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Personal MBA Coaching Services for Essay Review, Interview Prep, and More

Need expert guidance to strengthen specific areas of your MBA application? Fortuna Admissions provides personal MBA coaching on an hourly basis to help you focus on specific areas of the MBA admissions process. This could be, for example:

√ Strategic Positioning: Define a compelling narrative for your application
√ Resume Review: Highlight achievements and leadership effectively
√ Recommendation Strategy and Review: Choose and guide recommenders strategically
√ Essay Review(s): Get in-depth feedback to enhance structure, style, and impact
√ Application Form Review(s): Ensure a consistent, powerful message across your application
√ Interview Prep: Practice key responses to make a standout impression
√ Video Prep: Polish presentation for video essays and interviews

We’ll work with you to develop a custom MBA coaching package tailored to your goals, maximizing the value of each session. Our coaching starts with a minimum of 3 hours, and if you book 10 or more hours, you’ll receive a 5% discount on your entire package.*

Whether you need help with one aspect or a comprehensive strategy, we’re here to guide you. Past clients have seen tremendous results, with hundreds admitted to top MBA programs worldwide.

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*Note: Discount applies only for bookings of 10 hours or more in one transaction.

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For a comprehensive approach, our typical hourly option is a 10-hour package tailored to fit your specific goals. Here’s a sample plan and time allocation to give you an idea of how we can structure your MBA coaching:

MBA Strategy Phase: 2.5 Hours

✔ You complete Fortuna’s Strategy Questionnaire Form to provide your coach with full background information about your professional, academic and extra-curricular achievements. The goal is to give your personal MBA coach a complete download of your achievements, setbacks, passions, perspectives, career goals, potential areas requiring explanation in your application and wider areas of personal interest. This deep dive into your profile will help you and your coach develop the strategic positioning of your candidacy.
✔ You and your coach will have a virtual meeting to brainstorm and thrash out the strategic positioning of your candidacy. Your coach will also work with you to determine key messages and a plan of attack for your essays. Your coach will also advise you on mitigating any weaknesses, if relevant, and agree a timeline for your application development.

MBA Recommendation Letter Strategy: 1. 5 Hours

✔ Your coach will advise you on recommender choice and then help you prepare them to write an impactful letter on your behalf. We'll provide you with the guidance and tools on how to develop a ‘recommender briefing document’, providing your recommenders with as much information as possible to ensure an easier and smooth process. Our goal is to make sure that the letters will significantly boost your application, capture the attention of the admissions committee and complement how you are presenting your candidacy in the other elements of your application.
MBA Essay Reviews: 4 Hours

✔ Based on the strategic positioning and brainstormed ideas already established, you’ll receive feedback on your first essay draft; your coach will provide input on content, flow, structure, and style, with clear direction for subsequent rewrites. This iterative process continues (within the time limit) until your essays reflect the best possible presentation of your candidacy and until you are both confident that your essays express clearly what is unique and compelling about your story.

MBA Resume Review: 1 Hour

✔ Your coach will guide you on how to maintain a coherent narrative, and coach you on how to showcase compelling quantifiable examples of skills and levels of responsibility, results achieved, leadership, team building, analytics, persuasiveness, etc.

MBA Application Form Review: 1 Hour

✔ Every word in your application is important and the application form itself is no exception, as it provides the admissions committee with essential information about your background, family history, academic and professional background as well as extra-curriculars. Your coach will scrutinize every detail to ensure that your messaging is consistent and presentation on target.

You may choose to split your MBA coaching payments for bookings of 3 hours or more into interest free monthly installments with our financing partner Splitit. Learn more about financing options.

For the highest impact, learn more about our Comprehensive MBA Packages, Fortuna's most popular services that take you through the entire application process.

*to receive discount, 10 hours must be purchased in one transaction.

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How it works

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During this process, we do a deep dive into your profile and then work with you to develop the strategic positioning of your candidacy. We’ll work together to develop a clear storyline and personal branding, with a plan for mitigating any weaknesses and a timeline for your plan of attack. In this phase we also brainstorm essay approaches and discuss how to best prepare recommenders to write an impactful letter on your behalf.

Strategically Position Your Candidacy
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We help you with targeted b-school research and outreach, through extensive alumni networks, clubs and associations, faculty research and career opportunities, to reinforce familiarity and understanding of the institution – its personality, its people and its ‘fit.’ Throughout the process, we’ll ensure your interactions reflect well on your candidacy, from campus visits to adcom correspondence. Every single “touch point” can affect the final decision.

Conduct School Outreach
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Our in-house MBA resume expert will work with you on your resume to provide a coherent narrative and compelling quantifiable examples of skills and levels of responsibility – results achieved, leadership, team building, analytics, persuasiveness, etc. We also accompany you as you complete the application form, handling any questions about transcripts, resolving ambiguities related to studies and professional experience, and formulating explanations for chronology or absent materials.

Create a Coherent Narrative in CV & Data Forms
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We’ll work with you to identify your best possible choice of recommenders, and then we’ll develop a strategy with you for mobilizing those individuals effectively. This includes developing briefs for them on characteristics and examples to develop, and a step by step plan to ensure timely submissions. This is a critical step that needs careful planning—from selecting the right champions to preparing them to write a powerful letter of support.

Solicit Recommendations
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Throughout this multi-part process, we’ll guide you in producing an initial draft of target school essays that reflect multiple examples of leadership and outstanding achievement from professional, academic and community experience, as well as a clear and detailed post-MBA career vision. You’ll receive feedback on content, flow, structure, amendments and style, with clear direction for subsequent rewrites. This iterative process continues until your essays reflect the best possible presentation of your candidacy.

Craft & Polish Essays
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We review your social media presence for content and strategic insights — from LinkedIn and Facebook to Twitter and other channels — ensuring that everything that reflects on your profile tells a coherent, positive story.

Audit Social Media
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We will perform a final review of your entire application. This includes any remaining modifications, and fine-tuning of essays, as well as verifying status and input from recommenders. We’ll also field any last-minute questions.

Review the Final Application
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We will brief you on how the school with which you are interviewing conducts this part of the assessment process, and how they evaluate your performance. We will advise you on how to prepare, and then put you through your paces in a mock interview, providing feedback and coaching to enhance your delivery and messaging. We’ll walk you through what to expect, the finer points of managing your interview time, appropriate follow-up and how to address your understandably sweaty palms. You will be interview ready – not overly rehearsed – and able to speak with confidence, reflect on past experiences and clearly convey your future potential.

Prepare for Interviews
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Wondering what to do or what not to do? Whether you're choosing between multiple offers or you're a waitlisted candidate, we'll provide smart advice on next steps.

Manage Decision-Making