MBA career change的请进来

zxsteven

以下是引用只此一帖在2007-4-13 6:31:00的发言：
MBA change career，至少对国际学生来说，就是一个谎言。除非你换那种什么都干或者什么都不干的工作，比如consulting和IB。就中国学生拿到面试的情况来看，以前做Finance/Sales/Marketing的最受青睐，做技术的最难，与其寄望于一个MBA把你的背景洗白，还不如踏踏实实做好现在的工作来得好

Career change for internationals is tough, but not a mission impossible. My prievious life was an engineer, but I got in corporate finance for this summer. Not all recuiters want to take risk to hire people from different background, but there are still some firms who do not really care what you did before; they are looking for your passion and commitment.

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以下是引用zxsteven在2007-4-13 7:43:00的发言：

Career change for internationals is tough, but not a mission impossible. My prievious life was an engineer, but I got in corporate finance for this summer. Not all recuiters want to take risk to hire people from different background, but there are still some firms who do not really care what you did before; they are looking for your passion and commitment.

over 80% of MBA candidates said they need a career change, how many got one at the end of 2 years? Internationals are tougher for this not because of lack of passion and commitment, but language and culture issues make recruiters hard to understand their presentation of passion and commitment, though everyone could effectively overcome language barrier easily, there's no way to fill culture gap in two years.

And as you said, the pool of recruiters who are willing to try on different background is much smaller. That being said, internationals need more luck to succeed for this mission. How come a rational person bet hundreds of thousands $, precious time and tons of other opportunities on such a luck-dependent process?