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For many weeks, you have spent endless hours every night, after
coming home from your office, revising your essays. You have
done so by carefully studying the programs for each school you
are applying to and by getting lots of advice and
recommendations. But that's no problem; there's nothing left to
do except fill in the application forms and update your resume,
which shouldn't take more than an hour. You have already thought
about this and decided that the easiest way is to revise the
most recent version of your resume, which you drafted to get
your last job.Without a doubt, you could content yourself
with a quick revision of that document. But in doing so, you
risk passing up an opportunity that could perhaps make that
crucial difference between your application and the 8,000
others, or at least keep you in the running. by illustrating and
reinforcing the messages and examples developed in your essays,
your resume can add more weight to your candidature and improve
your chances for success.
Characteristics of a Good Resume for an MBA Application
To measure the potential role of the resume as a supporting
document for your MBA application, it's useful to recall briefly
what the admissions panels are looking to evaluate in it, beyond
its informative function (the number of years of professional
experience, jobs and posts held, previous employers, etc.). In
fact, what admissions officers are most commonly looking for in
a resume is usually based on three specific elements of the
candidate's professional background: cohere, diversity and
success.
A relatively coherent background. Ideally, the different
stages of a young professional's career will be connected to one
another by the opportunities that the candidate will have known
how to create for himself, either within or outside of this
company, in line with his long-term career goals. Thus an
engineer's experience in technology will lend more credibility
to a start-up project.
Diverse experiences. The richness of your background is every
bit as important as its coherence. The admissions officers
therefore expect to find experiences in a candidate's background
that will allow him to better grasp the teachings offered by the
MBA curriculum. Thus some of the programs have established a
formula of previous international and multidisciplinary training
experience for managers and leaders. This includes experience in
managing teams, responsibility for projects, the experience of
setting up a business (even in limited sense). All of these will
undoubtedly reinforce your application to one the theses
programs.
Visible signs of success. IN order to evaluate your
professional performance, the admission officers will measure
the duration of each of your jobs, the evolution of the
responsibilities you have had, and the progression of your
salaries and bonuses, as well as the results you got both
individually and as a member of a group, or better even, as a
manager of a tem. Related:
Resumes for MBA Jobs
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