Everyone who has applied to an MBA program or applied for any job worries about their resume. How on earth do you fit your entire life story into one page? And what an insult that someone actually thinks you can?
Your resume has almost nothing to do with your real life. It’s about your professional life, and it’s about...
If you know anyone who is applying to business school for the class of 2014, you may have heard them muttering to themselves, “What does matter most to me and why?” (Stanford GSB) or “Have I ever learned anything from a setback?” (Harvard Business School). They may be victims of an energy-draining syndrome that shows itself every year about this time called MBA essay nightmare. It’s a regular sinkhole of drafting,...
It's summer in the northern hemisphere, which means time to get a little more organized about the admissions process. It's a wonderful time to learn about schools. A little counter-intuitive, when students are out of classes and campuses are an empty husk of their former fall-to-springtime selves. But guess what! Many students are taking summer jobs and may be coming to your neighborhood. You can meet...
It’s the middle of the MBA applications cycle and some of you are working on essays, while others are preparing for interviews with admissions committee members or alumni. Congratulations! But now it's time for more work.
The goal of the interviewer is to figure out what kind of a person you are in the flesh. But there’s a question behind that question too—they want to know...
