career goals are not built up from nowhere. they'd better develop from your past experience, this is why some schools ask explicitly about your career progression. even if you want to transfer to another industry post-mba, you have to relate your past experience with your future goals, i.e. how you find consulting/banking interesting even if your are an engineer, your understanding toward your target industry, how your skills gleaned from past experience could be transferred to the new job, etc.
i think the major elements for why mba topic could be the same from school to school, but we should adjust the length of each element according to how this question is asked.
my structure for this topic would be: what i want to do in the future, my career progression and how i develop the interest in my future job, the gap between my current skill set/knowledge and what is required by the future job, why i need an mba to bridge the gap, why this school specific. |