关于MBA申请中工作时间问题的解决方案 - ChaseDream

1. FOCUS ON SKILLSACQUIRED

• Staying at a job for a short duration of time
• Staying at multiple jobs for short durations of time
• Seemingly erratic industry changes
• Work experience largely from small, unknown companies

When focusing on these issues above, it can help to focus on the skills you gained and theimportant experiences you had, which have helped prepare you for your long-termgoal.

If applicable, you should also explain why you switched jobs after a short time, in away that hopefully lends itself to a more coherent story about your trajectorytoward your long-term goal.

2. PERIOD OF UNEMPLOYMENT:FOCUS ON QUALITY EXPERIENCE

To address anotable period of unemployment (longer than 3 months), it is useful for you topoint out what sorts of constructive things you were doing during that period.

Were you taking time to take an English course so as to improve greatlyyour GMAT score?

Were you taking the opportunity to do an internship (paid or unpaid)that allowed you to gain direct experience in the specific area you intend tofocus on for your medium- or long-term career?

Were you taking the opportunity to research excellently your long-termgoals while using your leadership skills to make an impact with pro bonowork?

如果申请者有一长段时间处于无工作状态，需要很有效的解释清楚为什么这段时间是无工作状态，是不是去做一些其他活动来提升自己的MBA 的竞争力。

3.  What sorts of problems can there be in workexperience?

The biggest problems are not lack of leadership experience or lack ofdirect reports, as some candidates think. (Essays and recommendations,excellently written, can address these concerns, often quite easily.) Rather,the greater problems with work experience tend to be issues like these:

• Staying at a jobfor a short duration of time
• Staying at multiple jobs for short durations of time
• Seemingly erratic industry changes
• A notable period of unemployment (longer than 3 months)
• Being fired from a job
• Work experience largely from small, unknown companies
• Working as a sole proprietor, “independent consultant” or independentcontractor with relatively low income as the most recent job before applying tobusiness school
工作时间过短其实可以通过essay 很好的解释。但是以上高亮的工作经验方面问的题就比较难解决。所以申请者在申请前要对自己的职业道路有个整体负责的规划。