career goals

($) One more post on too-specific MBA career goals

December 9, 2021 by EssaySnark

Being specific in your MBA apps is one of the most important tactics you can deploy. And yet, as with most things in life, there’s a catch. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. If you are struggling with your goals and want some more detailed guidance on a) how to...

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There are two parts to your pitch: What you say, and how you say it.

December 8, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

This may sound so obvious as to be useless, but hear us out. The way you write about your career goals is at least as important as what the career goals actually are. Or to put it another way: If the reader can’t figure out what you’re saying you want to do with the MBA, […]

($) Can you make too much money to get into an MBA program?

December 6, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

One of the points we offered in our post about MBA recruiting a few months ago was about how much money you made pre-MBA. This relates to a question we got some time back, that some others of you may be interested in learning about too: Hello! I’ve been wondering why schools ask for salary […]

($) Reviewing a BSer’s long-term goal

November 24, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Let’s talk about pitching the business schools on your post-MBA goals — specifically the long-term goal, which some schools are still asking for (and some have ditched, for reasons we’ll touch on today). If you want one-on-one personalized feedback on your actual short term and long term goals for your MBA apps, our Career Goals […]

What impact will the Great Resignation have on MBA hiring?

November 4, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Well THAT will be an interesting question! The recruiting season for 2Ys on many business school campuses is underway, and the employment market is in a state of chaos in some sectors. What will happen with companies who force employees to come into the office? Will those policies cause the employers to lose talent? How […]

($) A smattering of random ideas that relate to post-MBA careers and recruiting

October 27, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Apparently we’re talking about career goals and the MBA this week, so we’ll continue the theme today. Here’s a collection of notes on career recruiting shared by Career Services from a variety of schools we’ve worked with. Note that especially now, with the Great Resignation and all the disruption to supply chains and how business […]

($) “Do I need to have experience in my target industry in order to pitch it in my MBA essays?”

October 26, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Short answer: NOPE! Long answer: It doesn’t hurt, and in some cases yes it kind of might be more important than others, and yeah OK like all other things in this whole endeavor, the real answer is “it depends” but… This is essentially a more generalized discussion of the topic we started in a narrower […]

($) Career changer: Anything else into finance

October 25, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We’ve talked before about some challenges with pitching venture capital as your post-MBA goal. But what about pitching any post-MBA career goal in finance, if you’ve never worked in finance before? Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. It’s totally possible to make this jump happen. What matters is how you […]

($) Short term goal, long term goal, dream job – OH MY!

September 29, 2021 by EssaySnark - Discusses Columbia Leave a Comment

Still working on your Columbia app? Let’s talk about what they are asking for with their career goals questions: Through your resume and recommendations, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals over the next three to five years and what, in your imagination, would be your […]

($) Your task is not to try to impress the bejeebus out of them.

September 10, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Here’s some examples of the types of commentary we’ve offered to Brave Supplicants just like you in the past few weeks! (Modified to protect anonymity of course.) We figured, since we were repeating this so often to so many, that it would be worth publishing here as a caution for everyone. We’re reblahgging this in […]