Personal Statement: Pursuing A Career At Boston College

During my senior year of high school I only applied to colleges with high ranking business schools. As I started hearing back from the colleges I was accepted too, I started to visit them. Boston College had everything I was looking for in a college. It has a respected business school, it is close to a city, it has a traditional campus, and it has a medium size student population. I was not and I am still not one-hundred percent sure what I want to do after college, but I know I would like to work in the business industry. All of my ten year plans range from me working in investment banking to becoming a business lawyer, but I still do not know what I want to do. That is why I chose to major in accounting. I thought it was a safe and versatile major; I can do anything with an accounting degree. My roommate, Kaitlyn Foley and I always have conversations about what we would like to do after college. Kaitlyn always tells me that her mother gives her hope, because when she was in college, she too did not know what she wanted to do after college. Kaitlyn Foley’s mother, Melanie Foley, is the Executive Vice President, Chief Talent & Enterprise Services Officer of Liberty Mutual Insurance. I chose to interview Mrs. Foley because I wanted to know how she went from being a confused college student to

Foley was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She attended Boston College, where she graduated with a degree in Marketing. After graduating from Boston College, she worked at Bank Boston as a bank teller, for three years. She explained to me, that she applied to work at Liberty Mutual by chance. Her friend nonchalantly said she should apply for a job at Liberty Mutual. She started working in the marketing and sales department and over the span of twenty years she has become he highest ranked female at Liberty Mutual. Mrs. Foley overseas the operations (talent, procurement, communications, real estate and workplace services and strategies) of Liberty