Hi Shalini,

The structure of the essay can lean either way that you have described - be it work experience or short term goals to be written first. No matter which way you decide your flow to be, you've not managed to read between the lines of what the essay question is asking. Explicitly the question asks for your post MBA goals & relating your professional experience to these goals. Implicitly, the admission office wants you to tell them why a MBA with NUS can make that difference to achieve these post MBA goals that you'll not be able to achieve without the MBA. Hence your immediate post MBA goals have to be somewhat very audacious that a MBA is absolutely necessary. If you can achieve these goals with your professional experience till date, then you're telling them that the MBA doesn't matter.

Hope this helps you in thinking about your goals and relating it to the MBA more than your professional experience till date.

Good luck!

Best,
CONNECT INSEAD
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