Graduate schools, especially top business and management schools, require prospective applicants to write a career goal statement, which is simply an essay that describes the applicants short and long term professional goals. The goal statement is a way to let the admissions committee know your career aspirations. While writing the goal statement, you must provide your vision of the future of your career.

Here is an example of a statement of career goals that helped the applicant get into top MBA programs in the US.

Statement of Career Goals Example 1

My long-term goal is to create a Fintech investment platform, an area with vast potential, to provide innovative products designed especially for the low and middle-income segments. For this, post-MBA, I want to expand the reach of my start-up, Alpha Financial, further. Specifically, I aim to introduce novel microfinance products like the first privately managed future derivative trading terminal with the lowest spread to ensure that the masses can access this opportunity.

My professional career has equipped me with a solid understanding of finance, conducting due diligence, and sourcing deals. As a result, I feel ready to utilize the Kellogg MBA to enhance my knowledge, network, and leadership skills to grow my entrepreneurial venture.

I am very excited to study the Enternpenuership path at Kellogg, focusing on strategy. This pathway offers modules to help me deal effectively with issues such as creating unconventional financing channels. In addition, electives such as Global Entrepreneur Finance will equip me with essential skills and strategies to design financing options for my products.

Moreover, I am excited about engaging in Blockchain Technology, Digital Assets, and the Future of Finance, which will enhance my Fintech understanding and its application to solve lower strata problems. Outside the classroom, the Private Equity and Venture Capital Lab will provide me with unique opportunities to engage in in-depth discussions and build skills essential to become a better business leader.

Statement of Career Goals Example 2

My personal and professional experiences have exposed me to the harsh realities of the glass ceiling that women have to shatter in order to excel in their careers. My journey with human resources in organizational development and communications has strengthened my understanding of the role that capability development and effective organizational design can play in breaking these barriers. This has led to one of my biggest accomplishments – launching and leading the Women’s Club chapter at Coca-Cola. Here, I united 200 female colleagues onto a single platform that offered them company-wide mentorship through workshops and seminars. Now, I am more dedicated than ever to establishing a learning and development firm. This firm would advocate gender parity and will break barriers through a two-pronged approach. First, it will help organizations build gender-inclusive work environments. Second, it will dispense world-class leadership capacity-building for women. This two-pronged strategy will thus sustain a healthy pipeline of talented women leaders.

To turn my dream into a reality, it is essential that I first amplify my knowledge and upgrade my credentials. Doing so will help me prove that women can achieve anything they set their minds to. I must also equip myself with the tools to establish, lead and sustain a venture. Hence a mix of general management education, entrepreneurial skills and a global network at a top university will be a stepping-stone.

After graduation, I intend to join a leading learning and development firm, such as Dale Carnegie or BTS, that provides organizations with capability enhancement solutions. My MBA experience will give me with geographical proximity and an opportunity to network with organizations operating in New York. These firms have expertise in transforming organizations, driving behavioural change, and accelerating learning in a global context. I will concentrate on understanding their framework for designing scalable solutions. I am also much interested in learning their methods of measuring impact for continuous improvement and harnessing their vast network of global thought leaders.

In five years, I plan to leverage all my learning to the fullest upon return to Istanbul, where I will establish my entrepreneurial venture to enhance our women leaders’ capabilities. I will utilize the business acumen acquired from my MBA to sustain and scale my venture. I will import the knowledge, skills and methodologies of my professional experience to develop impactful and tailored learning solutions. My strategic cross-border network will allow my venture to introduce best practices and the latest research in the Turkish market, thereby creating a network of empowered global women leaders.

I dream that one day, successful women will be looked up to as professional role models and that the veil of ignorance and oppression will be lifted to create a meritocratic society rather than one divided along gendered lines.