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Duke Sample Goals and Alternative Plan Essay (IB to Entrepreneurship)

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

It could be an engagement with a non-profit or exposure to a client’s specific needs; applicants often encounter interesting career paths that are in stark contrast to what they are currently doing.

For a finance professional, the passion for creating a virtual reality platform for visualizing data turned into an interest in augmented reality and later sneaked into his passion for interior design. If the applicant mentions an MBA as a career transition into the interior designing business, the admissions team would be puzzled with the career choice. But with the right backstory and a bigger goal – starting a venture offering efficient and aesthetic interior space, the transition won’t seem outrageous.

Sample Post-MBA Career Goals (99 Words) (IB to Entrepreneurship)

I led the development of a data visualization took while working for <IB_firm_name>. The additional context that augmented reality offered built my interest in...

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