College Admissions Essay: Achieving My Career Goals

My career path is to be a nurse and help the unwilling and disabled... My dream is to become a successful person and influence the younger generation to the same for their

My life has been an ongoing stuggle, but my hard work, determination, and enthusiasm for my education have enabled me to pursure my dreams. My academic plans are to major in pre-occupational therapy. After graduating and completing the prerequisite, I plan to obtain a license in Occupational Therapy by attending OT School. Success does not come from a pay check. For me, helping and assisting others acheive their goals is the purest form of success. I want to travel and eventually settle down in my hometown. My overall career goal is to give back to the community that shaped me into the person I am. I am a hardworking-dedicated student, who focuses on my work, yet I have always enjoyed being involved in extracirricular activities. As you can see from my application, I enjoy sports and clubs. In the following year, I plan to get deeper involved

My career goal is to become a pathologist. Pathologists are like detectives, anxious to crack medical mysteries such as cancer, AIDS, and diabetes. Every disease that is on the surface of this earth is as important as the other because they have that same heartbreaking effect. One disease that I would care solve is cancer. I recently saw a picture of a little that was suffering from cancer, unfortunately, cancer won, but the picture is so heartbreaking because I can see the pain that she was in. That is just one example of the millions of individuals suffering from this disease. Everyone have one life to enjoy, I truly feel that if I am capable of finding a cure and erase this scare. I would love for a cure to be discovered sooner than later

My career goal is to become a Wildlife Biologist, I have selected this career because I have had the opportunity to volunteer with the DNR headquarters in my town. The past four years with putting in over 64 hours of field work doing a variety of different tasks. I have found wildlife biology to be my passion after tracking endangered turtles four years

Growing up, I always imagined that I would go into the Food Science field. My father had a great career in the food industry and had influenced me to pursue a career that fed the world. I

Since I was a child I always had a 3 goals in life, one was to become a veterinarian, second was to be a teacher, and my last one is to become a health care administrator.

I always enjoyed caring for people and making sure they are feeling well, as a child I would buy first aid kits and cover my stuffed animals with band aids or play nurse with my uncle and wrap his arm with bandages and take his temperature. It has always been in my nature to care for others, it is inevitable that my mission in life to keep on and care for those in need.

stop what she was doing to greet me back with the biggest smile and the

Participation in this program will support me and my goals to be the first person in my family to receive higher than a bachelor’s degree. I plan to receive my Ph.D. in abnormal child psychology, and I am currently in early education and care at my high school as my career path. I truly believe that I connect on a personal level with children and my interest in mental illnesses and why they occur fits into that career description perfectly. I would like to leave Delaware and experience the world, starting with where I attend college. Louisiana State University, Spellman University, or Texas A&M are my top 3 colleges that I would love to attend and pursue my career goals. I aspire to be very successful in everything that I have planned to do

I have many goals for 2017, but three are more important to me than the others. This year, I would like to work to make more accurate shots in basketball, so that I can make the traveling team next week, or perhaps next year. I need to become superior with singing my song I will perform in this year’s play. I can also have stunning grades if I can get into the habit of asking exactly what we are supposed to do for assignments in class. By working to achieve these goals, I can compete with myself to become the best I can possibly be. By completing these goals in 2017, I can also be more prepared for college. As H. Jackson Brown Jr. put it, “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

     Over the past few decades, people have drastically changed the way they choose their career. Times have changed a great deal, and people no longer feel forced into a certain profession. People are now given endless choices and possibilities, and it is up to them to decide what they want to do the rest of their lives. When facing these important decisions, it is very easy to become confused. I once was very uncertain about any career goals I may have had, but now, I am more sure of the direction my life is going.

For someone who doesn’t like thinking about the future and rather just roll with the punches, I suppose, I found things that I hold important now that I want to carry to find important for the rest of my life. So less like goals and more like values it still took me quite a while to find things that I held important or things I wanted from the future. Actually, I had asked a couple of my old friends to see what their goals were my age, and to see if they had accomplished any of those goals. Through finding out other people’s goals it was much easier to identify my goals, like pursing further education or what I wanted to do with that education. Being a person where my education has more effort put into it than my personal hobbies I found it

Everyone, if you’re lucky enough, has a moment in their lives where a single incident occurs that forces a complete and total reevaluation of any future path. For some it’s the birth of a child or for others, finding out that there is really such a thing as life after death. However, there are far too many that discover life altering experiences are not so pleasurable. For those like myself, there is a darkness that falls upon us within seconds. Evil rears its ugly head and, for what feels like a million years, focuses only on destruction.

Career progression is the aim for most workers, but career development is not something most of us think regularly. But without proper understanding of what we want from our career and how we can achieve our goals quicker, we can quickly end up dissatisfied with our jobs.

What is your career goal? What steps have you taken (or will take) to reach your goal?