career changer

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

October 18, 2022 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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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 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 […]

($) Reviewing a BSer’s long-term goal

November 24, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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

October 26, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

($) Career changer: Anything else into finance

October 25, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

($) Career goals ideas, if you honestly don’t know what you want to do with the MBA

August 3, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

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 […]

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 […]

($) 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 […]