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McK Insider? |
| Message Name: |
Frustrated |
| Date Posted: |
09/28/1999 |
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Question-1: I have a Stanford PhD in Engineering (top-ranked
school) with six years of valuable high-tech telcom-industry
experience. Will start an MBA program next year but however, when I finish the MBA I will be about 37 years old. Clearly,this
would make me older than the typical candidate for a McKinsey position. Would this necessarily affect my potential chances of
being hired at McKinsey ? Any insights regarding
age/experienced-hire and/or PhD+MBA combination would be gratefully appreciated, particularly from McK insiders.
Question-2: Still figuring out whether to go the Exec-MBA
weekend route (i.e. Fri/Sat, my Co. would pay but obligated to repay the Co. if depart within 2 yrs of acquiring degree) or to
bite the bullet, drop everything and go thru full-time regular MBA program. There are pros and cons for each option. What I would like to know is - would McK consider hiring someone from an Exec-MBA program (2-yr Exec Progams at Wharton, Columbia, Cornell; 1-yr Sloan-Exec Programs at Stanford and MIT) ? Have they done so in the past ? Or is the MBA hiring focus limited to younger applicants from traditional 2-yr full-time programs ? Again, any insights, opinions and anecdotes,
particularly from McK insiders would be gratefully appreciated. |
| Message: |
The previous question about the Exec. MBA vs the traditional MBA was a very good one and relative to this site. No one has answered it yet. I just do not understand how loads of threads can be developed over bullshxx but no one answers the real questions. It just makes me wonder if anyone responding to this site are real consultants or just a bunch of individuals getting their kicks in talking about nothing. Mckinsider, Brian, etc. do you have an answer or opinion for the MBA question?
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