{"id":42258,"date":"2018-06-19T02:38:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/rehashing-your-resume-in-b-school-essays\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T02:38:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:38:45","slug":"rehashing-your-resume-in-b-school-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/rehashing-your-resume-in-b-school-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Rehashing Your Resume in B-School Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don\u2019t rehash your resume in your essay; it\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n

But what does that mean?<\/p>\n

First and foremost, your resume should speak for itself, without any explanation. If it isn\u2019t doing that, if there\u2019s some crucial accomplishment missing, then we need to address that\u2026 in the resume.<\/p>\n

The essay is a chance to do something different. You have a limited number of opportunities to showcase who you are and why you\u2019re a gosh darn impressive candidate. If you use the essay to restate, in prose, the argument you made in your resume, you are losing one of those precious opportunities.<\/p>\n

An essay that asks for a past achievement (\u201cproudest achievement,\u201d \u201cpast growth,\u201d etc.) can and SHOULD dig deeper into a key experience or accomplishment that your resume highlights. However, while on your resume you worked hard to distill HUGE accomplishments into 20 words that sum up what you did, how you did it, and why it was important, in the essay, we want the STORY behind one or two of those bullet points. Tell us about the challenges you faced at the outset, the pushback you overcame, the stumbling points as you worked the problem, the key leadership moments, your brilliant ideas or actions, the awesome outcome and why it all mattered. It won\u2019t be obvious until the end, when you tell us that at LAST you accomplished X, that this is the story behind one of those resume bullet points.<\/p>\n

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In order to achieve this, you need to switch gears into storytelling mode, and drop the resume language of \u201cI did this to accomplish that.\u201d The magic ingredients? Thoughts, feelings and introspection. We want to know WHY you took action, what your thought process was, and how it panned out. Tell us about failures as well as successes to give the adcom a sense of who you are as a leader and problem-solver. A single vividly illustrated moment of leadership will always bring an applicant to life more memorably than a ten page CV\u2014THAT\u2019S what essays are all about.<\/p>\n

If you keep to the surface level in the essay and stray into resume-like language of \u201cI accomplished X\u201d or \u201cI won Z award\u201d you run the risk of not only boring the reader, but making them wonder \u201cIs this all the kid\u2019s got?\u201d Suddenly, what should be impressive accomplishments become red flags, causing the adcom to wonder if the candidate truly understood WHAT or HOW he accomplished, or if they could replicate that result. Trust us, you don\u2019t want doubts in the mind of the person weighing your application.<\/p>\n

Understanding the difference between the essay and the resume, and using these as distinct opportunities to enhance your profile, are vital to getting an admit. Think of yourself as a cube, or better yet, a polyhedron\u2014there are so many colorful sides to you, and you want to show off as many as you can to the adcom. Your resume shows them ONE side\u2014the broad sweep of your professional and educational background\u2014but the essay is a chance to show them something else: what it\u2019s like to be in the room with you, what makes you tick, and why they should bet on you.<\/p>\n

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