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Advice on course selection for a rising college senior

Published on August 29, 2010 by Marquis in Business, career, consulting, Education

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The email below is from a rising college senior who is majoring in Economics and is considering adding Accounting as a second major. He doesn’t know what he wants to do career-wise, but he is interested in Consulting as a possible destination after he graduates. He has asked me to give him advice on which courses he should take during his senior year to prepare him for a gig in Consulting. Instead of answering that question, I decided to break it into two parts and answer each of those…I thought that would be a much more helpful approach.

Unfortunately, this … Read the rest

How to Plan Your Resume Content

Published on August 25, 2010 by Marquis in career, interesting articles, job search resources, other blogs, professional advice, resume

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Recently, I came across a blog produced by a young lady named Karen Flowers, who calls herself “The Resume Chick” and provides resume writing services for clients. After reading some of her entries, I’ve become a big fan of her site. I know that she’s technically a competitor of mine because we both offer resume review and advisory services, but game recognizes game… Read the rest and her resume advice game is strong. She’s providing her readers with some great tips and, as my long-time readers know, I care more about passing along useful information to my readers than holding that info back

Applying to B-school in Round 1 or 2 with acceptance from a different post-graduate program

Published on August 22, 2010 by Marquis in application process, Bschool admissions, Business School, mba, pre-MBA grad degrees

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What would you do if you were approaching the business school application process and you suddenly received the opportunity to be a part of a prestigious post-graduate program prior to the MBA? Would you delay the application process for business school? Would you wait until the next year to apply to B-school? Would you walk away from the post-graduate program? I can think of many questions that might go through someone’s mind and this is precisely the situation that one of my readers describes in his email posted below.

The message below is from one of my Platinum members and … Read the rest

The Art of Hiring to Build a Team

Published on August 20, 2010 by Marquis in Business, interesting articles, my peoples, organization

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What’s happening, folks. I hope you’re all doing well and ready to start the weekend…I’m counting down the minutes until 5pm as I type this (T-minus 15 minutes and counting). This entry offers up an article that is all about the concept of how to bring in the right people to make up a strong team. The article talks about it in a hiring and HR context, but, given the importance of teams in business and MBA programs, I thought it would be an interesting general topic for my reader community.

The article below was written by a former coworker … Read the rest

Interesting article about career paths of female MBAs

Published on August 17, 2010 by Marquis in Business School, career path, diversity, interesting articles, mba

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The article below is one that I thought would be of interest to my female readers. In it, the author explores the career paths of women who choose to pursue an MBA degree. Among the items covered in the article are the rise in the number of women earning the degree and the large difference in the types of jobs that female MBAs and their male counterparts want. It is the latter point that leads to some of the differences in median compensation that are mentioned.

I have several friends who attended top business schools and, instead of pushing hard … Read the rest

Pointers on asking questions (in a business environment)

Published on August 14, 2010 by Marquis in Business, career, professional advice

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The message below is from one of my friends (a younger colleague) who is a couple of years out of undergrad. She works in a challenging environment where she often has to participate in meetings with people who are much older and more experienced at the corporate game than her. A few days ago, she asked me for some advice on how to do approach the task of asking good questions in meetings and during interviews of key stakeholders for her projects. I thought it was a really interesting question, so I thought through the request, developed a structured approach,… Read the rest

Announcing a new GMAT prep resource via partnership with GMATPill.com

Published on August 11, 2010 by Marquis in About this blog, Bschool admissions, Partnerships, Services

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Regular visitors to the site may have noticed a few changes over the past two weeks. I’ve been making a few cosmetic tweaks here and there, but one of the changes was pretty big…so much so that it was worth posting an announcement about it.

My long-time readers may remember an audio interview that I did back in 2009 with Zeke Lee, the founder of the fast-growing GMAT preparation company GMATPill.com. Zeke, who is also a Stanford alum and former Management Consultant, launched this company after catching the entrepreneurial bug and deciding to leave Booz & Co. We had a … Read the rest

The Career Change Challenge – a new career search resource from Jullien Gordon

Published on August 7, 2010 by Marquis in career, interview advice, job search resources, my peoples, other sites, professional advice

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Hey, everyone. My long-time readers know that I’ve recently been trying to pass along job-related resources as I come across them. I’ve come across a new one that was developed my a good friend of mine that I’ve mentioned on this site before, Jullien Gordon. Jullien is one of my peoples from my time at Stanford GSB and, since earning his MBA in 2007, he has created several projects geared toward leading people to finding their life purposes and using them as guidelines for living. He recently launched a new one with a focus on the job search that is… Read the rest