关于career goal的合理性问题？

autumn1015

这两天非常痛苦的准备essay-career goal的部分，想请教一下大家关于short-term和long-term career goal的合理性或者说是可行性的问题？

我的背景是：本科accounting, 现在在做industry corporate finance, 主要focus在external reporting,  compliance and governance这块。

我的Long-term goal 是做CFO, 读MBA是想在系统的学习一下corporate finance 里面M&A，strategic planning部分，因此post-MBA short term goal 是回到Industry里面做corporate development manager，也就是corporate 内部的M&A 和Strategic planning 什么的。但是我不知道这个short-term goal是否可行？因为最近做了一些search发先很多500强的corporate development manager 都是从consulting firm转过来的， 所以如果之前没有这方面相关的工作经验，没有做过consultant,只是通过MBA学习了这方面课程是不是毕业也很难找到这样的工作？

dl0222

The logic is reversed
setting a fancy goal first and find ways to convince Adcoms will mostly get a ding
while being authentic is key

So first, find out why MBA now
sometimes it simply because you hate your current job and try to get out of your office
If so, then when Adcoms see you write something about an extravaganza way above your current job, then you might get a pretty solid ding
since it goes directly against your behavioral evidence

Your goals have to be generated authentically from your interested skills, personal values, and social purposes
So look back and see what do you enjoy the most in your job
and what industrial/social problems you've experienced that you want to spend the rest of life changing it

Once you find the connection between these problems and your personal values
Then you're pretty much on the right track

Here are some suggestions
find out what you like in accounting or finance
see if you're really good at it, did you get promotion for that?
If yes, then a career advancement track sounds like a decent plan
If no, then a career switching track should be the story
then again, find out what skills do you enjoy
then integrate them into a calling, instead of a title in career ladder