This is part 2 of a 3-part series. Make sure to read Part 1 to understand the context.

Content
Do be sure to include content broken down into the following categories:

Education: Be sure to list any relevant education to the opportunity in which you are applying. For instance, if you attended a trade school and it is relevant to the position, it is appropriate to list it. Otherwise, be sure to list any institutes of higher education and degrees earned. Majors and minors are generally good to list, while GPAs are unnecessary in most cases but highly recommended if higher than a 3.5 in a 4.0 scale. The same also goes for standardized exams. If you’re in the top 10%, show it. Otherwise, leave it out.

Professional Experience: Professional experience is typically best when detailed chronologically. This will make following your career trajectory easy for the reviewer and will ensure they have a good understanding of your work experience and what you have achieved over time.

Activities: The purpose of a resume is to provide a reviewer with a snapshot of yourself. Be sure to list any activities you were involved with throughout your professional career. Volunteering, leadership in civic organizations, and other relevant activities are a great way to present a full picture of a well-rounded self.

Honors & Awards: Honors and awards allow an employer to see your accomplishments, and often demonstrate that you are a results-oriented individual, which is crucial to virtually every environment. Be sure to list only those honors or awards that are truly noteworthy.

Other nice to have details include:

Visa Status: If you’re applying to a summer internship or a full-time opportunity, do include this information on resumes for potential employers, but this detail is unnecessary for grad school applications.

NEVER include the following information on your professional resume:

Photo: Including your photo is a sure fire way to land your resume in the trash can. U.S. employers are not allowed to screen candidates based on age, sex, nationality, or looks. So increase your chances by leaving the photo out.

Nationality/Marital & Family Status: Including information such as your nationality, marital, or family status provides information that can be used in a discriminatory fashion by U.S. reviewers. Again these details are another big no, no! This information should be left out. While natives in countries such as China or Korea may be required to include these details, they should be omitted on the U.S version of your resume.

Check back for Part 3 of this series which deals with some more tips and tricks regarding content.

Have you converted your CV into a resume before? What other tips would you share?

Mona Abdel-Halim is the co-founder of Resunate.com, the world’s only resume builder for MBA candidates. You can find Mona and Resunate on Facebook and Twitter.

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It took the bus 4 hours to get from town A to town B. What was the average speed of the bus for the trip?

1. In the first 2 hours the bus covered 100 miles
2. The average speed of the bus for the first half of the distance was twice its speed for the second half

Verbal (SC)

The Sunrise policy at Melvin Prexart & Co states that, henceforth, the strategy guidelines should be implemented quicker than they had been in the past.

(A) the strategy guidelines should be implemented quicker than they had been in the past
(B) the strategy guidelines should be implemented quicker than they have been in the past
(C) the strategy guidelines should be implemented quicker than they did in the past
(D) the strategy guidelines should be implemented more quickly than they have been in the past
(E) the strategy guidelines should be implemented more quickly than they had been in the past

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Accepted: What is unique about Which MBA? fair?

Isaac: The Which MBA? Online Fair is a truly global event that allows visitors from over 130 countries to interact with business schools from around the world all in one place, at one time. These visitors can meet admissions staff face-to-face in video chat, in a group chat environment, or in a one-one-one instant message. In addition, visitors also have the opportunity to join over a dozen interactive webinars with business schools, for free. There’s nowhere else on the internet that brings together this much MBA expertise in an interactive environment.

Accepted: How should applicants prepare for your fair?

Isaac: A list of participating schools is sent to registrants in advance of the Which MBA? Online Fair. Participants should spend some time familiarizing themselves with the list and coming up with any questions they may want to ask. Visitors should also prepare their resumes since they can upload them at the fair. Once uploaded, these resumes will be visible to every business school at the fair.

Accepted: What should applicants do to make the most of the event while they are there?

Isaac: After logging in, visitors should check out the fair schedule, which lists all of the webinars and chat sessions taking place throughout the two-day fair. We recommend that students join chat sessions where they can speak with admissions officers both in a group and one-on-one environment. In addition, visitors should consider completing a simple compatibility profile in order to find business schools that best match their preferences

Accepted: How can applicants make up for the lack of personal connection in a virtual event?

Isaac: No matter what stage in their MBA journey, a prospective candidate can make connections with the right people at the Which MBA? Online Fair. It could open the door for interviews and the important “next steps” in the process. Most importantly, the fair helps visitors find schools that best suit their needs and expectations, saving much time during their MBA search.

Accepted: Is there any follow-up you would recommend?

Isaac: Absolutely — visitors can gather key contact information from the representatives they speak to and follow up with them once the fair has ended.

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1. Stanford (3 year average: #3; last year tied for #4)
2. Harvard (3 year average: #3; last year’s #3)
3. Wharton (3 year average: #2; last year tied for #1)
4. London Business School (3 year average: #2; last year tied for #1)
5. Columbia (3 year average: #6; last year’s #7)
6. INSEAD (3 year average: #5; last year tied for #4)
7. MIT Sloan (3 year average: #8; last year’s #tied for #9)
8. IE (3 year average: #7; last year’s #8)
9. IESE (3 year average #10: last year’s #9 )
10. HKUST (3 year average: #8; last year’s #6)

The Financial Times rankings is based on two surveys: one of business schools and one of alumni who graduated in 2008. This ranking weighs salary growth for these alumni and attempts to adjust for purchasing power differences and even possible distortions caused by the size of the school. FT describes its methodology, and anyone who gives these numbers any credibility needs to understand what is being ranked and measured here.

One of the valuable aspects of this ranking is its global nature. US News and Businessweek do not rank U.S. schools with non-U.S. schools. The FT ranking compares both U.S. and international programs on several criteria, including increase in salary three years after graduation, the relative number of articles published by faculty at different institutions, diversity of teaching staff, and more. Again, for details, please see FT’s methodology.

How much should you pay attention to this ranking? Should you be combing it for schools that have gone up and abandon schools that have declined? If your criteria for a graduate MBA education match the survey elements exactly, pay a lot of attention to it. However, for most of you, while increase in salary is certainly important, it also has to be considered in the context of cost — something FT doesn’t consider. And FT uses salary across the board, not for the field you want to go into. That’s the figure that should matter to you. Then there are criteria that may or may not translate into a better educational experience for you — number of articles published by full-time faculty, for example. Is that really an important reflection of a quality educational experience? Or simply institutional bragging rights. Or could practitioner teachers also bring valuable insight and experience to the classroom without publishing a page, anywhere?

Use the results for the data, not for the ranking. If the data are important to you, then go into them more thoroughly, but don’t obsess about the ranking and changes in ranking, especially small ones. The Financial Times ranking is particularly known for its volatility. You don’t see it in the top 10, but fluctuations become more pronounced outside the top 10.

To learn more about the different MBA rankings, please see “MBA Rankings: Which Business Schools are the Best?”

For additional perspective and insight into this ranking, please see:

• “That Time of the Year Again,” by Conrad Chua, Head MBA Admissions and Recruitment at Judge Business School
• “MBA Rankings” by mba50
• “Stanford Rises to Top of New FT Ranking.”

By Linda Abraham, founder of Accepted.com and co-author of MBA Admission for Smarties: The No-Nonsense Guide to Acceptance at Top Business Schools.

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1. The Pythagorean Theorem

2. The Area of a Triangle

3. Averages and Sums

4. Distance and Work Rate

5. Permutations and Combinations

I hope these explanations and practice questions illustrate the power of the these formulas in GMAT problem-solving.  Master these five formulas, and you will have a powerful set of tools for improving your GMAT math score!

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The school used software developed by the company Turnitin, which, per their website, compares admissions essays against 200+ million archived student papers, 900,000+ journals, periodicals and books and 17+ billion web pages. According to the Turnitin website:

“Turnitin for Admissions compares submitted documents to a massive database of Internet content, subscription content, and previously submitted documents to create a comprehensive Similarity Report. This multi-layered report highlights matching text in a side-by-side report and provides links to any significant matches found within the document. This report includes the ability to identify and view up to 100 obscured (overlapped) matches.”

Turnitin also provides screening software called “Writecheck” for students/applicants that “was developed for students who want to be able to independently check their work for unoriginal material and proper citations.”

School officials cite the increase of admissions consultants as being one of the catalysts for beginning the tests. Stanford in addition to numerous other schools are implementing the same screening procedures as UCLA Anderson for their freshman year this year.

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1.
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Verbal (CR)

Medical education in the United States has focused almost exclusively on curative medicine, while preventive care has been given scant attention. This is misguided. Medical schools should invest as much time in teaching their students how to prevent illness as in teaching them how to cure it.

Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument above?

(A) Many contagious diseases can be prevented with vaccines.
(B) In 1988, for every three cents the United States spent on prevention, it spent 97 cents on curative treatment.
(C) The number of students enrolled in medical school is the highest it has ever been.
(D) More people die each year from disease than from accidental causes.
(E) As the population grows, the number of doctors in certain specialties has not been keeping pace.

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