帝国理工商学院招生办:优化MBA和MSc申请中职业规划和经历描述的五个方法

帝国理工商学院招生办:优化MBA和MSc申请中职业规划和经历描述的五个方法

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在申请帝国理工学院(Imperial College London)的MSc和MBA项目时,申请者通常需要回答一系列与职业规划有关的问题并且上传简历。

在审核你的申请时,我们也会综合多个因素对你进行考量,包括专业经历(如果有的话)和职业规划。因此,你的简历以及与职业相关的回答应该突出表现MSc或者MBA课程是如何帮助你实现未来的职业抱负的。

这篇文章旨在提供五个方面的技巧来帮助你优化申请中有关职业规划和经历部分的描述。

1. 通过研究和思考你的未来角色来规划你的职业生涯

在申请中,你要明确自己感兴趣的行业、理想雇主、职业和国家。因此,我们强烈建议你彻底研究一下自己的职业目标,想想自己在完成硕士或者MBA课程后想要从事什么样的职业以及想要什么样的雇主。这样的研究将帮助你更好地了解你想工作的行业,并确保那是你真正感兴趣的领域。

除了研究你想要从事的工作,你还要确保自己对申请项目有清晰的了解。这样做是为了确保你的职业规划与你所选择的项目是一致的,一个优秀的申请者应该拥有与所选项目相符的职业志向。

我们还认为,申请者在申请过程中尽早留意自己未来的职业道路是非常重要的,因为很多雇主在我们的硕士项目开始之前就已经开放了毕业生的求职申请。因此,我们希望我们的学生在一开始就占据优势位置,从而可以有机会成为这些公司的考虑对象。

 

2. 详细回答职业准则问题

要回答职业准则的有关问题,你应该先确定你的目标职业角色所需的三项技能,并根据你以往经历解释你是如何满足这一标准的。我们建议你使用以下格式尽可能具体地进行回答:选择一项具体的技能,解释你的经历(例子)是如何满足这些条件(标准)的。

如果可以,尽可能利用你以前的学习经历、工作经历、志愿服务、课外活动来向招生官说明你一直以来是如何发展这些技能的,例子越丰富、经历越多,回答则越有力

此外,我们强烈建议你不要写没有示例的单一回答,也不要写学术成绩,而应该利用这一部分来阐述你更独特的技能,毕竟我们可以在你的其他申请材料中看到你的学术成绩,所以你不需要在此重复一遍。

我们明白,不是每个人都以加入大型跨国公司为目标,有些申请者可能希望在家族企业或中小型组织工作。如果你打算建立自己的企业,你需要概述你的企业将提供哪些专业知识、产品或服务,你还需要有逻辑地展示你对目标市场以及现有市场竞争者的了解。

 

3. 阐释清楚你的工作经历和实习时长

你的每一份实习/工作经历都应该用具体日期来标明确切的时间段。为了确保你的简历有足够的篇幅来包含相关信息,我们建议只写三年内的相关工作经历和课外活动

 

4. 使用清晰的简历格式

我们建议你使用一个能让你的简历看起来简洁大方的模板,最好不要包含太多的文字你可以在这里下载一个简历模板,或者在网上找一个模板——有很多可用的简历制作指南都是现成的。记得在教育部分突出你的国际学习、课外活动、以及学术和专业方面的经历。

简历最好是一页A4纸的长度(最多两页),这能让你的简历清晰明了、易于阅读。较短的简历长度也能确保其中只包含最重要和最相关的信息。

 

5. 突出你在实习和工作经历中的职责

除了使用清晰的简历格式外,我们还建议你在简历中清晰地描述你的工作职责。实力超群的申请者通常会清晰地描述他们的岗位职责和执行过的复杂任务——如果你能说明你的工作产生了哪些影响或是你在哪些方面表现优异,我们强烈建议你把他们描述出来。最优秀的申请人通常会有与他们的目标职业高度相关的工作经验,他们甚至已经在目标雇主的公司工作过。

希望这篇文章对你有帮助,我们期待看到你的职业规划和简历。

Reference:

Imperial College Business School. (2020). Five ways to strengthen the career planning and experience sections of your MBA or MSc application. Retrieved from imperial.ac.uk/business


【英文原文】

As part of applying to study an MSc or MBA programme at Imperial College Business School, you will answer a series of career planning questions and upload your CV.

When reviewing an application, we consider all aspects, including professional experience (if any) and career planning; so, your careers questions answers and CV will highlight whether you have thought about how an MSc or MBA will support you in achieving your future career aspirations.

This post aims to provide you with details of five things you can do to strengthen the career planning and experience sections of your MSc or MBA application.

1. Plan your career by doing research and thinking about possible roles

In the application, you will be asked to identify the sector you are interested in and your ideal employer, role and country. Therefore, we strongly recommend thoroughly researching your career goals by looking at job specifications for potential roles and employers you may want to work for after completing your MSc or MBA. Such research will also help you to grasp a better understanding of the sector in which you want to work and ensure it’s an area you are really interested in!

As well as researching potential roles, you should also ensure you have a clear understanding of the programme you are applying to. We recommend you do this to ensure your career plan aligns to your chosen programme; a strong applicant will have a career aspiration which aligns to the content of the programme they are applying to.

We also consider it especially important for candidates to be focused on their career path early on in our application process because many employers open for applications to their graduate roles before our MSc programmes have even begun. We, therefore, want our students to be in the best possible place, early on, to have the option to be considered for the roles these companies offer.

2. Answer the career criterion questions in detail

For these answers, you should identify three skills required for your target role and explain how, from your previous experiences, you meet this criterion. We advise being as specific as possible in your answers and that you use the following format to answer these: choose a specific skill and explain how your experiences (examples) meet these specifications (criteria).

If possible, you should utilise your previous studies, work experience, volunteering and/or extracurricular activities to demonstrate how you have developed your skillset so far. The strongest answers to these questions will use a variety of examples drawing from different experiences.

Furthermore, we strongly advise you don’t write one-line answers with no examples. We also recommend you don’t write about academic results criteria, as you should use this section to illuminate your more unique skills; we can read about your academic results elsewhere in your application, so you don’t need to repeat yourself here.

We appreciate that not everyone will be aiming to join a large multinational company and that some applicants may wish to work for a family business or small/medium-sized organisations. If you are planning to set up your own business you will need to outline what expertise, product, or service your business will deliver. You will also be expected to demonstrate a coherent understanding of the targeted market, as well as existing market competitors.

3. Give clear durations of the length(s) of your work experience and internships

Include specific dates, highlighting the exact duration of any internships or work experience you have completed. To ensure there is enough space on your CV to include relevant information, we also recommend only including work experience or extracurricular activities if less than three years old, or if relevant.

4. Use a clear CV format

We recommend using a template, which will make your CV clear and doesn’t contain too much text. You can download a CV template here or find a template online – there are lots of guides readily available. Use your CV to highlight any international study on your CV in the education section, and extracurricular experiences, as well as academic and professional experience.

Your CV should be ideally one side of A4 in length (at the very most two pages maximum) as this will help to keep your CV clear and easily readable. Keeping your CV shorter in length will also ensure you to include only the most important and relevant information.

5. Highlight the responsibilities you’ve had in internships and work experience

Following on from using a clear CV format, we also recommend ensuring that your CV has a clear description of duties. The strongest applicants will typically exhibit a clear description of duties which involve more complex tasks or responsibility – if you can illuminate the impact you have made or where you went beyond the norm then this is highly recommended. The strongest applicants will typically also have work experience which is highly relevant or transferrable to their target role – perhaps even with their target employer!

We hope you have found this post useful and we look forward to reading your career planning answers and seeing your CVs!

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