English Essay: Leadership, Career Goals, Contributions, and Skills

This essay presents the author's aspirations for a career in leadership, particularly within the analog semiconductor industry. The author outlines their short-term goal of becoming a Product Line Manager and their long-term vision to lead a company as CEO. The essay details the author's experiences, including their roles at Texas Instruments (TI), where they demonstrated leadership, customer relationship skills, and the ability to manage teams and projects. The author highlights their ability to deal with crisis and challenges, drawing on personal experiences and academic achievements. The essay emphasizes the importance of skills like strategic research, analytical skills, and effective networking. The author also discusses their attributes and experiences that would enable them to make a distinctive contribution to the school and business profession, including honesty, integrity, communication, and leadership. The author aims to leverage these qualities to contribute positively to their future field of study and the business profession, showcasing their dedication and commitment to achieving their career goals.

Running head: English
English
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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ESSAY 1
What excites you most about your intended field of study?
As an experienced professional, I understand the importance of being equipped with the
right set of tools and requisite knowledge to achieve success. I am adept at strategic research and
analysis and I am eager to learn about the best practices of modern leadership and effective
networking that would contribute immensely towards achieving my career goals. After the
sudden demise of my father and brother in an accident, I undertook full responsibility of our
family and took complete care of my mother who had gone into depression and ensured that she
was cured. During my college days, I knew we had limited resources and hence I stepped up,
aced all the exams, and won coveted scholarships. When faced with this crisis, I was able to take
up a leadership role and manage the situation despite having to prepare for my engineering
entrance examination.

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I started my career as a Field Application Engineer in Texas Instruments India as a part
of the sales and marketing team. Impressed by my leadership, customer relationship and
organizational skills, the product line manager of TI's biggest power group offered me to join his
team in the USA as a Senior Systems Engineer of the Power Design Services.
Based in Santa Clara, I worked in collaboration of the company's marketing team in order
to conceptualize the conference entitled, ‘The Industrial and Automotive Power Summit’ in
October 2016. In addition to the skills attained in development of training programs, I personally
mentored two interns at TI. In collaboration with the online tool team, I managed to successfully
develop and release an innovative EMI tool for our power devices, the first in the industry that
resulted to more than 8 thousand clicks on the product folder of TI on the online platform. At this
point, I had mastered my art of leadership, a factor that contributed to my nomination to lead a
typology initiative that led to multi-million dollar opportunities in the segment of Industrial
power.
Due to my exemplary performance as a Senior Systems Engineer, the management of TI
offered me a new position as an Application lead of the Automotive DC/DC Buck Converter
(PRS). Under my leadership, the team was able to develop innovative initiatives for the PL's
Automotive ADAS. While working for TI, I have interacted with many teams, coworkers and
customers across the world and have conducted seminars in several countries. This interaction
with cross-cultural team has presented opportunities for creativity and innovation. I yearn for
constant improvement and therefore I would take this opportunity to grow both personally and
professionally. Thus, I would like to pursue this field of study to broaden my knowledge.

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ESSAY 2
What do you see yourself doing professionally upon graduation and how will a degree from
Santa Clara help you achieve these aspirations?
My short-term goal is to become a Product Line manager in an analog semiconductor
company like Texas Instruments. In order to achieve this position, I need marketing, operational
and effective communication skills and I am confident that Wharton’s program will help me
inculcate that.
My long-term goal is to lead Analog Semiconductor Company as the CEO. My vision is
to position the company as a leading industrial and automotive analog semiconductor company
offering differentiated products and high profit from operations. At Wharton, learning under an
acclaimed faculty with distinguished peers and a diversified team, I plan to hone my strategic
research and analytical skill, learn about best practices of modern leadership and effective
networking that would contribute immensely towards achieving my career goals.
I started my career as a Field Application Engineer in Texas Instruments India as a part of
their sales and marketing team, supporting customers in Northern India. The product line
manager of TI's biggest power group offered me to join his team as a Senior Systems Engineer of
the Power Design Services in the United States of America as he was impressed by my
leadership skills, skills in customer relationship and organizational skills.
Due to my exemplary performance as a Senior Systems Engineer, the management of TI
offered me the position as an Application lead of the Automotive DC/DC Buck Converter (PRS).

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As an Application Engineering Manager, I led a team of application professionals in order to
create product definitions, validations, release, and make the initial engagements with customers
in the various markets of TI. I believe that the Wharton program will enhance my present skills
and attributes so that I can be a successful leader while striving to achieve my long-term and
short-term goals. I believe my professional skills and attributes, the global experience that I have,
and the ability to deal with crisis and complete required tasks with limited resources, the nature
to challenge the status quo, will stand me in good stead. It will further enable me to promote the
values held by the community of Wharton during the program and long after its completion.

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Essay 3
Discuss any attributes, experiences, or interests that would enable you to make a distinctive
contribution to the school and/or business profession.
The attributes I posses that would enable me to make a distinctive contribution to my school and
thereafter to my business profession includes, honesty, integrity, good communication and
leadership skills, organizational skills and good managerial skills. I am also a determined and a
hard working person who is able to deal with crises effectively and complete tasks even with
limited resources in an efficient manner. I am dedicated towards my work, I have a global
experience, and I am extremely tolerant and receptive towards different views. I have imbibed
most of these qualities from my father.
As per as experiences are concerned, I had to deal with sudden emergencies in life which
introduced me to crisis management. In 2007, when I was in the 12th standard and preparing for
engineering entrance examinations, I lost my father and eldest brother in an accident. My mother
went into depression. This happened during a crucial time when I had to prepare for engineering
and simultaneously seek the release of pension and provident fund from my father’s government
department and take care of my mother.
I was asked to pay an “extra facilitation fee” (bribe) to the officials responsible for processing
my father’s pension and provident fund. Even though we were facing financial issues, I showed
patience and pursued the case harder and in the end, they had to process everything without me
paying anything extra. This shows my honest and ethical nature and my determination not to let

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any obstacles deter me. This honest, ethical and determined nature of mine would make a
positive contribution to my business.
Even in such a difficult situation at home, my academic consistency led me to secure the 85th
rank (out of over 150,000 applicants) in the State Technical Examination (UPSEE) followed by
1800 rank (among 600,000 applicants) in the All India Engineering Entrance Exam. My interest
in Electronics guided me to pursue a Bachelor degree in Electronics and Communication
Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, at Durgapur, India. Thus, I am a
dedicated student and I would definitely make a distinctive contribution to my school.
I began my career by assuming the role of a Field Application Engineer in Texas
Instruments India as a member of their sales and marketing team. Impressed by my caliber and
leadership skills, the product line manager of TI's leading power group offered me to join his
panel as a Senior Systems Engineer of the Power Design Services in the United States of
America. Due to my excellent performance as a Senior Systems Engineer, the management of TI
offered me the position of an Application lead of the Automotive DC/DC Buck Converter (PRS).
As an Application Engineering Manager, I led a team of application professionals in order to
build product definitions, validations, release, and make the initial engagements with customers
in several markets of TI. In addition, I personally mentored two interns at TI. In collaboration
with the online tool team, I developed and released an innovative EMI tool for our power devices
that led to more than eight thousand clicks on the product folder of TI on the online platform.
Thus, I am dedicated and committed towards my work and aspire to contribute positively
towards my business profession.