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This post originally appeared on the <\/em>InGenius Prep blog<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n The business school resum\u00e9 is an absurd and challenging genre of writing. It suffers from severe constraints and yet, to be of value, requires an enormous amount of time and thought. It takes hours to create. But it is unlikely that it will be considered for more than 30 seconds.<\/p>\n Many people see the resum\u00e9 as simply a form they fill out. Plug in your name, address, degrees, dates, etc, and you are all set. But think about it: Most of the information you put on your business school resum\u00e9 you already plugged into the application elsewhere. The admissions office already knows your name, your educational history, your GPA, etc.<\/p>\n Why, then, are they asking you to tell it to them all over again?<\/p>\n In one sense, resum\u00e9s are like an elevator pitch.<\/p>\n In another sense, your resum\u00e9 is like a table of contents for your entire application, except that it will likely appear somewhere in the middle. It contextualizes both what your readers have read so far, as well as what they will read next.<\/p>\n Like your business school essays<\/a>, the crafting of your business school resum\u00e9 is more art than science. It cannot be predetermined, but, rather, must be shaped using your pre-existing life experiences and guided by them.<\/p>\n Most people make the mistake of thinking that you put together a resum\u00e9 and then you use it for everything \u2013 jobs, schools, etc. They are wrong. Your resum\u00e9 is a conversation between you and your specific reader. You must design it specifically for that reader in mind. For business school, you must design your resum\u00e9 that speaks to admissions officers\u2019 goals (\u201cIs this the applicant I want?\u201d) and concerns (\u201cHow can I be sure?\u201d).<\/p>\n Additionally, you should consider catering your resum\u00e9 to specific schools. For example, HBS vs. GSB<\/a> look for different qualities in applicants. Make sure you understand what each school is considering! Visit their admissions sites for a clear understanding. Harvard\u2019s admissions site<\/a> explicitly maps out who the school is looking for.<\/p>\n To get started, you should create a master resum\u00e9 \u2013 your own private resum\u00e9, which is unique in two ways:<\/p>\n Now that you\u2019ve made a master resum\u00e9, you should have all of the raw data necessary to craft your resum\u00e9. From here, you\u2019ll need to consider the following:<\/p>\n The flow, structure and style of your resum\u00e9 will tell a story and make an impression. The format, font, font size, number of lines per section, size of the margins matter more than they should. But you will never be told by a school HOW to format your resum\u00e9. That doesn\u2019t mean there is no right and wrong \u2013 it just means that what is right and what is wrong are not written in stone. That being said, here are some hard no\u2019s to follow:<\/p>\n When in doubt, simple, clear, and easy to follow is best.<\/p>\n How do you decide what to put on and what to leave off?<\/p>\n When making these decisions, consider the following questions:<\/p>\n For example, your experience working with the Navajo might be essential to who you are; your quant skills might be most relevant to the business school to which you are applying; but your quick promotion track might be the most impressive thing to the admissions committee. As is often the case, sometimes there will be much overlap between the answers to these questions. Given the space constraint, you have to figure out how to fit the most important of these experiences into the limited amount of space available to you.<\/p>\n One other type of data you must include is anything that fits the following question: \u201cWould it be strange if I didn\u2019t include this information\u201d?<\/p>\n There are different ways to determine this kind of data, but here are some ways to think about it:<\/p>\n Your Data Selection analysis probably has led you to want to include data about your education, your work experience and your extracurriculars. But that doesn\u2019t tell you much about how to put them on paper.<\/p>\n Whenever possible, start with a bang. You want to include your strongest and most impressive content first. So, if your work experience is more impressive than your schooling, list it first.<\/p>\n Another way to take control over the order in which your business school resum\u00e9 unfolds is by strategically creating categories. New categories allow you to better frame your story. You are able to show the connections between your various activities and experiences in a more direct, efficient and meaningful way. (But obviously, don\u2019t overdo it!)<\/p>\n Here are some categories that you might want to consider:<\/p>\n Two categories you should NEVER use: \u201cRelevant Experience\u201d and \u201cAdditional Experience.\u201d Those categories are wasted opportunities. Is there nothing coherent about your \u201cAdditional Experience\u201d? Can\u2019t it be made to demonstrate your \u201cLeadership,\u201d or your \u201cCommunity Service\u201d? Calling something \u201cAdditional\u201d is equivalent to calling it \u201cIrrelevant.\u201d Literally.<\/p>\n Lastly, you must take care to craft and pay attention to all of the details that make up your resum\u00e9.<\/p>\n Email:<\/strong> Still using your hotmama4000@aol.com email account? Time to set up a gmail account.<\/p>\n Titles: <\/strong>Be consistent with your naming conventions. You don\u2019t always need a title for a job or extracurricular activity, especially when you didn\u2019t actually have one. But just because you didn\u2019t have a title (or even if you did) doesn\u2019t mean you cannot use one. Thoughtfully constructed titles can describe what you did with great economy, and can give your work a sense of seriousness that it may otherwise lack. But obviously don\u2019t make anything up.<\/p>\n Dates:<\/strong> You are expected to give the dates for everything you have done, but there is flexibility in doing so. It seems unimportant, but there are reasons to choose one format instead of another. One applicant, in between taking a year off from college to travel and spending a semester at Oxford before transferring to his final college preferred simply noting his graduation date \u201cMay 2007,\u201d rather than indicating that it took him 6 years to pull the feat off.<\/p>\n Descriptions:<\/strong> For every experience on your business school resum\u00e9, you should provide some sort of description that adds detail, color and impressiveness to you. When crafting your descriptions, make sure to do the following:<\/p>\n GPA: <\/strong>If your GPA is impressive, add it. If your major GPA is significantly better than your regular GPA, add it. If your GPA isn\u2019t impressive, don\u2019t add it.<\/p>\n What Not To Include:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Delivery: <\/strong>ALWAYS save your business school resum\u00e9 as a PDF, not a word doc.<\/p>\n There are absolutely no excuses for submitting a business school resume with a typo. Don\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n The business school resum\u00e9 is only one page. But to impress with your resum\u00e9 takes thoughtful strategy, time, and rounds and rounds of edits. It is your elevator pitch, your table of contents. It should support your persona and tell us who you are and where you are going. Even though it\u2019s just one piece of paper, it could be your ticket into school.<\/p>\n About the author: Yosepha Greenfield is a graduate of Yale University and an admissions expert at InGenius Prep<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n The post How to Impress with your Business School Resum\u00e9<\/a> appeared first on Magoosh GMAT Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post originally appeared on the InGenius Prep blog The business school resum\u00e9 is an absurd and challenging genre of writing. 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