3.4 Statement of Purpose

ICE BREAKERS:
 Match the professions with the desired qualities.
   Professions                   Qualities (Answers)
1. Businessman       c. convincing, selling, risk taking 

2. Artist                   d. imaginative, creative, thinking out of the box
3. Advocate             e. logical reasoning, oratory, critical thinking
4. Police                  b. alert, investigative, love for physical activity
5. Scientist              a. reading, experimenting, researching

 What is your career goal?
Ans:  My career goal is to improve my communication skills, earn credentials, select a suitable career based on my aptitude and rise the rung of the ladder in my chosen career path.

 Which of your qualities would help you in achieving your career goal?
Ans:  

 List the obstacles which might hamper in achieving your 
    goal/s in life. One is done for you.
• Lack of proper guidance

 
• No clear plan

 
• Too much information

 
• Mindset and attitude

 

• Shortage of time, money or other resources

BRAINSTORMING:
(A1) Discuss and exchange your views with your partner about your career plan.
Ans:  

Dear Shushma,

How have you been?

I have been thinking of writing to you since long. As we complete our XII the career to choose is a great challenge in front of us.

I am sure you must have thought about it. However, I would like to share my plans for the future. Since I am very much interest in teaching I would want to pursue my career in the teaching field. So, as soon as our graduation results are out, I will enroll for the B.Ed program. With B.Ed. I will initially get into a school later will start exploring further to create a niche in the teaching field. I will try to pursue my career as a lecturer in either junior college or degree college Will discuss in detail in person

Regards, 

Poonam

(A2) You must have decided your aim in life. Which institute/university would you like to join for your diploma / graduation? Write a Statement of Purpose as a part of your application to the institute/ university.
Ans:  As a young girl, I would often dress my dolls and deck them up with different accessories. The activity never lost its zest and as I grew up. I knew that I wished to become a fashion designer and work towards my dream of designing sketches for the best names in the world. With excellence raking my motivations. I decided to go for the premier institutes in India - started with putting in extra hours as early as 9th grade. After clearing Std. 10th, I enrolled myself for coaching to prepare for the Numero Uno Fashion Designing Institutes entrance. I was confident about my choice and knew that it was the best way forward... 

My family has a conservative fashion sense but artistic in their choice of outfits. They have been a significant spring of influence to turn my dreams into reality. I understand that hailing from a suburb of a small town with very limited exposure: I have been unable to represent my strengths and capacity in the basic portfolio I could lead to prepare by myself. A true fashion designer must have complete awareness about garment sequence of line proportion, color and texture. 

I truly enjoy designing clothes and its various accessories. I intend to learn everything about fashion designing because complete knowledge is essential for progress. I want people to dress in the outfits designed by me. Today a large number of students drawn in designing are crossing continents in search of new artistic responsiveness, methodologies and opportunities. I want to be one of those design students to break my regional barriers for higher and the best education I can get in a country like UK. My aim is to be a graduate from your esteemed institution. By persevering my BA Fashion from National College of Design and Communication in UK. I will be able to obtain knowledge and develop my aptitude and skills at a global level which will encourage me to create my niche in the International Fashion Scenario. This is my dream and I will work laboriously to achieve it.

(A3) Enrich your vocabulary.

Match the job terms with their meanings.

Ans:

(A4) Read the dialogue given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate job terms given above.
Varsha : Vivek, what kind of a job are you looking for?
Vivek : Varsha, I want to be my own boss. I don’t like a nine-to-five-job. My present job is not challenging. I am stuck in a rut and stuck behind a desk. I am not afraid of a heavy workload and I
am a good team player. Moreover this is a dead-end job.
I am looking for an opportunity to try new winds.

(A5) Read the personal details given below and prepare a suitable Statement of Purpose.
(i) University of Bath, UK is one of the leading Universities for Business Studies. You belong to a business family - wish to start your own business carry forward your family business in future. In your junior college you have opted for commerce, scored well in your Std X Board Examination you made profit in the stall you had put up in the business fair organized by your school/college. Your hobbies are playing cricket/hockey, you get along well with people.
Ans:

                   Marketing is the brain, heart and soul of any enterprise in the globalized world. Today, the borders between countries are speedily dissolving away, so the understanding of marketing requires a more holistic and international prospect of the industry. I am eager to pursue MA in Marketing from Durham University, UK because the international display of the marketing industry is very essential for extension in this highly aggressive and progressive world. And, through this, I want to concede the subtleties of analyzing and strategizing for sustainable and long term growth in global firms. 

For my Masters degree in Marketing, UK is the most suited location. Being one of the most progressive nations of the world, it is laden with the best opportunities and the best companies. Since, the Durham University has an excellent faculty, flexible course structure, world-class facilities and most importantly a friendly atmosphere for foreign students, hence, it is the perfect destination for pursuing higher education. The degree acquired from Durham University will be recognized across the globe. Furthermore, it will enable me to understand heterogeneity in terms of languages, culture, perspectives and experiences, which will go a long way in developing my disposition and give me an acumen into learning the different behavioral patterns of people. 

I have always been very inquisitive and enthusiastic to learn new things. Since my early childhood days. I have been a vivacious and curious student. I did my schooling from D.A.V Public School, Mumbai and secured first-class marks in Std. 10th and 12th board exams. After finishing school. I joined commerce stream. Apart from academics, I took part in many extracurricular activities at college level and have also won few accolades in diverse fields at intercollegiate festivals like, second prize for Picturesque marketing, I made a profit in the stall I had put up in the business fair organized by our college Further. I was also an active member of the Finance

and Art division of the college Youth Club.

 My hobbies are playing cricket/hockey. I get along well with people. I belong to a business family - so feel the skills of running a business is ingrained in my genes. I wish to start my own business as I simultaneously carry forward my family business in future.

I am confident that studying at the University of Durham will grant me with sound conversance of the basic principles of this field and help me acquire the necessary skills to reach my goal. Also my Master's degree in marketing from Durham University will give me a stable grounding and a perfect channel to benefit my intensities.

(ii) You are an avid animal lover. You have a pet dog and some love birds at home. You are extremely fond of them. You have been a member of bird watcher’s club. You have loved going on a safari. You have taken care of orphan animals, or animals who are hurt. In school you loved Biology. You wish to make a career in this field. The University of Cambridge offers an excellent course/programme which would boost your career. Make a Statement of Purpose which will help you to get admission to this University.
Ans:  I am an avid animal lover. I have a pet dog and some love birds at home. I am extremely fond of them. I have been a member of bird watcher's club. I have loved going on a safari. I have taken care of orphan animals, or animals who are hurt. In school I loved Biology. I wish to make a career in this field. 

I seem to have a talent for solving problems. I am particularly successful with practical problems. It is because I am attracted to them. Every problem is like a fun game for me. Whether it is finding the best provision for an enzymatic reaction or finding a potential treatment for cancer, it is something that I am always excited to do and I do it with great pleasure. As I grow, I start to understand the potential financial advantage of being able to solve problems in many high-profit industrial fields. But I had Biology in my genes... my parents are both Biologists and my Dad is a Molecular Geneticist. Even though they wanted me to become a doctor or a lawyer, in high school I was more interested in cells than anything else. 

The University of Cambridge offers an excellent course/programme which would boost my career.

So, here I am, after 4 years of Molecular Biology and Genetics major I am applying for a Ph.D. position at one of the top institutes in the world, with an ambition to become one of the world's best scientists unraveling hidden wonders of the world of Biology. I want to help heal the birds and animals and would like to study cell mutation in various species.

The idea of scientific discovery, the idea of finding something new, even discovering a protein-protein interaction or a new control mechanism (both of which may be used for treating or even curing animals!) push me forward even when I am very tired. I realized that being a good scientist takes more than just a good theoretical background and skillful hands, which my mentors believe I have. It takes breaking through emotional barriers, keeping personal life separate from the academy and heading towards the discovery at full speed at all times, no matter what the 'weather' is. 

I also realized that a non-ceasing self-development is an indispensable part of being victorious as a specialist. One has to find the inherent weaknesses and fix them, upgrading the "discovery-making machine"- what I believe I am (or at least, about to become) as a scientist.

I am profoundly interested in the world of intracellular signaling and its connection with the cell cycle in animals and birds. The highly-specific relay of information processed from the outside of a cell deep into its nucleus intrigues me. It is fascinating how signal cascades function and how they malfunction, leading to cancer. 

I hope my candidature will be accepted by the University of Cambridge and I will emerge as a great biologist to heal and cure the speechless species.

(A6) Browse different websites and find out the universities offering best courses in Life Sciences, Arts, Sports, Music, Engineering and Medicine. Collect and share any other additional information related to the course which seems important.
Ans:  Answer will be added soon.