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Stand Out From The Pack: How to Make Your MBA Application Extremely Competitive!
How to Make Your MBA Application Extremely Competitive Stand out from the Pack! Taking your MBA Application to the Highest Level Business schools like leaders. High GMAT scores are great, cultivated experience at well known firms will get you attention, but business schools…especially if you’re looking at Top Ten MBA programs and targeting places like HBS, Wharton, Kellogg or Chicago Booth for your MBA or EMBA degree, want to see that you also bring something actively interesting to the table. What do I mean by “actively interesting?” Something that demonstrates you are ambitious, innovative, knowledgable, and using every ounce of your time to creatively push your career forward. The best way to do this? In my opinion, it’s to start your own side business, and/or not-for-profit organization. It doesn’t matter how big your business is, and it doesn’t matter how successful. What matters is that you ACTIVELY decided to take a step forward and tried something perhaps outside your comfort zone. Even while working a full-time job. For example: I worked with an applicant who started a humanitarian organization raising just a mere $1,000 USD initially to buy school supplies for girls in India. This non-profit is now bringing in over $250k annually, and its founder,
Your MBA Interview: How Should You Prepare?
Your MBA Interview It's MBA interview season, and if you're in the midst of it (and one of the lucky few to actually get a Round 1 or Round 2 interview date from your business school of choice), you're probably wondering how to best prepare, and what you can do to truly ace the process. Rule #1: First understand the process. It is in person or remote? Each scenario has it's own perks and downfall, so just understand the difference. In person and on campus and the people who will be interviewing you are the ones who will actually make the decisions. This, in my professional view, is the (and your) best case scenario, because there's no middle ground or intermediary person you have to first wade through in order to get to the actual decision maker(s). In other words, it's like meeting with the CEO or the President of a company = the one who has the actual power to hire you. Given this, if at all possible, I always recommend going to campus for your actual interview. If it simply cannot be done however, because you're in a different state, or a different country than your business school
NYU Stern Announces New 1-Year MBA in High Tech
The Traditional 2-year Tech MBA is About to be Disrupted New York University’s Stern School of Business just announced its new 1-year MBA program in tech for IT professionals and others looking to further pursue and build upon their career in the high tech industry. It's a new category for a top business school that is already at the forefront of New York's Wall Street and "Silicon Alley" community, as the one-year MBA allows those who are already immersed in the field to really narrow their professional focus, put their nose to the grindstone, and come out with an MBA in half the time (and the investment!) from a top business school like NYU Stern. The Tech MBA is specifically designed for applicants who already have a solid technological background and want to take that next step. It will prepare graduates, post-degree, to secure jobs in the corporate world in high tech finance and entrepreneurship across numerous platforms and industries. MBA applications are available now for 2018 admissions at: NYU Stern's Tech MBA site, and check out my other article The GMAT Score You Need to Get In to a Top Ten Business School! [I'm a former Harvard admissions interviewer
Columbia MBA & EMBA Essay Questions for 2018
Columbia Business School has announced the MBA & EMBA essay questions for the 2017-2018 admissions cycle. 2018 ESSAY PROMPTS: Goal: What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 characters) Essay #1: Through your resume and recommendations, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals over the next 3 – 5 years and what, in your imagination, would be your long-term dream job? (500 words) Essay #2: The full-time MBA experience includes academics, recruiting and networking. What are your personal priorities and how do you anticipate allocating your time at Columbia Business School? (250 words) EMBA Essay #2: Columbia Business School’s Executive MBA will challenge you by offering a rigorous academic experience, global exposure through the international seminar, and the opportunity to immediately apply what you learn to your career. How will you approach balancing the demands of the program with your professional and personal life while you are in school? (250 words) Essay #3: Please select and answer one of the following essay questions: (250 words) a: Please tell us what you feel most passionate about in life. b: If you were given a free day and could spend it anywhere, in any way you choose, what
Stand Out From The Pack: Making Your MBA Application Even More Competitive
Business schools like leaders. High GMAT scores are great, pedigree experience at well known-name firms will get you attention, but business schools...especially if you're looking at the famed 'Top Ten' and targeting places like HBS, Wharton, Kellogg or Chicago Booth for your MBA or EMBA degree, want to see that you also bring something actively interesting to the table. What do I mean by "actively interesting?" Something that demonstrates you are ambitious, innovative and using every ounce of your time to creatively push your career forward. The best way to do this? In my opinion, it's to start your own side business, and/or not-for-profit organization. It doesn't matter how big it is, it doesn't matter how successful. What matters is that you ACTIVELY decided to take a step forward and tried something perhaps outside your comfort zone. Even while working a full-time job. For example: I worked with an applicant who started a humanitarian organization raising just a mere $1,000 USD initially to buy school supplies for girls in India. This non-profit is now bringing in over $250k annually, and its founder, who really didn't have much truly outstanding on her resume to begin with that would get her noticed,
Your EMBA Strategy: Should You Apply for an Executive MBA? GalleryYour EMBA Strategy: Should You Apply for an Executive MBA?
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Your EMBA Strategy: Should You Apply for an Executive MBA?
The Executive MBA (or, as it's more commonly know, EMBA) is for those professionals applying to business school who already have more than a few years experience under your belt. You've graduated from good college, you have a strong job, and you've been working in your career now, on average 8-10+ years. You've also probably reached a level in your specific industry where you know you want more out of your career. Or, perhaps you simply want to go in a completely new direction, and you know you need to first reinforce your skill-set, knowledge base, contacts and networking in order to get you to the next credentialed level. This is exactly what the EMBA was designed for: people like you who have already achieved a level of professional success: whether that's on the corporate side, in entrepreneurship, the finance industry, energy industry, or whatever your cup of tea is. You simply know you now want to take your career someplace even more interesting. There are a few thing you need to know first though, about applying to this type of executive business school program, in order to make sure you first have all your ducks in a row: EMBA
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