My Goals For A Career In Public Administration

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I have known for a long time that I would love to have a career in public service; thus, I pursued my bachelor’s degree in the department of Public Administration at Selcuk University, Turkey. In Turkey, enrollment to the university is based on one’s performance in central examination. Fortunately, my score in that exam allowed me to study in one of the best universities, Selcuk University. After four years of my undergraduate, I applied and was awarded to Ministry of National Education’s scholarship, which sponsors my master and doctorate degree abroad. As a first step of my academic path, I applied and was accepted to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) for a Master of Public Administration(MPA). UIC is considered among best universities both in the US and in the world. I have been a MPA student in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs since Fall 2015. My thesis project is about urbanization …show more content…

My long-term goals, on the other hand, are to return back to my country as an academician, become broadly a professor of Public Administration, specifically urban studies. Furthermore, my other goals for the my future career are; working with employers and students in an increasingly responsible position, which enables me to utilize my talents and work closely with my colleagues in solving crucial problems; make a significant contribution to the understanding of public behaviors in the public service; create strategic solutions related to my area of Public Administration, integrate these strategic solutions with real-life applications; setting high goals, being honest, never saying no, and cooperation with people who share their passion for doing their best; become one of the distinguished academicians as an expert at a Department of Public Administration in

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