MBA Essay Tips for writing on your career: Where have you been? Where are you going? How will you get there?

This is a straight-forward essay question about your career progressions till date. The admission committee wants to gain a complete insight of your profile through this essay. They want to understand you completely before they take any decision. Where you are now, from where you have landed up and where you are heading to are important to them. You simply need to discuss your career goals along with providing suitable justifications of why you had decided to pursue this career path.

The Admission committee is very particular in knowing your career goals. For them where you aim to go is equally important as from where you have landed up. They map your career goals and the school’s curriculum and look for strong reasons how the school can support your goals. The description of your career goal is a cardinal factor of you getting selected or rejected by the panel.

Your essay should define your way of perceiving your career goals. A magnificent career is something every individual dreams of, but you need to explain how sharp you are at your vision for achieving your committed goals. You need to prove in your essay that your vision is something unique from others. You might have career goals similar with many other applicants, but the ways you are planning to adopt to fulfill them has to be poles apart than others. Your essay should reflect your robust imagination power. Please visit our long-term and short-term goals writing tips page for further details on how to write about your goals in MBA admission essays.

You can focus on certain aspects while crafting your career statement: 

• State your vision statement clear enough to make the admission committee understand what you are dreaming of.
• Focus on what has led you to develop this kind of career path.
• What has inspired you to mould yourself into such a visionary mission?
• Describe what personal traits in you will enable you to successfully fulfill your career goals.
• How do you find this career path interesting and the reason as of why you have chosen this specific career path?

You can narrate about those decisions that have helped you to shape your vision and motivate you to pursue the MBA program. Give credible reasons for your decision, and explain why you believe that this school`s program will help you overcome your ambivalence. Please visit the why MBA page for futher detail.