How does the Tuck CDO work with students once recruiting begins? (Actually, recruiting begins long before it's time to start recruiting!) What are the various ways in which the CDO empowers the students in their career search? For these and related questions, read on:
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/career-services-on-and-off-campus-recruiting
Networking is not something that comes naturally to everyone. So how to you break the ice and make a positive impression on a recruiter? How do you tell your story in a compelling manner? How do you draw the other person into a conversation? These and of course, the traditional approach of writing cover letters, resumes, etc. are all services the Tuck CDO offers. For more on how the CDO assists in networking and applying to companies, read on:
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/career-services-networking-and-application-prep
What is the Tuck experience like? Who can say it better than the students who go through the two years at Tuck, hanging on to each day for the precious experience that it is! Here are a number of ways in which you can connect with Tuck students, their backgrounds, and their experiences. So get going with your research!
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/explore-the-student-experience-at-tuck
After giving you a glimpse of what kind of support students can expect from the Career Development Office at Tuck, here's some more advice on preparation for job/internship interviews and negotiating the offer. Read on!
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/career-services-interview-prep-offer-negotiation
The First Year Project (FYP) is a capstone project that every student takes up in the spring quarter of the first year. It brings together all the learning from the core courses and enables the students to work on a real-world project for a real company and help solve real problems. Take for instance, The Himalayan Project, an FYP that took a team of Tuckies to Nepal. For more on this project, what it entailed, and the impact the team had, read on.
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/tuck-first-year-project-personal-connected-transformative
Global Mindset is a prerequisite for graduating from Tuck. The Global Insight Expedition (GIX) is one of four ways to demonstrate it - a course in which a group of students travel to a country and immerse in the culture, the economy, the cuisine, the politics, the ethos - essentially try and understand what makes that country such an exciting and interesting place in the world all the way from the grassroots level to the policy making level. One such GIX too the students to Israel a few weeks ago. Read on to get an insight into what the students experienced while on this immersive experience.
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/tuck-global-insight-expedition-israel-a-tale-of-two-cities
For all the prospective applicants out there who are getting ready to embark on the application journey, here are some tips from Tuck Admissions on the things to consider and how to get started.
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/applying-to-b-school-tips-to-get-started-1
It is the season of experiencing immersion in foreign lands and coming back to Tuck and sharing the insights that were gained with the broader community. In keeping with the theme, here are the details of a recent GIX that took a group of Tuckies to Vietnam.
One of the most sought-after teachers at Tuck is Prof. Vijay Govindarajan, or VG, as he is known. One simply has to sit down and listen to VG speak, in order to be transported into a different world altogether - a world where strategy, management, philosophy, and spirituality coalesce to create a completely new way of looking at things we normally take for granted. VG was just presented an award for the best paper in the 2017 Global Strategy Journal. Here's more on yet another feather in the cap of this unparalleled teacher and management thinker.
Global Insight Expeditions take Tuck students into immersive experiences around the world. One such group of 26 Tuckies made their way to India over spring break - a trip that was at once intense in terms of learning while also giving them a taste of the cultural vibrancy that defines India. One of the students, a first year Tuckie from Turkey shared his thoughts on the trip. Read on.
As you start thinking about your business school applications and how to go about what looks like a set of insurmountable tasks, here's some practical advice from Tuck Admissions on what you can do now in order to create that compelling application, come fall.
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/do-this-now-to-submit-a-strong-app-in-the-fall
Admission to Tuck is a very competitive process and there are many applicants who do not make it the first time around, but with grit and determination, they start the process as a reapplicant and taste success. I've myself given feedback to many applicants who want to reapply to Tuck in the coming admissions season. Here are some tips for those who are looking to reapply to Tuck in the next few months.
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-tips-for-reapplicants
When Tuckies are just coming to campus, the first person they run into is Sally Jaeger. When they're ready to graduate, the first person (and the last person) to bid them farewell is Sally Jaeger. And for everything in between - whether the students are stressed out or want to share their happiness or talk about challenging academics, study group dynamics, etc. etc. etc. - the person they reach out to is Sally Jaeger. Indeed, I call Sally, the mother figure for all Tuckies. Her reassuring presence is one of the highlights of the Tuck experience for generations of Tuckies.
Here's an opportunity for you to get to know Sally Jaeger, the Assistant Dean and Director of the MBA Program at Tuck, and hear from her.
The following link will give you details of webinars that were conducted by current Tuck students from Africa, Mexico, and Europe to give a feel for prospective applicants regarding the Tuck community and their overall experience. These details are highly relevant for prospective applicants from Asia in general and India in particular. So listen and learn more about what makes Tuck such a special place from those that are experiencing it as I type!
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/international-student-panels-africa-europe-mexico
There are many Tuckies who pursue joint degrees and I regularly get queries from applicants who are evaluating that option as part of their future plans. Here are some insights on the joint degree experience from a Tuck student who pursued the MBA/MPH program.
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/tuck-mba-mph-joint-degree-david-washer
GST has been the talk of the country this week. It has been the case at Tuck as well. Here's the latest Slaughter & Rees report coauthored by Dean Matt Slaughter that delves into this topic.
Tuck Admissions has been known to be the most transparent among admissions teams across top business schools in the world, and for good reason. We essentially tell you everything we want to see in your essays and application and the execution of those tasks is really up to you. Case in point, here's the latest blog post from Tuck Admissions regarding what we're looking for in our application essays. Read on and make the most of it!
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/an-insiders-guide-to-the-tuck-essays-2017-2018
As the jostling increases and business school application preparation percolates to the top of your to-do list, here's some advice from Tuck Admissions on what round makes the most sense for applying - or does it even matter?
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/which-round-should-i-apply-in
It's the time of the year when MBA applicants are all wondering what they're going to do and how they will prosecute their MBAs. Well, here's some all time great advice from a current Tuckie on exactly how to go about the MBA.
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/mba-advice-from-a-tuck-alumna
As you start exploring business schools and getting to know the programs, here's a few ways in which you can connect with Tuck. Leverage these opportunities and get to know what makes the Tuck MBA so unique among the top MBA programs in the world.
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/blog/4-ways-you-can-connect-with-tuck