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($) “Do I need to have experience in my target industry in order to pitch it in my MBA essays?”

September 3, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Short answer: NO! 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… Premium content starts here… ———–   ———– Premium content ends. Not yet a blahg member? […]

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Are you ready to change the world?

June 8, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: career changer, the world Tagged With: your life

($) Changing careers? Think through how you’re ready, even if you think that you’re not

November 26, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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($) The simplest guide to MBA career goals. Courtesy of Berkeley Haas.

November 21, 2019 by EssaySnark - Discusses Berkeley Haas Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: career changer, entrepreneurship Bschools: Berkeley Haas

($) MBA career goals are goals for your career (“Well duh EssaySnark”)

November 7, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Are you being sponsored for your MBA? Do you have plans to return to your current company after you finish with school? Great! Today’s post is not for you. 🙂 Today we’re talking about applicants who want to go to bschool and then they have a pretty good idea of what they want to do […]

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Filed Under: career changer, entrepreneurship, family business Tagged With: sponsored for MBA

($) Are you proposing too big of a change?

October 16, 2019 by EssaySnark

Most applicants to business school want to change careers. Bschool is an ideal vehicle for that. Most bschools want to hear about your plans to change careers in your essays. Crafting a solid set of goals is one of the most important steps you can take in building a strong application. There are many ways...


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Filed Under: career changer, planning your strategy Tagged With: salary

($) “Is 30 too old…?”

June 4, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We came across this awhile back: “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 on the […]

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

($) Why do people end up in consulting?

July 24, 2018 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

The data we analyzed yesterday from the five years of Kellogg MBA employment reports hopefully got you thinking, and researching further into career paths and data from your target schools. One clear takeaway was that you don’t have to do an internship in consulting to land a post-MBA job in consulting in your second year. […]

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($) You need to get out of your pajamas.

May 9, 2018 by EssaySnark

This is a GREAT time to make massive progress on your MBA applications!!! Whether you’re in go-go-go! mode or you’re chillin on this whole application thing there is a low stress and FUN!! task you can (and should!) be tackling right now: School Research. The goal of school research is to figure out if you’re...


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Filed Under: career changer, school fit, school visits

($) “I want to work in edtech”

August 28, 2017 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

To which we say: As what? Edtech is an industry – a niche one at that, and definitely a trendy one. The main issue for BSers saying that that’s what they want to do is, more often than not, these are BSers who are coming in to the MBA a little clueless. Often, it’s candidates […]

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Filed Under: career changer, consulting, edtech Tagged With: Teach for America

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