The MBA office and the MBA Association at Georgia Southern are all about helping you succeed. Both have been working tirelessly to bring you events that can help prepare you for a better career. Just this week, the MBAA hosted a fundraising event offering anyone who stopped by the RAC lobby a professional head shot for only $25. That is a quarter of the price of what most photographers would charge for the same thing. Our fundraiser was a huge success. We raised just under $300 for the MBAA. Being that it was the first time we had done an event like this, we were extremely happy with the results. However, we did notice that some people were unaware of the importance of a professional head shot.
These days with social media as popular as it is, LinkedIn has become a valuable source for employers to find potential employees. First impressions can make or break your chance of getting an interview. If an employer is trying to decide to offer an interview to you or another candidate and gets on LinkedIn to find a picture of you and your dog and your competition has a nice, professional head shot, more than likely you just lost your chances at an interview. Companies want to see someone who is serious and professional. Someone they can trust to get the job done, not that pet owners aren’t serious and professional, but there is a time and place for everything, and LinkedIn is not the place for pictures with your pets. Most importantly they don’t want to hire you and have goofy pictures of you plastered all over the internet as a representative of their company. Some argue that you can take just as good a picture at home and save money. Sure, you can put on a suit and stand in front of a wall and get your mom to snap a photo, but that’s not going to look as nice. The lighting will be off, the wall will look like a wall, and in the end it just looks cheap. I once heard someone say, “To make money, you have to look like money.” In other words, a business is not going to hire someone who doesn’t take pride in themselves. If you don’t take pride in yourself what are the chances you are going to take pride in your job or their company. Sometimes you have to spend money, and the MBAA made it more affordable for anyone on campus who needed a professional picture.
Another way to advance your career is to get your MBA, and in order to do that you will need to take the GMAT. The GMAT is a standardized test, and it allows us to directly compare applicants. Not everyones course load from undergrad or work experience is the same, and the GMAT helps to level out the playing field for all applicants. The test takes about three and a half hours and costs $250. For these two reasons alone, you don’t want to have to take the test multiple times, although you can.
Once again, the MBA office has come up with a way for you to save money. In this case, it is with a FREE GMAT Prep session. This prep session will be held at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street, in Savannah on March 11th from 5:30-6:30. Akil Bello, the VP of educational development at Bell Curves will present tips on how to prepare for the computer-adaptive test and will also offer test taking strategies. Representatives from the Georgia Southern MBA office will also be present to answer any questions you may have about the Georgia Southern MBA program. Then, on March 12, Mr. Bello will be presenting the FREE GMAT prep session on campus in Statesboro at 5:30 pm in College of Business room 1116. Your future is up to you, but the Georgia Southern MBA office and the MBAA hope to make it a little easier and affordable to achieve your dreams.
Thanks to Frank Fortune and the MBAA members who took the time to help with the Professionally Captured fundraising event. The next MBAA meeting will be Wednesday, March 5th from 5:15- 6:15 pm in room 1104. The meeting will feature Allison Gorman from Career Services. Mrs. Gorman will present information on EQi (Emotional Intelligence). Pizza and drinks will be provided.
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