Today’s post is to elaborate on a question we recently received from a Brave Supplicant who’s trying to figure out next steps in career, education, and life. This person wanted our input on whether a particular job change they were considering would make it easier for them to get into a top MBA program in […]
Continue reading...($) “Is 30 too old…?”
This question is relevant to our question today: “Is 30 too old to work in a startup?” Hmmmm. If there’s a bias against “older” in startup recruiting, and “older” is defined as over 30, and there’s already a bias against MBAs in Silicon Valley… Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have all been […]
Continue reading...($) Why pre-MBA experience is so important
The MBA alone won’t get you a job. This concept is particularly important for all of you career-changers out there. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. So that’s why the goals, and the pre-MBA stuff, is so important. It’s how the application turns into a pitch: You present who you […]
Continue reading...($) Authenticity and MBA career goals
In what is a totally understandable impulse, we frequently get BSers asking us what career goals are “best” to use in their MBA essays. It comes up over and over again. We know where that question comes from. When faced with the task of applying to bschool, it seems that you’re dealing with one test […]
Continue reading...($) Who / what situations are greenlit for an MBA app in Round 3?
Despite our constant hand-wringing and all the cautions we float out there about Round 3, there’s a few categories of Brave Supplicant for whom we’re more inclined to see a potentially happy outcome for a late-season app to a top school. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. * […]
Continue reading...($) The first place to look at your reapplicant strategy
As we started to say last week: If you’re going to be a reapplicant to an MBA program in the Fall, we’ve got some stuff for you to think about. One place to start is to do some self-analysis around those career goals that you pitched. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content...
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($) What do consulting firms look for in their candidates?
It may be hard to comprehend how the different components of an application to business school would ever be relevant for assessing your proficiency or potential for success in the business world. But you’d be surprised! There are a lot of hard and soft skills that can be assessed from the pages of the application […]
Continue reading...($) One more post on too-specific MBA career goals
Being specific in your MBA apps is one of the most important tactics you can deploy. And yet, as with most things in life, there’s a catch. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. If you are struggling with your goals and want some more detailed guidance on a) how to...
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There are two parts to your pitch: What you say, and how you say it.
This may sound so obvious as to be useless, but hear us out. The way you write about your career goals is at least as important as what the career goals actually are. Or to put it another way: If the reader can’t figure out what you’re saying you want to do with the MBA, […]
Continue reading...($) Can you make too much money to get into an MBA program?
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 […]
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