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($) What you’re optimizing for

June 15, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: "why MBA" essays, career goals, switching jobs before applying

($) “Is 30 too old…?”

June 9, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: career changer, consulting, technology Tagged With: salary

($) Why pre-MBA experience is so important

June 7, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: career changer

($) Authenticity and MBA career goals

June 1, 2022 by EssaySnark 2 Comments

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 […]

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Filed Under: career goals Tagged With: authenticity, your life

($) Who / what situations are greenlit for an MBA app in Round 3?

March 16, 2022 by EssaySnark - Discusses HBS 2+2 Leave a Comment

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.       * […]

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Filed Under: family business, GMAT/GRE, Round 3 Tagged With: deferrals, sponsored for MBA Bschools: HBS 2+2

($) The first place to look at your reapplicant strategy

March 7, 2022 by EssaySnark

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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Filed Under: career goals, reapplying

($) What do consulting firms look for in their candidates?

January 20, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: consulting

($) 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, […]

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Filed Under: career goals, writing tips

($) 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 […]

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Filed Under: career goals, Executive MBA/EMBA, profile assessments, tuition

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