by Rajan Singh | Oct 20, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
On day 1 of my last job with a private equity fund, I wanted to know whether they worked late nights routinely or followed reasonable work hours. But how could I ask? In prestigious post-MBA jobs like consulting, banking, and investing, talking about work hours is a...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 17, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
I am afraid you will become a victim. Not a victim of some scam, but of all the well-intentioned advice, frameworks, and exhortations you will find on LinkedIn, blogs, podcasts, and videos (some of it coming from me 😊). The problem is not that the advice is all bad,...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 16, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
When writing my Wharton MBA application, I was working right until the 2:30 am deadline. I was frantically working on my application essays in a Word document, saving the edits every few minutes. But in a last-minute panic, I mistakenly overwrote a recent version of...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 15, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
Today during my morning run, I crossed a guy walking his dog (a sweet-looking labrador). But sadly, the dog was so overweight that even at a very slow pace, it was struggling to keep up — the owner had to keep pulling the leash to drag him along. Who would have...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 14, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
During a consulting project at McKinsey, every Monday morning, I had to drive 2-3 hours from New Jersey to the client’s office in Connecticut. One Sunday evening, when I went to bed, I barely had 6 hours left before my wake-up time. So I tried hard to fall...
