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Your essays should clearly describe career decisions to date and your
perception of your career goals. Since business schools like to enroll
future leaders, when you speak about your career progress and future
plans, you provide them an opportunity to ascertain whether or not you
could turn out to be a future leader by making the most of their program.
You need to show how you have progressed so far in your career and on that basis try to define the path you are likely to take in future. Well, they do ask you to write about your future plans too. But your past is looked at keenly since it adds credibility to claims you make about future achievements. While considering your past and future, you need to reflect on why you need an MBA now and how it would help you attain your goals. In simpler terms, you need to demonstrate that your past experiences qualify you to desire the future of your choice and an MBA is your ticket to get there. Career progression: Start by thinking about all the career-related decisions you’ve made till now. You laid the foundations of your career when you chose your undergraduate specialization. Think about what motivated you at that time. You learned new skills and your first degree qualified you either to get a job or continue further studies. What motivated you then? Delve into those months after you completed your undergraduate studies. Do you remember developing any new interests by then? What were your career plans when you took up your first job? How have they changed over the years? While on your job, did you discover any new aspects of your personality or work style? List the areas in which you excelled and all the new skills you developed. Consider all the job changes and reflect on the reasons that made you want to change. What did you gain or lose in the process? Think of all the new assignments you undertook and how you handled them. How did you feel about changing your style of working to suit the demands of the new assignment? Were you comfortable? Did you falter? What did you learn from each experience of success or failure? How good or bad are you at interacting with others at work? How do you manage your personal interests while on a job that requires the combined efforts of a variety of people with different temperaments and interests? Answering the above questions will give you an idea about how to project your career from the very beginning to the present. Future plans Students who are clear about their career goals make the most of MBA programs because they are able to focus on specific parts of the curriculum and prepare themselves to meet their career goals. But most applicants lack clarity about their career goals. Career goals cannot be learned from books. You need to dream up goals that capture your imagination and burn in your heart. Imagine you have just graduated from your dream school after two years of rigorous study. What kind of work would you like to do now? Think of it in stages. First, what would be the first job you want to take? Think of what you would really like to do immediately after graduation. Second, what would you like to be doing five years from graduation? Third, where do you imagine you would be twenty years after graduation? Prepare a career progress graph in your mind. Keep in mind the fact that your aim here is to fulfill your aspirations and leverage your strengths. What additional skills would you need to achieve the targets envisaged by you? Your response to this question will be the answer to the Why MBA? question. You may think about the responsibilities you want to shoulder in future, the positions you want to hold, the challenges you want to meet, new skills you want to gain, and the contributions you want to make. You must sound enterprising while writing your career plans. This will be possible only if your plans are concrete and you are truly enthusiastic about them. Reflecting on all this will take time. Be patient with yourself. Keep the questions in your head and pen down your thoughts as they pop up.
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