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Re: Some Advice
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01 Sep 2008, 18:49
Bluepic,
Sorry for not answering sooner. If you can't find work in MC or corporate development, you should seek a role that gives you opportunities to get leadership experience and/or have an outsized impact. A startup environment might be a good place to do that. Note, however, that you'll have to be able to give the schools a reason why you jumped out of your accounting career track, i.e., some reason other than "I thought it would help me get into B-school." You will need the line that runs from (a) your accounting career to (b) the position you to plan to enter before B-school to (c) your post-MBA goal to be coherent. Ideally, you will want it to be fairly obvious or at least defensible that position (b) brings you closer to position (c) than staying in position (a) does. Standing out from other applicants is less about the career or professional niche you're in, then in the impact, leadership you've been able to have in that career/niche.
Hope this helps,