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10 Reasons Why Soft Skills are Important

10 Reasons Why Soft Skills are Important

Admissions committees know that soft skills are important for business schools, so it's important to show that you have them, especially when applying to top MBA programs. Through your soft skills, the admissions committee can get a sense of who you are and what makes you successful. Here are ten reasons why soft skills are important for your MBA application and, in turn, your career goals:

The Overconfidence Effect

The Overconfidence Effect

Do you suffer from the Overconfidence Effect? Why you systematically overestimate your knowledge and abilities. The overconfidence effect measures the difference between what people really know and what they think they know. Experts suffer even more from the overconfidence effect than laypeople do.

Looking for an MBA Advantage? Consider Round 2

Looking for an MBA Advantage? Consider Round 2

I've been having this conversation a lot lately with individual clients, so I thought I'd take it out wide.

Basically, the idea is that Round 2 might be offering a slight advantage, based on theories of market inefficiencies and so forth.  For years, I would say the prevailing belief is that Round 1 is the best round in which to apply to business and while there is no hard-core evidence to suggest otherwise, some common sense and deduction may point to a different result.  So let's quickly run this down.