A short time ago, we saw that after three years, the application shorts for mba in the north had finally been updated with the times, and that there was a challenge for students applying for mba in the north this year。
Today we have a detailed reading of the latest changes in the mba application brief and the responses to it, and we will first look at the type of questions that have come out of the short articles of previous years:
Type of career development planning
Type of storyteller
Some additional information that needs to be used freely
Personal interests
Professional ethics
This year's number of topics has been reduced by one in number and no answer has been chosen, which requires candidates to better extract the bright spots and show their personal advantage in writing short texts。
From the content of these topics, only minor changes have been made, but the direction of the study has not changed. I'm going to go into the direction and focus of each topic。
In 2023, the mba application for the first issue:
The process of growing up from a young man to an elite job must be remarkable. Please describe briefly your learning and work experience (e. G. Special experiences, turning points and other stories) and look forward to learning more about you through your story. (up to 600 words in chinese, up to 2,500 characters in english, up to 20 lines)
There's no big change in the first question, but there's more in brackets. – special experiences, turning points, and other stories, most of whom wrote this section directly into another curriculum vitae template, while the new addition sharpens the focus of the topic by focusing more on the unique experiences, turning points, and displaying your distinctiveness, in particular the reflections and harvests; if you describe the turn of growth, you can move closer to your strengths and achievements。
What do you think when you think about your career options, your jobs? What do you think about this? And what are your differences or core competitiveness compared to other good people? In fact, this is the constant purpose of the north for all talent。
In 2023, the mba application for a second issue:
Please describe your next career development plan (including periodicity, planning, objectives, etc.). What role do you think the mba plays in your career? From a critical point of view, what are you going to pay and reap separately
I'll say this in three points:
Interpretation: please describe your next career development plan (including cycles, plans, goals, etc.)。
The second is on the topic of career planning. Unlike before, the bracketed elements, including periodicity, planning, objectives, etc., have been added。
What does that mean
In fact, many of the students who wrote this career plan basically wrote a final plan. But normal. If we apply it to enterprises, development planning for enterprises usually involves one year, three years and ten years。
Thus, it is in the case of individual development planning that teachers would like to see it done in the short, medium and long term. What are your goals for three to five years? What do you want to be in 5-8 years? Ten years later, what do you want。
The teacher at the north business school wants to see the student's whole planning process, not just what you're planning to achieve. Because it is only in the short, medium and long term that you can better see the entire path you plan for the future. It is coherent, not just a description of what i'm going to end up doing, so it is important to focus on the perspective of cyclical planning and objectives。
I'm going to tell you, why do you want to focus on the goal
Because a lot of people are very insecure when they write this career plan. It is not possible to write only about what the future might have to do, but rather to apply the business perspective to individuals. Enterprise perspective planning is long-term industry-based upgrading. But it's theoretically a void, a vision, like what kind of company i'm going to be。
But its short- and medium-term planning must be quantitative and very specific. First, there should be a split of the overall objectives, and the enterprise would have its overall business objectives, which he would then divide into several dimensions. Then all the sub-goals can be achieved to support the overall goal。
So for your short-term planning, you're the same as an individual. In which direction are you going to do something to support a possible position or a role in the short term? A teacher can also make a stronger judgment about whether you can achieve such a goal and whether you have a very clear path and think about it。
So everyone wants something to happen, but have you figured out how to achieve it and whether it is reasonable for you to set your goals? It also depends on short- and medium-term targets, more on the rationality of overall goal planning and the logical linkages therein, as well as some quantitative figures。
Short-term targets need to be seen in terms of specificity, and much more in the longer term, through you in terms of future trends in industry. The determination of this trend, in combination with your career development, is what you want to do at the end of the day, which is the height of your future career. It's true that the north asians have raised an xx-x-x-x leader, so this final target should be a high target, not a low target.
Interpretation: what role do you think the mba plays in your career
The second point is, what do you think the mba of guanghua plays in your career? Since reading mba must be a very important role, where it matters is the core。
What you can describe is what the core issues i now encounter at work are about to break through to match future developments, and what i need to upgrade from the point of view of future development, and how i get them through business schools. In short, it is to find the problems or difficulties that it faces in its work, which may be the problems it faces now and which it will face in the future。
Interpretation: from a critical point of view, what will you pay and gain separately
The third point is critical. What will you pay and gain? It's exactly what you need to learn from business school。
These perspectives can be written whether they relate to the enhancement of managerial leadership, to thinking about the strategy as a whole, to the vision of internationalization, to the various sources of resources, etc. It is mainly in your career and career development that you focus on what you write most。
What has been added this year is what you can do, and what is more important than what you can do? Whether it's your resources, your experience and your time and energy, these perspectives can be written。
So why are we all doing this? In general, i think that from the perspective of the business school, your studies at the business school do not mean a rapid improvement in your career development in the short term. So instead of a long-termist investment, business schools want you to see that。
In 2023, north gwanghua applied for the third question:
These years of the epidemic, we have experienced, adapted and changed ourselves passively or proactively. What, in your opinion, is the greatest challenge the epidemic poses to you? How did you respond? What is the most impressive event in the process and how do you understand and interpret it
This is a story-writing topic in general. Every industry actually changes in nature. The first impact is on industry, the second on companies, and the third impact is on changes in the way people work in different types of work. I'm going to go into two details:
Interpret: the years we have spent with the epidemic have been one of passive or active encounters, adaptation and change. What, in your opinion, is the greatest challenge the epidemic poses to you? How did you respond
From the point of view of the biggest challenges, i feel more focused on changing trends across the industry. There are then many possibilities from the point of view of response。
In the case of the epidemic, for example, many companies are beginning to regulate costs, including, for example, the current internet company, which is doing cost control, substantial layoffs, sector mergers and drops in delivery, which are responses, as well as changes in the direction of business, the cutting down of non-profit businesses and a re-evaluation of risk。
And there's the response to the black swan incident. You may not be able to come to work tomorrow because of the outbreak, so it's the black swan. So the overall planning and preparation for the black swan event is adequate, so it responds to changes in the working environment and the external and internal environment of the epidemic。
Interpret: what is the most impressive event in this process and how do you understand and interpret it
And the next thing i'm saying is that you're telling a story, and that story is about something. For example, in the case of lay-offs, mergers and, in the case of the epidemic, new demand from clients arises even across the supply chain。
There is also the possibility that marketing approaches to customers may change. Like what happened to your job? And what did you do about it? This can be answered from the point of view that there is no way to visit a client under the epidemic, which means that everyone can communicate and collaborate only by remote means。
I think that the first half of this topic is more oriented towards macro-form; the last part is more impressive for you and how you understand and interpret, and more towards micro-working。
In 2023, north gwanghua applied for the fourth question:
The process of growing up from a young man to an elite job must be remarkable. Please describe briefly your learning and work experience (e. G. Special experiences, turning points and other stories) and look forward to learning more about you through your story. (up to 600 words in chinese, up to 2,500 characters in english, up to 20 lines)
Interpretation: who would you invite if you had the opportunity to invite anyone to dinner with you
Who would you invite to dinner with someone? This question is a little similar to last year's third question. From the perspective of business schools, what is the purpose of this so-called writing title? He's actually looking at your role model, which is who you want to be。
Business schools are designed to train business leaders, so the objects you theoretically choose to be are people who have made great achievements in business, not ordinary people. And if it's imagination, it means that this person is not the person who directly invites you to dinner in your life, and you can't have it in your life, but you want to see it, so that's the perspective. So you choose the role model, you choose the successful entrepreneur or business leader, and i think it's better。
Let's not choose virtual and historical characters! From my point of view, i don't think either of these categories should be chosen. Because of the historical character, its age is out of step, and it has nothing to do with this trend in your industry and so on, except that it will help your personal growth, your heart-building and so on. If you can only choose such a person, you must choose the most helpful role in your career development。
Interpretation: why invite him
The second is why it was invited, and i think the point is to describe what you saw in him。
A person's appreciation of another person, mostly in the context of that person's experience, shows what you value by telling a story, and tells the teacher。
Read: what do you expect from this dinner? Please describe briefly what you imagine。
The most important of this topic is, in fact, the third point: what is the harvest? A simple understanding is what you want to learn from him
As the determination of the industry's future trends, the formation of individual leadership, the possibility of working together, and the opportunity to invest in one of his most difficult experiences, one can say how to break through with one another。
