This post was written in December 2015 when campaigning for the Presidential Election was only getting underway. Ben Carson did not win that election, but he did go on to become appointed to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Obviously the future was unknown to EssaySnark when writing this post about awards and qualifications for future office, and this post was explicitly not meant to be political in nature.
Have you been recognized on the job? Won an award for some project? Been thanked by a client with some type of official acknowledgment? Maybe even gotten a little certificate that you’ve tacked up on your cubicle wall? GREAT! Those can be worth something in an MBA application. The problem is, for most people, they’re…