Career goals and planning

Career Goals

Please discuss how you plan to achieve your short-term and long-term career goals. What challenges will you face and how will you leverage your professional and academic experiences to achieve these goals?

My very first short-term goal is to secure an admission into graduate school for a master in finance program, where I intend to enhance my current knowledge and build professional networks that will steer me to a supervisory position in the Structured Finance Group of an established financial institution such as Latham & Watkins or Sandler & O'Neill. I look forth to supervising a group of between 5 and 8 by the end of my degree program. This will not only give me an opportunity to market my skills within the company and beyond, but will also be a door-opener for the realization of my middle-term goal, which is to be the leader of the structured finance group for the company I work for, supervising at least fifty employees. In the long-term, I look forth to occupying the senior most position of leadership in the company, where I will be able to position it as one of the leading advisors in the private label asset-based securitization market internationally, and make it a model organization for beginner companies. I aspire to use my position to build an organizational culture that appreciates the role of the community in the financial market, and looks out to make it a better place by transforming previously-underdeveloped zones into flourishing industrial centers. I look forth to following the trend of renowned executives who succeeded by doing something different for the communities within which they operate.

Once I have made the company what I would want it to be, I want to move to the public sector and occupy an influential managerial position in the Treasury, where I intend to use my skill to serve people on a larger scale, away from the profit motive - where I will just serve and give back to the American community for making me the person that I am.

Structured finance has always been my passion. I admire the dynamic nature of the financial market, and I admire structured finance because it keeps up with this dynamism; it keeps the money market going, and we are able to enjoy the financial products that we have today because someone kept pace with dynamism and accurately predicted that we would need such and such a product at some point in future. I want to be that person in future. Accounting doesn't accord me that, which is why I decided to take a shift and major in finance.

I got an opportunity to work as an intern at XXX Corporation between XX and XX, and it is then that I realized that I lack some basic finance and marketing knowhow, which I reckon a master in finance program will help me develop. Moreover, I will need to gain the strongest possible managerial skills if I am to actualize my long-term goal of becoming a leading figure in the structured finance industry. Through its hand-on workshops, the CIRM program at XXX will offer valuable opportunities for me to gain first-hand investment management experience and primary opportunities to listen to, and commit to addressing client needs.