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Are Internships considered as work experience [#permalink] New post   18 Jun 2016, 13:20
Is a paid full-time internship in an IB counted as work experience by the US, Canadian & European MBA programs? There are conflicting view when googled online. An answer from a reliable source [someone contacted the adcom during their application or admission consultants] is highly appreciated. I'm targeting Top-20 US MBA programs, HEC Paris, LBS, University of Toronto, Cambridge & INSEAD.

Also, I have gained work experience of 1.5 yrs co-managing my extended family's portfolio worth in excess of 6 figures USD. I'm not counting this as work experience but is it worth mentioning in my resume under work experience?
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Re: Are Internships considered as work experience [#permalink] New post   19 Jun 2016, 05:12
Come on guys, there would be someone out there who has an answer to the question!
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Re: Are Internships considered as work experience [#permalink] New post   19 Jun 2016, 11:19
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Yes, this would be considered work experience and good work experience at that. With regards to the family business this would work in the capacity mentioned, use it in your resume, perhaps not under work experience but in an alternative section but def include it
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Re: Are Internships considered as work experience [#permalink] New post   19 Jun 2016, 13:55
Thanks for your reply, Veritas! Your reply holds a lot of weight there, thanks!

I just had one last q. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm from India - overrepresented region! Based on my observation, I see lots of IT & consulting candidates and very low IB/finance WE candidates from India. So, will it be right to conclude that Indian MBA applicants mostly have WE in IT followed by consulting & finally IB from India? Based on your observation, is the MBA application from India distributed 50-30-15-5 (IT-consulting-IB or Finance-others), 60-20-15-5 (IT-consulting-IB or Finance-others) or more like 40-25-25-10?
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Re: Are Internships considered as work experience [#permalink] New post   20 Jun 2016, 19:57
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I would say from what I see the top two far and away are IT and capital works (construction industry) employees. IT is the far majority followed by capital works. Not sure I can give you percentages but those two are the most popular
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Re: Are Internships considered as work experience [#permalink] New post   21 Jun 2016, 14:28
That is interesting to know that capital works employees are second most common MBA applicants.

Thanks for your reply, Veritas! You have been incredibly helpful here.
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