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($) Qs from a BSer who’s reworking the resume

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We had a Brave Supplicant go through our Reworking the Resume App Accelerator and then submit us a list of follow-ups which we thought we’d share with all of you today. Pro Tip: This is not a substitute for the App Accelerator! Pro Tip #2: Almost everyone’s resume needs to be reworked fairly significantly for…

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($) Breadth or depth?

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When the schools say they do a “holistic review” then that means you need to look at your own application strategic, from a whole-person perspective. Every single asset in your application — the core stats (GMAT/GRE, GPA, TOEFL), the essays, especially the resume, and also importantly the letters of recommendation and even the oft-overlooked app…

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($) “I can’t fit it all in so I’m just gonna leave this college internship off the resume”

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Scrunching your fabulous five years of post-college employment down to a single page resume for the purpose of your MBA applications is no fun. We get it. We also know that there are certain things that MUST be on the resume. You may be looking for places where you can cut back, but these areas…

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($) Is it a liability to have worked at only one place in one role prior to applying?

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This isn’t an actual application weakness, but like many particulars, it does require careful handling in your application. If you work at an exceptionally small company, then it may make sense why you’ve held only one job at that firm. Smaller companies aren’t often focused on organizational structure and don’t have standard promotion schedules, but…

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($) So-called “alternative transcripts”: MOOCs, continuing education, and additional ed experiences in your MBA apps

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In our impromptu series on gathering your docs for your MBA app, focusing on what transcripts do you need to submit, we’ll continue today with a question of strategy combined with tactics. The strategy is that, for some of you, your grades do not reflect your abilities (ugh please do not say that in your…

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($) Being clear in your writing: Personal interests on the resume (and everywhere else)

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This written communication thing is tricky business. Not only do you need to put yourself in your reader’s shoes and remember that they don’t have a clue about you and your world, but you also have to resist the natural tendency to fancy-up your sentences, and instead stick to normal everyday language. Developing good essays…

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($) “How much should recommenders material overlap with the stories I relate in my essay?”

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We got a question posed on the blahg that we coulda sworn we’d answered directly here at some point, but a search turned up nothing. We’re going to repost this because we know that not everyone reads the ‘snarchive and even when they do, they don’t always look at the comments. Here’s what we were…

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($) Resume content <-> app dataset

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(To continue on with Resume Week!!) When they open up a new app to review, many admissions directors start with the resume. It’s really really (really really!) important. The resume holds so many opportunities for optimization and ways you can share insights! Don’t overlook these important aspects to your app. The app dataset also offers…

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($) The resume and the Sloan cover letter

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We originally included this in yesterday’s post on the resume essay content as part of our Resume Week series — but Sloan is different! This deserves to be discussed separately — and despite the title of this post, this is NOT specific only to Sloan! Tips for your other apps also found here.   Q:…

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($) Resume content <-> essays

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It’s Resume Week! Every day this week, we’ll be discussing MBA application strategies around the resume as a key component within your overall presentation. Today is a Q&A from different BSers trying to figure out how to optimize the info that they should be sharing, and where. These all came in at various times from…

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