מענה ל־Ask Assaf About Chicago

[Assaf Wand]

#3147

To: dudy

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Hi Dudi,

Firstly, I think there should be no problems with your "lack" of business experience, since the military service is considered business experience, especially since you served there for a long time and currently holds the rank of Major. There are quite a few Full time soldiers in school (check out the armed forces group website ) it is just a matter of transforming your military experiences to the business world format of leading, manging, researching etc'

Secondly, all of the business schools are huge in career changing, hardly anyone is coming to school as X and stays in that profession, Chicago is a great place to place unbranded individuals at the most branded places. The fact that the curriculum is flexible just let you reinforce a specific field you are interested in BEFORE the interviews- for instance if you are into Investment Banking- you can take accounting, M&A accounting, Financial Statement analysis, Investments, Corporate Finance and cases in financial managment before you take marketing, operations etc'- so you WILL BE READY for you interviews.

I believe it is very difficult to find a good VC job post graduation without previous experience in the sector, the Private Equity Lab course in Chicago had helped many students getting placements in VC funds (mostly in the Midwest region)

hope it helps

Assaf