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An Update From Venture for America: The 2013 Application Deadline Is Near

Tom Williams —  February 7, 2013 — 1 Comment

venture for americaWe’re excited to share an update from our former President, Andrew Yang, who left us to found the Venture for America fellowship program. Venture for America Fellows, once selected, work for 2 years in a start-up or growth company in a U.S. city with the goal that they go on to become entrepreneurs. Each class receives $100,000 in seed funding at the conclusion of the 2 years. VFA supporters and board members include Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, and David Lee of SV Angel among many others.

Over the past two years we’ve had Andrew introduce Venture for America, we shared the Time Magazine story about VFA, and we announced their latest Summer Celebration. We even shared that time that Andrew met President Obama!

Now we want to let you know that the application deadline for the 2013 fellowship is rapidly approaching! You can apply here.

Here’s the update from Andrew and Venture for America:

VENTURE FOR AMERICA , FINAL APPLICATION DEADLINE APPROACHING! 

Venture for America  sends young, talented graduates to work for startups in emerging cities (ie. Cincinnati, Detroit, New Orleans, Providence, Las Vegas, Baltimore, etc.), with the goal of mobilizing them as entrepreneurs moving forward.

VFA’s mission is threefold:

To revitalize American cities and communities through entrepreneurship. 

To enable our best and brightest to create new opportunities for themselves and others.

To restore the culture of achievement to include value-creation, risk and reward, and the common good. 

VFA recruits the best and brightest recent college graduates, provides them with training and mentorship, and places them at partner startups to help grow those organizations. This is an opportunity for students who want to learn how to build companies.

The 2013 Venture for America Fellowship consists of the following components:

· Training – a 5-week crash course in startup readiness, held at Brown University in Summer 2013

· Company Placement – 2 years of work at a start-up or early stage company

· Programming and Capstone – Regular assignments, readings, and meetings, including a $100k prize at the conclusion of the program

The final deadline to apply for the 2013 fellowship is February 18th. To learn more, visit www.ventureforamerica.org or email lauren@ventureforamerica.org today!

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Social Venture Scholars Program

Tom Williams —  January 22, 2013 — Leave a comment

Manhattan Prep is offering special full tuition scholarships for up to 16 individuals per year (4 per quarter) who will be selected as part of Manhattan GMAT’s Social Venture Scholars program. This program provides the selected scholars with free admission into one of Manhattan GMAT’s live online Complete Courses (a $1290 value).

These competitive scholarships are offered to individuals who (1) currently work full-time in an organization that promotes positive social change, (2) plan to use their MBA to work in a public, not-for-profit, or other venture with a social-change oriented mission, and (3) demonstrate clear financial need. The Social Venture Scholars will all enroll in a special online preparation course taught by two of Manhattan GMAT’s expert instructors within one year of winning the scholarship.

Details about the SVS program and how you can apply can be found here.

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Manhattan Prep Holiday Drives

Tom Williams —  January 1, 2013 — Leave a comment

manhattan prep holiday driveIn December, Manhattan Prep took part in three separate holiday drives. We collected non-perishable food to be donated to New York’s City Harvest with a goal of collecting a minimum of 100 pounds of food items and/or the estimated equivalent in monetary donations. We also collected children’s toys to be donated to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation with a  goal of collecting a minimum of 50 new toys to be distributed to needy children in NYC. Finally, we collected warm clothing to be donated to the  New York Cares Coat Drive. We aimed to collect as many new or gently used coats as possible to be distributed to those affected by Hurricane Sandy in Staten Island, the Rockaways and other hard hit areas. After a month of collections, we surpassed the goals for both our food and toy drives in addition to collecting over a dozen coats for those in need. Furthermore, our sister company mbaMission, graciously matched our food donation to City Harvest with an additional $250 donation. Thank you to all of our staff, instructors and students who participated!

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Work for Manhattan GMAT!

Tom Williams —  September 20, 2012 — 6 Comments


Marketing Associate Job Description

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU 

Manhattan Prep is a high-end test prep company serving college students and young professionals studying for the GMAT (business school), LSAT (law school), and GRE (Master’s & PhD programs).

Our organization is entrepreneurial, growth-oriented, and energetic. Our people genuinely enjoy what they do and take pride in it.  If you seek a challenging, exciting, and creative marketing role — while working with talented and passionate people — this might be the position for you.

We are seeking a part-time Marketing Associate to work within our college marketing group.

 

JOB DESCRIPTION 

Work closely with the College Marketing Manager to create and develop both marketing strategies, to drive brand awareness on top U.S. college campuses.

Marketing

  • Development of key messages for all audiences to communicate our core brand identity.
  • Assist in providing monthly reporting to senior executives.
  • Develop media packs and giveaways for campus outreach.
  • Provides liaison support between the company and on-campus interns.

Business Development

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with campus administrators.
  • Research editorial opportunities and assist in building relationships with key industry media.
  • Assists in the development of promotional strategies and product development.
  • Participate in recruitment of remote College Marketing Interns

Communications

  • Develop promotional materials including marketing collateral and print copies.
  • Write press releases, company newsletters, copy for marketing materials, brochures, web content, advertisements, and other related material.
  • Update company news and headlines on the college intern intranet site.
  • Translation of materials into other media.

 

RELATIONSHIPS AND ROLES 

  • Demonstrate ability to interact and coordinate with all company employees.
  • Build trust, value others, communicate effectively, drive execution, foster innovation, focus on the students’ needs, collaborate with others, solve problems creatively and proactively, and demonstrate high integrity.

 

REQUIREMENTS

 Work Related

  • Able to quickly develop expert knowledge of the product (GMAT, LSAT, and GRE).
  • Able to understand the demands, needs, satisfaction, etc., of the consumers.
  • Strong ability to understand customer and market dynamics, requirements, and needs.
  • 2 years of marketing experience preferred.

Communication

  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Very, very strong writing skills (will need to submit writing sample).
  • Personal.
  • Self-confident, motivated, initiative, challenger.
  • Strong at time management.
  • Creative. Energetic.

Academic Qualifications

  • Experience with acting as a campus marketing intern for a high-end brand is preferred.
  • A background in leading a major college student organization (club officer) is preferred.

If you’re interested in applying, you can do so here.

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In India? You Can Now Buy Our eBooks On The Kindle!

Tom Williams —  September 7, 2012 — 10 Comments

manhattan gmat ebooksExciting news for Indian students. Amazon.com has finally launched their India Kindle Store. Why is this good news? Because you can now purchase our acclaimed ebooks in India for your Kindle!

Here is a CNET article about the India Kindle Store launch. Here is our bookstore on Amazon.com.

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Head’s up! We’re going to be at the QS World MBA Tour Event on 9/15 in NYC.

Tom Williams —  September 4, 2012 — 4 Comments

manhattan gmat qs world mba tourHere is some exciting event news we wanted to pass along to you. We’re going to be participating in the QS World MBA Tour in New York on 9/15/12. We’re also going to be conducting a special seminar called ‘Breaking 700: Strategies for the New GMAT’. Want to learn more? Check out the event on the QS World MBA Tour website.

Here is a blurb from the event page:

The QS World MBA Tour is known across the globe for its high quality MBA information fairs. With 21 fairs across North America this fall, New York City will be host to the biggest event. Taking place at the Hilton New York from 1-6pm, the fair will feature seminars and panels with Ivy League institutions, including Columbia, Wharton, Harvard and a fair with over 150 of the world’s top local and international business school. For the first time, Manhattan GMAT is hosting a special seminar that should not be missed. From 2-2:40pm, learn from the GMAT prep experts and come to a seminar titled ‘Breaking 700: Strategies for the New GMAT.’ If you’re interested in speaking face to face with admissions directors, obtaining application tips, gaining access to $1.2M in exclusive MBA scholarships and specialized GMAT seminars, this is the event for you. For more information and to register, click here: http://bit.ly/MOUQ5n.

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Penny Wars!

Tom Williams —  August 3, 2012 — 6 Comments

manhattan gmat penny warsLast month, Manhattan Prep created a Penny War Challenge in order to raise money for UNICEF, an organization dedicated to child survival and well being. Staff members and instructors were divided into departmental teams, assigned corresponding team jars and provided the following rules: 1) Pennies count for +1 point, 2) All silver coins and dollars count as negative points based on their face value (example: $1 = -100pts), and 3) The team with the most points wins!

The competition jumped off to a frenzied start with teams strategically putting loose silver change in rival department’s jars. The activity heightened as employees began to bring in their saved pennies from home, slowly growing their team totals. After four weeks of displaying tallied team totals to help spur the competition, we entered the final countdown! Kim Moy, a member of the winning HR/Tech department team exclaimed, “It was coming down to the wire with departments neck and neck. The underdogs darted to the finish line, while we battled it out on the penny field! It was a close call, but we all came out winners in the name of charity.”

Thanks in part to both our dedicated employees as well as our company’s matching gift program, we raised a grand total of $616.74! Oh, what a difference a little friendly competition can make!

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Manhattan GMAT + New York Cares

Tom Williams —  June 27, 2012 — 12 Comments

Last month, a few Manhattan Preppers headed to Brooklyn to partake in our second New York Cares Day.  In the spring, New York Cares Day aims to clean up city parks, gardens and public spaces all around the five boroughs. This year, there was a special focus on the city’s waterfront, and volunteers set out to restore 10 miles of coastlines to make the areas more sustainable for plant and animal life and more accessible for city residents.

Manhattan GMAT and New York Cares

We were assigned to paint a mural at the Jersey Barriers near Cobble Hill – someone must have heard we have a great artist on our team (shout out to Jon S!). Leading up to the event, the rest of us were crossing our fingers that it would be a “paint by numbers” mural, and we were definitely relieved to find out that we would be utilizing stencils. After given a brief tutorial on the vision of the mural, we set out to paint the barriers to resemble a lush forest landscape.  It was awesome to work beside other great companies, such as ZocDoc, who also sent out a team of volunteers. There were even a few passers-by, out on their morning run, who stopped to help with the community project! By the end of the day, we had made a few new friends and also left our artistic touch on a part of Brooklyn.

New York Cares Day has become one of our favorite volunteering activities in the office, and we are looking forward to another New York Cares Day this fall! For more information on New York Cares, you can visit their website at newyorkcares.org.

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