Hi all. This is for the career plan question for Chevening Scholarship. The prompt is as follows.
Chevening is looking for individuals who have a clear post-study career plan. Outline your immediate plans upon returning home and your longer term career goals, considering how these relate to UK priorities in your country.
There are a lot of UK priorities for my countries, however, the one that is suitable for my goal is Economics and Public Sector Management. Can you tell that from reading my essay? Or not? I feel like my essay is still vague and not clear/specific enough when it comes to the plan. So your feedbacks are much appreciated and welcomed. Thank you in advance.
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With maladies that have been going on, Indonesia is still far away from true democracy that it aspires to achieve. Questionable transparency coaxes people to blame government officials, but people sometimes neglect the fact that Indonesia is a very populated, large archipelago, which makes implementations and enforcements onerous. It has always been my dream to be involved in the nation's development process in the field that I am most able in, Business and Economics; I want to make sure that Indonesia's ambitious development goals are not merely wishful thinking, starting from myself. However, I don't have prior experience in development-aid organizations that allows me to comprehensively understand how our government body works. Although it is why I want to pursue further study in the courses that I have chosen previously, people may still see my lack of experience as an issue.
A friend who is in the industry, and is currently in a project to improve accessibility of clean water to all islands and rural areas of Indonesia once told me, in order to understand how the whole anatomy of Indonesia works, and to know what action plans to recommend, we have to take a "dive" into it rather than observes from the shoreline, as there are lot of immaculate planning and donors involved. There is only so much we can grasp through exchanging information, which prompts me to "take a leap" as I believe more is learned by doing the actions.
With that in mind, my first objective is to gain sufficient industry experience. My immediate plan would be to return to my home country and seek employment with management consulting companies in advisory or consultancy division, as it pertains to my entrepreneurial vision and my end-career goal of being an expert/consultant. I understand that securing a position in renowned management consulting companies can be very competitive, which is why during my master's, I intend to distinguish myself from others by participating in student organization that will polish my leadership skills.
As a consultant, I will be directly helping the development of many organizations and companies in Indonesia, whereby it will prepare and ready them for the soon-approaching ASEAN Economics Community/AEC, consequently impacting both our Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. Moreover, this position will also allow me to network with many influential people, including business owners or government officials. After 5-7 years of sufficient experiences in the industry, with the networks and skills that I have established, my next objective is to become specialist manpower in public agencies and municipalities, especially the ministry of industries and development.
With the experiences that I will obtain, I can contribute a lot to the development of Indonesia, from helping more Small-to-Medium-Enterprises survive the competitions, easing aspiring entrepreneurs to do business that will boost local employment, to even improving social-education and rural development. In the future, I see myself creating an organization of my own where I can continue to serve Indonesia, and help its social and economic development to the best of my ability.
Chevening is looking for individuals who have a clear post-study career plan. Outline your immediate plans upon returning home and your longer term career goals, considering how these relate to UK priorities in your country.
There are a lot of UK priorities for my countries, however, the one that is suitable for my goal is Economics and Public Sector Management. Can you tell that from reading my essay? Or not? I feel like my essay is still vague and not clear/specific enough when it comes to the plan. So your feedbacks are much appreciated and welcomed. Thank you in advance.
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With maladies that have been going on, Indonesia is still far away from true democracy that it aspires to achieve. Questionable transparency coaxes people to blame government officials, but people sometimes neglect the fact that Indonesia is a very populated, large archipelago, which makes implementations and enforcements onerous. It has always been my dream to be involved in the nation's development process in the field that I am most able in, Business and Economics; I want to make sure that Indonesia's ambitious development goals are not merely wishful thinking, starting from myself. However, I don't have prior experience in development-aid organizations that allows me to comprehensively understand how our government body works. Although it is why I want to pursue further study in the courses that I have chosen previously, people may still see my lack of experience as an issue.
A friend who is in the industry, and is currently in a project to improve accessibility of clean water to all islands and rural areas of Indonesia once told me, in order to understand how the whole anatomy of Indonesia works, and to know what action plans to recommend, we have to take a "dive" into it rather than observes from the shoreline, as there are lot of immaculate planning and donors involved. There is only so much we can grasp through exchanging information, which prompts me to "take a leap" as I believe more is learned by doing the actions.
With that in mind, my first objective is to gain sufficient industry experience. My immediate plan would be to return to my home country and seek employment with management consulting companies in advisory or consultancy division, as it pertains to my entrepreneurial vision and my end-career goal of being an expert/consultant. I understand that securing a position in renowned management consulting companies can be very competitive, which is why during my master's, I intend to distinguish myself from others by participating in student organization that will polish my leadership skills.
As a consultant, I will be directly helping the development of many organizations and companies in Indonesia, whereby it will prepare and ready them for the soon-approaching ASEAN Economics Community/AEC, consequently impacting both our Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. Moreover, this position will also allow me to network with many influential people, including business owners or government officials. After 5-7 years of sufficient experiences in the industry, with the networks and skills that I have established, my next objective is to become specialist manpower in public agencies and municipalities, especially the ministry of industries and development.
With the experiences that I will obtain, I can contribute a lot to the development of Indonesia, from helping more Small-to-Medium-Enterprises survive the competitions, easing aspiring entrepreneurs to do business that will boost local employment, to even improving social-education and rural development. In the future, I see myself creating an organization of my own where I can continue to serve Indonesia, and help its social and economic development to the best of my ability.
