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Are you ready for your Master’s in Business?
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Wed, Oct 21 2009 | 0 Comments
It seems as though, without a lot of jobs being available, many people are opting to go back to college. Even recent graduates are getting everything together and taking their GMATs and GREs. So, have you come to the decision to go back to school? How about get your MBA?
I have been thinking about it, if nothing else I would like to have the advanced degree to up my chances of getting a higher paying job. I even posted in another post a week or so ago about how getting your MBA really does improve your chances of getting a higher paying job and it’s one of the degrees that pays for itself in a matter of a couple of years.
How do you know if you’re ready for business school? You really have to look at your work experience, success throughout your undergraduate program and your GMAT score. There are plenty of places where you can find test prep for the GMAT, but many colleges are really looking at how much time you spent working and how much experience you have in the “real world” before letting someone into its graduate program.
I’ve found the Princeton Review website to be pretty helpful in finding business schools I would not have otherwise found. It also has a lot of test prep programs and classes. Plus, I really like being able to compare different colleges all at one site. If you’re thinking about getting your MBA, it even has a small, short quiz that relates to some of the information you would have learned in undergraduate school called the 5-Minute MBA Quiz. (It told me I should brush up a bit)
Really, you’re the only person who can decide if you’re ready to take the plunge into graduate school. I have been back and forth with the idea since last January. I suppose after a couple of years “in the real world” I’ll have a better idea of what I want to do.
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Tags: mba, gmat score, graduate program
The million dollar executive who is reduced to delivering pizzas
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Sun, Mar 22 2009 | 0 CommentsI have been on Yahoo a lot over the past two or three days, and if you have been too, or you’ve watched anything on ABC news then you’ve heard this story.
It is simply your riches to rags story. A man goes to UCLA for his MBA, gets married, gets “the job,” gets greedy and thinks he can run his own hedge fund to make more than his current salary of $750,000, he can’t make the amount of money he thought he could. So, to make up for the loss in income, he and his wife put all their expenses on credit cards and don’t pay the mortgage for 2 years.
Now he is working at a pizza restaurant for just over $7.00 an hour.
Here’s the whole story from ABC News:
Save some time and money by shopping at a dollar store.
Tags: abc news, credit cards, riches to rags
What brands will disappear in 2009?
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Sun, Jan 04 2009 | 0 CommentsWith the economy not getting better in the next couple of months, we’ll probably see more brands and stores disappearing.
Last year, Linens-N-Things, KB Toys, Mervyns, Bombay & Co., Aloha airlines, The Sharper Image, all went bankrupt.
This year we could see any of the Big 3 automakers fail. Even with the bailout, they are still in trouble unless they change drastically. They aren’t the only companies that are in trouble, after closing over 100 stores, Circuit City is hanging on by a thread.
These are just big companies and chains. That doesn’t include all the “mom-and-pop” style local shops or even small, regional brands and chains.
Plenty of banks are still in trouble too. This year isn’t expected to be a great year when millions more residential and commercial adjustable rate mortgages reset. While the mortgages may not reset to the outrageous rates they were last year and the year before, hundreds of thousands of people are losing their jobs and won’t be able to afford the extra interest payment.
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Tags: circuit city, jobs, hundreds of thousands
OPEC president wants to cut production by “way more” than 1 million barrels
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Mon, Dec 15 2008 | 0 CommentsOPEC President Chakib Khelil, said that the OPEC meeting this week will likely come to the decision to cut production by “way more” than 1 million barrels.
The reason he gave for such a high cut was that global stock piles are so high.
The cut would combat reduced demand as well as the increase in supplies. He quoted the Saudi Arabian oil minster saying $75 a barrel is a fair price.
Right now, I’m just enjoying being able to fill up my car for less than $20. It helps when everything else is in the toilet to see some good news.
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Tags: mba, stock, oil
The Mumbai terrorist seige has ended
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Fri, Nov 28 2008 | 0 CommentsAfter days of gunfire, grenades, and hostage taking, the terrorist killing spree in Mumbai, India is finally over. Indian commandos killed the last few gunmen that were held up at the Taj Mahal hotel.
Since the attacks started Wednesday night, at least 150 people were killed and many more were injured as more than a dozen terrorists attacked several locations around Mumbai.
The largest amount of casualties were found where the terrorists were holding hostages, at the Taj Mahal hotel, the Oberoi hotel, and the Chabad Lubavitch Jewish center.
The attacks were some of the worst seen by India short of full blown war.
Even though many people will be forever changed by the events that transpired in the last few days, the country as a whole will prevail. Our thoughts and prayers are going out to the families lost in the attacks.
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Tags: hostages, locations, few days
