11 Pieces of Advice for MBA Aspirants

Jan 22 • MBA, MBA Entrance Exam • 4685 Views • 6 Comments on 11 Pieces of Advice for MBA Aspirants

When you decide to pursue a course in MBA to develop skills required in business start ups, innovation, or entrepreneurship, a perfect study plan is required for a focused career. Proper research and planning plays a crucial role in widening your professional network and gain business knowledge.

For any MBA student, decision-making process is very much essential because you must get yourself the right start with career management. You must get yourself accustomed with the education process by keeping in mind the post-graduation course that you wish to study. MBA course becomes more intense as it includes several presentations, case studies, discussions, seminars, and interaction with business professionals during internship.

Here are the key 11 pieces of advice for MBA Aspirants that should be kept in mind while pursuing an MBA Education:

MBA - Master of Business Administration

MBA – Master of Business Administration

Dealing with the campus and courses

When you get yourself into any B-School:

 1. Make yourself familiar with the city and find contacts too. This makes it easy to live and study in the city of your college and expand your social and professional network.

2. Choose MBA specialization that matches your skill and career plans. For instance, if you believe you are good in finance, choosing MBA in Finance will a wise decision. Moreover, research about the career opportunities in the specialization you select.

3. Business studies require the student to be aware about every minute detail of the business world and the recent trends.

Creating proper work-life balance

4.  Always use a right approach to balance your work with life to bring satisfaction.

 5. On completion of the course, choose your job wisely. For instance, if you are not interested in much travelling, check the job role before accepting the offer.

 6. This however also means that you should be able to prioritize your work. MBA jobs more often include deadlines, urgent meetings and other important business meetings depending on the area of your work. So, keep calm to achieve this work-life balance.

7. MBA jobs are available in different locations. You should be flexible to accept any excellent offer, irrespective of the job location. Remember, a good start can change your life!

 

Adapting to the business environment

Pursuing an MBA degree requires more of understanding about the particular subject where you must read over different study materials. Since you may be required to make more of presentations, it is important that you work on your communication skills.

8. Attend several guest lectures and make notes of the key points.

9. Take advantage of the mandatory MBA internship to take a feel of  the corporate world.

 10. Stay in touch with the alumni to keep yourself open for different job opportunities.

 11. Develop important job skills such as leadership, decision making, team player, and critical reasoning. These skills can truly present you as a perfect applicant for any MBA job interview.

Thus, graduating from a business school is the creation of a future manager who contributes in the development of the society in one or the other form. Today, MBAs are highly employable in all the key industries such as Tourism, Aviation, Finance, Banking, Technology, Telecom, and BPO.

 

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6 Responses to 11 Pieces of Advice for MBA Aspirants

  1. Amol parsure says:

    Graduation complete

  2. Amol parsure says:

    Graduation complete

  3. MB Achary says:

    I am interested to get into a good Business School in India. I am having CAT 92.75 percentile. May kindly advise how to do so. Also, may pl. advise GD PI skills.

  4. Aniket Vichare says:

    Nice post. It will be very useful for mba aspirants. ITM Institute offers executive mba courses for the working professionals. Many business professionals and high level executives have advanced their careers and raised the performance bar for themselves having completed the course.

  5. priyal shah says:

    i am a first year baf student aspiring for mba so can you advice me some tips to crack cat down

  6. NirojPahi says:

    MBA is one of the top Course in the world. This post contains the best guidelines for the MBA aspirants. These steps are really helpful. Go through this article to know more about MBA guidelines.

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