In fact, to understand why you want to study for an MBA, you might as well consider the following three elements: self-awareness, career goals and application requirements.
Correct self-awareness
Having a clear self-awareness and goal definition in everything is the first step, but it is also the most important step. "A ship without a course, any wind it encounters is against the wind." For MBA candidates, they generally have at least 3 years' working experience. By reviewing your study and career, you can know what your strengths and weaknesses are and have a clearer understanding of your knowledge structure and career development.
Specifically, MBA candidates can consider the following aspects:
1) Do you know what you value most and what you like to do best? ;
2) Have a clear understanding of your environment, and what factors have the greatest impact on your success? ;
3) Know your current knowledge structure? What part is missing? What kind of knowledge do you want to acquire in the future?
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Clear career goals
Self-knowledge is the key to identify and evaluate internal and external factors. It can help you better choose an environment conducive to your development. Through self-identification, you can know your own advantages, know what you like best, and make it easier to define your career goals.
There is no life without planning. For many people, a good career goal planning is not only the basis of a person's foothold in society, but also an important guarantee to reflect personal values. Only a certain profession that you like and are good at can you persist in the face of challenges, generate accumulation and concentration, and further develop your potential. MBA can add specific business skills to your toolkit, such as leadership or strategic thinking, which is a good weapon when applying for management positions or promotion.
Generally speaking, candidates should comprehensively consider what they like when determining their career plans. What are you good at? What significance and achievements will it bring to you?
Determine application requirements
Through in-depth understanding of yourself and clear career goals, you can make your application needs clearer. Do you study MBA to help you further in your current job? Or as a way to change jobs? Is an MBA essential to your current field or position? Only when you have a clear understanding of your own needs for applying for an MBA will you not blindly follow suit. For example:
1. An IT engineer with strong professional skills wants to expand his business field and transform into a management position.
2. A team leader with good career development momentum hopes to further enhance his leadership.
3. A young man who is dissatisfied with his current industry and position hopes to find a career change or a more suitable development opportunity through further study.
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Finally, Hua Zhang's interview teacher once said: "MBAer is someone who is willing to invest two or three years and a lot of money to make himself stronger." People who have this kind of motivation and self-demand, can we not look at each other differently? " Therefore, in the face of the business school interviewer's questions, we must show confidence and determination, and let the interviewer know his initial intention of applying for MBA, so as to gain the interviewer's trust and achieve good results in the interview!
Business school is like a door, through which people can better understand themselves and see the world clearly; Getting an MBA degree is not the end of learning, but the starting point for continuing self-learning and enjoying learning.