Hi,

From your description, you seem to have impressive credentials on Professional and Personal front.

Your progress at your job as well as your business is testimony to your potential to understand the nuisances of driving people and achieving results.

As for your GMAT, I think 680 is decent score for your profile as well. You haven't mentioned much about EC's and experiences from school time does dilute the impact a little bit.

Lastly, I wish to emphasis that ISB admit will depend equally on how well you have done till now and what exactly you wish to do in future. While you score well in the former, you need to think well for the latter. Gud Luck !

Best Regards,
Neha Singh
General Education
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GMAT - 740: Work Ex - 9 years: MBA - HEC,Paris (Top European B - School)
Grad - Top 20 College in Asia

Hey Neha,

We appreciate your assistance in helping us evaluate our profiles.

I am applying to ISB this fall. Could you please comment on my chances.

My Profile is:

26 yrs, Male, India

Manufacturing Background
MS Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas (3.3 GPA)
BS Mechanical Engineering, in India (3 GPA)

Professional Experience
2.5 years work experience as Manufacturing & Projects Engineer in a private firm with 135 employees. (3.5 yrs work exp at matriculation)
Selected this company, as I wanted to learn all the aspects of running an industry. I am a big fish in a small pond here.
Directly report to the CEO and advise him on new product development technologies and continuous improvement.
Our company runs thin on resources, so I wear several hats including those of developing new product ideas, product design, continuous improvement, process improvement, product strategy, pricing, etc.

Proposed changes in our operation and convinced supervisors, with 20 years of experience in the same company, to change.
Lots of people management skills.

Made a significant impact on the company's culture for the better. Had a vision when very few believed me and now we are half way there. Hit many brick walls on the way. Everyone is glad we started the journey.
Made a difference to the bottom line to the tune of $350,000 per annum.

Term Goals:
Passionate about the mfg industry. Get a management role in top multinational mfg companies like Ford, Nokia, Caterpillar, Procter & Gamble, GE, etc.
Set up my own industry in the long term.


GMAT: 720

Extracurricular:
Play racquetball tournaments
Into Thai Kickboxing, may have my first fight this year.
Designed and fabricated a washing machine that runs on pedal power, during my undergrad. Won the second prize at the national level.
Like acting and have directed and acted in number of stage plays during my Masters and job.
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ARISE AWAKE AND REST NOT UNTIL THE GOAL IS ACHIEVED

Hi Neha,

Thanks for your efforts!!
I am targetting good B-schools(ISB,NTU,NUS,HEC,Erasmus).
Can you give your valuable comments on my profile?




**PROFILE**
Xth CBSE 78.2%
XIIth CBSE 82.2%
Graduation - B.Tech - Mechanical - NIT(National Institute of Technology)-CPI 7/10
GMAT - To appear in Aug.

*WORK EXPERIENCE - 36 months as on date.
After College i got a job in TCS. I worked there as a key developer in a project on Java Server Faces, this tenure was of 8 Months including 2 Months of Training).

After that i got selected in Tata Motors Ltd for Nano Project.It was Feb 2008 and i got responsibility to Implement SAP(mainly) and CRM-DMS for after sales business.
Since then i have part of implementation team and have implemented 2 Cycles.
My job was to do complete business process mapping and get it implemented in SAP thru our SAP partners.

Currently i am working on 2 major projects which are related to warehousing and Complete Supply Chain Solution for after market sales. Responsibility includes business requirement gathering , its mapping , co-ordination with service providers to get it implemented , go-live and success of Project.

Recently i got an offer from a BIG IT Consultancy firm for a post of SAP Consultant.But considering the fact that IT name would pull me into a different league(as far as profile is considered) altogether i dint join.Currently i am focusing on a good GMAT score.

*CO CURRICULAR
I have taken professional cricket coaching and played at regional level in school.
I am also a NCC A Certificate holder.I have hobby of Doing Mimicry(stand up comedian), won few prizes as well in college.For sometime i have done it professionally as well.In college i was member of organizing committee of Cultural Events and College Gathering.Won Many few prizes in Athletics as well at school and college level.Organized Quiz Contest at TCS in 2007.I have attended Outbound training which includes Rock Climbing.

Recently i have started photography, had donefew workshops.
I have dream to start an NGO which has motto of "Education for all".

Can you Pls tell me what all schools should i aim at(Considering my GMAT score to be inbetween 680-720)

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General Education
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GMAT - 740: Work Ex - 9 years: MBA - HEC,Paris (Top European B - School)
Grad - Top 20 College in Asia

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GMAT - 740: Work Ex - 9 years: MBA - HEC,Paris (Top European B - School)
Grad - Top 20 College in Asia

Hi Gaurank,

GMAT score and undergrad scores are good. International experiences will be a huge plus. Leadership and team experiences while working as software engineer/developer will be crucial in showcasing your ability to lead teams and drive results.

Clearly articulating your goals in the essays and demonstrating how you will be a good fit at ISB will be critical. The co-founder piece is interesting but the challenge will be to demonstrate how you are closely involved in the operations and how those experiences have helped shape your goals.

Regards,
Neha Singh
General Education
http://www.general-ed.com
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GMAT - 740: Work Ex - 9 years: MBA - HEC,Paris (Top European B - School)
Grad - Top 20 College in Asia

Hi,

Strong GMAT score shows ability to work on feedback.

Good work in the community which needs to be highlighted in the essays by clearly what you learnt from the experience and how will it be relevant going forward.

The area that needs most work is demonstrating leadership and team experiences at work where you were able to drive high performance and produce results. Clearly need to distinguish your profile and experiences from the vast IT pool that will apply to ISB. It could be the work or the learning experiences while working on the projects, the description should reflect the fact that you have matured as an individual.

Hope this helps.

Good Luck!

Regards,
Neha Singh
General Education
http://www.general-ed.com
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GMAT - 740: Work Ex - 9 years: MBA - HEC,Paris (Top European B - School)
Grad - Top 20 College in Asia

Qualifications: Bachelor of Techology - Computers from JNTU ( 2004 - 2008 )

Percentage / GPA : - 63.94 %

GMAT Score : Scheduled on OCt 25th. 740 gmat prep 1 -> practice score.

[b]Experience before graduation : From 1999 - 2004

5 years in Family based Organization. Joined as a managment trainee and raised to a level of Director (Possible since its my family own business ). (I do have the company filed tax returns where i am mentioned as one of the director). Joined Family owned Entrepeneurship at an early age due to the then prevailing Family conditions and also as it is a customary among our community to start working from a young age in family based entrepenuership. Worked for 5 years extensively in looking after business operations and came out to pursue my under-graduation.

Experience post graduation : From 2008 to current

Industry : IT Idustry

Current Job Role :

1. Lead in Network and Server Infrastructure.
2. Specialized in R&D along the lines of virtualization and Linux server hardening and implementing efficient and economical solutions based on open-source and cloud for the current organization.

International Experience :

1. During my previous employment Visited client facility (GAP INC Direct) at San Francisco, California for one month on B1 visa. Implemented a successful eficient virtualization platform for client Data Center, thereby increasing the client infrasctructure productivity.

2. During my former employment, worked offshore (India) under direction supervision of client Manager (Snapfish, HP , San Francisco). Worked in the role of a team lead, effectively monitoring a team of 8 people and resonsible for critical client production environment comprising of Blade Servers and SAN products.Also interacted with client manager and few other clients during their multiple visits to offhore facility.Job responsibility includes introducing and bringing together the client manager and offshore manager.I was instrumental in inducing several process changes as required by the client to ensure a conslidated infrasctructure monitoring mechanism with inputs from team members and executing them successfully.

College :

- Various inter/intra college seminar and paper presentations
- Presented a paper ( one among the 35 papers selected from a pool of thousands of research papers) on Antivirus : System level approach at IIT Kanpur and won accloades for the same.
- Chief Event organizer for the National level tech synopsium - A tech fest organized by my college.

I am passionate in Entrepeneurship and aim to do an MBA from an esteemed organization like Indian School of Business as it exposes me to a Corporate Network in form of Alumni , Visiting Faculty from corporate world, current & perespective students. My main idea of doing an MBA is due on few important parameters like Corporate Exposure at management / business heirarchy , Networking of the concerned people, an systematic approach for gaining the knowledge & corporate contacts required for an successful entrepenurship venture.

Based on my detailed profile as briefed above, I intend to know what are my chances of getting selected to ISB , Hyderabad. I am applying for R2 - Intake and currently working on my application and might like to consider an consultant specialized in ISB admissions. Looking for help from all the concerned in evaluating my profile. I am aware that even though I belong to the most competitive IT stream, I can demonstrate the uniqueness and hybrid experience I bring in to the class through my pre and post graduation work experience. I really like to focus on the pre-graduation experience where i acquired an understanding of " Corporate process and Business operations " during my stint in family owned Business for five years.

Also what would be the Gmat score I should be targeting at owing to my profile ?

Thanks,
Hoogly
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Am i worth a Kudo ? Life's around GMAT for the Moment

Hi Neha,
Wanted to get in touch with you as am contemplating doing a 2nd MBA (am from Alliance business school Bangalore ' 06 batch) and ISB in India and IMD & INSEAD Globally are the schools that come to mind (looking at a 1 yr MBA).
Have 9+ yrs of experience mainly in banking and motivation is to enter Consulting (1st pref)/ Global roles in Banking (presently working with Axis Bank as Product Manager - Cash Management).

My queries (you may help with your ISB experience and in case you have knowledge abt INSEAD/ IMD programs, give an insight abt those as well):

(a) What Grade/ band do Consulting firms (Accenture/ A T Kearney/ BCG, etc) take ISB graduates? Do they ensure that someone with say, 11 yrs of experience is suitably placed? This is important, as I don't want to lose out on say 4 - 5 yrs experience on account of my non - Consulting bkgd

(b) Are International roles also offered in Consulting @ISB?

(c) Would like to know your views on the overall ISB experience (course, faculty, placements) and its viability for someone with my experience with a career shift in mind
(I had attended the ISB infosession @ Bangalore and came back with mixed views).

Need to know as there is a significant opportunity cost in pursuing an MBA now; however, am keen to go the whole hog once I am convinced.

Hi,

Need your help to evaluate my profile. I am looking for Indian B-Schools and am also open to explore schools in Asia. Please help. The profile details are as below:
1. GMAT Score - 740 (Q 51, V 39)
2. Total experience - 10+ Years
3. Field of work - IT MNC in India - worked for the same company throughout my career
4. Graduation - B.Tech with 76% from one of the NIT colleges
5. Acads in 10 - 83% / 10+2 - 84%
6. Involved in lot of extra-curricular activities in my job
7. Got the best performer award from employer
8. Involved with recruitments for my company
9. Involved in multiple company wide initiatives
10. Wrote 3-4 whitepapers in reputed forums and online magazines.

Please help evaluate - with the information i have gathered so far, i have in my wish list the following programmes: IIMA PGPX, IIMB EGPG, ISB Hyderabad, INSEAD Singapore.

Please advise.

Thanks,
Asterik