Besides PANTS, of course? This cautionary tale came from the very early days of our pandemic times, circa March 2020: You will be wearing PANTS to your Zoom interview. Just in case you have to get up for something! What should you be wearing in the visible frame? Premium content starts here… If you’re reading […]
Continue reading...($) “When should I start practicing for my interview, and how?”
We got a Plea for Help! from a distressed BSer in December, asking for some guidance on what may have gone wrong in their Round 1 applications, and they ended up going for the Post-Mortem Review (rejected app analysis) — and through that process, it was determined that they didn’t really do anything wrong in […]
Continue reading...($) overpreparing
Now that some of you are getting ready for interviews, we wanted to throw out a caution: It’s possible to overprepare. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. Continue reading......
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More advice for interviewing — and any other high-stakes professional interaction
People sometimes do odd things in high-stress situations, including basically any type of presentation, or even just when having the floor in a meeting with colleagues and seniors. Some of these things you may not even know that you do. Some are like those verbal tics that you might observe when someone is speaking. They […]
Continue reading...“What do you do for fun?”
Simple question, eh? It’s crazy how much BSers trip over it. This is the type of question that often comes up towards the end of the MBA interview, when your interviewer is winding down from the hardcore “Why do you want an MBA and what do you bring to the table?” types of questions. As […]
Continue reading...($) “Tell me about yourself.”
Today we’re going to talk about a question that is frequently served up at the very beginning of an interview — MBA interview or job interview or whatever other type of interview you may be faced with: “Tell me about yourself.” You **MUST** prepare for this question. Premium content starts here… If you’re reading this...
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($) The downsides of alumni interviewing
This post is kind of in the category of “informative but potentially useless” (hmm, how many of our posts are in that category??? we, of course, write them to be useful, but do you actually use them? The ‘Snark ponders). Knowing that there are downsides to going through an alumni interview for your MBA application, […]
Continue reading...($) You’re invited to interview at Harvard. Huzzah!! Now, what questions are you going to ask your interviewer?
There’s a real art to figuring out what to ask your MBA interviewer. We go into this in greater depth in our MBA Interviewing Guide, and it’s also worth talking about here today. The questions-to-interviewer certainly aren’t the most important part of the interview. But check it out: Premium content starts here… ———– ———– […]
Continue reading...($) Where can you get help prepping for your MBA interview?
EssaySnark wants to be there for you on all aspects of your MBA admissions journey, though notably, we don’t do much in the interview prep department (actually, these days, almost zilch). We’ll offer thanks to a BSer who posed a question about this to us as they were starting to think through the strategy and […]
Continue reading...What Harvard says to you on Thursday is near-meaningless
Well, unless of course, if Harvard says they want to meet you to interview!! For the loads of other candidates who are going to be told, “sorry” and given the so-called Early Release from Harvard’s Round 1, this Thursday is going to massively suck. A very large percentage of those people are actually TOTALLY QUALIFIED […]
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