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($) The pre-MBA internship: Pros and Cons (Part 2)

February 20, 2019 by EssaySnark 2 Comments

This is the second part in our reblahgged series for the crazy folks super-motivated ones. Yesterday we explained in broad strokes what a pre-MBA summer internship is and probably got some of you a little bit excited about it. However, there are also some important downsides that you need to be clear on, before you […]

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Filed Under: career goals, internships Tagged With: recruiting

($) Career Readiness Competencies: What employers — and adcoms — look for

August 7, 2018 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

This table is pretty durn self-explanatory so we’ll just start with that: We’re posting this in the “profile assessment” category as a tool to invite you to self-assess your own skills, with this new knowledge that a) perhaps you have either a limited view of what an employer-valued skill actually looks like in practice, and […]

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Read up.

March 14, 2014 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

If you’re thinking of applying to bschool – and especially if you’ve already been accepted for the fall and are waiting for the months to pass until the adventure actually begins – we hope you understand how much READING will be involved. You’ll have cases to prepare and textbooks to study and plenty of business […]

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Filed Under: for further reading Tagged With: finance, recruiting

Why you’re doing this, and what you have to look forward to.

January 7, 2013 by EssaySnark - Discusses Wharton Leave a Comment

If you’re struggling with your career goals and banging your head against the desk because you honestly don’t know what you want to do you just want to get an MBA goddammit, then check this out: It’s a blog post from a Wharton first year, Esther Sun Jang, written this past November, when on-campus recruiting […]

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Filed Under: career goals Tagged With: recruiting Bschools: Wharton

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