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 […]
Continue reading...($) Your task is not to try to impress the bejeebus out of them.
Here’s some examples of the types of commentary we’ve offered to Brave Supplicants just like you in the past few weeks! (Modified to protect anonymity of course.) We figured, since we were repeating this so often to so many, that it would be worth publishing here as a caution for everyone. We’re reblahgging this in […]
Continue reading...($) WRITING WEEK! Day 2: Reduce the Fluff Factor
It’s Day 2 of WRITING WEEK on the EssaySnark blahg! In case you missed our starting post: Don’t cheat your reader. Today we’ll talk about combining essay-writing strategy and tactics. When you have hardly any space in a bschool essay, you need to make every word count. Seems obvious, right? If it were, then we […]
Continue reading...($) “Good” post-MBA career goals for your business school application
Another title for this post could be: Please don’t try to differentiate yourself as an MBA candidate based on your goals. We sorta covered this many years back here and it came up again in our recent posts emphasizing the importance of career goals but it deserves a dedicated discussion. Premium content starts here… ———– […]
Continue reading...($) Career goals ideas, if you honestly don’t know what you want to do with the MBA
Warning: We are not suggesting that you plug these goals into your essays and call it a day! We’re simply offering some ideas of career paths that the MBA is a great preparation for, where there are plenty of jobs coming to campus to attract high-quality students like you will be, which pay well and […]
Continue reading...($) Want to go into consulting? Here’s a tip to increase the chances of a successful pitch.
Last week we talked about venture capital as a goal in an MBA application. Let’s turn our attention today to the most common post-MBA goal that we ever see in BSers’ essays: Consulting. Today’ss advice is offered both for pitching consulting in your MBA apps — where it’s exceedingly difficult to stand out from the […]
Continue reading...($) Pitching venture capital as your post-MBA goal
We spoke in broad strokes about trends in MBA career goals and what we’re seeing in essays these days. Here’s more detail on the currently most popular sexy-sounding goal: Venture Capital. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. We’re planning a few more of these dedicated “pitching goals of X” type […]
Continue reading...($) “I started this thing….” aka When is a startup you’ve created actually a startup
Startups are sexy! Startups are the future! Everybody wants to do a startup! And hey look, you’ve already done one! (Or have you???) Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. If you want to learn about the pros and cons and tips and tricks of pitching something entrepreneurial as your MBA […]
Continue reading...($) Spotlight On: Career Goals!
As society changes, applicants change in what they aspire to. A lot of this is driven by how the world changes, especially as we’ve seen with the tech sector, and what types of jobs need the skills that business school is meant to train on. A key benefit of the MBA is how flexible it […]
Continue reading...($) essay critique! NYU Stern MBA “short and long-term career goals”
For NYU Stern — and a number of schools — being able to articulate why you want the MBA, based on what you want to do with it after you graduate, is critical to getting the attention of your admissions reader. One of you readers of this here blahg has written an essay to do […]
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