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For the HBS MBA Business Minded Essay Example of an applicant who has consulting, investment banking, and, most interestingly, ballet dance experience, I had to highlight the interesting career transitions. This is not required if you have extra-curricular as truly as an extra-curricular and not as a full-time serious career pursuit before other choices became clear in your teens or more from 8th grade when typically, students tend to choose a career path.

For the Berkeley Haas MBA Career Goals essay for an applicant transitioning from Technology to Strategy consulting, the challenges are two fold.

One – the applicant must quickly establish that his motivation for career transition didn’t happen after he underperformed in his current role.

For the HBS MBA Essay narrative on an applicant from Private Equity who transformed after a personal setback during covid, the career choice essay is more about the person’s evolution in values within private equity.

This narrative works for someone who has a traditional career path.

I have interacted with many clients who find it challenging to shortlist stories from their life if they are in a traditional consulting, investment banking, private equity or technology careers.

For the HBS MBA Essay narrative on an applicant from an LGBTQ+ background with a passion for entrepreneurship, the challenge for me was to not include a large but credible backstory of immigration under violent conditions in the Career choice essay.

There were three unique themes going in parallel:

I have divided the individual essay guides (read the difference between Winning MBA Essay Guide and Individual Essay Guides) into ten sections: