The objective of a Career Goals essay is to gauge whether the student’s career goals will be met by doing an MBA programme or not. Before you start writing a career goals essay, you should be able to answer the following questions:
- What are your short and long term career goals?
- Why is MBA necessary for you? (here you can write about the skills that you lack despite your educational qualification and professional experience.)
- Why MBA at this stage of your life?
- Why do you think a particular Business School is right for you?
- What would be your contribution to the school?
In these kind of essays a lot may depend on the career choices that you have chalked out for yourself in past. Your decision to choose a specific stream during the school time, the kind of undergraduate subjects that you took or the kind of interest groups that have been a part of so far. All should be connected in some way to prepare you for your short term goal- post MBA job- and your long term goals. You should be able to define the kind of role you want to play in an organization, and how do you plan to achieve such goals. For example a Charted Accountant can make strong pointers in pursuing an MBA in Finance as well as joining a Finance club in college as a contribution to the college community.
If you are changing your field, do a through research on the field that you plan to choose during your MBA.
A clear career goal and focus is what admission committee looks for in a candidate. A few candidates may not have a well charted career path because of many reasons, there a candidate should be able to justify himself. Honestly. A thorough research on a Business school is a must before writing any good application essay. Your research my consist of making contacts with alumni, visiting the school campus, getting your doubts cleared via mails or browsing through the websites of particular schools. A thorough research would reflect your interest in school as well as in building a good impression among the admission committee members, who definitely would like to know whether you are serious about attending the school or not.
Give a personal touch to your essay. An essay should reflect you as a person and not someone who wrote an essay for you. Always write your essay yourself and get it read by a few people such as friends, teachers, colleagues etc. who can give you an honest opinion about your essay.
Remember: A career goals essay should not merely be a summary of your resume. Your resume answers the question ‘what’ and you career goals essay should answer the question ‘why.’
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Thanks for the post dagny.The ultimate purpose for any person to get into B-school is to earn money.Is their any polished way to explain things to the ad coms.
Hi Vignesh,
There are two basic questions that one must definitely know how to answer. These are:
Why MBA?
Why XYZ School?
You have to tell the adcom that you are aware of the fact that there is no shortcut to success and that you are willing to put in what it takes to achieve your goals.This must follow by describing how MBA would benefit you and fit in your career goals. The programme offered by school would benefit you if you enter it with specific and clear objectives in mind.The best way is to connect your reasons with something specific to the program offered by the school. These reasons may be a specialization offered by school that is unique of its own kinds, location, teaching methedology, clubs,or the culture of the school.
Do a thorough reserch of the school website before you write essays or prepare for interviews. Also, never feel hesitant to write a mail to the alumni or admin, in case you need to clear any specific query.
Good Luck
Dagny
hi vignesh this is manish .well i have taken up the exams and now its time to fill up the forms.these forms require me to write essays about basically two questions “why mba” and “why an mba in finance”.the forms clearly states that some marks are given on the basis of these essays.and that makes me a little nervous.both the essays have to be in 300 words.i request you to help me out in the same by sending me a specimen of the same if it isint too much to ask.i m a commerce graduate.
Hi Manish,
Vignesh is a TGite and is CAT 2009 student. As far as writing tips on why mba and why xyz course, I would write an article on the same in the coming days.
I was thinking of writing an article on a different topic but I think now I will bring this article first.
From which schools have you got calls?
well first of all many a thanks for responding.well i havent got any up till now but i m sure of getting the calls from wellingkar kirloskar liba ifmr.all of them thru xat.i got 87 percentile.well i was wondering if you could be a little faster as my last date runs out by 27 th of this month.i m really sorry to press so hard upon it but my situation demands the same. and once again thanks for being so affable
Two days and the article would be up.
thanks very much.you r really a grt help.
can u pls …pls help me with an essay of around 300 words on career goals,
currently i work with a company & want to pursue MBA…PLS URGENTLY REQUIRED….
GOD bless
Hi Manoj,
We don’t offer essay editing services as of now.
Update: We have started offering our Essay Editing Services, you can contact us regarding the same.
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