There are quite a few top b-school candidates from China public sector every year, and landed with good jobs ranging from corporate to IB/PE (most of them from MOFCOM and MFA as I know).MBA will surely help you better prepared for professional career compared to any other program, but also more competitive and expensive, and not guranteed. Several things you may want to consider: - Macroeconomy: even a Top3/Magic7 MBA degree won't gurantee a global-pay job in the current market (maybe things get better after 2 or 3 years, but again, not guranteed) - Age: you will find many colleagues are in their late 20s in consulting or IB firms, senior associates or even VPs. Make sure you are comfortable with that. - Competence: you need to work much harder and at least can prove youself are as good as those young professionals in short time. One friend of mine joined a global consulting firm and left half year later. Another friend was recently laid off from a US IB (he is good but not star). They both were government officials before and are smart ppl. - Stay hungry, stay foolish |