I have worked as a Strategic Financial Business Consultant for the United States peace corps for the past 3 years within the republic of Moldova, and before that I owned a car dealership in Oklahoma. However, while in Moldova I worked with local industry and agricultural leaders, to strengthen their core businesses, helped them enter new growth areas, and enable them to divest from underperforming businesses. Moreover, all the work was conducted in both the local languages of Romanian and Russian. Now, I am currently an MBA student at the Bradford school of management, and would like to go into strategy consulting with either a medium size or small boutique firm that specializes in the eastern European emerging markets. My questions are as follows:1. Being as though all my consulting experience was obtained within a government organization, how will that effect my ability to enter a Quality strategy firm?2. Will the fact that I do not have corporate experience be a death sentence, and how can I get around this issue?3. How powerful, or how much weight do you think that the Bradford MBA carry with consulting recruiters? 4. How do I determine what firm target the Eastern European emerging markets?I look forward to hearing any and all of your thought on these matter; however, if anyone has very specific advice please feel free to email me personally at raidersirwinston@yahoo.com Best regards,Jerry

Hi Jerry,I will be starting my MBA at bradford in sept 2006. Wanted to know more abt the univ...and its recognition in the market....Please let me know if u have received any replies to ur queries.....Thanks.

Viola I am not sure where to begin when explaining the MBA experience here at Bradford. Let me start by saying that the educational system here is second to none and I would very much argue that LBS is the only other school in the UK that is hands down better. That means that I honestly believe and feel that Bradford can be compared to the Manchester’s, Oxford’s and Cambridge’s of the world when it comes to the fundamentals. However, where these others school win hands down in with their career services and on campus recruiting, this is not because of Bradford’s name in the market place but more to do with the fact that they just do not have a normal careers service center at all! I personally feel that this one key area is the only real problem that they have from obtaining a top 20-30 FT ranking. Therefore, if you don’t have a problem with doing your own career search with extremely little help then Bradford is a wonderful school, but on the other hand if this is a worry for you then you may want to have a second thought.If you are still doing the Bradford MBA and would like to save money on your books then please contact me and I think we can make a deal on the books you’ll need for HELL semester.Let me know what you thinkJerry