7 ways: How Linkedin profile Boosts Up the shortlisting chances of Your MBA Application? 👩🎓👨🎓
Ignoring LinkedIn Profile Might be Your Biggest Mistakes as MBA applicant of this year (2020-21)
Applying for an MBA to a top-rated B-School? All the best. 👍
But have you created or updated your LinkedIn profile? If ‘yes’, you are 5 steps ahead. ⏩
But, if by any chance the answer is ‘No,’ you are 10 steps back from your competitors 🔙.
Guys, it’s 2020. Ignoring LinkedIn profiles at this time would be the biggest mistake for your career.
Moreover, This year due to the COVID-19 pandemic few of the MBA entrance examinations got postponed. So, AICT instructed the B-Schools to take admission on merit basis.
So, this year, online professional profiles are going to be the biggest demand in the field of MBA candidate shortlisting.
Working professionals do have their LinkedIn profiles. But I am talking about freshers candidates. Most of them ignore the Linkedin profile, thinking what should they include in LinkedIn as you don’t have any work experience and are not employed/self-employed yet!!!
LinkedIn is not only for working professionals. Forget those days. Now it has become the most useful social media platform for your career. It offers you a promising change for your personal branding and without self-branding can’t even enter into the 2020 job market.
1.LinkedIn is the first step of your online presence in the global professional world.
Online presence is a must nowadays. A very common question from MBA candidates is ‘Do MBA applications look at LinkedIn?’ The answer is ‘Yes.’
While you apply for a top-rated business school, the first thing the recruiters do: type your name on Google. They want to check your background and professional profile.
Yes, it’s true. Although you provide your PDF resume with your application, the next step is your social profile verification. Recruiters want to know about your interest, passion, and type of social existence.
See, if any of the recruiters search for my name, what Google shows. The search result will list your twitter, Facebook, and other social media profiles too. But those are not as much as professionals like LinkedIn.
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Do you want to get a low professionalism score at first impression by ignoring such a generous opportunity to impress the person holding your application in hand ?? Even this might be a cause of your application getting rejected.
2.You Can Connect to Alumnus and Faculties of Your Shortlisted B-Schools.
LinkedIn contains official pages of Business schools and the personal profiles of those school’s alumni and faculties. You can connect to them. This will help you gather more reliable information and updates about those schools. Even you can ask for the learning environment, cultures, exam preparation, campusing, real placement rate, MBA college rankings, and so on.
Apart from that, following your targeted and top business school pages will help you get instant notification about their upcoming events, opportunities, etc. Moreover, you will get an ‘easy apply’ option to most of the business colleges on their LinkedIn page.
3.LinkedIn Might Be The Supplement of Your Low Scored Resume
Guys, don’t take it wrong. But it’s a hard truth. At the beginning of the career, most of us make several mistakes in our resumes. As a result, those cannot impress the recruiters.
The same thing can happen with your MBA application. But yes, as I told, everyone searches for your online presence, so an updated and impressive LinkedIn profile can save you from getting rejected.
LinkedIn offers you the scopes of expressing yourself and your dream, passion in detail. Focusing on the summary section, detailed education, and any kind of volunteer or other professional experiences, you can easily impress the recruiter of B-schools. 😃
An engaging profile intro can do real magic even at the last moment.
4.Visual Impression Matters a Lot- It’s Psychologically Proved
While PDF resumes hold a very limited scope of visual impression, Linkedin offers you the same with no limitation.
Add a header photo, highlighting your best achievement or attributes. Even you can add a photo of your dream business school along with a suitable quote that expresses your passion.
To ease your understanding, I have added a snapshot of my Linkedin profile photo header section.
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| Linkedin Profile of my Profile |
5. Showcase your featured work to give additional value to your MBA application.
Your PDF resume can’t visually show your featured work other than listing them. Here you can go one step ahead with your Linkedin profile. Add snippets, links, and even an online portfolio.
Maybe you are not good at expressing through words or listing your featured work, but your work is too impressive.
Don’t be shy. Showcase them. I have already mentioned, in, 21st century whenever you want to grow you need self-branding. No matter if it’s a job application or your MBA application. Do impressive self-branding to get selected.
You can utilize the LinkedIn learning feature. Learning and earning additional certificates in relevant skills will help your application to stand out from the crowd.
6. Post stories about your hard work, passion to earn an MBA degree or any professional experience.
If possible, tell your own story, how much have you worked hard work, how much is your passion to do MBA, what inspired you.
These kinds of things impress recruiters. In 95% of cases, you have to face these questions in the interview process. Maybe you have an inspiring and impressive story but might not get selected for an interview. So utilize the Linkedin platform to impress the interviewer or recruiter in advance.
7. Mistakes you have to avoid in LinkedIn profile to strengthen your MBA Application
But yes, keep in mind that it’s a professional platform and to boost up your MBA application you should not make the following mistakes.
Using informational profile photos (wearing sunglasses, party outfit, or odd-looking attire, background).
Chatting randomly with your connection on casual topics.
Irritate them by unnecessary pining to seek their attention.
Making vague and meaningless comments on your connection’s post.
Posting any of your unprofessional updates (don’t forget, it’s not Facebook).
Keeping an incomplete profile (without educational details, contacts, or experience or certification.
Posting false stories. You are not marketing any product or service. You are doing self-branding to boost up your application. So everything you will tell or post you might have to clarify during the interview.
Making racial or controversial comments/ opinions.
It might be possible that you might have more queries, better ideas, or disagree with any of my points. Feel free to comment.
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