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Resume必读：申请期间换工作会影响申请吗？
Changing Jobs: Good or Bad for Your MBA Candidacy?
by Scott Shrum on May 10th, 2010
Recently we received a question from a member of the Beat The GMAT community that asked, “I’m thinking of looking for a new job right now. Since I plan on applying to business school this fall, would changing jobs now be a bad idea?”
We normally tell our MBA admissions consulting clients that the actual act of changing jobs, by itself, shouldn’t help or hurt you in the admissions process. But, as always, the answer is “It depends.” Admissions officers understand that young professionals may have several jobs before they enter business school, and as long as your reasons appear to be good and your overall application “story” makes sense, this won’t be a hindrance.
Ideally, if you switch jobs, it will be to take on a new role with increased responsibility and more pay. (Why does pay matter? Because it’s the most objective measure of how much more responsibility you took on. A new job might have a fancier title, but if the pay is the same, it may appear that this is a promotion in name only.) Or, if it’s a different industry or function, then ideally your new job is more consistent with your stated post-MBA goals. For instance, maybe now you work in banking, but you want to ultimately work in sports marketing after business school, and right now you’re considering moving into a new role working for a sporting equipment maker. The new role may not involve much more authority or responsibility than what you have now, but this change would give you valuable experience and get you one step closer to your goal. Such a switch would make perfect sense to an admissions officer.
评论：有个朋友梦想着毕业后（post MBA）從事philanthropy方面的工作，不过在申请的时候却是在银行里面干活（业余时间是非营利机構的志愿者）。上赛季申请TOP未果，后來检讨，就感嘆自己是否应该直接先到非營利机構里面去做事情，也许这样自己的夢想和故事在读者的角度看就会更加具有说服力。
Where a job switch can look bad is if you appear as a “job hopper,” someone who’s never happy in the role she’s in, and who just starts looking for a new job as soon as things start to get tough in her current role. If you’re just bored or don’t like your boss, or have some other fairly pedestrian reason for wanting a new job, then the switch won’t help you, and could even hurt you, if it gives the impression of someone who can’t “tough it out” and make the best of a hard situation.
評论：跳槽比较频繁的申请人，最好利用optional essay的機會show一下跳槽的“故事”。請记住，不要把“解释”作為初衷，应该是show，想辦法化不利因素为有利因素。
Along these same lines, we frequently get this question: “I have the chance to take a new job with [Blue Chip Firm]…. The job and the pay are the same, but the name of the company is better. Should I take it?” In this case, we normally tell applicants that — all things being equal — they can probably help their admissions chances more by achieving more in their current role than by landing at a fancier company, where it will probably take a while to build their connections and really start to make an impact. If you’re still a year or two away from applying, then trying to build your track record at the bigger-name firm may make sense, but if you’re less than a year away from applying, then you have a better chance of making a bigger positive impact in your current job. And that — Impact! — is what admissions officers truly care about, more than the name of the company on your résumé.
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簡历中的学問系列文章参见下面鏈接（壇子內）：
12 Resume Do’s and Don’ts You Must Know
5 Reasons For Resume Rejections
Changing Jobs: Good or Bad for Your MBA Candidacy?
Crafting Your Resume for the MBA Application Process
How to write Admissions RESUME
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