What questions should I prepare for interviews?

After going to half a dozen interviews, you will start to realize the questions can't be more predictable. The more typical ones being "why did you choose ___?", "why are you interested in ___ role?" and "how do you add value?". Having these three questions prepared could kill half the interviews, the other half you will have to do some background research on the company itself such as company awards, company CEO, clients profile and global presence.
After studying in the MBA, I found out that graduates more often want to go after the bigger corporates. Obvious reasons are higher pay, better benefits and global reach. Marketing courses in MBA has also taught graduates to focus on the branding of the companies, hence bigger companies are more often preferred for their positioning and strategies for graduate's future career. Despite a very contradicting fact that a lot of the jobs offered are small and medium enterprises.
I found out that as a software engineer worked in a startup in Taiwan for a year, I could easily convince recruiters that I want to try a more diverse working environment and work with the clients more often. Companies often like to hear that their working environment is diverse and dynamic, so speak what they like to hear! They are also looking for a good reason as to why you have switched career, so make sure your story is convincing and a compelling one.

OneDirection

Most people have in mind what to achieve from an MBA program; whether it was to become a manager, switching career path or simply making more money. Regardless the goals, there is a process through achieving them. The most difficult part about achieving those goals is not during the MBA application nor the MBA itself, but the things to come after the MBA program. There are a lot of baits to lure you to your previous position simply because most MBA graduates have prior working experience making finding jobs relatively easy; however, finding the desired job can become much more difficult.
I was working in the software field prior to studying the MBA. Although developing software was something that I enjoyed doing, but I found myself more interested in standing at the front line facing the clients and seeing the software impacting the businesses. Such a goal makes obtaining an MBA degree a very natural step. A lot of the MBA courses are not only about the strategical thinking and business knowledge but also the soft skills that I develop critical to confronting people.
After coming back to the job market, I found out that there are still abundant jobs in software development and are relatively easy to achieve, but the more frontline roles often requiring client facing experiences that I lack. Persisting in one direction is thus a very important goal and do not compromise to the luring job market.

Fresh off the boat

"Fresh off the boat" was a interesting American comedy describing a second generation Chinese living in Florida where they seem to be quite familiar yet sometimes struggle with. As an MBA graduate from a second-tier business school in a bad job market, I seem to have lost my identity as an MBA graduate as well.

MBA was a degree that had gained rapid popularity over the past few decades attributing to its marketing success as well as its payoff ability. Inundated by overqualified individuals, I decided to approach a similar degree to play safe.

"Rare is valuable", just as we were taught in a basics economics class, the price is often decided by the interaction of supply and demand. An attractive degree that attracted demand has caused the abundance of MBA graduates in the market, and the price is not so great any more.

I come from a very diverse background with totally irrelevant experiences and is hot-headedly lured by the figures that MBA graduates make $100,000USD annually. This is in fact not true and mostly dependent on the industry, the skill-set and more importantly the school.

I will take you through the life after this MBA program and we will eventually assess whether or not if this was indeed a "positive NPV investment".