家族公司工作在未来申请时会不会成为一个不小的阻碍

csbowow

It depends. If your family business is just one of those unknown small, medium sized ones in China/HK/Taiwan or India, then unfortunately, it will actually hurt your application. Why? Because it's really hard to benchmark you against all the other strong candidates who have impressive blue chip backgrounds (finance, consulting, CPG, etc.) Yes, you can present as much management and entrepreneurial skills as you can in your essays and resume. However, at the end of the day, schools will have to take your word and make a bet on you. That's a challenging risk that they have to take when there's another proven Fortune 500, Big 4 candidate's application lying beside yours.



If your family business is very well known, like Taiwan's 辜家, 蔡家, HK's 李家 or Donald Trump in the U.S., then you'll have a huge leg up even against the Goldman bankers and McKinsey consultants. Think about it, do business schools want alums who are guaranteed to be the future CEO of a well known family business or someone who probably would only go as far as becoming partner of a bulge bracket finance firm or M/B/B consulting firm. It's all about getting as much potential future leaders as possible for bragging rights, whether it's a Saudi prince or silver spoon fed legacy kid. If you're self-made, then better off if you're a blue chip applicant or one of those at least moderately successful entrepreneurs or a non-traditional (dancers, athletes, U.S. miltary, etc).

beatgmat123

假如是big 4或是諮詢做過幾年再回family business這類的呢?

whismanc

10搂得很中肯，一般的小公司还是算了吧，吹牛居多

kingonejinyi

感谢大家的帮助
10L 前辈的想法也是我的疑虑之处
舅舅是前光大银行的高管 人到中年不甘于现状 故辞职创立了自己的公司
背后有强大的资金支持 公司规模在50人左右吧 在地区算是小有名气 但放在全国就不值一提了
未来发展趋势不好确定 家里人是希望我过去帮忙 但我未来的目标是TOP MBA 我是实在是担心
我害怕这样的工作经历会影响申请 现在还在犹豫啊

maurise

这绝对不是一个障碍 LZj加油

northernsummer

2012说话太绝对了，若干太子党们也不是个个哈佛啊，一封中投的RL至于么。还见过辗转让商务部长写的当年没走成的呢。

体制内外本来就是截然不同的判断标准和生存环境，这没错。即使体制内呼风唤雨，感觉良好，很多人愿意选择更职业化的发展，这种选择不是可以简单的用钱或者回报率之类来衡量的。

不过RL肯定是越有分量越好，这我倒同意。