{"id":373,"date":"2009-10-19T16:18:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T21:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangmat.com\/blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2019-09-05T16:25:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:25:59","slug":"mba-employers-using-the-gmat-to-screen-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/blog\/mba-employers-using-the-gmat-to-screen-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA Employers using the GMAT to Screen Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek just posted an <a title=\"BusinessWeek Article on Employers using GMAT\" href=\"\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bschools\/content\/oct2009\/bs20091019_412671.htm?campaign_id=rss_null\" target=\"_blank\">article <\/a>that talks about a trend among employers using GMAT Scores as a proxy for ability, sometimes to determine which candidates to interview.\u00a0 The article even includes accounts of Business School administrators and professors advising MBA students to re-take the GMAT (after they&#8217;ve already begun attending Business School!) in order to burnish their credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew?\u00a0 Apparently, your GMAT score sticks with you and may matter even after you get your admissions letter.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good reason to do as well as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The above also suggests that students and others in the job market may be well-served to take the GMAT to be able to stand out to potential employers.\u00a0 E.g. if you&#8217;re a senior in college and get a 750, that score on your resume might catch a company&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek just posted an article that talks about a trend among employers using GMAT Scores as a proxy for ability, sometimes to determine which candidates to interview.\u00a0 The article even includes accounts of Business School administrators and professors advising MBA students to re-take the GMAT (after they&#8217;ve already begun attending Business School!) in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17958,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/17958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}