I have no full time work experience, will an MBA improve my employment prospects?

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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<p>Currently I hold a BA in Political Science, just graduated last year from a university in the top 100 and I can't find a job anywhere:
- Sales positions won't hire me on a salary system.
- Management positions don't want anything to do with me.
- Government jobs don't accept me, though they never say why.
- Teaching and administrative positions at local community colleges say they found better candidates.
- Local house representatives don't respond to my requests for employment either.</p>

<p>I have some part time work experience in customer service but that doesn't seem to do anything for me. However, my undergrad GPA is 3.5 and if I score well on my GRE I can go to a good business school, such as USC: from what I've been told by USC admissions, UC Irvine admissions, and UC Davis admissions I don't need work experience (its just something they recommend) to get into an MBA program. However, my problem is that I have no "professional" work experience I've never worked full time even, so will an MBA still have any use to me without any "professional work experience or will employers be reluctant to hire me for high end positions even though my degree is from a reputable organization? </p>

<p>Also, seeing as how horrible my current employment prospects are and how useless my current degree is I really doubt I'll be able to get any relevant work experience prior to an MBA, any advice you guys can offer on this would be very welcome.</p>

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<p>Get some work experience first</p>

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<p>Business schools prefer the GMAT over the GRE.</p>

<p>Graduate school for an MBA isn’t about learning new skills to gain better employment. The heart of the programs seems to be its strong networking and the sharing of experiences and learning from them together. If you don’t have any work experience, it will be hard to contribute much to your classes and understand what others are trying to describe. </p>

<p>Sometimes we have to mail out 50+ applications to get a single call. We may need to send out 100+ to make the final round of interviews. Some fields are just really competitive. Don’t give up - search more broadly and creatively with the skills you have learned. Make use of your college’s career center, they usually stay in touch and help alumni.</p>

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<p>All top MBA programs and most midtier MBA programs require a minumum of two years of full time work experience in order to be admitted. Not sure what the USC rep was smoking.</p>

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<p>Look up “Veteran’s Preference”.</p>