career goals

($) “Impact on the world”

September 13, 2022 by EssaySnark - Discusses Stanford GSB

Did you know that you have an impact on the world just by breathing? It’s true! You know, that whole butterfly effect thing? All of us, by our very existence, we are changing the destiny of everyone else! But probably most of you writing essays for Stanford are trying to say something greater than that....

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Interested in moving from engineering to business?

August 2, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Or basically any independent contributor role, where you’re giving specific parts of the project to go off and execute, and someone else is responsible for the big-picture view, and for communicating with everyone across the team and department, up and down the chain of the organization? If so, we invite you to go read this […]

($) Is that entrepreneurial experience you had a job? Or an extracurricular activity?

July 26, 2022 by EssaySnark 2 Comments

Everybody is interested in entrepreneurship now, and many applicants have tried their hand at something entrepreneurial in the past. That’s especially true since the entrepreneurship emphasis has filtered through society into colleges, and many younger applicants are now trying for bschool after having had school-sanctioned venture-ish experiences while earning their bachelor’s. Or, maybe a buddy […]

($) 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 […]

($) “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 […]

($) 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 […]

($) 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 […]

($) 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. * […]

($) 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...