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December 5, 2018

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Backup Plans, Research and Professional Support

Backup plans, research and professional support

I will wrap up this series with a few additional points. Creating a backup plan Think you’re done with MBA goals? Think again… In the current global economic volatility, having a backup plan for your immediate post-MBA goal can be not only good planning for you, but also enhance your goal essay’s credibility. It’s particularly… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / MBA career goals, Why MBA Series

November 29, 2018

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How to Edit Your MBA Goals Essay

How to Edit Your MBA Goals Essay

Short- and long-term goals Before you start drafting your MBA goals essays, work out three levels of goals: short-term, intermediate, and long-term. It helps to have this whole picture in your mind regardless of where you’ll “zoom in” for a particular essay. Short-term applies to the timeframe immediately post-MBA to about two years later; intermediate… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / MBA career goals, Why MBA Series

November 21, 2018

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Write an MBA Goals Essays that Turns the Adcom into Your Cheerleaders!

Write a Goals Essay that Turns to Adcoms into Your Cheerleaders

By following the advice in the previous post you can create goals that are clear, credible, and convincing, but they won’t necessarily be exciting. They won’t make the adcom reader think as she reads, “Wow, it would be great if he could do that!” And this latter reaction is really what the goals essay should… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / MBA career goals, Why MBA Series

November 14, 2018

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What Exactly Are Goals?

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“I want to move from the buy side to the sell side.” “I want to shift from technology consulting to investment banking.” Not goals. An engineer once said to me, “I want to go into either finance or consulting.” Not goals. A goal isn’t something you want, it’s something you do, something you want to… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / MBA career goals, Why MBA Series

November 7, 2018

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Why Write a Series About MBA Goals?

A few years ago, in the good old days when Wharton still offered feedback to rejected applicants, I talked with a potential client who was reapplying to Wharton. I asked him whether he’d obtained feedback on his application, and he said yes. Well? “Actually they said they really liked my application. They said I was… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / MBA career goals, Why MBA Series

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