First, beware of material minefields 1. For students with short work experience and frequent job hopping, they can be appropriately integrated into work experience.
The core of the interview is your motivation and career planning for applying for MBA, and fragmentary work experience will leave a bad impression on the examiner. Therefore, it is necessary to sort out the fragmentary short-term work experience, present it selectively, and finally show a clear career goal.
2. The winning project must have gold content.
Gold content is the focus of the award. Don't list all kinds of awards, screen out awards with high recognition or strong career development ability. In addition, if you have time, you can still take the PMP, GMAT and other qualification certificates, which will add points.
The organization chart of the company can be drawn according to your own experience.
If your department is too far away from the official organization chart, you can draw it yourself. The drawing process is also your own re-understanding of the organizational structure of the company's management, and your organizational structure system is also the key link for the interviewer to ask questions during the interview.
4. The description of responsibilities should be described from the perspective of the company's value chain.
I suggest you use the "value chain", that is, the process to describe your responsibilities.
Take a manufacturing enterprise as an example, its value chain is from raw materials to transportation, processing, production, packaging and transportation to customers. If you are a buyer, you can tell the examiner which part of the whole value chain you are responsible for, which will make the examiner feel that you have a good overall vision and know what role your work plays in the company's business.
Second, the number is 1, and the motivation letter is written.
Typical question:
Why did you choose to take the MBA course? (Jiaotong University Antai)
Error-prone:
There is only "loyalty", the motivation is not convincing, and there is no overall analytical vision.
First of all, introduce your past accumulation, including personal work experience and learning ability;
Secondly, introduce your own goals, analyze your own accumulation and goals, and find that there will be a big gap between them;
Finally, from the school's point of view, the school's school-running characteristics, school-running philosophy, school-running quality and other aspects can help me make up the gap, so I chose this school.
2. Future planning
Typical question:
What is your career development goal? (Fudan)
Describe your short-term and long-term career goals. How are you going to achieve your goal? (Tsinghua)
How will the MBA program help you achieve your goals? (Tsinghua)
Easy to make mistakes:
Regardless of stages, short-term, medium-term and long-term can't be distinguished.
Because of inertial thinking, everyone will set long-term career goals, but there is no specific step to land. In fact, we suggest writing the objectives separately, which can describe the role of MBA in short-term and medium-term planning. As for long-term goals, schools often have a platform for lifelong education, including executive EDP and EMBA programs.
The discussion of long-term development is completely divorced from continuing learning.
For long-term planning, most students often only talk about their own careers and work, ignoring the changes in social development after several years. To let the teacher see that you have such ideas and plans, you can't just focus on your future career development goals without continuing to study.
3. Description of case/achievement
Typical question:
Please give an example of the most profound self-breakthrough experience in your career development. (Peking University Guanghua)
Please talk about your difficulties and failures in life, work and study. How do you face and overcome them? (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Error-prone:
The description of the difficulty is not wonderful enough.
If you want to describe a difficult point well, try to describe the background of this difficult point in detail, and even use a comparative way to make the teacher understand it more intuitively.
The logical description in the process of analyzing and solving problems is not clear.
There must be a solution to the case description, but many students ignore the process of putting forward the solution, so they should add a clear process to make the description more story-telling.
Lack of post-event reflection.
Post-event reflection is to contribute to the company's management system. As long as your suggestion is adopted and your elimination plan is added to the company's standardized operation process, you can answer "What contribution do you make to the company's strategy?" There is no way to start this kind of problem.
4. Other issues
Typical question:
If the Lingnan MBA program is to be transformed, what changes will it bring? (Zhongshan Lingnan)
What five key words would you choose to describe yourself? (Peking University Guanghua)
Do you need to add other statements to help the MBA program admissions Committee evaluate your application more comprehensively? (Fudan University)
Error-prone:
Answer only the surface of the question, but don't understand the essence of the question.
This kind of questions examines the ability of candidates to put forward plans, write business plans and give solutions. In view of this kind of problems, we need to learn from others' strengths, rise to a new height, analyze the existing problems from a global and complete perspective, and put forward our own thinking and solutions, which will make teachers feel that such students have more potential.
The third is to skillfully select the recommended object and suggest the candidate:
If the school requires two referees, at least one class A and one class A/B are acceptable.
Class A: the company's superiors, senior managers, colleagues, partners, customers and suppliers.
Class B: former company leaders, colleagues, school professors, outstanding alumni of business schools and other high-end people.
Class C: friends, classmates, family members and subordinates.
Class A must have something that can prove the authenticity of your current background, which is what schools must have. Before publicizing the admission list, the school will make some adjustments to ensure the authenticity of the candidates' background.
Class B is often used to prove the breadth of contacts and prove that your future ceiling may be very high.
Class C is not recommended, because identity will make the evaluation not particularly objective, so don't look for immediate family members, but be objective.
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