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“If I knew what I wanted to do with my life, I wouldn’t need an MBA”

September 29, 2022 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Why do schools ask you about career goals? Not all of them do, but some of them do — and those that do often tend to care a lot about how you respond. No you don’t really need to know what you will do in three years when you (hopefully!) will be graduating with that […]

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($) A smattering of random ideas that relate to post-MBA careers and recruiting

October 27, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Apparently we’re talking about career goals and the MBA this week, so we’ll continue the theme today. Here’s a collection of notes on career recruiting shared by Career Services from a variety of schools we’ve worked with. Note that especially now, with the Great Resignation and all the disruption to supply chains and how business […]

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($) “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 […]

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Filed Under: career changer, product management

($) “Good” post-MBA career goals for your business school application

August 12, 2021 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Another title for this post could be: Please don’t try to differentiate yourself as an MBA candidate based on your goals. We sorta covered this many years back here and it came up again in our recent posts emphasizing the importance of career goals but it deserves a dedicated discussion. Premium content starts here… ———– […]

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Want to go to work in Big Tech? The FANG story is evolving. (Or devolving.)

February 19, 2020 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

In case you’d not heard it before, “FANG”, or more accurately but not as catchily, “FAANG”, is Facebook – Alphabet – Apple – Netflix – Google. Uh, Netflix? Yeah, this witty acronym first came about a little while ago . All the cool kids want to go work at these companies. Honestly, these names show […]

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($) “I want to work at Google” aka career goals and interviewing

January 31, 2019 by EssaySnark - Discusses Columbia Leave a Comment

This post has little to do with Harvard, even though many if not most of you applicants will be Harvard-focused today. This post has everything to do with how you talk about your future post-MBA goals. The reason it has little to do with Harvard is that career goals may or may not come up […]

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Filed Under: interviewing, product management, technology Bschools: Columbia

By Request: Design Thinking & the MBA

September 20, 2016 by EssaySnark 2 Comments

We had a question come in some time ago that unfortunately wasn’t a high priority for us because it’s not a universal interest among all BSers and doesn’t affect the app process – which is where we’re trying to focus our limited time and energies in these blahg posts right now. Here’s what we were […]

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