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Accepted.com Odds 'N Ends
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What's New at Accepted
Upcoming
Chats
First
ever BBA chat
Accepted is hosting its first ever
BBA chat.
On Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 2:00 PM PT/5:00 PM ET/10:00 PM GMT,
Accepted will host a chat with special guest, Michele Thompson,
Associate Director of Admissions, for applicants to Michigan's BBA
program.
First Quant Experience Chat
On Thursday, March 8 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/6:00 PM GMT
Accepted and Dr. Peter Regan of MBAMath and the MBAQuant.com blog will
co-host a
chat on the MBA quant experience at MIT Sloan with Maura Herson,
Associate Director of MBA Student Affairs at MIT's Sloan School of
Management, Jeri Seidman, who teaches MIT Sloan's pre-term accounting
course, and first-year MIT Sloan students. If you plan on attending or
applying to MIT Sloan, the chat will provide you with a window into
the critical quantitative aspect of the MBA experience at MIT Sloan.
All Accepted chats take place in the
Accepted chat
room.
Accepted's Contests
Last Month
for It's a 10! This Year
Every tenth MBA applicant who fills out an interview feedback
questionnaire will win a $10 Amazon gift certificate. It's easy --
just fill out a
questionnaire after you interview with an MBA program and you're
automatically entered in our contest. The contest will continue until
March 31, 2007.
For additional information and contest rules, please visit our
contest details
page.
Featured Ebook for
March:
The Nine Mistakes You Don't Want to Make on a Law School Waitlist,
an excerpt:
Mistake #8: Provide hyperbolic apologies for weaknesses or
mistakes.
Why bother with an exaggerated apology? Just shine a spotlight on
your flaws and failings. That's what your abject apology will do...
And take a lot more time to do it, too.
If you want to know the right moves to make on a law school
waitlist, look on page 26 of our featured ebook of the month,
The Nine Mistakes You Don't Want to Make on an Law School Waitlist.
And remember, save 20% on
The Nine Mistakes You Don't Want to Make during the month of
March.
Latest MBA Chat Transcripts
Blog Posts of Interest
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Marketing You
Your personal statement and application
essays are frequently compared to marketing material. The analogy is a
good one. Indeed, many admissions books talk about "Marketing Yourself
to..."
Well let's see how marketers market. Do they use broad general
statements so that they all sound alike? The bad ones do. The good ones
write so that you see, feel, taste, or hear their product. Their copy
transforms the product from an vague unknown into something alive and
real. Not surprisingly, good copywriters provide an example you can
learn from.Here are 3 tips to help you market yourself during the
application process:
- Don't make broad claims of desirable attributes; let the reader
experience those attributes through your essay(s).
- Learn from your customers, the admissions committees. They
are telling you what they want to know in their questions; read the
questions (along with their web sites, brochures, etc.).
- Let your personal statement embody the qualities you are trying to
convey. In other words, if you want to be thought of as a
mature, articulate professional, write like one.
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Crafting A Resume To Highlight Your Competitiveness
If your resume portrays your accomplishments with vividness and
clarity, it is already successful. However, for many industries, a
healthy dose of competitiveness tactfully portrayed is an attractive
quality - so if your resume highlights how you surpass your peers, all
the better.
To portray this edge in your resume, first, keep the details of fairly
obvious job responsibilities to a minimum. For example, for an
investment banking analyst, that means foregoing the nitty-gritty of the
financial analysis and modeling that virtually all analysts do. Or for a
legal assistant, skip the list of research sources you are familiar
with, impressive though it may be. These types of experiences only show
you to be "on par" with your peers - competent, but not a standout.
Instead, present your resume points in the context of three factors:
Leadership. Look for times in your work experience when you
presented a solution or sought a change that surpassed the scope of your
defined role, and then worked to gain support and engage others in
implementing it. When you write about this innovation in your resume,
make sure to specify how it exceeded the requirements of your job.
Impact. Did you complete a tough assignment successfully?
Congratulations, but that won't lift you out of the "competent" and into
the "standout" category. Look for times in your work experience when you
made an identifiable impact that went beyond expectations or
requirements. In presenting such experiences, note the difference
between the anticipated and the actual outcome, and quantify if
possible.
Advancement. Have you assumed responsibilities that are usually
shouldered by people with more experience or of a higher organizational
rank? Or been promoted faster or higher than your company guidelines
provide for? If so, make sure your resume reflects that fact explicitly.
Handling these three factors as suggested will make you stand out
among your competitors, not just for your distinctiveness, but, frankly,
for your power to succeed. Your reader will conclude, "A winner."
Cindy Tokumitsu
Senior Editor, Accepted.com
Member, Professional Association of Resume Writers
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