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Columbia Business School has changed to two of its three required questions, leaving unchanged its short answer question, first essay question and optional essay question. Total word limits are the same as last year. The word limits are tight.<\/span><\/p>\n Goal:<\/strong> What is your immediate post-MBA professional goal? (50 characters)<\/em><\/p>\n No changes with this question. Note, it is a\u00a0character <\/strong>(not word)\u00a0<\/strong>limit. Your response must be significantly less than a tweet. What do you want to do professionally and in which industry immediately after earning your MBA? \u00a0Here are CBS\u2019\u00a0<\/span>examples of possible responses<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWork in business development for a media company.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cJoin a strategy consulting firm.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLaunch a data-management start-up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Warning: This question is not asking about intended area of study while in business school or a non-professional goal or even a long-term goal.\u00a0 And the subject in your response is assumed to be you. No need to waste characters by including \u201cI.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Succinctly define your goal in terms of function (what you want to do) and the industry (or type of company) in which you want to do it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Through your resume and recommendations, we have a clear sense of your professional path to date. What are your career goals over the next 3 - 5 years and what, in your imagination, would be your long-term dream job?\u00a0(500 words)<\/em><\/p>\n Columbia apparently liked the answers it received to this question, its longest, because it is back this year. CBS wants you to focus on your career goals not immediately after graduation, as in the short-answer question,\u00a0but in the longer-term. They want to see how you believe your career will develop after that immediate post-MBA job.\u00a0 This question does not<\/strong> ask you how CBS will help you achieve your goals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To answer this question realize that the\u00a0readers already know what\u2019s in your resume<\/a>. Don\u2019t repeat \u201cyour career path to date.\u201d That\u2019s a waste of valuable essay real estate and means you\u2019re not telling them anything new or answering their question.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Do tell them what you want to do 3-5 years into the future, which should build on your first post-MBA job. Make sure to\u00a0answer the long-term question and feel free to dream and\u00a0aspire, but at the same time reveal an ambitious, but feasible professional goal. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n How will you take advantage of being \"at the very center of business\"?\u00a0(250 Words)\u00a0<\/em>Columbia Business School Application Essay Tips<\/h2>\n
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