Essay Questions
1. The MS degree in Information Systems will enhance my ultimate career plans by putting me one step closer to my dream profession. When I finished high school, I chose to attend teachers’ college. I graduated with a diploma in Physics minoring mathematics with a GPA of 3.31. Immediately after graduation I began teaching Physics for grade 7 and 8. I didn’t know it at the time, but my instinct was to become a teacher. Nevertheless, things didn’t go the way I planned and I decided to switch my career goals to a different field. Reflecting back now, I realized that I was meant to be a teacher. I’ve unique skills in passing knowledge to others. I’ve participated in tutoring different courses during my undergraduate studies. Therefore, …show more content…
One of my strengths is my strong work ethics and a tendency to set up routines, timelines, and deadlines. For example, most of my upper-division courses require a project work that must be completed in different phases so I have to set up a routine that allows me to meet the daily deadline while coming up with the final project proposal in time. As much as I want to keep my commitments and stick with programs, my weakness is that sometimes I tend to focus on doing things right which leads to overworking to the last minute.
Another one of my best strengths is the leadership qualities and the ability to work with people efficiently. For instance, while I was serving as an executive secretary of the Ethiopian Air Traffic Controllers Association, I was able to communicate with the company management the benefits of cockpit flight familiarization. The familiarization experience allows Air Traffic Controllers to ride in an aircraft cockpit with commercial pilots as part of an educational program (recommended by the FAA). I worked tirelessly to get a budget approval from the Civil Aviation Authority. This program gave a chance to the Air Traffic Controllers to see and hear the communication experience so that the controllers know what is happening on the other end in real time. Unfortunately, the program was short lived because one of the Air Traffic Controllers, who was sent to South Africa, never returned and the government decided to shut the program. I was very critical to myself about this mistake and should have done more research on the members we were sending for familiarization, at least during the initial
1. The MS degree in Information Systems will enhance my ultimate career plans by putting me one step closer to my dream profession. When I finished high school, I chose to attend teachers’ college. I graduated with a diploma in Physics minoring mathematics with a GPA of 3.31. Immediately after graduation I began teaching Physics for grade 7 and 8. I didn’t know it at the time, but my instinct was to become a teacher. Nevertheless, things didn’t go the way I planned and I decided to switch my career goals to a different field. Reflecting back now, I realized that I was meant to be a teacher. I’ve unique skills in passing knowledge to others. I’ve participated in tutoring different courses during my undergraduate studies. Therefore, …show more content…
One of my strengths is my strong work ethics and a tendency to set up routines, timelines, and deadlines. For example, most of my upper-division courses require a project work that must be completed in different phases so I have to set up a routine that allows me to meet the daily deadline while coming up with the final project proposal in time. As much as I want to keep my commitments and stick with programs, my weakness is that sometimes I tend to focus on doing things right which leads to overworking to the last minute.
Another one of my best strengths is the leadership qualities and the ability to work with people efficiently. For instance, while I was serving as an executive secretary of the Ethiopian Air Traffic Controllers Association, I was able to communicate with the company management the benefits of cockpit flight familiarization. The familiarization experience allows Air Traffic Controllers to ride in an aircraft cockpit with commercial pilots as part of an educational program (recommended by the FAA). I worked tirelessly to get a budget approval from the Civil Aviation Authority. This program gave a chance to the Air Traffic Controllers to see and hear the communication experience so that the controllers know what is happening on the other end in real time. Unfortunately, the program was short lived because one of the Air Traffic Controllers, who was sent to South Africa, never returned and the government decided to shut the program. I was very critical to myself about this mistake and should have done more research on the members we were sending for familiarization, at least during the initial