The MBA Slingshot for Women
Using Business School to Catapult Your Career
- 168 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A recognized expert in diversity and founder of DiversityMBAPrep.com illustrates how women in an MBA program can leverage the graduate school experience to catapult their professional careers. Despite the fact that women have been in the workforce for decades and in top graduate schools for years, they represent only 15 percent of corporate boards and a paltry 3 percent of CEO positions. Is it that female executives run into professional roadblocks, or do they underestimate their own abilities to succeed in a business leadership environment? Accomplished author and speaker Nicole Lindsay explores this subject in great detail, providing a gender-based roadmap for developing the knowledge, skills, and relationships to succeed in business school and beyond. Organized into four main themes, this powerful handbook provides a systematic approach, or "slingshot, " for harnessing the business school experience to accelerate professional success. Topics covered include utilizing the social networking aspects of graduate school to pave the way for successful careers; preparing for the issues facing female students as they advance in their careers; developing a new approach to relationship management by leveraging personal connections to get ahead; and creating a consistent, powerful, personal brand.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Trash Collector: The Power of the MBA
- 2. Ready, Aim, Fire: The MBA Slingshot Approach
- 3. Ego: Discerning Your True Self
- 4. Aspirations: More Than an Awesome Job
- 5. Brawn in Your Brand: Creating a Consistent, Powerful Personal Brand
- 6. Never Too Early: The Slingshot Starts in the Classroom
- 7. Career Exploration: Investigate or Concentrate?
- 8. More Than Résumé Bullets: Leveraging Club Activities
- 9. B-School Life: Building a Sense of Community
- 10. So You Say You Are an MBA? Developing the Knowledge and Expertise to Lead
- 11. Take Shots on the Practice Range: Developing Skills and Experience for the Real World
- 12. Human Catapult: Managing Relationships to Propel You toward Your Goals
- 13. Ladies Who Launch: Building an All-Girls Network
- 14. Manhandle: Locking Up Mr. Right, 2.5 Kids, and Fido
- 15. Catapulted: Putting It All Together
- Notes
- Suggested Resources
- Index