Book Description
Getting into graduate business school has become an increasingly competitive and complicated process. Each year approximately 100,000 applications are sent to top schools. Written by two current MBA students who successfully gained admission into multiple schools, Your MBA Game Plan provides a strategic framework for putting together winning applications.
Your MBA Game Plan helps you navigate the application process by providing detailed analyses of every application component including:
--GMAT
--TOEFL
--Essays
--Recommendations
--Interview
--Data sheets
--Transcript
--Resume
Essays and other application samples are provided to highlight strategies that successful applicants have employed to get into top schools. Your MBA Game Plan also demonstrates how to assemble a document that crystallizes your application strategy. Finally, this book shows you how to apply application strategy to 30 top schools.
With Your MBA Game Plan in hand you will be well positioned to gain admission to the top business schools.
Customer Reviews:
Good addition.......2007-08-17
This book is a good supplement to the other "How to get into the top MBA programs." It's a lot smaller and goes much less in depth. I found it was a nice supplement to the other book, but I would not suggest this one as your main source for application tips and strategies.
Good luck! It's tough competition but it's worth it!!
How To Get Into the Top MBA Programs, 4th Edition (How to Get Into the Top Mba Programs)
AMAZING!!!!.......2007-08-01
AWESOME!! Omari and Scott have put in so much effort in writing this book.
Great work!! I love it!!! Have recommended it to many friends and they all love it and have successfully gotten into the school of their choice thanks to this wonderful book!!
Great MBA prep book.......2007-02-08
This is a great book for understanding how the US MBA admission process works. Coming from Africa this book guided me through the whole process of essay writing, GMAT, application and I got admitted into a top 10 US MBA school. I don't think this would have been possible without the knowledge I got from it.
I highly recommend it to prospective MBA students; especially those coming fron outside the USA.
I got in!.......2007-02-04
I was only trying to get into one school, it was the only one with the program I needed. It is just starting to make the lists for top 50 business schools. This book was invaluable. It really walks you through all the steps of applying. A few things didn't apply to me but it was all useful. I didn't have the chance to do an interview for a backup school first as it recommends, because I didn't have one. But with this book I was prepared. So, long story short, I got in and even recieved a significant scholarship.
Great for MBA Application Preparation.......2007-01-10
This book is great. It is a great tool to get you to really evaluate yourself as an applicant for any business school you are applying to. The MBA Game plan will also be a great tool to make sure your recommenders are on the same page as you. I highly recommend it!
Book Description
Expert advice helps you get into the business school of your choiceEarning an MBA from a leading business school can be an important career boost. But first you have to get accepted. This straight-talking guide is dedicated to helping you conquer the business school admission process. Here, Phil and Carol Carpenter show you, step-by-step, how to confidently develop your own winning marketing campaign, including:
- Tips on matching your strengths and interests with those of your target schools
- Candid interviews with admissions directors and alumni
- Advice on writing focused, persuasive essays
- Twenty actual applicant essays on frequently asked topics âwith frank evaluations of why these essays worked
- Ratings of the top programs from U.S. News & World Report
"This easy-to-read guide demystifies the MBA admissions process. It provides a detailed and useful strategy for all MBA applicants by illustrating ways in which applicants can exert control and influence over the process." â
"Candid and comprehensive...the Carpenters write with the voice of experience and share practical knowledge rather than generalized suggestions." âJon Megibow, Director of Admissions University of Virginia, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
Customer Reviews:
Out of date, but the basics stay the same.......2003-10-29
If you skip over the parts where they tell you things like set aside time to call the school and request materials, this book is great. A new edition that recognizes the advent of that thing called a computer and its friend the internet, and this book would be five stars. Very valuable information.
Differentiate, Differentiate, Differentiate.......2003-03-27
The title offers the key to the MBA application process: Marketing.
1) Treat your application as a whole with each part adding a new piece to the jigsaw puzzle. Naturally, you must know the product (you) and the customer (school/admissions committee).
2) Know yourself. Determine your positioning statement first. What is the major theme that will pervade your application? What makes you different from the other 10,000+ Harvard applicants?
3) Know the school. Learn as much as you can about the schools. Each of them has a different market position and culture. You have to get past the information on the website or else you will bore the admissions committee to sleep. Visit the schools and talk to alumni.
4) Good tips on writing: keep it simple, write colorfully, edit mercilessly. (chapter 7)
5) 42 pages of essays, but if you want to see a lot of essays, read Richard Montauk's HOW TO GET INTO THE TOP MBA PROGRAMS (over 90 essays from 30 different people).
As other reviewers mentioned, this book is not a bad place to start, but it is terribly outdated - no mention of the internet.
A useful tool.......2001-09-03
My only warning is : don't think that with this kind of books you will get a seat in a top business school.
This book is a useful tool to organize your postulation, the other "recipes" are not valuable.
As a agenda, it is a good book.
Good but outdated.......2001-08-10
THis book is useful but it is somehow outdated. I wish that the authors would write a new version that would be more up-to-date. I have the impression that the rules of the game have a bit changed.
Somewhat outdated, not particularly robust.......2001-07-25
This book covers many of the same ideas that Richard Montauk's book does: how to position yourself to business schools, the importance of knowing the school, etc. However, the advice is outdated with much of the advice written in reference to the early 1990s when the authors attended HBS. Further, most of the advice is given in the form of critiquing the essays of others, which is a somewhat tedious way to get the message.
I think that the Montauk book does a better job of addressing the positioning/marketing issues, and Montauk has is a more robust treatment of the rest of the application process. Save your money and skip this book.
Customer Reviews:
Very Useful.......2005-01-08
This book is very useful for anyone who is a history major or is thinking of majoring in history. The first section outlines some general, but important information. It talks about writing an effective resume. It also discusses different steps to take to become successful depending on what stage in education you are in (high school, college, or graduate school). There are interviews with different people who are already working in fields related to history which are useful. The second section, which is much larger than the first, describes 35 different careers that a history degree can be of use in. The careers range from corporate jobs, government jobs, teaching, and museum jobs. The book describes many different aspects of the career, such as expected salaries, how fast that segment of the job-market is growing, what level of education and other skills are needed for the job, etc. Overall, this book is a great resource for people looking to use their history degrees to make a living. It also provides other online and print sources that could be useful in the job hunt.
Book Description
Many of today's jobs don't require an expensive 4-year degree. A lot of the jobs require apprenticeship experiences or only require a few months of specialized training. This book is organized by 10 major occupational fields identifying 100 high demand jobs.
Customer Reviews:
Jobs that are projected to grow the fastest and pay the best.......2004-10-30
America's Top 100 Jobs For People Without A Four-Year Degree: Great Jobs With A Promising Future by Ron and Caryl Krannich is a guidebook to jobs that are projected to grow the fastest and pay the best as the twenty-first century progresses. Avoiding careers that are more likely to be outsourced to cheaper labor markets abroad, or made obsolete by technological advances, America's Top 100 Jobs For People Without A Four-Year Degree covers burgeoning opportunities in everything from government to science, construction, sports, medicine, computers and the internet, and much more. Each recommended job listing makes a note of typical annual earnings, necessary education and training, projected employment outlook, a summary of the nature of the work, typical working conditions, and key websites and institutions one can contact to learn more information. Highly recommended.
Book Description
As a college graduate, you will be in a unique position: You'll need to find a real-life job with little or no real-life experience. You need to know the facts about the job hunting process now—how to get started, how to develop your resume, how to find employers who are hiring, how to successfully interview, and how to negotiate a top salary! College Grad Job Hunter is the ideal book to help you navigate the treacherous waters of the job hunt. In the all-new fifth edition of this bestseller, career expert Brian Krueger explains how to:
·Develop the best resume and cover letter to present your background
·Work with the Internet to broaden your job search
·Get interviews with the best companies, on campus and off campus
·Make a great impression at the interview and generate job offers
Packed with over two hundred specific techniques and tactics that can be put to immediate use, College Grad Job Hunter is essential reading for any college student who is serious about finding a great entry level job!
Customer Reviews:
I love this book!.......2005-11-18
I have come a long way with this book. I found it at a flea market for $1 right after I finished college. I used some of the techniques to move from a dead-end job, to an entry-level job in an industry I wanted to actually be in. I later became a career counselor, and now I am writing a course and I am considering having this book as a required reading for our curriculum. Buying this book for one dollar was the smartest purchase I have ever made.
Highly Recommended!.......2004-05-20
In the latest edition of the College Grad Job Hunter, Brian D. Krueger, a post-college career authority, provides a highly targeted book on job hunting skills for recent college graduates. While others seeking entry level jobs can benefit, the emphasis is on how to prepare while you are still in college or just graduating. As such, it is a solidly written and well-organized book that views job hunting as a process and provides step-by-step techniques for searching for that ideal job. It is a useful how-to manual even if it duplicates some of the advice in other books, such as What Color is Your Parachute? Krueger helpfully includes sample letters, phone messages and job hunting Web sites and books. We recommend this good, basic book for all novice job hunters (not just freshly-minted college grads).
Get it for free, apparently.......2003-10-24
Well, so I just bought this book, and, yeah, it's pretty useful. However, I looked on their web site, www.collegegrad.com, and, apparently, "Want the straight story on how to find a job? The job search advice at this site is direct from the #1 best-selling book for entry level job search, "College Grad Job Hunter" by Brian Krueger. The entire contents of this book are online here at our site, available to you for free!" So do what the nice man says, and don't throw your money away on actually buying the book, like I did.
Less Than Honest (4th edition).......2003-01-25
This book has tips on how to get your name noticed but they seem not very moral. Chapter 15 suggests putting a dollar to catch the attention of hiring managers and other tactics that seem less than honest and seem more theatrical than anything. Furthermore, chapter 13 has less than honest techniques such as saying you are updating a mailing list to get contact information. You might think these are valid and not lying at all but I consider them exactly so.
I do not think such tactics are an honorable way of getting a job.
Many unconventional tips.......2002-08-22
This book has more offbeat advice than any job hunting book I've read. Indeed, newlygrads need the help and the gimmicks to get on top of the pile in today's job market. For example, one "guerrilla insider technique" suggested enclosing a crisp dollar bill to your resume submission, with a handwritten Post-It note with:
"I know that time is money and I value your time. Would you please invest two minutes in reviewing my resume today, and in taking my phone call later this week? I appreciate your time."
Gimmicky book. Add it to your collection.
Book Description
Explore 100 top careers requiring bachelor's and higher degrees, match them to your skills, and get a good job quickly.
Book Description
Identify and explore top careers requiring a four-year college degree or more, plus get proven job search advice—all in one resource! This fully updated edition features thorough, current, and interesting descriptions for over 100 major jobs in convenient alphabetical order within five degree levels. It includes jobs in a wide range of industries, so you can put your degree to work in a field of interest. Plus, a special book-within-a-book section describes the seven steps that cut job search time in half. It includes resumes by professional resume writers for jobs described in the book. In one time-saving volume, job seekers and students find everything they need to research specific careers; learn about pay, outlook, education, and skills needed; and take seven steps to land a good job in less time.
Customer Reviews:
Do Not Buy.......2005-07-30
The first few chapters have some interesting information for high school students and college freshman who are thinking about becoming economics majors. Their are suggestions on what type of classes to take and some (not very complete) information about what kinds of jobs economics major can find.
The rest of the books gives 3-4 page summaries of different jobs. The summary are not written specifically for economics majors, they are obviously written for more than one book. Most of the descriptions are for jobs that would be more suitable to accounting majors. All of the information about these jobs is available for free on the burea of labor statistics website.
This book would be ok for someone just entering college, but is pretty much useless for an economics major who is entering the job market soon.
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Great Application Essays for Business School
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