целеустремлённый

single-minded: David is single-minded, he wants only one thing. And he is consistent - he wants this thing all the days of his life;

(упорно работающий для достижения цели) perservering: He is a highly motivated, perservering and dedicated real estate agent, his personal motto is "Customer's Satisfaction First";

(твёрдый в своих стремлениях) resolute: How resolute are you?;

motivated: One way to stay motivated is to constantly remind yourself that a worth-while pay-off lies ahead.

Слово "self-motivated" в указанном словаре не приводится...

целеустремлённый
purposeful; committed, dedicated; (о человеке) single-minded, firm of purpose

лондонец уверен, что это слово можно к человеку применить?

я вообще не думал, что orientated можно сказать

Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary. New Digital Edition 2008

Orientated is currently preferred use in general British use. Oriented is prevalent in technical use, and in the US.

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutgrammar/oriented

goal-orientated person = 415
goal-oriented person = 149
persevering person = 266
single-minded person = 889
a motivated person = 543
resolute person = 228

Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language

ambitious (if your motivation comes from external stimuli)

go-getter: He's a real go-getter! (conversational)

"Goal-oriented" is a junk business buzzword, I would avoid it.

In your context: self-motivated, or motivated

right you are!

(чур, я за кадром!)

Аскер нуждается в переводе ""человек, имеющий глубокую личную цель или намеренье и способный настойчиво и последовательно продвигаться в направлении их реализации."".
потому `target-driven and motivated` причем именно совместно, будет моей рекомендацией. Повторюсь мой термин применяли живые люди - профессионалы в кадровой политике международного стандарта. Аскеру решать что весомее, безусловно.

And I have the right to despise the trends I observe in my own language. That word is trash, will be dead in another 5 to 6 years (if not much sooner), is not appropriate for the reader's context (as it is from the business world and should remain there), and should not hailed as some great development in the English language.

Leave the business buzz to the Mad Men and give me back my English!

Being target-driven is very different from being self-motivated (having an internal drive). Target-dirven is the donkey pulling the cart... he will go for that damned carrot if it kills him. But his motivation for pulling the cart is not self-motivation, it is driven by an external stimulus. This word may work fine in the world of HR but in the world of yoga it has no place.

I see you percept your competence so high that you can predict language (and cultural) changes for more than 5 years ahead! that`s cool.
You should be a financial forecast expert if you could see more than 18 months of current status to change to another. ))
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again, now you accept `target-driven` (I recall you yourself mentioned `driven` in this conversation about "целеустремленный")
That`s why I`ve offered the following - `target driven and motivated` for asker`s need. Then you met a new term for you (mind you are not `I-AM-AWARE-OF-ALL) and you started to quarrel trying to offence me by labelling my proposal with rude words like `trash` and rest.
Susan79, do you think that an individual who has no idea of a polite dispute has a right to stand for lingiustic expert??

Но над тем, что я тебе написал по существу (макроконтекст, в частности, жанр) ты ни на секунду не задумался. Похоже, что в голове у тебя аккурат предмет моего (как ты считаешь) ремесла. Новопасситом себе клизму сделай - снадобье быстрее достигнет проникнет туда, где у тебя генерируются...гм... мысли

Brings jasmine tea on a painted tray
and bends to kiss my frown away.
But I'm still still stuck in the August rain;
stuck out in the cloudburst once again.

The cover's on, the coast is clear.
We're all battened down, only us here.
But I'm still still stuck in the August rain;
stuck out in the cloudburst once again.
She walks between the lines
and she can read my signs.

Stuck out in the August rain:
Out in the cloudburst once again.

SINGLE-MINDED in my gloom.
I appear to revel in this darkened room.
But I'm still still stuck in the August rain;
stuck out in the cloudburst once again.
She walks between the lines
and she can read my signs.

Stuck out in the August rain:
Out in the cloudburst once again.

ПыСы: target-minded - формулировка HR для описания профпригодности офисных роботов, аха. Типа стрессоустойчивости и прочей муры, вне офиса смысла не имеющей. Целеустремленность в хорошем смысле слова - это что-то другое, не роботное.