All the posts in this series: Overall Strategy, Accomplishments, Mistake, Option 1, Option 2, Option 3, and Option 4. My post on HBS interviews can be found here. My post on HBS recommendation questions can be found here. 2. What is your career vision and why is this choice meaningful to you? While I think it is important that the MBA Admissions Board understand what motivates you, I don't believe that you necessarily have to answer this essay topic to tell them that. While many applicants are likely to want to answer this question, if you want to set yourself apart from the pack, don't do it unless your answer is really very compelling. Hot Essays: November 2020 for why HBS admissions made this question optional is because they don't want to read standard obligatory goals essays. This has been part of trend at HBS which began when they stopped asking about why applicants want to attend there. I think they decided that asking that particular "Why HBS?" question was not interesting and probably not sufficiently helpful in selecting who would necessarily succeed at HBS.
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As I have mentioned in my first post in this series, it is possible to express your future academic and professional objectives in another essay question. An answer to this question that is not compelling is a poor use of your limited essay space. If you know your career goals are fairly generic and lack a strong visionary aspect to them, don't write on this topic. Instead, create an overall essay strategy that includes with in at least one of your four essays a clear explanation of why you want an HBS education and your potential to succeed at HBS and afterwords. While you will certainly have to explain your goals in an HBS interview, if you know your career vision is not one of the more interesting subjects you have to write about, don't write this essay. At a strategic application level, all applicants should go through the process of analyzing their goals in detail. Chances are quite high that if your are interviewed by HBS, you will be asked about your goals.
Hence, having essays that account for your goals even indirectly or in limited detail is an important part of having an overall application strategy. Even if your career vision is absolutely clear to you, I suggest going through a formal process of MBA goals formulation. You can use my GAP, SWOT, AND ROI TABLE FOR FORMULATING GRADUATE DEGREE GOALS for this purpose (see below). YoungFemaleScientist: Career Goals And Statement Of Purpose think Gap, SWOT, and ROI analysis are great ways for understanding what your goals are, why you want a degree, and how you will use it. To best view the following table, click on it. Step 1. Begin by analyzing your "Present Situation." What Adam Markus: Graduate Admissions Guru: 2/1/14 - 3/1/14 (s) have you held? What was/is your functional role(s)? What was/are your responsibilities? Next, analyze your present strengths and weaknesses for succeeding in your present career. REMEMBER: WHEN YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT YOUR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESS DON'T ONLY THINK ABOUT WORK, THINK ABOUT OTHER ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE. In particular, some of your greatest strengths may have been demonstrated outside of work, so make sure you are accounting for them. Strengths: What are you good at?
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Where do you add value? What are you praised for? What are you proud of? Weakness: What are you bad at? What are you criticized for? What do you try to avoid due to your own limitations? What do you fear? Next, analyze the environment you work in right now. What opportunities exist for your growth and success? What threats could limit your career growth? Step 2. Now, do the same thing in Step 1 for your "Post-Degree" future after you have earned your graduate degree. IF YOU CANNOT COMPLETE STEP 2, YOU HAVE NOT SUFFICIENTLY PLANNED FOR YOUR FUTURE and therefore you need to do more research and need to think more about it. Step 3. If you could complete step 2, than you should see the "Gap" between your present and your future. What skills, knowledge, and other resources do you need to close the gap between your present and future responsibilities, strengths, and opportunities? Step 4. After completing Step 3, you now need to determine how an MBA will add value to you.
All the posts in this series: Overall Strategy, Accomplishments, Mistake, Option 1, Option 2, Option 3, and Option 4. My post on HBS interviews can be found here. My post on HBS recommendation questions can be found here. 2. What is your career vision and why is this choice meaningful to you? While I think it is important that the MBA Admissions Board understand what motivates you, I don't believe that you necessarily have to answer this essay topic to tell them that. While many applicants are likely to want to answer this question, if you want to set yourself apart from the pack, don't do it unless your answer is really very compelling. Hot Essays: November 2020 for why HBS admissions made this question optional is because they don't want to read standard obligatory goals essays. This has been part of trend at HBS which began when they stopped asking about why applicants want to attend there. I think they decided that asking that particular "Why HBS?" question was not interesting and probably not sufficiently helpful in selecting who would necessarily succeed at HBS.
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As I have mentioned in my first post in this series, it is possible to express your future academic and professional objectives in another essay question. An answer to this question that is not compelling is a poor use of your limited essay space. If you know your career goals are fairly generic and lack a strong visionary aspect to them, don't write on this topic. Instead, create an overall essay strategy that includes with in at least one of your four essays a clear explanation of why you want an HBS education and your potential to succeed at HBS and afterwords. While you will certainly have to explain your goals in an HBS interview, if you know your career vision is not one of the more interesting subjects you have to write about, don't write this essay. At a strategic application level, all applicants should go through the process of analyzing their goals in detail. Chances are quite high that if your are interviewed by HBS, you will be asked about your goals.
Hence, having essays that account for your goals even indirectly or in limited detail is an important part of having an overall application strategy. Even if your career vision is absolutely clear to you, I suggest going through a formal process of MBA goals formulation. You can use my GAP, SWOT, AND ROI TABLE FOR FORMULATING GRADUATE DEGREE GOALS for this purpose (see below). YoungFemaleScientist: Career Goals And Statement Of Purpose think Gap, SWOT, and ROI analysis are great ways for understanding what your goals are, why you want a degree, and how you will use it. To best view the following table, click on it. Step 1. Begin by analyzing your "Present Situation." What Adam Markus: Graduate Admissions Guru: 2/1/14 - 3/1/14 (s) have you held? What was/is your functional role(s)? What was/are your responsibilities? Next, analyze your present strengths and weaknesses for succeeding in your present career. REMEMBER: WHEN YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT YOUR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESS DON'T ONLY THINK ABOUT WORK, THINK ABOUT OTHER ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE. In particular, some of your greatest strengths may have been demonstrated outside of work, so make sure you are accounting for them. Strengths: What are you good at?
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Where do you add value? What are you praised for? What are you proud of? Weakness: What are you bad at? What are you criticized for? What do you try to avoid due to your own limitations? What do you fear? Next, analyze the environment you work in right now. What opportunities exist for your growth and success? What threats could limit your career growth? Step 2. Now, do the same thing in Step 1 for your "Post-Degree" future after you have earned your graduate degree. IF YOU CANNOT COMPLETE STEP 2, YOU HAVE NOT SUFFICIENTLY PLANNED FOR YOUR FUTURE and therefore you need to do more research and need to think more about it. Step 3. If you could complete step 2, than you should see the "Gap" between your present and your future. What skills, knowledge, and other resources do you need to close the gap between your present and future responsibilities, strengths, and opportunities? Step 4. After completing Step 3, you now need to determine how an MBA will add value to you.