[狂賀] Successfully helped client win scholarship from Case Westeren MBA!

Successfully helped client win scholarship from Case Westeren MBA!

[講座] 新年大風吹--真實MBA生涯管理講座

新春新氣象，蛇年行大運！

有鑑於PTT MBA板乃人才薈萃之地，特於開春大喜之時前來貢獻微薄之力，分享您不可不知的新年進陞與轉職的生涯管理祕辛！

講者：

前美國最大MBA畢業生徵才會NSHMBA 官方職涯顧問

暨 大衛MBA生涯管理中心 創始人 

David 李

主題：

新年大風吹--真實MBA生涯管理講座

（上）新年進陞 暨 轉職篇 （3月9日星期六 1pm~5pm，蛙咖啡）

領完年終，終於可以爆發啦！辦公室裡不幹的最大~不論您是MBA前、後，或是根本沒有要申請MBA，新的一年到底要不要轉職？還是要留在崗位上繼續升遷？其中取捨的原則為何？

講者將深入淺出，透過理論與案例分析，傳授由「興趣」、「性格」、「專業能力」等生涯三驅力所建構的終極生涯管理金字塔，教您達成快樂人生，永遠不再覺得在工作！

（下）MBA申請人的真實職涯規劃 暨 申請準備 （3月16日星期六 1pm~5pm，蛙咖啡）

看到年終更搖頭嗎？新的一年，如何透過MBA進修管道，持續在career ladder上穩定爬升？若要透過MBA提升，應該如何安排申請前、後的生涯路線？Adcoms 如何evaluate生涯轉折？MBA資源琳琅滿目，如何落水三千取一瓢飲？

畢業求職事小，真實生涯經營事大。如何專注地提升生涯價值，以成為貨真價實的全球領導人？何謂終極領導力？

地點：蛙咖啡 

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費用：免費

報名方式：由於場地座位有限，請來信至 davidl@mbacareerfitter.com

告知前來人數，並索取一份免費的Career Assessment Sheet生涯檢視表，以利進行現場互動遊戲。

參考文獻：

What Color Is Your Parachute?

Happiness Advantage

How To Interview Like A Top MBA

Ignore Everybody

MBA Application Strategy

Great Application Essays for Business Schools

Your MBA Game Plans

How To Get Into Top MBA Programs

期望能為這份地靈人傑之地盡份心力，協助大夥更上層樓！

Sincerely,

David 李

www.mbacareerfitter.com

mbacareerfitter.blogspot.com

fb社團: Career Leadership Research Club

[講座] 新年大風吹--真實MBA生涯管理講座 （續）

有欲參加者好奇前文所提的案例為何

在這裡補充一下

（當天活動會保護個案隱私，不用擔心）

[真實生涯之MBA前，求/轉職成功案例：]

香港私募基金 經理人

華人最大線上音樂資料庫 共同創辦人

全球第二大外套廠 品管經理

影視委員會 執行長特助

知名醫療中心 副總特助

五星級旅館 市場分析

斯里蘭卡建商 總經理特助

美商印度分部 華人市場情報 調查員

...等

[真實生涯之MBA後，求職成功案例：]

LV 上海 店經理

Hugo Boss 法國總部 產品線經理

Du Pond 美國總部 行銷經理

KPMG 風險管理顧問

Deloitte 風險管理顧問

富邦風險管理 經理人

...等

[真實生涯之MBA申請成功案例：]

（2013年 2nd Round）

U of Michigan Ross GMBA （G650+，一週內面試，兩週內錄取，已開課）

MIT MBA & LGO（G650+，全國唯一面試，獎學金課程）

CEIBS MBA（G650，未申請即受邀面試）

IU Kelley MBA （G650，申請後一週內面試）

MSU Broad MBA（G650，面試，Supply Chain Management No. 1）

PSU Smeal MBA 面試（G650，面試，Supply Chain Management education No. 1）

OSU Fisher MBA （G650，面試）

UW Seattle Foster MBA （G650，面試）

BU MBA （面試）

（2013年以前）

Oxford MBA 錄取，畢業

CEIBS 中歐 MBA 獎學金

Michigan Ross MBA 錄取，畢業

Cornell Johnson MBA 錄取，畢業

USC Marshall MBA 錄取

IU Kelley MBA 獎學金，畢業；就讀中

OSU Fisher MBA 獎學金

William & Mary MBA 獎學金 （G600+畢業；G600++錄取，就讀中）

以上均為真實生涯管理個案。

講者背景補充：

美國最大MBA徵才會 史上第一位台籍官方顧問

美國西北部最大生涯管理公司Notus Career Management，首位非美籍全職顧問

瑞銀 領導統御課程 企業講師

大陸追夢網 CD Career月刊 「答疑解惑」專欄主筆

AIESEC 台大分會 校園講師

更多案例，請見 mbacareerfitter.blogspot.com

免費講座，僅為回饋板眾~

場地座位有限

報名請寄 davidl@mbacareerfitter.com 告知人數，並索取一份生涯檢視表（Career Assessment Sheet），以利當天互動。

Sincerely,

David 李

[狂賀] Successfully helped client earn job offer from KPMG Risk Management Consulting, already on-board!

Successfully helped client earn job offer from KPMG Risk Management Consulting, already on-board!

[嚴重狂賀] 今年所協助台灣申請人全數取得面試

如題!
今年所協助的所有台灣申請人皆取得面試邀請
除了一位申請人近日才丟出申請,目前只獲得一間面試邀請,尚在等待外
其餘申請人皆取得兩間以上學校面試
並已有兩位獲得獎學金!

[Testimonial] 收到Penn State的面試邀請通知，有點令人匪夷所思的快

from W.L.
to David Lee

date Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:16 AM
subject Fwd: Penn State Smeal MBA Admissions Interview Invitation
mailed-by gmail.com
signed-by gmail.com



Hi David,


我在禮拜五晚上收到Penn State的面試邀請通知，有點令人匪夷所思的快；因為我2/1才submit出去，而且我的推薦人沒有在過年前把推薦信操作好送出去，我2/8開工那天才完整把application 完成，沒想到2/11就收到面試通知，剛開始以為是不是只要有申請都會面試，但瀏覽學校網站上面也是寫interview invitation only。


學校可以讓我選擇，web cam or phone interview，我現在是先預定3/2 web cam interview (應該是web cam比較好吧?)。


想請教大概要朝什麼方向準備？ 或有沒有考古題之類的?




Best Regards,
W.L.

[Testimonials] Happy New Year Remark

Hi David,

Thank you for helping me complete the process of application. I learned and gained a lot of new thought these days. I also got a deeper insights from my past to present and to future, and then discovered myself comprehensively. I am glad to co-work with you and look forward to sharing good news with you.
I hang out with friends to get out of the repeated essay materials in the last few days haha... and hope you also have time to take a rest. See you over the next fews days and I wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Sincerely,

Kate

[Testimonial] Great testimonial even before started!

From: Newbaby
Date: Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:08 AM
Subject: In Depth Career Explorer
To: davidlee0222big1@gmail.com



Hello David:

This is Jamie. I was consulting with you last week. It's Adam introduce my case to you.
Frankly speaking, you made my eye-opened. I really enjoyed the personality you show me in the consulting even it is a business service and only for 30 miniutes. I found fullfillment in your leadership. I hope I could be
"somebody" as you in the future. It is not just business, but also guide some confused people.

I would like to puchase the In Depth Career Explorer. But I will have my Tofel test in June.
After that, I might contact u. Just let u know in advanced.

regards

Jamie

[狂賀] 拿下超難創業學校Babson, 附高額獎學金

from Sophia
to sin-Hung Lee

date ue, May 4, 2010 at 12:19 AM
subject Good news from Sophia
mailed-by gmail.com
signed-by gmail.com

Dear David,


Hi~好久不見
想跟你說個好消息


最近剛錄取了Babson College (with $40,000 scholarship)
因為學校，獎學金，和地點的關係，最後決定到Boston唸書
還記得你當初特別幫我修改了Babson的Essay
真的很感謝你的幫忙


Anyway，這個好消息想盡快讓你知道
希望在出國前我們還有機會碰個面聊聊


祝 一切順心


Sophia

[再賀]AT不到六百 兩週拿William & Mary MBA面試

繼前天一位客戶上了CMU之後
昨天又有客戶AT不到六百 二月底submit已經拿到William & Mary MBA面試
可見essay寫的相當成功
可喜可賀

[賀不完]Admissions Interview by Weatherhead School of Management (Case Western Reserve)

Lee,
to davidlee0222big1@gmail.com

date Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:00 PM
subject Fw: Admissions Interview - Weatherhead School of Management
mailed-byms30.url.com.tw

hide details 8:00 PM (7 minutes ago)


Hi! David,

I am gonna be interviewed by Case Western Reserve! Thank you so much for the most helpful advice that conquered many ardious problems!

Lee

----- Original Message -----
From: Weatherhead Admissions Office
To: abxx@ms30.url.com.tw
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:26 AM
Subject: Admissions Interview - Weatherhead School of Management


Dear Lee,

Thank you for applying to the MBA program at the Weatherhead School of Management! At this point, we would like to conduct an admissions interview before further reviewing your application. Admissions interviews are conducted either in person at the Weatherhead School or by phone. Please see below for a link to available interview time slots; please review the possible interview times and register for your preferred interview time. Please register for only one interview time slot. Once you register, you will receive an automatic confirmation that your registration was successful with additional information about the interview.

Click here for a list of available interview times.

If you cannot interview during any of the listed times, please reply to this message, providing three possible days and times for the interview. Please be sure to register for your interview; a reminder will not be sent, and your application will not be further reviewed without an interview.

Regards,



Weatherhead Admissions Office
Case Western Reserve University

[狂賀接二連三]跳過interview的Duke Waitlist (Businessweek Ranking Top 8)

楊
to davidlee0222big1@gmail.com

date Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:42 PM
subject duke waitlist
mailed-by hotmail.com

hide details 9:42 PM (21 hours ago)


Hi David,

I am in waitlist of Duke.

~

Best Regards

[再狂賀一間命中]一間就拿USC面試

from Sophia
to Hsin-Hung Lee

date Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:18 AM
subject Good news from Sophia
mailed-bygmail.com
signed-bygmail.com

hide details 12:18 AM (10 hours ago)


Dear David,


前幾天剛接到USC的面試通知
想跟你說聲
我們努力一個月的essay總算過了第二階段
很感謝你當初幫我這麼多


最近陸續接到幾家面試 USC UCI USCD 都是加州系的
繼BU被拒後總算重燃動力
[註:大衛只處理最難的USC,其餘學校非大衛處理]
本來一直擔心是托福問題
不過剛剛看了你在傷咖po的文章 （關於某位IT工作的朋友 面試率100%, 槓龜率100%）
想想自己不能老是陷在托福不到100的中國人式思惟
應該多往前看些 哈


大概這樣，跟你報告個近況
希望你最近身體好點


Sophia

[狂賀!!!] BU一發就中!!!!!

狂賀!!!!!
GMAT低於在校學生平均分接近一百分
申請一家即中Boston University IMBA
命中率100%!!!!!
Testimonial in progress~

[Personal Branding]Essay strategy and tips 81110

Whys: Why MBA, Why Now, Why this school
Long-Term and Short-Term Goals
and Persoanl Uniqueness

-You need to go much deeper on your whys

and be analytical, not just emotional expressions with adjectives

use fuctional and skill terms such as "advanced market forcast skills, sharpen negotiation skills, learn pricing strategy and fundamental finance analysis, also quality control on supply chain."

-More specific on your goals, and more details on what you needs

"to thrive my career to senior supply chain manager in 3 years after my mba, I need more strategic mindset on external partnership management, while supervise and motivate my team on efficiency control, also delegate subordinate on bahalf of senior executives, I need xxx MBA's 'Competing Through Supply Chain Logistics,' 'Procurement and Sourcing Strategies,' also 'Leading The Strategic Change Process.'"


-your long-term career aspiration needs to come our from your personality and soul

and supported by anecdotal stories and track evidence

"when I was in college club running xx charity event, my classmate Nancy accidentally notified that I was good at logistic details, and I was always good on interpersonal communications. Since then, I focused my career on supply chain management and have been constantly promoted 3 times in 4 years to a department supervisor."

-For your why now, you need to explain clearer about the urgency

"When my VP promoted me to this position and expected me to take bigger responsibility on executive level in 3 to 4 years, I felt empty on corporate strategy and cross-business negotiation, and I don't see the systemetic training in company to prepare me for senior position in short run, so studying an MBA now is a better opportunity cost for me."


-Need to show your uniqueness through your diverse background and personal experiences

and you need to walk adcom through the details with stories, at least 2 to 3 levels down

or you can see most people say the same thing as your statement

it should be like this: "coping with 6 countries across Europe, Asia, and South America shaped my unique personality. The enthusiasm from Brazil partner, the strictness from Japan supplier,and the emotional Euperean-style negotiation experience taught me how to manage unpredictable schedule. One time when I led the outsourcing project with Japanese partner, I....."


-For long-term aspiration, it needs to be realistic and feasible through specific short-term steps.

"When I discussed the outsourcing strategy with my CEO, I felt I could see through his vision with more systemetic on risk management, and also more strategic on competition...To be a supply chain executive focusing on East Europe strategic alignment, I know I'm lack of turing vision into corporate policies, and also I need more social skills on both networking with senior business partners and also time management. Also on capital raising and finance optimization, I need to improve those skills from my short-term goal "senior supply chain manager in Asia regional market first."

It needs to be much deeper from the "invisible motivation," "underlying reasoning," and your "seasoned personality"

[MUST READ] Honor from NSHMBA!!! (v)

主旨: Thank you
寄件者: "Rose Mary Bombela-Tobias"
日期: Sat, 十一月 8, 2008 9:36 pm
收件者: davidl@mbacareerfitter.com
副本:
重要性: 普通
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November 8, 2008

David Hsin-Hung Lee
MBA Career Consultant
David's MBA Career Management


Dear David:

It was an honor and privilege working with you at the National Society
of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) 2008 Career Conference and Expo. Your
commitment, passion and professionalism made the Resume and Interview Clinic an unqualified success. We assisted nearly 500 job seekers over
2 days with your help.

The evaluations returned to the Clinic reported that recommendations
and advice given by the professionals made a significant difference in
their presentations and job search. You were mentioned specifically in
one evaluation with the following comment, "David Lee was great. He
really helped me remove all the technical jargon from my resume.
Thanks!"

NSHMBA leadership and staff have praised our program as exceeding
their expectations and a testament to the highest standards of the
career services industry.

We thank you for sharing your talent with us. We hope you enjoyed the
experience as much as we did.



Warm regards,


Murray and Rose Mary


Murray A. Mann and Rose Mary Bombela-Tobias
NSHMBA Resume and Interview Clinic
Coordinators
Authors, Barron The Complete Job Search Guide for
Latinos
Principals, Global Diversity Solutions Group- Building High
performance Multi-Cultural
Workplaces
www.jobsearchguideforlatinos.com

[BW Forum]Chinese Ask David

http://forums.businessweek.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=bw-bschools&tid=75186

All due respect. It's not only about the best school offers, it's about your career fit through your MBA. Find out your REAL LIFE career through "3 CAREER ELEMENTS": Passion, Characteristics, and Professional Capabilities. Then find out your FIT MBA accordingly.

MBA Career Consultant for 3 years, Scholarship Committee from top MBA in international field, 3,000 articles in Taiwan and China MBA forums regarding career pathing, curriculum fitting, and personal branding. Consulted 700+ Chinese MBA applicants to find out career passions, and those who later attended their ture fit in top 20 U.S. MBA. Clients also from different cultures including Indian, Korean, Japanese, Thai, and also American.

Personal experience struggled through sales, marketing, market research, and operations functions, in IT, media, telecom, and traditional industries, both in B2B and B2C channels, then found my life-long passion as a career consultant through my MBA. So well familiar with MBA logic on career management. Key MNC experience including IBM, HP, Cisco, and TIME Inc. in global or regional scope.

Just realized here is the real major league and the articles can benefit people from other parts of the world, while we can all learn more from more diverse perspectives.

Please share your brief situation, and I'll try my best to help you on career pathing, curriculum selection, personal branding for your true career-fit MBA.

P.S.
Previous articles on this forum: http://mbacareerfitter.blogspot.com/search/label/David
Bilingual website under construction.
Blogger: http://mbacareerfitter.blogspot.com/
email: davidlee0222big1@gmail.com

Sincerely,
David

[網站]新網站建置中

今年申請輪次已經幾乎結束
如果只靠申請學校這行來吃飯已經算是進入淡季
但好消息是即使是淡季
許多朋友還是來自四方洽詢服務
主要還是生涯管理是不分四季滴
哇哈哈
就像不知哪位大企業家的至理名言
"沒有不景氣,只有不爭氣!"

部落格免費又方便是沒錯
但是就是不太正式
來自各方的朋友很多都看過小弟部落格
但沒幾個知道小弟有在做服務說~orz
又有個不大又不小的問題
就是即使是谷歌這樣世界級的大站
大陸似乎還是不容易看到
所以還要再架一個大陸看的到的部落格
或許是新浪 因為很多影歌星都是用新浪的啦~~

小弟的服務網站目前正在建置中
還請各方朋友稍加等待
要咬著牙根喔~
阿~給它咬下去!

[談判]終於讓老闆點頭辦H1B嚕

辛苦奮鬥了一年半
從談實習到拿offer
到談薪水談分帳到正式透過律師辦H1B工作簽證
達到一個皆大歡喜的平衡點
只能說談判實在太重要啦~

目前律師手續還沒完全完成
但已經只差簽字跟幾個小手續
其他都已經大致完成
但是行百里者半九十
要堅持到最後一秒才算數

我是李小衛

[Personal Branding]Stanford Application

範例請見此連結
http://www.mbacareerfitter.com/pdf/PhaseIII_sample_MrV.pdf


以下為來信往返內容

Q:
Hi,

I got your mail id from a chat forum on businessweek.......you offered to help a prospect there, and I too am one.....would you be willing to assess my chances of application to Stanford R2....have applied already, was just a little keen to show it to someone who'd give me an informed advice.....

A:

Hi V,

Sorry I was quite busy yesterday. I read your package and would like to comment that you may have a 70~80% chance to get into Stanford GSB. As I interacted with Stanford's adcom last year in national MBA career fair, they positioned GSB as a general management school like a compact Harvard, not particularly entrepreneurial or high-tech. Of course they have major presense of super successful entrepreneurs and high-tech professionals, but it's because of the location and the regional environment, not by intention, according to the adcom.

You have some extraordinary achievements in several giant companies, lots of impressive extracurricular activities, especially flying, and you leveraged it as your major value in terms of "freedom." You also positioned yourself as an entrepreneur to match the aspirational entrepreneurship spirit in Stanford GSB. And obviously you'd read lots of novels that your essays were really splendid and attractive for adcoms to keep reading your stories. All of these were great advantages to your essay package.

However, your essays and stories were, not critically, but somewhat incomplete. While not only your stories, but also your career logic was a little bit vague. Your GPA, even not in the U.S. 4.0 system, could make adcom frown, either. Your 700+ GMAT can make up a bit for your academic capacity, but the break down matters that your V was only 35.

The essay materials you picked was majorly "freedom" and "entrepreneurship," also altruism to poverty. All of them were great, but the freedom part was not assertive enough. It worked well with your flying hobby but it was quite empty beyond this freedom value. You may need 1 to 2 steps deeper to fulfill this value with more progressive extension like "innovation" or "exploration" to achieve some goals ahead. You also need to correlate all these values with your career goals, and these goals should be lined up with a core theme that inevitably need the Stanford GSB. So far these values are saperated from each other.

The 3rd and 4th essays could go 1 step further, too. And the financial plan for poverty and be connected with the entrepreneurship one, while you need a clear and specific business plan for your entrepreneurial dream, or at least have a clear direction that you're already on your way. The 4th one was a bit pity that you could leverage the constraint to explain what and how will you leverage GSB.

But don't get discourged by any of these, you still have big chance. Overall, since you have pretty decent and solid experience, also quite well-rounded personality and interesting life, you should be able to get the interview, and may be blessed to have an admission if you correlate all the dots and ace in the interview.

Sincerely,

David