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| FROM Stacy Blackman Consulting Blog: Tuesday Tips: Emory MBA Essays and Tips 2022-2023 |
 The Emory MBA program at Goizueta Business School in Atlanta offers a variety of programs for maximum flexibility. Programs include a one-year MBA, a business analytics program, and a traditional two-year MBA. Emory also provides joint degree programs. Designed to give students practical experience, the Emory MBA prepares students to be “day one ready” for their careers. Consequently, admitted students start working with a career coach before school. Also, Emory has high rankings with recruiters. For more advice and help with your Emory MBA essays, contact Stacy Blackman Consulting for your free evaluation. The Emory MBA website can give you more detail on the Emory MBA application requirements.  Essay One: Post-MBA Career Goals Define your short-term post-MBA career goals. How are your professional strengths, past experience, and personal attributes aligned with these goals? (300-word limit) This Emory MBA career goals essay focuses on your short-term career goals. Also, the essay asks about your strengths, past experiences, and personal attributes. Instead of reciting your resume, think about the key moments in your career. Also, think over what has formed your experience and accomplishments and shaped your goals? To get started, first identify a few defining career moments. Then you can describe your strengths and experiences that prepared you. This essay is most effective if you can show how your career so far fits with your goals. Show the connection from past experiences to your Emory MBA to your goals. For example, say you have been working in management consulting and want to move to internal strategy. First, think about what you have learned. Perhaps your management consulting experience gives you comfort with presenting to executives. And, you enjoy variety and the different projects you have been exposed to. Finally, what core strengths does management consulting reveal. And, how will you leverage those strengths after you graduate in your post-MBA career?  Essay Two: Leadership in Business The business school is named for Roberto C. Goizueta, former Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, who led the organization for 16 years, extending its global reach, quadrupling consumption, building brand responsibility, creating unprecedented shareholder wealth, and demonstrating a commitment to values and positive impact on society. Roberto Goizueta’s core values guide us in educating principled leaders to have a positive influence on business and society. Provide a specific example of your leadership and explain what you learned about yourself through the experience. (300-word limit) This Emory MBA application essay is a behavioral question. The clue is that you are asked to provide a specific example. Therefore, the question is about how you think, act, and behave. The Emory admissions team knows that your past is the best predictor of future behavior. Therefore, this question asks about a past leadership example. For example, use a specific leadership story and make sure you provide detail. A great strategy is to use the STAR framework. First, start with the situation. Then, explain the task in front of you. Finally, describe the actions you took and the result. Also, think about the lessons you learned. Remember that a recent leadership example is most convincing. In this question, Emory asks specifically about the school’s namesake. Keep a laser focus on the school’s leadership and values. Finally, include insights gleaned from thorough school research to customize your essay. To learn more about the Emory MBA program, take advantage of virtual admissions information sessions. Also, consider informal networking with current or former students. Essay Three: Why Goizueta? What are you looking to gain from Goizueta’s MBA degree, and how do you see yourself contributing to the Goizueta community? (200-word limit) This Emory essay question allows you to focus on why Goizueta. School research is a key to answering this question. Consider visiting campus or speaking with current and former students. When writing this essay, be specific. For example, you can describe specific classes that will help you achieve your career goals. Also, professional clubs at Emory may help you gain relevant industry experience and academic knowledge. Finally, consider the personal and community aspects of your MBA experience. How will you contribute? This essay may be a place to describe volunteer and community experiences. Or, you can explain hobbies or interests that will be an asset to the community.  Video Essay Telling your story in the written essays is an important part of the application process, but we also want to hear you tell some of your story. The video essay lets every candidate talk to the MBA Admissions Committee, and we enjoy getting to know you through the “small talk” questions. Goizueta’s admissions team gave us the following insight into this video essay: “Candidates will be provided a spontaneous question or prompt to reply to for the video essay. This will be randomly generated from a bank of questions we have developed to help us get to know candidates on a more personal level. We continue to use the video essay because it allows us to provide multiple types of platforms for candidates to express themselves, and it allows the admission committee to see a bit more of their personality. With our small-by-design classes, fit becomes very important, and the video essay helps us with that.” In past years the video essay focused on Goizueta’s core values, personal stories, and your passions. Therefore, make sure you are familiar with Goizueta’s core values: Courage, Integrity, Accountability, Rigor, Diversity, Team, and Community. Your resume and recommendations are about your career and accomplishments. In contrast, this video essay is more personal. Ideally, your personality will shine through the video. As the admissions team said, this essay is about fit. To prepare for this video essay, make sure to practice, practice, practice. Take some time to think about what you want the admissions committee to know about you. Do you have any personal stories to tell here? Then, record yourself talking about these themes or telling your story. Practice several times until it feels natural. For additional advice, read our blog post on prepping for video essays and long-distance interviews.  Additional Information If there is an important part of your story missing from your MBA application (e.g., unexplained gaps in work experience, choice of recommenders, academic probation issues), please use this section to provide a brief explanation. Please use bullets if you need to address more than one topic. (200-word limit) This essay is for anything about your Emory MBA application you need to explain. An example might be if you have gaps in your resume. Other issues include a low GPA or GMAT, few promotions, or a recommender that is not a current supervisor. If you do have unexplained gaps in your resume, how do you handle it? The best explanation is that you were doing something productive. However, that “something productive” could be anything from traveling the world to taking care of a family member. How you explain your time off is most important. Make sure you can tie your gap in employment to your goals in some way. For instance, taking care of a family member could have led to introspection about your personal and professional goals. The post Tuesday Tips: Emory MBA Essays and Tips 2022-2023 appeared first on Stacy Blackman Consulting - MBA Admissions Consulting. |
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| FROM Stacy Blackman Consulting Blog: B-Schooled Podcast Episode #120: What Makes You Unique? |
 How in the world are you going to differentiate yourself from the thousands of other MBA hopefuls out there? By making sure you communicate to the adcom what you bring to the table that no one else can. In this episode, we’ll cover: • What constitutes unique work experience • Why you shouldn’t necessarily write about your most formative experience • Ideas for how to brainstorm what makes you stand out across your professional, personal, and extracurricular achievements B-Schooled episode #120 can be found here, or take a listen on any of the major podcast platforms below. B-Schooled is available on most major podcast apps, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher TuneIn Please be sure to subscribe to B-Schooled so that you don’t miss a thing. Also, if there’s something you’d like for us to cover in a future episode, please email podcast@stacyblackman.com. We’d love to hear from you! The post B-Schooled Podcast Episode #120: What Makes You Unique? appeared first on Stacy Blackman Consulting - MBA Admissions Consulting. |
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| FROM Stacy Blackman Consulting Blog: Common Mistakes Managing MBA Recommenders |
 We recently worked with a business school applicant who believed poor recommendations were the main reason she didn’t get into any of her dream business schools. She carefully selected her MBA recommenders and gave them several months’ advance notice. Her first recommender gave her a copy of his letter after submitting it. It was six pages long, written with care—and totally missed the mark. Despite his good intentions, he emphasized the wrong qualities, rambled like crazy, and did not provide relevant examples. Unfortunately, this is not uncommon. That’s why properly managing your MBA recommenders is just as important as selecting the right ones. The 5 Dont’s of Managing MBA Recommenders Heed the following five tips, and you’ll avoid a lot of unnecessary anxiety when you are already under a lot of pressure. (Also, don’t miss our Strategy Guide: Recommendation Letters for MBA Applications.) 1. Don’t assume they know what to write about or will remember all of your achievements. Your recommender is probably time-strapped and doesn’t remember those three outstanding examples of your leadership. They also probably don’t know what schools are looking for in letters of recommendation. Show your recommender your essays and decide on four or five characteristics you would like them to emphasize throughout the letter. For example, think of leadership, teamwork, creative thinking, determination, focus, intelligence, charisma, and integrity. Next, come up with at least one concrete example that illustrates each characteristic.  Here’s what an instance of initiative might look like: “Last year, when I learned that international sales were declining, I took it upon myself to research the competitive landscape and learned of two recent market entrants. I then offered to lead a team to analyze these new competitors and develop a strategy for regaining our market share. Our team of five analysts proposed a solution after one week of work. The solution was implemented and within six months, we gained back 5 percent of lost market share.” 2. Don’t bombard them with too many materials or reminders. Doing this can overwhelm your recommender and lead them to ignore what you’ve prepared for them. First, create a bullet-point list of the projects you have worked on. Next, give them an outline of your strengths that goes into more detail than your resume. You want your recommenders actually to read this document. So try to keep it to one page and don’t overload them with information. It should be a quick, helpful reference.  3. Don’t allow your recommender to provide a rave review without supporting their statements with solid facts. The cardinal rule of good writing—show, don’t tell—is equally important in a letter of recommendation. The admissions committee wants to get that third-party perspective missing from your essays, test scores, and interview. No one expects the applicant to be perfect, however. The best recommendation letters paint a vivid picture that brings the candidate on paper to life. 4. Don’t let them submit late under any circumstances. It’s essential to get started on this process as early as possible. Your recommender should know that writing such a letter is both an honor and a responsibility. Give them plenty of time to prepare for your deadline. You may find it helpful to advance the due date by a week to remove one last-minute worry from your plate. 5. Don’t write the recommendation letter for them. To save time or ease their burden, a recommender may ask you to write the letter for them to sign. Please don’t do it!  For one, the admissions committee will probably recognize your writing style from your essays. So, that will immediately raise a red flag. And secondly, if the individual doesn’t have enough time to write a proper recommendation, you would be better off seeking someone more enthusiastic about championing your business school dreams. On the other hand, if the request is because English is a second language for your supervisor and they are worried about sounding unprofessional, you have two options. The first is to not worry about it and explain that the admissions committee is focused solely on the content of the message and understands any language limitations that may exist. However, if you fear it might become a distraction, hire a translator and eliminate that concern. If you can help your recommenders stay on message, deliver on time, and provide vivid examples of your professional skills, you will have this element of your MBA application well in hand. The post Common Mistakes Managing MBA Recommenders appeared first on Stacy Blackman Consulting - MBA Admissions Consulting. |
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