I’m no fan of the Graduate Management Admission Test, the GMAT. It’s a tricky, exasperating standardized test that sorts MBA aspirants into two categories: Those that have to worry about their scores and those that don’t. Critics proclaim that the test doesn’t measure success in…
Silicon Valley’s career guru, Patti Wilson has published her mid-year Careerzine. I’ve excerpted some of it below; it’s perhaps a bit on the “realistic” side, but has some good tips, such as to work on “career differentiation”. This is true in job hunting, applying to…
Interested in business school? If so, now’s the time to start thinking about your application, even if you don’t want to apply until 2010. Sure, that’s a long way away, but sometimes really good ideas take a long time to hatch. Please note—I wrote “thinking…
In the midst of today’s celebrity news, I found an unrelated article in the Wall Street Journal about the heroin trade, Afghanistan and the Taliban. Not an easy subject, I know. The thing is, the article reviewed a book called “Seeds of Terror” by Gretchen…
According to conventional wisdom, things are pretty bleak out there for MBA graduates and applicants. According to articles in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, “With Jobs Tight, MBAs Head for Home,” and the weekend’s New York Times, “Business Graduates Looking Beyond Wall Street,” things are really…
