Hi there,

I understand your questions and I see you need much more knowledge before you can decide about doing a Master in Management and choosing a specific school. Please take a weekend and read carefully my two eBooks, which provide you with this knowledge. This will be your toolbox for making decisions regarding your next educational steps:

(1) eBook "Business Masters: How you find the best Master in Management or MBA"
(2) eBook Survey "The MIM - Entry Requirements for the Master in Management"

You find both guides at www.mim-compass.com/ebooks

Best regards,
Thomas

By Thomas Graf
Owner MIM Compass
Author of the MIM eBook

Hello there, I am really in need of advices upon my career and applications to MiM programmes which are in correlation in my mind.

First of all, I am currently a bachelor's degree student in English Language Teaching and from Turkey. After having done my internships in a teaching position I don't really feel like I would like to pursue a career as a teacher. For the last two years, I have intensely been interested in marketing ( esp. digital marketing) and I had a short-term position as a marketing&communications assistant. I am very devoted to pursue a career in marketing and ascend the ladders to a management position in marketing such as marketing manager, product manager and so forth. Nevertheless, I am very well aware of the fact that my undergraduate degree will be a handicap and I am planning to obtain a formal, good quality education that's why I thought of a MiM degree would be a nice choice and broaden my knowledge and open doors to marketing and management roles in the future.

I know there are many schools accepting students from different backgrounds, not necessarily from bussiness, economics or so on. Nonetheless, I don't really think my undergraduate field would be highly appreciated since it has almost no place in industry. I've already connected a few schools ( IE, BSB ...) and they told me that my undergraduate degree wouldn't be a handicap but any other advice and opinion would be highly appreciated.

My profile is basically as follows;
GPA : 3.68
TOEFL : Haven't taken yet, but I assume I will probably meet the criteria.
GRE : 300+
Experience : I have taken many roles in various industries as summer jobs, internships, short-term assistant roles. The ones that I reckon worth mentioning are :
I had a short term role in a music label as a marketing&communications assistant,
I have been doing my internship in a very reputed International School in Turkey as an English as a second language and literature teacher ( the kids have different mother tongues)

• I also had different roles as a bartender, ( one within Work & Travel programme in America) waitress and so on but I don't see them worth mentioning in a Business School application ( do you think I should ? )

Extracurriculars: I am a vice-president at a school charity club.
I was awarded an "Instrument Talent" in high school.

So my questions are " Do you think that it would be a nice idea to follow MiM degree while specializing in Marketing ?"
" What are my chances to get in a MiM programme at a reputable school?

I am thinking of France, Germany, Holland, and Belgium. The schools I've come up with so far ; HEC, ESCP, Grenoble, SKEMA, EM LYON, Burgundy School of Business, Vlerick, ESMT.
I know some of them are really top schools but I would like to hear your voices about my chances.

I would like to pursue a career in the country which I follow my degree. ( I am already searching the opportunities after finishing the pertinent degree in the mentioned countries)

PS: I had an exchange period last year in Poland and I thought it may matter since I know schools care about international exposure.

Any idea, advice, and voice is welcome!

Thanks in advance !