by Marquis | Aug 12, 2007 | career, transition
This entry is a bit of a stretch for me because the reader is asking me about job advice for a gig at the United Nations. I’ve never worked there and I’m nowhere close to an expert on this, but I’m going to try to break this into pieces and address...
by Marquis | Jun 6, 2007 | career, mba, transition
The following email is from a young lady who is currently a practicing attorney that is interested in switching careers over to consulting. In addition to making this switch, she’d also like to get an MBA. After exchanging several emails with her, it came out...
by Marquis | May 24, 2004 | career, Leaving job for Bschool, transition
OK, it’s finally done…I finally put in my notice of resignation today and I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off of me. I wasn’t planning on giving my notice until next Friday afternoon and I’d written the first draft of my letter last...
by Marquis | May 18, 2004 | career, Leaving job for Bschool, transition
Yesterday, I got an email from the Admissions Office at Stanford saying that they had hired a company to do background checks of all its admitted students for the Class of 2006 to verify the information that they had put in their applications, including information...
by Marquis | May 10, 2004 | career, Leaving job for Bschool, transition
I just got out of a meeting with my personnel manager and now I’m feel all kinds of guilty. Since I transitioned to my current role in January, he has gone a long way toward giving me a lot of opportunities to learn things through new tasking and he’s been...
