How marketable will I be with an MBA but not a lot of work experience?
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While an MBA is much stronger than a simple bachelors degree in your area, work experience is almost vital to finding the "right job for you" when you enter the work force.
Without work experience, you may get lucky and land yourself a perfect job, but most employers who are offering a very competitive opporotunity will be drawn to potential employees with backgrounds dealing with people in workplaces similar to their own.
So while you would not have a problem finding a job, you may not be labeled as "competitve" as you are hoping to be until you have a few successful job experiences under your belt.
...but as with all "real world" adventures, nothing is set in stone and you won't really know until you get out and try! You don't lose points for a company turning you down, so go out there and try for as many as you can! Maybe you'll just get lucky.
And after all, if you land a decent job with your first attempt, you then, all of a sudden, will have job experience (and possibly very qualified job experience) after. Then, you will be seen as very competitive in whatever industry or market you choose to enter.
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