Insead Essay

Question: Discuss your career goals. What skills do you expect to gain from studying at INSEAD and how will they contribute to your professional career.

"Congratulations on completing your internship. I'm offering you an attorney position at our firm. However, I'd like you to consider a more business-oriented position becoming my right-hand-man at my new company."

This offer by our firm's head partner who'd been nominated as a Chairman at another company, was the wake-up-call I needed. It made me realize that my passion was to lead a decision-making career.

The Telecom field is one of my country’s most competitive and exciting industries. Afterwards, I hope to become V.P. of Corporate Development for a cellular operator in my country. Since the Telecom industry is very strategy-driven, taking a decision-making role in Strategy will provide the perfect stepping-stone to realizing my long-term aim of becoming the company's CEO.

In order to fulfill such goals, my short-run objectives are to acquire the best academic tools available and combine them with the substantial business experience I'll gain working post-graduation as an Associate in a leading management consulting firm such as BCG or McKinsey.

INSEAD’s MBA Programme will best prepare me for the road ahead. It will complement my legal and corporate background in developing my understanding of fields I lack experience in: finance, HR, marketing and production. INSEAD’s courses Managing Media Companies and Market Driving Strategies, are bound to be a tremendous learning experience towards managing a Telecom company. Studying the "Blue Ocean Strategy" with Renée Mauborgne and Chan Kim, ranked among "The Thinkers 50"'s top ten most influential thinkers, will provide me with useful insights I'll utilize upon returning to the ruby-red ocean of the Telecom industry in my country.

On a more direct level, participating in one of the many consulting internships offered to INSEAD students will provide me...