“Experiences are the sheer reflection of your uniqueness and performance.”
Business world is a dominating factor acting in every sector as a ground. All management courses have become prevalent in the last decades especially in getting a master degree in business administration. Getting an MBA (Masters of Business Administration) has now become a major part to bring productive change in the corporate reality.
Over the last two decades, increased competition in admissions for the MBA degree gave importance to work experience as it acted as an incentive to raise the productivity of such graduates in the real business world. The experienced person knows the business issues and during their MBA they become more solution oriented. Without the experience, the MBA becomes far too academic instead of a practical approach.
Joining as a fresher in the top B-School eventually may turn to land one in average management strata whereas the one with work experience will ace the race. For a fresher, the concepts remain a vague idea until landing into a job. They will have nothing to contribute other than theories whereas others have case studies and business world problems to operate. Summer- Internship placements of newbie also may affect as they turn to be the just bud of the plant. The “gap” affects the standing including the networking- one of the biggest advantages of an MBA course.
Getting into the Ivy-league colleges is the dream of many people. Even such colleges prioritize work experienced people. Every top international college asks for work experience for a better approach among students. It’s very important to gain work experience in the domain you want to major in. Work experience lets you decide in which sector you are fitting in and can raise the graph of the respective domain wherein you work. Moreover the management education program considers explicitly and systematically the quality of individuals’ career work experience in selection and admissions decisions.
The total years of work experience that students have prior to entering their MBA program positively predicts whether they hold a formal leadership position in the MBA program, their internship performance, and their starting full-time salary upon graduation. The quality of individuals’ career work experience, in terms of scope and scale of job responsibilities, visibility to senior management, novelty, and gender and cultural diversity, explains unique variance in MBA student achievement—namely, peer ratings of leadership effectiveness, internship performance and interviewer perceptions of job readiness. Moreover, work experience somehow is a predictor of a MBA student’s achievement.
Written by- Antara Mondal (Placement Coordinator)
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