Over-Represented Group: Banker

Kathy felt so, well, “standard”. Standard investment banking job. Standard accomplishments. Standard 100-hr weeks building countless mind-numbing scenarios in excel.

Rinse, repeat.

How could she transition from “standard” to “stand-out”?
  • Our solution: Every profile comes with first-glance stereotypes, and our strengths & weaknesses analysis gave her blunt feedback and concrete steps to make to avoid the common mistakes bankers make.

    Our career vision advice helped her resist her initial temptation to write a soul-baring essay about how she had no idea what she wanted out of life and was looking for b-school to answer that (and answer that was fully honest, but also would have made AdComs a little nervous).

    Finally, our brainstorming exercises gave her ideas on things about her that weren’t so standard after all. And our essay break-down gave her ideas on where the heck to start, what to cover (AND WHAT NOT TO COVER) on HBS’s tricky essay.
  • Result: Kathy graduated from Harvard Business School and is pursuing her non-banking career dreams