Leave ‘M.B.A.’ Off Your Business Card

Steven — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:03:16 +0000

You spent allot of time and money getting your M.B.A. so it’s understandable that you want to let everyone know of your achievement - but your Business Card isn’t the right place. “I wouldn’t recommend it to our students,” says Joyce Rothenberg, director of the career management center at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management in Tennessee. “While an important professional degree, it is not like a certification or a license.”

What’s more, listing the M.B.A. can actually work against you, “When we see it, it signals to us that the person might not be running around in highly professional circles,” says Lisa Steele, a director at the Capstone Partnership, an executive-search firm in New York, and an M.B.A. graduate herself. “If you have a strong professional and academic track record, the M.B.A. will speak for itself — no reason to broadcast it to the world.”

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Leave ‘M.B.A.’ Off Your Business Card