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Building Your AI Portfolio & Outside-In Projects
Detailed strategies for engineers, designers, marketers, and data scientists to craft projects showing value aligned with target companies. Includes best practices for packaging and sharing work and an action-oriented assignment.
Personal Statement: Tips on Getting Started
Use the brainstorming prompts in this PDF to start putting pen to paper. There are no bad ideas! This is a time to reflect, think broadly, and be creative.
Training & Scaling: Turning AI into Habit
Learn how to embed AI into daily routines through consistency, peer learning, and visible wins.
No one owes you a referral. Earn it
Learn the biggest networking mistakes and how to build trust with MBB consultants without seeming fake or desperate.
Managing A Job Search - Deck
This guide shows you how to organize your search with targeted lists and track the status of every application, contact, and task.
Personal Capacity and Stretch
Learn how to accurately gauge your workload limits and push for growth without crossing the line into chronic burnout.
How to Land a Place at Oxford or Cambridge Panel
Securing a Master's offer from Oxford or Cambridge is one of the most competitive admissions challenges in the world. With rigorous academic standards, unique interview formats, and a highly selective admissions process, standing out requires more than just strong grades. In this panel, Adam B. and Zuwena V. with Matthew M. as a moderator will share proven strategies for excelling at every stage of the Master's admissions process for these elite schools. You’ll gain insights into building a strong academic profile, writing a compelling personal statement, preparing for subject-specific assessments, and navigating the interview. Whether you’re just beginning your application or fine-tuning your final materials, this session will give you the clarity and confidence you need to maximize your chances of success at these world-class institutions.
Which AI job is the right fit for me?
Reading to understand roles and impact on things like work-life balance, focus time vs. meetings, and more. Includes a research assignment and table laying out different aspects of each job.
AI and Your MBA Application: Do’s and Don’ts for School Research
Thinking about using AI tools to streamline your MBA school research and networking strategy, and want to do so efficiently and ethically? Join me, M, for a practical and candid session designed to help MBA applicants use AI as a powerful tool for uncovering insights, identifying fit, and guiding meaningful outreach, all while staying focused on authenticity and personal reflection. This session will show you how to integrate AI into your research process, without relying on generic outputs or missing key personal connections. Learn how to craft strategic prompts that help you dig deeper into program offerings, find school culture and values that align with your own, and uncover talking points for essays, interviews, and outreach. I’ll share examples of weak vs. strong AI prompts and how to adapt AI outputs into meaningful, human communication.
How to Ace the Wharton TBD (From an Ex-Admissions Fellow)
The Wharton Team-Based Discussion (TBD) is unlike any other MBA interview—a fast-paced, collaborative exercise designed to test how you think, communicate, and lead in a group setting. In this session, Brian B., a Wharton MBA graduate (with honors) and former Admissions Fellow who helped run Wharton’s TBDs, will share insider insight into what the admissions team is really looking for. Having coached dozens of MBA candidates, Brian will walk you through how to prepare effectively, contribute with confidence, and stand out as both a strong teammate and leader.
AI Readiness & Responsible Adoption
Learn how to assess readiness across people, data, and leadership and build responsible adoption plans.
Double Your Learnings from Each Case
If you're not reviewing your cases, you're losing out on half of your learning! Use these tips to get the most out of mock case interviews.
How to Nail Your Med School Interview
A top medical school coach reveals the frameworks, tips, and mistakes to avoid to get accepted on the first try.
Responsible AI Frameworks and Laws at a Glance
Review major frameworks and regulations shaping responsible AI practices.
Understanding AI Compensation Data 2025
Provides updated, accurate AI salary ranges across roles such as AI researcher, MLE, and FDE, based on Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, and recent industry reports including the NYT's superstar compensation story. Includes assignment to benchmark target roles against market pay.
Wharton TBD Example Pitch 2 - 2024
This is an example of a successful Wharton TBD pitch from 2024
Tips & Tricks for Applying & Interviewing for the CoS Role
Landing a Chief of Staff role takes more than luck—it requires a clear strategy for how you present yourself, connect with the right people, and stand out in interviews. In this session, experienced Chief of Staff and hiring expert Sivan R. will break down the process into three actionable parts: Tailoring the Resume – How to position your transferable skills, highlight impact, and use the key words hiring managers are looking for. Elevating the Outreach – How to identify the right people to get you in the door, craft effective messages, and build meaningful connections. Mastering the Interview – How to prepare with confidence, anticipate common Chief of Staff interview themes, and tell your story with clarity. By the end, you’ll have a clear playbook for navigating the Chief of Staff application process from start to finish—equipped with practical tips you can put into action right away.
S&T Recruiting Timeline
Don't miss the deadline. Get the critical month-by-month breakdown of when to apply for internships and full-time S&T roles.
Responsible AI Principles
Review five key principles that ensure AI supports people rather than replaces them.
Stop blasting copy-paste emails
Focus on a few meaningful contacts instead of hundreds. Learn to personalize your messages, ask good questions, and follow up to actually get interviews.
