Hello all & thanks in advance for your help!
I am looking to apply to a mid to top tier school (Notre Dame, Emory, NYU, etc.). Undergraduate accounting major with GPA of 3.8 from AACSB accredited school. I have 3 yrs of work experience in audit at a B4 and most recently transferred out of audit and into the Transaction Support (read: M&A financial due diligence) service live. My GMAT goal is 720.
My question comes regarding work experience -- I am at the 3 yr point where B4 employees realize we can be getting paid MUCH more money if we leave the B4 world. I have gone on several interviews but am wary to take a new job because I'm not sure if this would look more or less desirable on my MBA admissions resume.
I have received mixed reviews on this -- some have responded that having a current position at a B4 looks very good on a resume; others have responded that B4 really isn't that impressive in the eyes of top tier schools and the schools would prefer to see you move from the B4 environment to a more challenging one. It is worth it to note that the jobs I am looking to move into are NOT the typical B4 moves, such as internal auditing positions. The purpose of me pursuing an MBA is to get out of the accounting world so any job I take will have to have some sort of finance, financial planning, or analyst aspect to it.
So - what do you think? Would making a move help or hurt my resume?
Thanks again for your help! Really appreciate it!
I am looking to apply to a mid to top tier school (Notre Dame, Emory, NYU, etc.). Undergraduate accounting major with GPA of 3.8 from AACSB accredited school. I have 3 yrs of work experience in audit at a B4 and most recently transferred out of audit and into the Transaction Support (read: M&A financial due diligence) service live. My GMAT goal is 720.
My question comes regarding work experience -- I am at the 3 yr point where B4 employees realize we can be getting paid MUCH more money if we leave the B4 world. I have gone on several interviews but am wary to take a new job because I'm not sure if this would look more or less desirable on my MBA admissions resume.
I have received mixed reviews on this -- some have responded that having a current position at a B4 looks very good on a resume; others have responded that B4 really isn't that impressive in the eyes of top tier schools and the schools would prefer to see you move from the B4 environment to a more challenging one. It is worth it to note that the jobs I am looking to move into are NOT the typical B4 moves, such as internal auditing positions. The purpose of me pursuing an MBA is to get out of the accounting world so any job I take will have to have some sort of finance, financial planning, or analyst aspect to it.
So - what do you think? Would making a move help or hurt my resume?
Thanks again for your help! Really appreciate it!
