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标题: 英文记者无商科背景,想申牛剑MBA [打印本页]

作者: GMATtopD    时间: 2020-3-14 23:19
标题: 英文记者无商科背景,想申牛剑MBA
看到很多帖子都是有商科背景的人在申牛剑MBA,想问下有没有人接触过从新闻媒体背景转到MBA的。。。我心里一直很忐忑,也不知道该找谁聊。

其实去年就准备申请牛剑MBA了,无奈到年尾hk开始搞事情,我的工作量猛增,又不敢辞职备考,只能被拉着拖着,强行复习考试,考了一次雅思总分7.5(但写作没过7),GMAT每次都差一点点没过700,自己心里也怀疑过自己。

现在疫情期间,在家办公,一直保持一定的复习强度。

个人情况:
港本,GPA 3.85/4.3
毕业后一直在香港,做了四年的英文记者,有过一次promotion,到高级记者。
怕自己管理经验不够,最近拿到了内地生物医学公司的offer,做媒体经理,向副总裁汇报,虽然工资平移,刚换工作可能活儿还会多,但我希望可以帮助到我证明在管理方面的潜力吧。

打算今年9月申请,不知道应不应该此时跳槽,这个基层管理岗对我是否有帮助。

做gmat做得头疼,内心迷茫,下一步,不知道该如何走。






作者: ChaseDream元元    时间: 2020-3-16 17:31
有不少新闻 传媒背景的人读MBA。

可以来这里: https://forum.chasedream.com/thread-863011-1-1.html  

今年下半年开始申请的,也有160人了~可以跟大家聊聊 里面也有一些新闻记者的申请人或校友(HSW,M7, S16都有一些)

简单说下,你的方向:
1. 经历独特,故事出众;有着不一样的Impact; (以前的申请群遇到过拿有普利策奖,采访过大军阀)
2. 沟通出色;

更好的表达好你自己的故事吧, 站在你的位置,看到商业中的问题和未来发展,然后学校能给你帮到的地方。


作者: RajPatil_Brown    时间: 2020-3-27 10:31
Hey there,

Congratulations on the start of your MBA journey! At first blush, it appears that you have many of the qualifications that OxBridge seeks - international perspective/global lens, 700+ GMAT, good undergrad credentials (though the caliber/ranking of the school does matter and you don't provide that here), proof of promotability over your 4 years of work experience. Solid stuff!

To answer some of your questions about your job offer, you won't be too old if you wait another year or two for OxBridge, unlike top 10 schools in the U.S. which optimize slightly fewer years of work experience. If you want to take the job offer at the biomedical company to burnish your resume a little bit, it might make sense to wait a year to apply but given all the uncertainty w coronavirus it might be better to apply now to get a plan in place. If you plan on applying this fall to enroll the following year, switching jobs now might look a little strange but you can certainly work with it (especially if you couch your reasoning in the fact that you'll be there for over a year before school starts so it will be a great year of experience that you can bring to the MBA). Regarding comp, schools do care somewhat about comp in the sense that they want people who are highly employable and who will command good salaries from recruiters and pick their averages up (average comp and % employed shortly after graduation are very important metrics for school ranking).  One proxy for salary post-MBA is salary pre-MBA - though that's a messy and fraught and not always accurate proxy, there is some truth to it.

As a journalist, you will be a non-traditional applicant, so it will be really important for you to demonstrate that you *already* have skills that are useful to employers. If you take the media manager job with the biomedical company (and maybe even secure a promotion or raise while you are there), then you can potentially make the case for a more multi-faceted and business-credentialed application. Given your super competitive demo, you'll also want to make sure that you are differentiating yourself with regard to extracurriculars and non-work leadership (e.g., community involvement, non-profit board or membership participation, civic engagement, volunteering, music hobbies/passion, etc.).

You'll also want strategic positioning that is differentiated from your demo in terms of the impact you want to achieve *POST-MBA* (both immediately after school and long term) and you'll need that to sync with your prior success so that your ambitious goals seem plausible attainable. Your skill set as a journalist will already be rarefied among applicants to B-school, so you might consider positioning your post-MBA dreams in a way that leverages those skills (Some ideas that are worth throwing out to illustrate how you can weave the common thread -- strategy communications at XYZ company, leadership development program at publishing house, Media & Telecom investment banking, equity research covering media companies, LA-based general management program at entertainment company, etc.). Just make sure to do your networking and research to make sure that the things you express interest in doing have been done before by other graduates so that there is plausible precedent for your goals (again, they want you to be imminently employable).

Good luck,
Raj Patil




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