo Ee Sing, founder and Executive Director of the Financial Courses Division of Sunway University College, also known as SUNWAY-TES, speaks to Accountant Key about his personal life.

What would be your greatest achievement so far?

It would be my greatest achievement and also of SUNWAY-TES when we officially managed to secure the premier plus status back in year 2003, just 3 years after ACCA came up with the award to quality tuition providers all around the world. SUNWAY-TES was the first tuition provider outside UK to proudly clinch this award, whereby stringent criterias have to be fulfilled in order to qualify for the award.

Three engineers and three accountants are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three accountants each buy tickets and watch as the three engineers buy only a single ticket.

"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks an accountant. "Watch and you'll see," answers an engineer. They all board the train. The accountants take their respective seats but all three engineers cram into a restroom and close the door behind them.

The terms 'Curriculum Vitae' and 'resume' are generally interchangeable. However, few people know that they do differ in many ways. It is true that both are lists of the most relevant information of a person pertaining to job seeking. Both are used for the same purpose - i.e. seeking employment.

However, there are a few basic differences, i.e. while the Curriculum Vitae represents an in-depth and structured information about the professional experience and qualification of a person, the resume usually is the same thing in a very short form - hence, the name. The resume would usually represent a skeletal representation of what would otherwise be included in depth and detail in the Curriculum Vitae. This is why typically a CV would be two to three pages while the resume would not normally exceed one page.