Breaking in from an Online MBA - My Experience
在线MBA会得到很多狗屎,这有一些充分的理由。但是对于一小群对感兴趣的人IB, they make sense, and I wanted to share my experience and how I broke intoIBin case it helps anyone out.
I weighed the pros/cons and was set on pursuing a topMBAfull time once I finished up my military officer commitment. Took the GMAT a few times and scored a 710. With what I had been doing in the military, I knew I was at least competitive. Then found out I wasn't going to be able to get out as soon as I had thought due to some paperwork I had signed very early on in my career. Whoops. Extra two years meant delaying myMBAstart till I was 33, meaning not hitting the desk until 35 as an Associate. So, like Jared in Silicon Valley, I pivoted.
进入UNC KF的在线计划,并在全职工作时开始。
Here are my impressions, lessons learned, and advice for anyone considering online.((I'll try not to make these specific to UNC)
学术界:坚硬的。就内容而言,您会发现90%的课程可以访问校园。缺点是课程每周仅一次见面一次,因此您的许多学习都是通过预录制的课程完成的。这些质量各不相同,但在大多数情况下是好的。无法停止提出问题,但是教授表现出色,通常很快就会回复电子邮件,并会跳上Zoom讨论一个话题或与您查看问题。另外,您的优势是能够倒带。总体而言,在核心课程和财务集中度之间,我觉得当我退出该计划时,我的基础是坚实的基础。与朋友交谈M7schools, I don't think there is much of a difference in academic content between most programs to be honest. You will get more current case studies and tie things into current events a lot more full time, for sure, but that is less important forIB。Biggest gripe is that new class recordings in an online program aren't revised often enough.
Recruiting:这是在线的地方MBAloses, big time. Dramatically. Destroyed. To be honest, I was pretty shocked by how little help there was for those interested in Finance. To be fair, I don't think many people who chose online were looking to break intoIB。I did it out of ignorance. Being in the military my whole career, I didn't know howIBrecruiting and internships worked. All I knew was the comp was good, I enjoyed and was good at working with numbers, and I'm fairly personable (read: socially competent). Seemed like a good fit. Anyways, after starting the program and expressing interest in IB at my first career counseling session, I was basically written off. They said "OK we'll put you in touch with our head on-campus recruiter for the英尺program." When I talked to the head of campus recruiting forIB, they were very nice, gave me some advice, and told me to keep them in the loop. Expected a little more, so I started calling friends who were in or had recently graduated from top 10英尺programs and had gone intoIBor I knew were pursuing it. At this point I was a couple weeks into school, and I hear from my buddies that I am way behind. Learned that the normalIB招聘过程从第一周或更早开始,开始惊慌失措。我打电话给校园招聘人员,要飞往即将到来的校园招募周末。被告知“你不能。”吹我的想法。我想由于竞争力IB以及事实英尺students are the face of theMBAprogram, they don't want to add more to the candidate pool? Bizarre, frustrating, and frankly, unacceptable.
How to Make It Happen:
联网:Most of the students you'll meet in an online program are looking to move up within their current organizations. Not many career switchers outside of the military folks like myself, though there are a few. There are some great connections to made, however. A lot of the people are a bit older, and are already fairly high up in their organizations and those connections will pay off in the future. Networking is everything in an onlineMBA。我不是在你的同学中。您必须利用您可以想到的每个人,并且不要害怕看起来像个白痴。我首先与我的每个曾参加过顶级的朋友一起制作一张Excel床单MBAprogram. They were willing to share their connections inIB, even if they hadn't gone intoIBthemselves, and were simply sharing contacts of friends from school who had/were headed that way. I was pretty relentless contacting these people. Started off as a trickle, and looking back on those early conversations I cringe a little at how clueless I was. But I learned a little on every call and they improved. Before long I knew enough to hold my own and started switching the focus of网络呼叫from informative to 'Hey, I'm interested,' thinly veiled by the 'informative call.' One call often leads to an additional two, as people often say, "I'd like to connect you with so and so and so and so." So the schedule can fill up pretty quick. At the peak, I probably had 8-9 calls per week. Time to transition to the next phase.
Creating Demand:Toughest part is locking down that first expression of interest, but once you have that, things get a lot easier. I knew initially I had no shot out of an online programat theBB/EBs,所以我开始将我的电话定位为MM/精品店。最后我有一些兴趣few places, and I scheduled follow up calls with a few places that I knew were slightly up the food chain. I shamelessly name dropped the places I had interest from, and sure enough, got some interest in return. My big break came when I got a text from a friend asking me to call a buddy of his at anEB。We had a great talk, and honestly I think he was impressed by how far I had gotten, especially without an internship (remember I was working full time. I knew I needed to lock down an offer by late October, as by then, any banks who had interns not returning英尺would have extended offers to others. TheEB他为最终填补了自己的职位而努力(TBH从来都不是现实的,但其他银行不需要知道)。这种联系是我需要的兴趣,一旦破裂,我就获得了一些最高的采访报价MMbanks and some larger but not quiteBBS。
Things worked out, I worked my ass off prepping for interviews, knowing that I couldn't afford any slip ups. With no internship and an OnlineMBA, I had to be basically perfect on any technicals. Studying that stuff is the easy part though, you all know how to do that. I got an offer from the bank I liked the most, and knew beforehand that comp was top of street.
Good luck out there, if an OnlineMBA适合您个人的账单,去做。但是,一个MBAis not just a check in the box, as I thought going into mine. Its a networking tool more than anything, so consider that before choosing any school outside of anM7/top 10. Networking is the best thing you can do to help yourself hands down.
Supplements:In addition to myMBAcoursework I did the following:
一个简单的模型 - 价格合理但更基本的标准准备课程。从这里开始。
Wall Street Prep- Did their premium package. Probably the best of what was available at the time.
WSOdidn't offer their product at the time, at least not that I am aware of, so, sorry Patrick, I can't speak to theWSOsyllabus.
Comments (5)
Thank you for sharing your experience, and of course for your service to our nation.
闯入IB作为来自T15的在线计划的职业转换器,令人印象深刻。我敢肯定,它比您在帖子中看起来更难。我敢打赌大多数通过在线尝试职业枢轴的人MBA程序无法实现飞跃。
Best of luck with your new career.
So inspiring! You story motivates me to keep networking and not give up.
I just started the onlineMBAat KF, part of my interest in theMBAwas to pivot intoIBso your story resonates with me. I was assured when applying I would have access to the same career resources the英尺学生会拥有(我为自己的学位付出同样的费用,但是我可以继续工作并赚钱,因为我追求我的学位似乎是一个合理的权衡),所以看到您的帖子可以帮助我了解我可能面临的障碍。我不确定这是否可以,但是我们可以联系以讨论您在计划中的经验吗?
Curious, are you paying out of pocket or loans? Also, did UNC offer any scholarship money?
$ 125K的在线上很陡。
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