Which career should I choose for MBA?
Hello everybody,
I am in a third year Petroleum Engineering student at a top 8 university in Australia. Having completed my engineering internship, I find that I do enjoy the work of an engineer, if not for the slow progression in rank, and the lethargic atmosphere at the workplace.
At the same time, I really like finance - I use MIT OWCs to learn about the financial market on my own, and I would love to work in a fast pace and demanding environment like IB or management consulting sometimes after graduation.
I reckon it would be easier for me to secure a job as a reservoir engineer in big oil companies - ExxonMobil/Chevron/Shell as compared to as an analyst in MBB/BBIB, because I got good internships in engineering, and am currently the best student in my program. However, MBA students at M7 Bschool rarely come from oil&gas background, so I am quite shaken in this aspect. The fact that most engineer grads need to complete a 3 years induction program to advance to higher level doesn't help either.
So I have 1 year left to do internship, should I apply for positions in IB/MBB or continue doing my internship in Engineering to improve the certainty of getting a job in blue chip oil&gas/mining company after graduation. At the time I graduate, I will be 24 years old, so the time window is quite narrow, especially for HYW MBAs, whose median age is 27 yearsold. Would banking/consulting be better of a career choice than petro engineering?
My stats:
GMAT: 770
LSAT: 174
GPA: High Distinction Average - probably getting first class honor if I don't screw up the final year.
2 internships in 1 oil service company.
Good leadership position/ volunteering experience since year 1.
I am Asian, if that changes anything.
Uhm anyone here?
Plan for a career not just to get into an M7 B School. At the end of the day they are just a means to an end, nothing more or less. You go because you need to (need the network, need to rebrand, need to switch careers). It's impossible to say what the adcom would prefer and the reason that there are fewer O&G people may well be self-selection. I suspect far more MBB people apply than O&G folks largely due to corporate culture, there isn't an up or put in O&G.
how about become a lawyer....u could get into a top school with that 174. Given ur Petro Eng background u could go do law for a big oil company like BP, Exxon, etc. Some lawyers at top schools come out making 150k given ur background u could get into a top program and wouldnt need to wait on work experience like if u do an mba... but all this doesnt matter if it's not what u wanna do... what matters is finding what u wanna do....
Haha I have also thought about this idea before taking the LSAT. But I will have to work for a couple of years anyway to finance my further study. Being a lawyer does have a nice ring to it, but my plan A is still B school first.
Asian are usually oversubscribed, so that only make things tougher. Nice GMAT, but it won't bring you into a top b-school if your other parts of application isn't fulfilled - plenty of high-fly GMATs are rejected from the top tiers annually with not so greatly executed applications.
I say go with whatever you like the most, rock it and then develop relationships for the best rec's you can find.
Yes, thank you. I know that GMAT is just one part of the application, and that adcom of top schools usually look at the whole package, sometimes placing more importance on working experience than on raw data. That is why I am researching about which career will better polish my profile.
HYW? That's a new one.
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