[Program Fitting]請教留學各國的差異(英,美及亞洲)??

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請教留學各國的差異(英,美及亞洲)??


People will have a much clearer understanding about the realistic why about either MSF or MBA after working for at least a couple of years

you'll never know which one is better for you before you experience the real job market
and before that, you won't even know if you really need one
keep in mind that after this degree, you'll need to work in this field for the rest of your life

when you see those MSFs or MBAs got jobs after graduation
look further for just 2 more year and see what happens
you'll see most of people switch jobs again
and the same pattern just repeats like what happened before they entered their master studies
the exceptions are those who deeply understand their true passions
and chose their career directions carefully

for country selection
you need to think about long-term
no matter where you choose
think about the global competence, market accessibility, your overall capabilities from the degree and environment, networking
and the excellence of the program
while a half of the learning will be outside the classroom
you'll learn day-by-day about the market competition in the country
compete yourself with those truely competent and capable people in the country
and learn why the country is so strong
the more competent is the country, the more talented people will gather and compete for excellence
it's about can you push up yourself to the limit and compete globally, or just want to find a easy life
most of time the less competent you are, the harder the life will be

one year program is good and bad
good is you don't waste time
bad is you don't spend time on learning
internship can be a great jumpboard, especially for career switcher
after all, it's about your overall competence for long-term
15 years from now, you don't want to feel short when you compete with global professionals

[Personal Branding] UW Foster essay解析

申請時要看整體學校走向與課程特性
並將essay題目交叉貫串來看出申請人是否適合這間學校
是申請人與學校相互的fit
而不只是申請人比武相親 勝者才抱美人歸

而申請人自身的生涯定位與個人品牌主軸
需要策略性的依照學校問題來做最適性呈現
要先從所有題目的綜觀來看出學校到底想從申請人身上看到什麼特質
樓主問到的Essay 2只是接續第一題的延伸
而第一題可以說看得出學校對申請人的生涯清晰度有高度要求
除了各校幾乎都會問的生涯方向長短程目標之外
Foster商學院還更深入詢問申請人的細部學習計畫與步驟
要問申請人自身如何規劃學習方式
畢竟是兩年的長時間密集操練
課程選擇,主修方向,學習生活安排,社交方向,時間安排,實習爭取,校友交流,求職努力
甚至像樓主講的社區團體社團
都可以是學習計畫
但一切都要以申請人的生涯目標主軸
與細部個人化經驗背景甚至性格結合

而MBA學習有超過一半是在課堂外
第二題的校園活動參與
一方面學校要看申請人對自身目標有多清晰精細
能否運用MBO目標管理的方式來訂立參與方向
也同時會看出申請人花了多少心思瞭解學校有哪些活動
除了地理問題能去一趟最好的話
(小弟去過兩次,校園相當優美,而學生也相當的用功,可是秋東風很大常陰雨綿綿)
最好的方式是跟在學生互動
瞭解有哪些校園資源與社團甚至校園演講或交換課程等等可以參與
多半可以從學校網站上直接查到學校組織活動與社團動態
直接寄信給社團幹部或school ambassador詢問學校各項活動狀況
一方面essay將會多出許多school fit的細節可以寫
另一方面也確定學校是否適合自己
而從這題的多元活動參與可以看出申請人本身的主動性與性格熱情
這類題目多半不是草草列出預計參與的社團就了事
而是要連細部參與動機,活動構想,甚至參與深入度與投入時間精力
都要一併陳述,才會讓學校知道申請人的生涯熱情與個人的投入程度

第三題學校的安排也相當耐人尋味
以二選一的方式來暗示學校寧可選擇ethic/dilemma而放棄瞭解申請人成就
隱約顯出要”先做對的事,再把事情做對”的哲學

即使學校的題目走傳統路線
仍可看出這是間高度區域競爭的學校


Essay 1 - GOALS STATEMENT
Please provide an essay response to the following question. Observe the word limit and use a minimum font size of 10. Double-space your response and clearly label the essay with the topic and your full name.

Required for Full-time and Evening MBA Applicants (750 words maximum)

Applicants with a plan for the future and a good grasp of what is expected of them as MBA students are the most likely to succeed as MBA graduates. We know plans change and that people often pursue an MBA to create new career options. That said, we ask that you give us a clear statement of your current career plans. Your essay should answer all the following questions: What do you expect to do immediately after completing the MBA program? What steps have you taken to assess the viability of your post-MBA goals given your experience to date combined with your intended MBA study plans? What do you anticipate will be the primary challenges to achieving your career goals? What is your lifetime career goal? What unique aspects of the Foster MBA Program would contribute the most to achieving your short term and long term goals?



Essay 2 - OVERVIEW
Please provide an essay response to the following question. Observe the word limit and use a minimum font size of 10. Double-space your response and clearly label the essay with the topic and your full name. If you are applying to both the Full-time and Evening MBA program, you will need to submit the appropriate 2nd essay for both programs. Please upload both programs' essays in one document and use a Page Break to separate them.

Full-time MBA Applicants: PLANS FOR INVOLVEMENT (500 words maximum)
We consider a high level of involvement in student organizations, networking and career efforts to be a hallmark of the Foster MBA experience. Please describe your anticipated level of involvement as an MBA student beyond the MBA course requirements. In what specific organizations or activities will you participate? Where do you expect to make the greatest contribution to the overall MBA experience at the Foster School of Business? What aspects of your past or current life provide insights into your ability and willingness to consistently deliver more than the minimum effort required?

注意第一個問題的anticipated level of involvement需要有細部解釋
並且要直接模擬出申請人在學時的參與狀況
而第三個問題會是區隔錄取申請人的關鍵
要申請人對自身生涯歷程與未來方向投射有高度的密合度與一致性
並將生涯的深度見解灌注於校園活動的體驗學習之中
已在貢獻社群的同時能反射出個人生涯的價值


ESSAY 3 - CHOICE ESSAY
Please provide an essay response to one of the following questions. Observe the word limit and use a minimum font size of 10. Double-space your response and clearly label the essay with the topic and your full name.

Required for Full-time and Evening MBA Applicants (500 words maximum)

Answer one of the following:
a. Describe a situation in a work environment that either severely strained your relationship with co-workers or challenged your personal values. How did you resolve the situation?

注意severely strained your relationship with co-workers
soft people skills永遠是MBA的精要
也是真實人生中的成功要訣

b. At this point in your career what do you consider your most significant professional accomplishments? How have these particular accomplishments affected the career choices you have made?

注意第二題的第二小題
如此成就"如何影響您的生涯選擇"

[Personal Branding]MBA Essay advice

http://forums.businessweek.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?msg=78104.3&webtag=bw-bschools
BusinessWeek B-School Forum上的詢問,完全公開論壇,無須任何註冊即可瀏覽.

Q:
All,

In the "failure" essay I plan on using my experience stuggling to develop my small tech company. I failed at launching the businesses for many mistakes i have made and which I learned from.

Is that a good subject to talk about? I have learned so much about myself and business in general from this experience. On the other hand, I failed in Business? How will the commitee judge that?

I was thinking about using the same subject of Business startup to use in the "Leadership" essay. Which fits bests in your opinion?

Should I use my failure in business in "leadership" or "failures"? I am proud to have invested time, effort and taken a project from paper to reality, and I have learned so much about me and business in general at the same time.

Thanks




A:
There's always a great deal of stuff to learn from an entrepreneurial experience. How to organize your operation, how to build your personal brand and reach your potential clients, how to develop your standard operating procedure, where should you rent the office, how to adjust the price constantly to satisfy the market dynamic, how to sustain your business by stable income cash flow cycle, and most importantly, how to get the capital to build up all these. You'll learn 10 times more if you really "fail" the business and have to kill your own baby--close down the whole operation, also need find alternative job "fast" to pay back your debt before the interests crash you. You may live in hell for the next 10 months.

So the key question is, did you really "fail" in this case and closed down your venture?

If you eventually survived, then it's actually a "success" story, but only lots of take aways that made your much more "seasoned" in business world. Since the lagacy matters. Adcom should be looking for a "true failure" that totally killed you and reborn from hell. If you flunked your last credit in college and was about to be kicked out by school, but you saved yourself in the last minute by showing all hardworks you've done in clubs so that convinced the dean to keep you in school, this is actually a success story. Since if you really "failed," you really got kicked out from school without a degree, no mercy, and you needed to face the reality that had to compete in job market with regular college graduates, and you didn't know how to write your degree in resume since you didn't have one. The experience would totally change you into a different person that needed to find a job with lower requirement, and you needed to study at night for another 3 years after exhausted work in day time. This "failure" experience could turn you into a super competent candidate since you were forced to become a superman to catch up with others, and it totally changed your life instead of just learned some mistakes from staying in school.

So if you have one, the true failure story will be far more compelling for adcom to know how much it changed you to be a more mature person, and also know how did you deal with the consequence.

Hope these help.

David

Great Testimonials from NSHMBA (6)

主旨: NSHMBA Career fair
寄件者: "Gaurav Saneja"
日期: Fri, 十月 24, 2008 10:55 am
收件者: davidl@mbacareerfitter.com
重要性: 普通
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David, It was pleasure talking with you at the NSHMBA career fair. I appreciate your feedback on my resume. As you mentioned at the career fair that you would be happy to assist me in getting a job, I am attaching my resume for your reference. I am open to positions in Consulting, Finance and Operations. If you feel that I may be a good fit for a job in a field other than these, then I will be happy to apply for it. If you need any further information, then please contact me at your convenience at (213) xx-7131 or gauravxxx@gmail.com.

Thank you
Sincerely,

Gaurav Saneja

Great Testimonials from NSHMBA (5)

De: Carlos Nouel [mailto:cxx2009@hult.edu]
Enviado el: Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:56 AM
Para: 'davidl@mbacareerfitter.com'
Asunto: RE: Thank you for coming to David Lee at NSHMBA's Resume Clinic

Dear David,

Thank you very much for your feedback on my resume. It was really helpfuland I'm sure that it will help me to advance in my career.
As soon as I have my new version I will send it to you, to see if you cangive me feedback again.

Best regards,
Carlos Nouel

MBA Candidate 2009
Hult International Business School
One Education Street, Cambridge MA 02141
Mobile: +1 617 xxx 4509
www.hult.edu

Great Testimonials from NSHMBA (4)

主旨: RE: David Lee in NSHMBA Resume Clinic, some Chinese are asking about FIU
寄件者: "Sanyo Mathew"
日期: Wed, 十月 15, 2008 10:38 pm
收件者: "davidl@mbacareerfitter.com"
重要性: 普通
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David,
Thank you very much for your help at NSHMBA. I feel very confident about my resume!

Here is information about FIU standings -" We are South Florida's leading business school, with unique expertise ininternational business, entrepreneurship, and a range of financial services-fromaccounting to banking to real estate.

Our location: Miami, Florida.

Our perspective: globalWe focus on business education for an international marketplace and are among thetop international business schools in Florida and the U.S.Accelerated programs for tomorrow's business leaders and entrepreneurs

Our Landon Undergraduate School of Business delivers leading-edge traditional,value-added weekend and early morning, online, and blended programs and aninnovative International Business Honors program.

Our Chapman Graduate School of Business offers flexible, market-driven graduateprograms, including a unique one-year International MBA, a dual MBA and Master ofInternational Business, several part-time MBAs, an Executive MBA, specializedmaster's, and PhD programs.

Top national rankings-unparalleled in FloridaU.S. News & World Report ranks us among the top international business schools inthe U.S. for international business.*

In top 15 for undergraduates (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)*
In top 25 for graduate programs and 4th best among one-year InternationalMBA programs (2008)
Business Week reports we're among the best accredited business schools in the U.S.*
In top 80 for undergraduates*
In top 70 for graduatesFortune Small Business (March, 2006, 2007) cites us among the best colleges forentrepreneurs, offering "some of the most innovative programs for fledgling businessowners."

Financial Times (2006 and 2007) ranks ours as the top Executive MBA program inFlorida."Unless the candidate has an exceptional GMAT score (>680), full scholarships areunheard of! Graduate assistanships are available which could cover anywhere from 30%- 100% of your fees depending on the type of work you end up doing.

As far as intl. students, we have about 2500 such students out of 35,000 which makesit 7% population.

Finally, thus far, I have not heard of any of our graduates from Chapman GraduateSchool of Business not landing jobs.

If you have any additional questions, let me know.

Take care!

Sanyo

Great Testimonials from NSHMBA (3)

主旨: Resume change(s)
寄件者: "Bhavin Shah"
日期: Fri, 十月 10, 2008 5:04 am
收件者: davidl@mbacareerfitter.com
重要性: 普通
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Hi David,
Thank you for reviewing my resume today. I have made changes to my new resume as per
your recommnedations. If you get a chance please review it (I hope u dont mind
it!!).

I will be using my new resume tomorrow at the career fair. I feel much better about my new Resume. Thanx in advance



--bhavin

MBA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque – Operations Management, December 2008
MS, Electrical Engineering, May 2002, University of Southern California

Great Testimonial from Kellogg Student in NSHMBA!!! (v)

主旨: RE: Thank you for coming to David Lee in NSHMBA Resume Clinic
寄件者: "Veronica Bashbush"
日期: Thu, 十月 16, 2008 12:05 pm
收件者: "davidl@mbacareerfitter.com"
重要性: 普通
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Dear David,
I appreciate all the great advice you gave me. You've added tremendous value to my
resume. This was the first time I learned how to translate my engineering experience
into business terms. Thank you again for supporting NSHMBA and other MBA students.
Sincerely,
Veronica
____________________________________________________________
Veronica Bashbush
vxxx2010@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University

Great Testimonials from NSHMBA!!! (1)

主旨: NSHMBA--Resume Clinic
寄件者: exxx@nenque.com
日期: Tue, 十月 14, 2008 3:38 am
收件者: davidl@mbacareerfitter.com
重要性: 普通
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David,
Thank you so very much for your help during the resume clinic. I enjoyed speaking with you. I'm sure that you met so many people that it would be difficult to remember everyone. If it helps to tell you, I am the young hispanic lady who lived in Nanjing and Hualien to study Chinese and teach English and whose MBA emphasis is Org Behavior and Human Resources. I hope that you had a great time at NSHMBA, and
again, thank you for your help. It was a pleasure meeting with you.

Regards,
Elizabeth Nenque
BYU MBA 2010
Org Behavior/Human Resources

Cornell"超熱情牛校"參訪分享 (v)

上週一到康乃爾MBA參訪
紐約市往西北開四小時半會到這個希臘城Ithaca
很冷,上禮拜去已經零下了
遠遠就會看到一整座山橘紅色的楓葉林有大半都是校區
歐式建築文藝氣息濃厚
可以說是個烏托邦
從入校停車開始就可以感受到,這個世外桃源是個溫馨的大家庭
停車導覽的小姐是個上了年紀的婦女
從小小的詢問亭探了半個身子出來
為了解釋地圖如何繞過施工處到達停車場
還算了”一次左轉,三次左轉”給我聽

來到像城堡的Sage Hall
裡頭是Johnson商學院
一大早八點半已經人滿為患
Admission Office已經擠滿了校園大使跟慕名而來的申請人
繁忙的步調卻充滿人性與親切
還沒見到Office director Michael
已經有學生代表Megan滿臉笑容”超級”親切的詢問是不是要來參訪學校的人
柔軟的身段令人欽佩
見到office director宏亮自信的問候聲親切
和煦卻又令人肅然起敬
很親切的直接幫我把厚外套脫下來掛在衣冒間
確認姓名後名牌早已備妥
另外在塞上一包厚重的商學院介紹
以及別校少見的個人行程規劃
幾點要會到admission office集合
幾點要上課
幾點要跟學生大使會合
一清二楚又對每位參訪者無微不至的照顧

眼看上課時間就要開始
Office director Michael向眾人詢問要上策略課的由一年級生帶領進入教室
要上統計課的由另一位學生代表帶領
一堂課只有一小時又十分鐘,相當短暫
進入教室還沒正式上課
滿滿六七十位學生與教授有說有笑
印度裔女教授有神奇的親和力
才第一堂課跟學生初次見面
就已經像一個大家庭和樂融融
解說課程大綱時令人覺得對學生要求嚴格
卻又合情合理
整堂課內容跟時事結合,並且與學生互動愉快
即使是cold call的緊張壓力也不會讓學生覺得難堪
而學生素質不用知道背景
光從提問與回答的細膩度
就知道大家都經過紮實的工作經驗磨練出清晰思考


下課後學院中庭發現人擠人
居然每天早上有免費咖啡供所有學生”提神”
回到admission office馬上出現新的三四位學生大使
十點多的財務課由另一位一樣充滿熱誠的Neil帶領
有問必達,並且不斷提供在場申請人學院特性與主修方向的建議
隨後馬上進入另一堂財務課程
七八十人的教室擠的滿滿的
教授應該是個歐洲人
上課前走到教室最後一排把大家往前趕
很顯然是對學生上課態度的要求
上課時先放了幾張投影片解說目前的財務危機到底跌了多少
又用幾個概念解釋就長程而言是可以預防的
最後一邊解釋NPV一邊帶學生練習

早上明牌裡有夾一張免費午餐卷
又來了新的兩位一年級生跟大家邊用餐邊聊
感受的到對學校相當有熱誠
思考表達也很清晰
用餐完後到會議室繼續進行info session
直接由這兩位學生解說
主要話題圍繞在學校的超熱情文化
以及同學的高度互助風氣,互相介紹相關背景的同學校友
每年小班制270人互相熟識
第一年上半會隨機分組,背景互不相同互相學習
後半會依照cohort分組,再與不同背景的同學互動
才講到一半剛好有位二年級生敲門進來
問說哪為申請人要找醫藥相關
他有相同背景可以協助
顯示學校真的有非常高度的互助文化及學生網絡
另外提到學校的CMC職涯中心 對學生的就業發展有很大幫助
會依不同專業項目來協助學生找工作

這趟康乃爾行可說大開眼界
前晚開車時凍到開暖氣還不時發抖
想說誰會想來這麼遠的小鎮唸書
沒想到被學校無比的熱情深深環抱
是個令人欽佩嚮往的學校