28.10.2009
GMAT: The MBA Job Seeker's Best Friend
The primary purpose of the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) may be winning the favor of B-school admissions committees, but that's not all those four hours of geometry and critical reasoning questions are good for. For many students, the scores they get on the GMAT will reach an audience that might be even more important—job recruiters. For a select group of companies, mostly top consulting, finance, and banking firms, employers routinely look to MBA graduates' GMAT scores as a reliable standard measurement of academic prowess—a fact that may be well-known to MBA students in the thick of the job search, but is relatively unknown among applicants when they're taking the test. Particularly when jobs are tight, and every element of each résumé takes on added weight, test scores can be the difference between an interview and the dustbin. Please find more information on this topic at: http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/oct2009/bs20091019_412671_page_2.htm |
