Thankfully, GMAT score is only a small part of the overall MBA application process. This means that you don't have to sweat yourself until you score a hundred percentile on the GMAT. There are plenty of other things you can do.
You can improve your overall profile in other, more useful ways:
1. Contribute to society - that's right. Whether you want to become a Billionaire or a Saint, you can't do it unless you touch people's lives. So, give back to society and make an impact.
2. Climb that ladder faster- you can always climb the corporate ladder faster. Change jobs, kiss the right hands, etc etc. But, if like me, you don't want to kiss all those ugly frogs, maybe its about time you start a proper "side" business. Whatever gets your career rolling. BTW, you can neither succeed at business nor at a job unless you make a difference to someone's life, usually your client's.
3. Differentiate yourself with exotic experience- Did you just turn down that work tour to Dubai or Kenya or Seoul? Well, reconsider. You don't always have to go to China or some other hot market to become relevant. International experience is international experience, make the most of it!
You can improve your resume:
Your resume needs to be an MBA resume. Although, most schools specify that they want a "professional" resume, they don't mean that you put jargon into your resume. Instead of saying, "I helped develop CRM software that we had hosted on Amazon Web Services, which helped reduce response time by 30 seconds and enabled us to resolve a million tickets.", maybe you could say, "Developed software that helped my firm resolve customer complaints 30% faster and 3 times more efficiently." So, its quantified yet easy to understand.
You can think about how you want to be perceived:
Your whole application should highlight certain strengths, so that when the Adcom members can recall your case almost instantly. For example, they see finance-related profiles all the time, but they definitely won't remember all of them. They will certainly remember "That finance guy who volunteered for an ebola drive in africa." or "That finance guy who helped organize occupy wall street." You get the idea. This "recall pitch" is extremely important. This is your brand and your whole application should point the Adcom in the direction that you want them to be steered towards.
What about the essays?
Well, if you have your brand penned down, your resume firmly in place and your profile improved or differentiated, you can write a good essay. Anyways, I will be providing a proper checklist for systematically creating and editing your essay.
But, this is a GMAT blog and so I don't want to go off topic too much. A student of mine asked me to pen down my thoughts on the app process and so I wrote this post. Hope this helps.
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If you liked my post, you can always check out my kindle book here
You can improve your overall profile in other, more useful ways:
1. Contribute to society - that's right. Whether you want to become a Billionaire or a Saint, you can't do it unless you touch people's lives. So, give back to society and make an impact.
2. Climb that ladder faster- you can always climb the corporate ladder faster. Change jobs, kiss the right hands, etc etc. But, if like me, you don't want to kiss all those ugly frogs, maybe its about time you start a proper "side" business. Whatever gets your career rolling. BTW, you can neither succeed at business nor at a job unless you make a difference to someone's life, usually your client's.
3. Differentiate yourself with exotic experience- Did you just turn down that work tour to Dubai or Kenya or Seoul? Well, reconsider. You don't always have to go to China or some other hot market to become relevant. International experience is international experience, make the most of it!
You can improve your resume:
Your resume needs to be an MBA resume. Although, most schools specify that they want a "professional" resume, they don't mean that you put jargon into your resume. Instead of saying, "I helped develop CRM software that we had hosted on Amazon Web Services, which helped reduce response time by 30 seconds and enabled us to resolve a million tickets.", maybe you could say, "Developed software that helped my firm resolve customer complaints 30% faster and 3 times more efficiently." So, its quantified yet easy to understand.
You can think about how you want to be perceived:
Your whole application should highlight certain strengths, so that when the Adcom members can recall your case almost instantly. For example, they see finance-related profiles all the time, but they definitely won't remember all of them. They will certainly remember "That finance guy who volunteered for an ebola drive in africa." or "That finance guy who helped organize occupy wall street." You get the idea. This "recall pitch" is extremely important. This is your brand and your whole application should point the Adcom in the direction that you want them to be steered towards.
What about the essays?
Well, if you have your brand penned down, your resume firmly in place and your profile improved or differentiated, you can write a good essay. Anyways, I will be providing a proper checklist for systematically creating and editing your essay.
But, this is a GMAT blog and so I don't want to go off topic too much. A student of mine asked me to pen down my thoughts on the app process and so I wrote this post. Hope this helps.
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If you liked my post, you can always check out my kindle book here
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