the Board

For every company, the Board of Directors is something that needs to be strong. In a similar way, an applicant needs to have a good Board of Reviewers.
I messed this department a bit. I had thought of a couple of people whom I asked for help to review my essays. However, I had not at all strategized the review process. I recently realised that I was making a mistake by getting my essays reviewed from individuals with the same skill set!
There are quite a few things to be remembered while chosing your reviewers and I thought of getting them out here to make your life a bit easier, if at all.

1. Diversity:
As with everything, even your reviewers need to be from diverse backgrounds. If you are from a banking background, get reviewers from banking, IT, arts etc. The point is that you will get

2. One person who doesnt know you:
Those who know you have already created an opinion about you. This makes the review a bit biased. Get one person who doesnt know you at all; maybe your friend's friend's sister. Get his/her opinion on what he/she feels about you, of course, through the essays. Catch hold of this person for the reviewing process whenever he/she is free since it'll be a lot difficult to follow up

3. The Grammer Man/Woman:
Dont rely on the spell check tool!!! Get a person who you think has good understanding of grammer rules and ask him to just skim through. Shouldn't be taking much of a time for that person to let you know your mistakes

4. Choose reviewers whom you can remind about the review:
Its not at all easy to keep reminding a person whom you hardly know to complete the review of the essays. Make sure you atleast build a rapport with the person who's going to review your essays so that you dont end up getting silly review comments!

Well, for now thats all I can think off... Will update whenever some new ones zoom into my mind...

~ the SAILOR

P.S.: Yes, I am still plugged on to the ipod