[Personal Branding]Maryland Essay question

Q:
讨论 请问达人，maryland里有一道
How will you contribute to the legacy of the Robert H Smith School of Business?
legacy of the Robert H Smith School of Business是什么意思啊？跟whay this school是一个意思还是问你的diversity‘啊？

百思不得其解，求指点，谢谢~~



A:
legacy是讲前人遗留下的资产

这道题的意思是，当您未来加入这间学校成为Smith的一份子

您要如何贡献并传承Smith的校园精神

因此首先要了解Smith的校风

数码与创新

自身有哪些共通点能够先与学校产生共鸣

再将您身上学校所没有的特质做加强贡献

因此确实是school fit与value contribution的结合题

贡献可从各种面向

从您的出身背景，语言与市场文化

到您的独特生涯经历

以及最重要的您的人格特质与行事风格

将您的灵魂与学校精神作结合

[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"

[Personal Branding]How about 32+ years old applicants?

Q:
How about 32+ years old applicants? Do I have a chance for top MBA?

A:
Don't worry

32 is very normall age in b-schools

about 1/4 of MBA students in the States are at this age

in the States

the more experienced, the more contribution you can give

and also the deeper you'll learn

also bigger chance to find job (except some consulting jobs require young graduates)

since you're more prepared in career

just try to focus more on your seasoned experiences in application

[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
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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

[Personal Branding]How to show "why now?"

A:

you need to explain that in your career progress, you have a major bottleneck now that cannot be broken through on your current position in short future

to explain this

the best way is through opportunity cost analysis

you need to show that in short future

the opportunity cost of staying in status quo is higher than studying an MBA

then you'll have a why now


while you'll need to dig deep into your career evolution and future projection

find out what will happen if you keep the current position in short future

and if you choose to study MBA now, what impact will it give you in immediate future

then the why now will emerge by itself

请问下合资金融公司背景申请MBA的问题

Q:
请问下合资金融公司背景申请MBA的问题

A:
it's about what skill set do you possess now

and what skill set you want to learn from MBA

where are you going, and why

even top schools don't limit your background

and there's no rule saying bigger company names are better

since adcoms all know and will assume in your preliminary experience

you'll only execute task in limited scope

the application is all about your self-awareness

and the clarity of your career path

no need to worry what job function can get better chance in admission

since it simply doesn't work that way

as long as you can elaborate your clear needs for specific mba learnings

and show your leadership potential by career track record

adcom will hand pick the true leaders and train them well

你认为TOP20的入学者中有多少人的ESSAY完全真实(2)

and for this reason

applicants always need to explore much much deeper about their own enthusiasms

as well as personal characteristics and professional capabilities

dig out from your life stories

find out how those life changing experiences shaped your personality

and also made you who you are now,

and where you are going in the future

only when you dig out all these clues and details

weave them into compelling and integrated stories and tell adcoms your crystal-clear career directions and qualifications

will they admit you as a promising leader in progress

你认为在TOP20的入学者中有多少人的ESSAY是完全真实?

Q:
你认为在TOP20的入学者中有多少人的ESSAY是完全真实?

A:

For experienced adcoms, it's frankly easy to tell if your motivation is genuine or not

normally in only 15 seconds they can see the inauthenticity

since it has to come out from your career evolution, deep personality, and soul

that's why most schools ask about your career progress to date in normally essay 1

you need to have concrete evidence to support your motivation and career goals

everyone can claim he or she wants to start another Google or Microsoft

the difference is how close did you reach this goal through your career progress

and that's why although people all talk about inflation in the applications

only a handful of true talents get into top schools

just think about this

if everyone can bluff on their applications

why you're not in HBS or Wharton yet?

NYU“友善牛人學校”參訪分享(v)

上周繼康乃爾超熱情牛校一遊之後
隔天去了一趟NYU
跟在學生近距離詳談學校文化
參加由極度熱情的二年級生帶領的info session樓上樓下走一圈
再去上了一門最合時宜的“Risk Management for Financial Institutions”

這回已經是第二次去了
但上次只來看看這個散佈在紐約市中城的商學院到底長什麼樣
年初來的時候是來玩的
沒時間進去聽課，又剛好當時info session不知為何因故取消
所以幾乎沒機會了解深入學校
只記得當時在三樓還四樓的小交誼廳問了兩個老美關於申請建議
從頭到尾正眼也沒看小弟一眼
只說了“ GMAT考七百吧”
就這樣
當時覺得是個拒人千里之外的學校
但或許只是個個案
這趟幾乎完全改觀
是個相當友善而且集聚天才學生的學校

一開始應該是下午三點左右有個學生的休息
在商學院一樓咖啡廳可以跟在校生聊接近一個小時
其中一位儀容整潔的學生剛好就是財務背景
正逢華爾街危機引燃的全球經濟恐慌
這位平易近人的在學生簡短分享他的背景
先前一路都在銀行搞財務跟投資
談到他為何選擇這間學校
一則是他因為家庭因素要選擇紐約區的學校
另一方面則是當初在申請時考量幾間紐約幅元的學校
覺得這間學校從頭到尾的友善態度
以及學生的多元背景
學校的“絕對地理優勢”能夠最近距離浸潤在各大跨國企業總部
早上華爾街開盤可以看到的各大企業巨頭還在電視上發表談話
晚上可以直接來學校跟學生喝咖啡
“It’s a huge advantage that even makes me wonder why people want to study business far away. ”

而問到學校面對這次財務危及首當其衝
身為財務背景的他有沒有面臨什麼挑戰
而學校又有什麼因應措施
他回答到當然許多財務機構戰時凍結全職工作機會
但目前實習機會並沒有減少
而每天會進駐學校徵才的公司依然延續不絕
只是有些洗牌
以往還的一些大銀行可能處理危機分身乏術
而換做是一些以往比較少來的公司有機會來學校進一步互動
而學生每週五固定的career day對學生紮實的訓練
六個deadline不斷催促學生進行resume與interview訓練
可以幾乎保證學生畢業時早已練就成沙場老手
而學校位在企業核心地帶，也讓學校career center能跟企業維繫緊密關係

接下來的info session還沒開場前
辦公室已經擠滿了大約四十位申請人
讓帶領的學生必須要兵分三路才帶的完
小弟趁機問了一下每天這麼多人是正常的情況嗎
學生也相當訝異有這樣的人氣
不過似乎“bigger and bigger”

info session由二位非常熱情的二年級生帶領
對學校充滿極高熱誠
看得出來他們對學校非常滿意
一開場簡單要每位申請人三句話介紹背景
輪完一圈之後學生代表說“see the diversity？ ”
每個申請人的背景真的都來自各方
多數大學都不是念商，因此學校的接納度非常廣

而之後帶我們一邊繞五樓教室
二樓（沒記錯的話）圖書館
又回到六樓社團辦公室
每到一個地方，除了解說學校的豐富資源與設備外
相當高比例師資是白天直接在曼哈頓跨國企業總部就職
下午晚上來學校教書
而學生之間的高度友善情誼
以及學生來自各地的全國性網絡
讓在學生每天繁忙的步調中得到非常充實的收穫
（還沒有完成，將繼續... ）

[Program Fitting]請教留學各國的差異(英,美及亞洲)??

(The article is modified for the setting of this blog .)

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