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 […]
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...($) Reviewing a BSer’s long-term goal
Let’s talk about pitching the business schools on your post-MBA goals — specifically the long-term goal, which some schools are still asking for (and some have ditched, for reasons we’ll touch on today). If you want one-on-one personalized feedback on your actual short term and long term goals for your MBA apps, our Career Goals […]
Continue reading...($) “Do I need to have experience in my target industry in order to pitch it in my MBA essays?”
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 […]
Continue reading...($) Career changer: Anything else into finance
We’ve talked before about some challenges with pitching venture capital as your post-MBA goal. But what about pitching any post-MBA career goal in finance, if you’ve never worked in finance before? Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. It’s totally possible to make this jump happen. What matters is how you […]
Continue reading...($) 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...Are you ready to change the world?
The world needs you. Maybe it needs you to become a consultant. That’s still a totally viable career path for you and we’re not trying to convince you that getting an MBA to go do that is a bad idea or that it’s somehow morally wrong to continue working to make that happen. But, at […]
Continue reading...($) Changing careers? Think through how you’re ready, even if you think that you’re not
The trend throughout all of education is practical, experiential learning. You may have even talked about this in your Round 1 applications. If you mentioned HBS FIELD or Ross MAP or any such immersive, real-world, go-out-into-industry-and-do-something type program or project in your essays, then you were likely referencing this category of learning. This 2018 article […]
Continue reading...($) The simplest guide to MBA career goals. Courtesy of Berkeley Haas.
This is pure career-goals gold. Not sure how we discovered this little gem, but tucked away at this Google Docs link is pretty much everything you need to think through your career goals for an essay to business school. (Here it is
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