by Marquis | Nov 7, 2010 | admissions consulting, Bschool admissions, Business, Business School, career, career-life balance, Conversations, entrepreneurship, mba, other blogs, other sites
In today’s entry, I bring you the third installment of the “Conversations” interview series, featuring a discussion with Linda Abraham, Founder and President of Accepted.com. Those of you who have applied to business school in the past few years or...
by Marquis | Oct 24, 2010 | Business, Business concepts, career, Communication, Networking, other blogs, professional advice
I’ve devoted several posts to important business topics over the past few years, but one topic that I don’t think I’ve covered is the “elevator pitch”. For those who don’t know, an elevator pitch is a short (usually 30-120 seconds...
by Marquis | Oct 3, 2010 | Business, career, Corporate executives, interesting articles, organization, other blogs, other sites
Back when I was applying to business school, I thought that I didn’t have a legitimate shot because I had no background in business. Until then, my professional career had consisted of several years’ worth of plugging away at Java code and an academic...
by Marquis | Aug 25, 2010 | career, interesting articles, job search resources, other blogs, professional advice, resume
Recently, I came across a blog produced by a young lady named Karen Flowers, who calls herself “The Resume Chick” and provides resume writing services for clients. After reading some of her entries, I’ve become a big fan of her site. I know that...
by Marquis | Jul 16, 2010 | career, interesting articles, Networking, other blogs, other sites
When a friend of mine posted the article below on Facebook, I was about to ignore it, but the title caught my eye and I’m glad that I took the time to read it. As my longtime readers know, networking is sort of my “thing” and I spend a lot of time...
by Marquis | Jul 8, 2010 | career, career path, career-life balance, interesting articles, other blogs, other sites, professional advice
In the past few months, I’ve posted several articles about the iffy job market and, at times like these, we all owe it to ourselves to be as thoughtful as possible about managing our careers. I’ve built my career the hard way by making a lot of mistakes...
