In this episode of The mbaMission Podcast, mbaMission Senior Consultant Harold Simansky and Managing Director Gavriella Semaya speak with Simeen Mohsen, senior managing director of Harvard Business School (HBS) Online, about the Core Business Essentials program and how it can help aspiring MBA students. The discussion covers the program’s structure and origins as pre-MBA preparation, as well as which candidates might benefit from completing it before applying to business school.
As you prepare to start your MBA program, you already have many tasks on your plate, but we recommend that you add one more—updating your recruiting resume. As soon as you get to campus, you will need to submit your resume, so revising it now will position you to hit the ground running.
Here are three tips and associated action items for creating a compelling resume that will help you stand out from your peers.
As you enter application season, what kind of strategy do you have in mind? More than a few candidates, having likely read about the supposed advantages of applying in Round 1 on various Web sites and discussion boards, plan to submit all their applications in that first round—with the idea that if no acceptances are forthcoming, they will just submit another set of applications in Round 2. If this is your plan, we would like to explain why it is probably not your best course of action.
In the past, we have discussed how challenging competing against a faceless mass of fellow applicants can be and how disadvantaged people can feel if they do not seize every opportunity to do so. Although we want you to make the most of every possible chance to set yourself apart, you also need to be judicious in choosing those opportunities. Some can actually work against you and thereby turn into negatives. Allow us to elaborate…
You have worked painstakingly on your application. You have checked and rechecked your work. You finally press the Submit button only to realize—to your horror—that you are missing a comma, and you inadvertently used “too” instead of “to.” The admissions committee is obviously going to just throw your application out, right? Wrong!
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