You work for the family business and are applying to MBA programs. 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 start-up with headquarters in your home’s basement, at one of the local grocery stores your…
Five Tips for Demonstrating Professional Growth in a Flat Organization
If you work in a flat organization, showcasing your career advancement in your MBA application can feel like an uphill battle. Unlike peers in traditional hierarchical companies, you might not have the benefit of clear promotions or expanded job titles that reflect how your responsibilities and impact have grown. Instead, you might hold the same…
How an Admissions Committee Views Your MBA Work Experience
As you apply to MBA programs, you need to think about your work experience and how it fits into your overall story. Work experience is important because of what it reveals about you with respect to your character, maturity level, and abilities. Even if your GPA and GMAT/GRE scores are spectacular, your work experience still…
Deferred MBA Programs and Other Options for MBA Hopefuls With No Work Experience
For many business degree hopefuls, the MBA remains the gold standard of graduate management education, and not without reason – an MBA can be the start of a new chapter in your life. Professionally, it can help you accelerate your career or make a career pivot. Academically, it can help fill gaps in hard and…
MBA Admissions Tip: Explaining Frequent Job Switching
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…
Work Experience in Your MBA Admissions Profile
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…