Hi guys,
I am really excited to edit my first post around here
! Could you review my profile, rate my chances and advise me on improvements?
Brief: I am an 26 years old Ivorian (West Africa) with working experience in Audit. Firstly in a big 4 firm for around 15 months then for a banking group (Société générale) as internal auditor covering 3 subsidiaries in West Africa. I have a Master's Degree in business management
cum laude (2012) from a local Business School (with an language immersion trip in UK for 2 months funded by my government).
Exam: GMAT 700 (89%), Q48 (74%) & V38 (83%)
Career goals:
Work in the private equity sector either firstly for a major actor on emerging markets or directly creating my PE fund dedicated for Subsaharan economies.
Desired b-schoolsWharton
Stanford
London Business School
Columbia
Chicago Booth
IESE
IE
HEC
Extra curricular:
Elected member of the board of the Student Union (Business School) 2009-2011
Led a 3 members team to coordinate and implement events for promoting the school towards best high school students (around 1000 students received in 2 events) and professionals (around 200 HR, managers and alumni participated in a gala);
Participated in some community services
Participated in a reconstruction of a class of a ghetto primary school in 2009;
Volunteered for the organization of an event for 150 orphans in 2015
Currently working on rebuilding a primary school library I ran (as a student) in 2000.
Personal CFA Level 1 candidate, June 2015 (a great way to shape my skills for my future career and maybe a boost for my candidacy?)
Interest: Discovering foreign places (visited typical traditional places in 4 countries on 2 continents and traveled to 8 African and 1 European countries); Football Fan (assisted a delightful 2 0 victory of Liverpool FC on Chelsea FC in London), playing football, basketball
NB: I will retake the TOEFL as I got 99 on my last try (almost 2 years ago); I believe however that I can get closer to the 110 score...
Thanks!