by Marquis | Mar 8, 2010 | Bschool admissions, Business School, consulting, younger applicants
What’s up, peoples. The message below is from a college senior who is targeting admission to business school straight out of undergrad. As I’ve mentioned in past entries, it is incredibly difficult to gain admission to a top MBA program right out of...
by Marquis | Feb 27, 2010 | Bschool admissions, consulting, Finance, IT consulting, mba, software engineer, Technology-related
The email below is from a Software Engineer who currently works in the Telecom and Finance space and is planning to apply to business school soon. His goal is to move into IT Strategy consulting with a focus on the Finance vertical and he’s wondering whether...
by Marquis | Feb 7, 2010 | Business School, career, interesting articles, mba, recruiting, U.S. economic crisis
We all know that it has been an incredibly tough year or two on the job front for MBA students in terms of both summer internship and full-time recruiting. I’ve posted a few entries with some tips and techniques for winning in the job search game in the past few...
by Marquis | Feb 7, 2010 | Business School, career, mba, pre-MBA grad degrees, software engineer
Hi, everyone. I hope you’re all getting ready to check out what should be a great Superbowl. I’m posting a quick entry to give follow-up on the recent entry from a Software Engineer who was asking about graduate degrees that combine Engineering and...
by Marquis | Feb 3, 2010 | career, consulting, Education, pre-MBA grad degrees, software engineer, transition
The message below is from a reader whose story mirrors my own very closely…He was a Computer Science undergrad who moved on to a career as a Software Engineer, which he has been doing for five years. And, like me, he has lost his passion for that line of work...
by Marquis | Jan 26, 2010 | career, interesting articles, job search resources, notable organizations, other blogs, other sites, recruiting
The article below comes to us from the team over at Doostang. My long-time readers will recognize the Doostang name because it is the career search site founded by one of my close friends from my class at Stanford GSB. Since its launch a few years ago, Doostang has...
