Overcoming the admission process to the MBA knowing yourself!

If you’re applying to the best business schools, you’ll spend a lot of time trying to figure out your career vision. But where does one start?

Well, I’m sure if you’re applying, there’s more to you than meets the eye, so let’s take a look at a few things you should focus on while thinking of a great career vision that admissions officers will love. .

For the beginner roundup, this list:

A) Your work experience

• Industry
• function

B) Extracurricular activities before and during university

C) Extracurricular activities after college

D) Countries and cultures you are a native of

E) Your ethnicity

F) Your sexual orientation

G) Passions, hobbies and peculiarities

H) Your life stories

• your upbringing
• family background
• personal health problems
• Death of a family member or friend
• Other struggles that have taught you something

There you go! A good list to spend a few hours digesting your past and also to reflect on the last years of your life. The important thing about this list is to choose stories that have a lot in common with each other. For example, when I applied to business school, I wrote about my mother’s cancer diagnosis, as well as my work experience in public health, hospital management, and nonprofit management. All of this really helped tell my story of how I wanted an executive position in the health care field to have a real impact on uninsured families going through a similar situation to mine.

This all gets very personal, but this is exactly what you need to do while writing your MBA applications. The most powerful stories usually come from a combination of personal and career-oriented aspects of your background. That’s why you need to dig pretty deep. The more consistent you are, the better.

For the brownie points, if you can pull off a powerful career vision and mention some hot business issues going on in the world, that adds a lot of credibility to you as an applicant. If you’re not up to date on global issues, go ahead and read an article or two in The Economist, Forbes, or the Wall Street Journal. If you can find something related to your career niche, soak up that knowledge and see how you can apply it to your career vision. You don’t have to go overboard, just make sure to mention a few things here and there to grab their attention. You can do it!! Ahead!