not sure about MBA application. But i believe the first choice is more valuable in job hunting if you want to join IB (not sure about underwriting in P&C since don't know why top MBA seldom go to insurance companies). M&A may be good for IBD in IB and treasury maybe related to fixed income in IB. The second choice is similar to retail business rather than financial institutions.
To pumpkin, I wanna apply for MBA finance concerntration
To Kevinao, I think since P&C didn't pay as much as IB and consulting, most top MBAs think of getting the investment return in a short time and adding value with challenging work to survive in the future. To whoever working in IBD in the first one or two yrs, the working is boring and exhausting but really well paid. That's why more and more IBers get retired early from the industry and get high level positions to enjoy life in less challenging industry such as pension, asset management and insurance. That's a little far away form what I wanna ask. My career begins as a management trainee in a famous FMCG company and I worked there for one yr and a half, quit as a sales supervisor. Then I joined the biggest American P&C insurance company as senior mkting executive and just promoted to account manager. So I have totally two yrs and a half sales and mkting W/E till now. I'm thinking of apply for MBAF to do sth more FINANCE after graduation and I don't know how the sales and mkting W/E will be evaluated vs financial W/E during the application. If the answer is financial W/E is much more important, I have to hunt for the job of that kind although it's quite difficult. If the answer is the importance of W/E is not what function u r doing but what you have achieved during the application for MBA finance concerntration, then I'll concerntrate on the current job. BTW, I get a double bachelor degree, B.A of finance and B.S of computer science, from a top5 Univ in China, is it helpful?
yes , agree that W/E is more useful in job hunting. I think even in IB, sales/marketing experience is also important because a lot of positions in IB need to communicate with customers, esp. sales/trading. I have accounting background and I am not very comfortable to handle customers relationship by myself! It appears that your experience is very good, esp. if by guess, you worked in P&G/Unilver/*cola/AIU etc. Just my own opinion, maybe you can emphasize what you learned about finance and why you want to apply for MBAF in your application to school (e.g. when you face customers in the P&C company, you need to know finance in depth but you found you need to further improve your finance knowledge).
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