Mba Application Essay

A graduate business education seems to be the next logical step towards achieving my career goals and the best way to further my knowledge in the area of business administration. My reasons for pursuing this option have to do with my career objectives and my personal interest in this field. I elaborate on the same in the following paragraphs.

My professional goal is to work in a strategic business leadership role in the Software/IT industry. To be able to lead an organization successfully, one needs to understand the fundamental workings of the organization from the grassroots level. I have a sound understanding and grasp of technical concepts in the Information Technology, Computer software and hardware industry, thanks to my bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Delhi University, India, Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Oklahoma State University and about 6 years of work experience from top IT organizations like Dell Corp., IBM Corp., and Wipro Ltd.. I am strongly of the opinion that this technical knowledge, coupled with good managerial and business administration skills will enable me to successfully manage technical teams, handle business aspects of a technical company like resource management, pricing/marketing/branding of a product or a service, intelligently present technical solutions and strategic business proposals to clients, take key business decisions and thus, successfully lead an organization towards its vision. I believe that the time spent in good formal training is worth many years of experience based learning and hence I am committed to earning a graduate degree in business management from a premier business school like McCombs.

In my current role as a Support Escalation Engineer at Dell Corp., I interact heavily with clients, most of whom are Fortune 500 companies, troubleshooting their technical issues and providing technical consultancy services towards design and development of their business applications. I also lead technical teams in architecting technical and business solutions for our clients and I have also provided training on the same for new recruits and new teams. I have been involved in organizing recreational diversity meets as extracurricular activities, both in my current job and my previous job, where employees exchange information and ideas on different cultures, countries, languages etc. During this course, I have realized that motivating others to work for you requires great leadership skills. Equally important is the delegation capability