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your BI internship / analyst position is the only thing that looks even remotely interesting to me for a corporate position and it is alarmingly devoid of specifics edit: I would be more likely to hire you (boutique strategy consulting shop) with only your BA from UT. I think a lousy MBA is worse than no MBA at all, but you can't go back now. KYOON GRIFFEY JR fucked around with this message at 19:50 on May 25, 2017 |
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Aliquid posted:Why? It's not like I didn't learn anything; I'm way more knowledgeable now with accounting, finance, econ, statistics, corporate structure and analyzing business proposals than I was writing about Sparta and Persia in college. It's a bit better. I would recommend hard numbers if you can provide them. As Colin Mockery said, you need to tie achievements on your resume to your skills. You're a good public speaker? Sure, OK, anyone can say that - prove it on your resume somewhere. This is very harsh, but here's my thought on a bad MBA: It's a terrible investment, and it would lead me to question your overall decision making and ability to accurately gauge costs and benefits in an information-rich environment. A bad MBA is a known awful decision - you may think you got tricked by the school but there was plenty of information out there to tell you that you were making a bad decision, which you either were unable to find (BAD!) or ignored (EXTRA BAD!). If you can't figure out how to find information and make a good decision for yourself, what are you going to do as a consultant when you don't have accurate information because it doesn't exist, and you have to finesse your way in to a good set of decisions for the client? From my little perch in consulting, the point of an MBA is not to learn accounting, finance, econ, statistics, etc. Any moderately intelligent person can learn that stuff outside of a classroom. The point of the MBA is to get in contact with a bunch of other no-poo poo smart people that will form a network of connections that will serve you for the rest of your life. If you go to Booth or Ross or Wharton or Sloan, you will have an unbelievably deep and well connected network spanning many industries of people who are going to be running poo poo and will need your help. If you go to UNC Greensboro, your network is going to be car dealership F&I managers. Please cut your resume to one page as you don't have enough material to cover two. For a cover letter, you really, really have to connect your skills and experiences to what the position is looking for. If the position is Teapot Sales Manager, you don't necessarily have to have experience inspecting teapots. But if you don't, you have to be able to draw a clear line between your experience and that specific role. EG: When I was at the Nigerian school, I improved enrollment by 50% BY DOING $THINGS. I can leverage these skills to do $SIMILARTHINGBUTMAYBEABITGENERIC to drive teapot sales growth. edit: I realize you're not applying to jobs in consulting at this point but figured the perspective might be useful. Also: did you look at the profiles of successful Big Firm consulting engagement managers, principals and associate partners? I think you would notice a distinct educational trend that should have given you pause.
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please do not kill yourself
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I like brand consultant. I might say what types of small businesses - break a few out in to client stories, perhaps. EG: International Small Business Brand Consultant X to Y: Helped dynamic small businesses build brand strategies for growth in West Africa and and Latin America. Examples below: 1. Miguel's Teapots Developed business proposal that secured $X in funding from Y bank/agency, exceeding goal by Z amt Designed compliance process for customs clearance and shipment 2. Olubunmi's Consulting etc
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I would also consider you take off the service line. I was going to ask if you had commissioned or not, and if you had, why it wasn't on your resume. I would say "Supervised" rather than "directly responsible for" - I assume that is a reasonably accurate read on your headmaster position. You have a kind of weird way of putting everything. For instance, you say "Procurement experience, received competing bids for textbooks, sports equipment, etc" - on my resume that would probably read "Awarded (school wide? multi year?) contracts to vendors for textbooks and other supplies through a multi-source competitive procurement process"
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May 31, 2017 12:50
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I'd tailor your resume a bit - keep a couple versions on hand. I like keeping the hotel job for things that are tourism or customer service related - for those types of jobs I would reduce the content on the school. I still really want a successful case study on your brand section. I think it will really help that experience pop a bit and it's the most immediately business-relevant stuff you have, In theory your skills section should highlight things you can do (technical skills) that aren't necessarily called out in your resume. Business analysis, etc - to me that's all in bullet points in your resume. I'd focus on software and language proficiency, and I would drop it down to the end of the resume.
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Your path to consulting probably flows through Nigeria. If you can get hooked up as a country SME then you're gold. Nigeria is still big $$$ in a lot of fields and there's still relatively limited expertise.
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