As cliche as it sounds, my main career goal has always been to “help people,” but my academic growth has allowed me to specify my goal. Ultimately, I want to help disenfranchised communities facing issues such as food scarcity and technological disadvantages. I have had experience growing up with such problems and wanted to help make a change to a complicated system. However, I did not know how to achieve that goal. Despite completing my bachelor’s degree in May 2020, I was not satisfied with my skills and experience applying to a non-supervisory entry-level position. Through careful consideration and a visit to the Athens campus, I believed that the University of Georgia’s MPA program could assist me in future employment and develop me as an administrator and professional.
The program’s mission provides future administrators with distinguished leadership and administrative skills, between its strong dynamics of transparency, immaterialness, and professional decision-making abilities. These abilities will expand my leadership and oral and communication skills to prepare me adequately for any administrative, supervisory position by gaining familiarity with information management systems that I can find useful in public and non-profit organizations.
I value transparency and critical problem solving and hope to maintain those values to continue being efficient throughout my work in servant leadership while taking into my prior knowledge of systematic influences that prevent equality in these areas that can divide people. The various courses established the daunting decision between public policy and the human resource management track. However, I intend to seek and accept an administrative, supervisory position within a highly creditable non-profit organization or local government agency. I will be making significant decisions on policy issues, research, or in the human resource context.