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January 31, 2023

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How an Admissions Committee Views Your MBA Work Experience

How an Admissions Committee Views MBA Work Experience

As you apply to MBA programs, you need to think about your past work experience and how it all fits into your overall story. Work experience is important because of what it reveals about you in terms of your character, maturity, and abilities. Even if your GPA and GMAT/GRE scores are spectacular, your work experience… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / entrepreneurship, MBA career goals, mba work experience

December 21, 2022

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4 Tips for Demonstrating Professional Growth in a Flat Organization

4 Tips for Demonstrating Professional Growth in a Flat Organization

If you work in a flat organization, how do you demonstrate advancement and growth? After all, your career progress will be compared to that of other candidates who have regular promotions with clearly delineated expanded responsibilities. In a flat organization, you may hold the same, possibly vague or even unimpressive, title for years, even though… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / MBA resume, mba work experience

April 24, 2022

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MBA Admissions Tip: Explaining Frequent Job Switching

Explaining frequent job switching1

You’ve got a strong transcript, a solid GPA, and you aced the GMAT. You know you’re a strong candidate for pretty much any top MBA program. There’s just one thing standing in your way…your resume. You’ve had some good jobs—that’s not the problem. The problem is that you’ve had too many of them, very close… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / mba work experience

November 1, 2021

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7 Tips For MBA Applicants From a Family Business Background

7 Tips For MBA Applicants From Family Businesses

You work for the family business and are applying for an MBA. Will this background be a net plus for you, or a minus? How can you make the most of this experience? Whether you work for your family’s tiny startup with headquarters in your home’s basement, at one of your family-owned local grocery stores,… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / family business, mba work experience, underrepresented mba applicants

March 18, 2021

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Deferred MBA Programs and Other Options for MBA Hopefuls With No Work Experience

Deferred MBA programs and other options for MBA hopefuls with no work experience

When I used to travel to applicant fairs to represent London Business School, I’d commonly be approached by candidates asking, “I want an MBA but don’t have any full-time work experience. Can I study at your school?” While the answer in that instance was “no”, the conversation never ended there. The discussion would then turn… 

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Article by Jamie Wright / MBA Admissions / Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Georgetown McDonough, Harvard Business School, HBS 2+2, masters in data analytics, Masters in Finance, Masters in Management, mba work experience, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UVA Darden, Wharton, when to apply to bschool, Yale SOM

June 11, 2017

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Work Experience in Your MBA Admissions Profile

MBA Admissions Profile Your Work Experience

The last two articles explored the importance of the academic portion of your MBA application, including your undergraduate performance as well as your GMAT. This article will focus on the other, equally important, side of the coin: your work experience. Although more schools are now open to considering candidates without post-college experience, most top MBA… 

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Article by Esmeralda Cardenal / MBA Admissions / Creating a Competitive MBA Admissions Profile, mba work experience

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