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($) “What projects do I include on my resume for my MBA application?”

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“EssaySnark! I’ve done so much stuff!” The worst thing in the world with an MBA app is a datadump instead of a resume. When BSers hear that their resume can be only one page long, there is often a) panic, b) resolve to include everything anyway. If you’re tweaking your font size down in an…

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($) Putting your resume into the school’s format

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[This post is part of Resume Week — which started here!]     Some schools publish a resume format or template as part of their MBA application instructions or they give a sample as reference. By doing this they either imply or even in some cases state outright that you should be using this format….

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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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It’s Resume Week!

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It’s so weird. When we decided to do this, we were all excited about the alliteration. RESUME WEEK! It just sounds like it’s meant to be, right? And then when we started writing the posts, we’re like, “Hmmm, but it’s not actually alliterative.” That may mirror your experience of creating your resume. You THINK you’re…

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($) Maximizing your opportunities on the app dataset

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First tip: You should definitely be filling out your app dataset if you haven’t started that already! Second tip: Only do that for your FIRST SCHOOL — not all of them — else you’re likely going to set yourself up for a very muddy process. Why? Because you don’t currently know what your full strategy…

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What is an “MBA resume”?

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Reblahgging for you current crop of BSers…. because important! The adcoms say they do a “holistic” review, and we sometimes advise that you, too, need a “holistic” strategy — as we did here, in response to the BSer complaint, “Why do I have to say that in the essay when I’m already telling them that…

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($) “My job title doesn’t reflect my actual job.”

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We frequently mention how underappreciated the resume is as part of an MBA application (really, truly, the resume you have on hand from the last time you were job-hunting is not optimized for this process). How much does job title matter in MBA apps? Do the adcoms care about how much you’ve been promoted? What…

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Most common mistakes with the MBA resume

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Earlier this season we wrote about the 10 most common mistakes to make in your MBA essays. Since we’ve also been posting about resumes recently, we figured it would be good to offer up a “most common mistakes” post on them. Which in case you didn’t notice the title for today, is exactly what this…

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($) Which bschool has a good resume template?

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Several months back we called out some top bschools with their not-so-great resume templates. But not all of them are bad. There’s one school especially that has a good resume template: Yale SOM Now, it may not look like much to you in that preview. It is pretty basic. But basic is also totally appropriate…

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($) A promotion is not an accomplishment.

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Similar to our warning that a project is not an accomplishment, today we’ll talk about what may be less obvious but is nearly as important. Capturing promotions on the resume is super important — it’s actually one of the main opportunities for optimization we see over and over when people go through our Reworking Your…

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