MBA Interview Questions

The answers to your MBA interview questions play a major role in your acceptance into the program of your choice.  Admission into a top business school is a great achievement. Most post graduate students would definitely like to include this in their portfolio. Many of the students hope to get admission in reputed business schools to acquire an MBA degree.

The interview is the most challenging part for many of them. During an MBA interview you must demonstrate, and prove to the interviewer that you are a deserving candidate for their MBA program.

Questions asked during an MBA interview can vary, but the aim of the questions is to give the interviewer an impression of your personality. On the basis of your answers, the interviewer will analyze you, and decide whether you are suitable for the program or not. Hence, your answers will be creating an impact on the interviewer. Therefore, you need to convince him that you are the right candidate, and that the course will help you to attain your goals in life.

Typical questions asked in an interview are related to information regarding your career, dreams and background. Honesty is the policy, and you need to stick with this policy throughout your interview. Make your interviewer see you as a determined person who wants to achieve his/her goals.

Some questions include circumstantial problems. Your answers to these types of questions help the interviewer to know your problem solving skills, and your leadership qualities. On your part, you need to be real and brief about your answers on solving the problems.

Certain questions will be the tricky ones. Knowing yourself will prove beneficial for you. Therefore, it is very important that you know yourself well, have a clear aim of what exactly you want to achieve, have your past achievements listed and depict your future in a practical way.

Several questions asked in an MBA interview pertain to you. You have to exhibit yourself and advertise your skills, abilities, qualities and capabilities. Dream big! This will help as long as you are rational.

Last but not the least, MBA interview questions will include, ‘Why did you choose this particular school?’ Research about the school in advance, and be well versed with the programs the school is offering. And, understand how the school will be beneficial for you. With the help of your answers, the interviewers will be able to see how determined you are to get an MBA degree.

Every individual feels nervous when questioned in an interview. So, even if you are nervous, you need to be confident. If you lose your confidence, you may blow up your opportunity of studying in a good MBA school. Some questions in the interview will let you express yourself. So feel free, and take that opportunity to answer them wisely and confidently.

More information on the MBA interview can be found on the Internet. Preparing yourself is the first step to getting an admission in a post graduate business school. You are an applicant, and you must be ready for anything that comes your way. Best wishes for your future!

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In this installment of MBA interview tips, I want to talk about the admissions people. And yes, they are just that…people.

We all want to think that when we apply for a college that the people doing the interviewing are some kind of automated robots. All we have to do is give them the right answers and we’re in. In some cases, sad as this is to say, that’s exactly what happens. Why do I say sad? Again, let’s get back to the admissions people themselves.

As I said, they’re not robots…they’re people. And as people, they have different personalities and different ways of doing their jobs. Some will go through it very methodically, not putting any real thought into it. Give them the “right” answers and you’re in…even if you’re not a good fit for the school.

Some, however, will really put a lot of thought into the interview process and try to determine, in spite of your answers, whether or not they think you’ll be good for their program. Because of this, some admissions people will allow you in even though your answers weren’t the best, but because they saw something special in you. Conversely, some will reject you because they felt you had no real conviction behind your answer.

And then there is this. Everybody, regardless of who they are, has good days and bad days. You might very well have an interview with somebody who just got into a car accident before coming to work and are thus in a very bad mood. Maybe they had a fight with their spouse before work. Like it or not, when people have bad days, they sometimes bring those bad days into the office. As a result, you may not get accepted due to nothing that you yourself did.

Also, please understand that these people are looking over a ton of paperwork. Essays, letters or recommendation and resumes take a lot of time to go over and, like it or not, the process is more subjective than you’d like to think. When a human being is going over all that material, error becomes part of the equation.

If you understand this and can accept this, it will go a long way to helping you deal with whatever rejections come your way.

I hope you have enjoyed this series and have gotten something out of it. Again, there is a great resource that will completely prepare you for getting into the school YOU want to get into.

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I wish you the very best of luck and success in your bright young future.

You have the whole world ahead of you.

In this installment of MBA Interview Tips, I want to talk about finding your fit.

Guy’s 5 foot 2, pimples all over and walks with a limp. He’s got his eyes set on this 6 foot tall fashion model. What do you think the chances are that he’s going to land her. And if he does, how happy do you think the two of them will be in the long run, especially when she’s never home because she’s out modeling all the time and he’s a homebody?

Okay, kind of a silly analogy, but I think you get the point. No matter how badly we might want something, sometimes what we want is just the wrong fit for us. That can be true about the MBA program we’re thinking of getting into.

Not all schools are the same. Each one has a different atmosphere. The curriculums might be similar, but the professors teaching those curriculums are going to make a huge difference in how well you do and how much you enjoy your classes.

True story. This guy always wanted to work for AT&T. He finally got an interview and landed the job. After 6 months, he quit. Why? He hated it there. In spite of the reputation of the company, he found that the stuffiness of the atmosphere just didn’t sit well with him. He ended up taking a job with a smaller company, became head of the computer department and stayed there for years.

When you meet with an admissions officer, they’re looking for somebody who is going to compliment the school. And trust me, they can usually tell when somebody isn’t going to be the right fit based on the questions they ask and the answers YOU give…which is why you never want to lie. You just might end up getting your wish and regretting it.

Here’s the bottom line. If you go to a school that really isn’t a fit for you, you’re not going to connect with the classes, professors or students, which is ultimately going to lead to an unhappy time. This will ultimately lead to poor grades and possible dropping out of school.

So make sure the school you want to go to is the right fit for you.

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In this installment of MBA Interview tips, I want to go over what your GMAT REALLY means.

There is so much misinformation going around in regard to the GMATs that it’s enough to make you want to each for an airsick bag. Truth is, most MBA prospects don’t really understand the significance of the GMAT. Hopefully, this installment will clear that up.

Okay, for those of you who think it is some kind of IQ test, it is not. The GMAT has nothing to do with your IQ. In fact, some people with high IQs do poorly on their GMAT and others with a low IQ do very well. So that’s the first thing you need to get out of your head…the GMAT does NOT measure intelligence. This may or may not be good news for you.

What it does tell you, and nothing else, is what the probability is of you doing well in the first year of your MBA program. Ideally, you want to score above 700 if you can. However, that is no guarantee that your first year of grad school is going to be a piece of cake. There are some students who score 700 or even 800 and drop out after a year. Then there are those who score in the 600s and do very well.

Also, as far as acceptance goes, scoring a 700+ is no guarantee that you’re gong to be accepted, just as a score of 600 does not mean you are going to be rejected. The GMAT, in spite of what people think, is not the determining factor on acceptance. If it was, there would be no need for essays, resumes and letters of recommendation. It’s just one more tool to evaluate you.

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In this installment of MBA Interview tips, I am going to talk about a real no-no…lying.

In a word, don’t do it. There are several reasons why.

At the top of the list goes back to a very old saying that goes like this…

“What a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive.”

Do you know why this is? Think about it. If I were to ask you for your name, address and phone number, you would hardly have to think in order to give me the answers. Why? Because they are true facts. Now, imagine you had an alias with a phony address and phony telephone number. You’d have to make a conscientious effort to remember those things because they are not really a part of your real life.

The more things you have to remember (the lies) the greater the chance of slipping up somewhere along the interview process. Some questions might refer back to other questions and if you don’t have your lies down really pat, you’re sunk…plain and simple. Trust me, you have to be a real pro to pull off a ton of lies at an MBA interview.

Now, having said that, there are ways to tell the truth without having to say anything negative about yourself should you be asked a question that would require a less than positive answer. For example, let’s say you were asked if you ever had a job in an office and you hadn’t. You could say something like, “No, but I have had office training from XYZ company when I was staying with my uncle over the summer. They showed me around and taught me some office procedures like filing and answering phones. So while I never actually worked there, I do understand those jobs and feel very confident that I can perform them if I had to.”

See how easy that is? What you want to do, when asked any question, is downplay the negative and accentuate the positive. Don’t worry, the interviewer will know you’re doing this but that’s what they want to see…somebody who looks at the plus side of things and presents their strengths instead of their weaknesses. They don’t want somebody to simply answer “No” and then look down at their shoes because they feel like a failure because of it.

Don’t lie…but simply qualify those negative answers with something positive.

If you want to really prepare yourself for your MBA Interview, check out this resource.

MBA Bootcamp

It will prepare you better than anything I know for that big step…getting into the school of your dreams.