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Duke Fuqua Post-MBA Career Goals Essay (Healthcare to Retail)

Some applicants are already in their ideal job function. The challenge is that the person has worked with only one employer. Unfortunately, the company is a specialist solution provider for an industry.

In this example, the applicant faced incredible growth within the organization, jumping from Operations Associate to Operations Associate Consultant to Operations Consultant – all within three years.

The scale of the responsibility has also increased from managing an 8 to 10-person team to now managing a 30-person team.

Although rewarding during COVID, the specialization of managing compensation of Pharma reps in 5 countries, assisting with an in-house omnichannel platform, and facilitating the fast rollout of covid vaccines, typecast the person into one industry.

Since Retail has similar and unique operations challenges, with a Duke MBA, the applicant plans to join a retail employer as an operations consultant.

Q) What are your post-MBA career goals? Share with us your first-choice career plan and your alternate plan.

Sample Post-MBA Career Goals (100 Words) (Healthcare to Retail)

I joined X – a client servicing specialist for the Pharma industry, and transitioned from Engineering to Consulting. The pandemic required that we rapidly..

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