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vivek6199
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25 Sep 2017, 01:49
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Hi Experts,
Could you please review my profile and give some feedback on my goals.
Brief: A 27 years old Indian Male with 5.5 years of work experience.
3 years of work exp in IT and around 2.5 years in Non profit
PS: My profile is not competitive enough to apply to traditional Non profit bschools such as Yale, Tuck or Kellogg.
Thanks!
Could you please review my profile and give some feedback on my goals.
Brief: A 27 years old Indian Male with 5.5 years of work experience.
Academics
- Took the test a year ago and scored 680. Retaking soon and expecting a score of 710-730.
- GPA: 6.4 on a scale of 10 from a Top 20 school in India.
- Took MBAMath online course.
Work experience (Reverse chronological order)
3 years of work exp in IT and around 2.5 years in Non profit
- April 2016- Current Worked in large size company's CSR team to develop yearly strategic plan for four charter schools & also on Cleanliness camaign. One promotion
- April 2013- April 2016 Worked at a Fortune 200 IT firm in a Business Analyst role with 2 promotions.
- May 2012- April 2013 Worked in the educational reform sector of a mid size firm. Worked with six charter schools to train over 90 children.
Extra curricular
- Worked as the Student Head of the CSR wing of the IT firm.
- Captained & mentored State-level chess teams for seven years.
- Supported the charter schools with lessons on how to boost calculation speeds and other extra curricular activities.
- Conducted over 15 large scale chess tournaments for over 400 school children.
- Played the game in lots of exhibitions and seminars for a noble cause.
- Worked as a chess coach ( both at an online platform and offline at few low income schools)
- Participated in lots of community services especially in the last 1.5 years.
Desired b-schools
- Rotman
- Georgia Tech (Scheller)
- Texas (McCombs)
- UNC Flager
- BU Questrom
- UBC Sauder
- McGill
Career goals
- PLAN A: Join either the social sector leg of a consulting firms or the educational reform firms such as Education Pioneers, Bridgespan Group or other Ed-Tech start-ups.
- PLAN B: IT consultant in PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, IBM Global Services or Accenture to serve clients in banking and financial services and information technology industry segments.
Questions
- Please suggest some schools (below Top20) where I would be a good fit.
- After speaking to students/Adcoms from most of the schools I found that there are hardly any opportunities in the Non profit sector. I feel that the Adcoms will consider my post MBA employability as a hurdle and this might reduce my chances of an admit. Thus, I am confused whether I should make my Plan A as IT consultant and Plan B to enter the Social sector wing to make myself more employable. Please let me know if my understanding is correct.
PS: My profile is not competitive enough to apply to traditional Non profit bschools such as Yale, Tuck or Kellogg.
Thanks!
26 Sep 2017, 15:12
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Hi Vivek,
Thank you very much for your note. As always, if you'd like to cover anything in greater detail and with more nuance, please feel free to sign up for a Free Consultation via the link below.
Regarding career (your second question), I generally like the coherence between your prior experience and what you're thinking about for the future. You have credible experience in both education / social sector and business / IT roles, including promotions. Your experience includes a couple of moves within a five-year timeframe, but the moves are synergistic with your career goals, and I actually think they create a strong platform for your story (in the sense that you will draw from both experiences -- plus the MBA -- to pursue your goals).
With that in mind, I prefer the social sector consulting or education and social-sector career path for you. You have a unique and relevant combination of experience that positions well with this path, and you can continue to research the jobs and opportunities that are out there (as you've done) to put more substance to the viability of this path. I believe this is a more differentiated path for you (as opposed to the more mundane IT consulting option... plus... why an MBA for *IT* consulting?). And again, you should be sure to highlight how your prior experiences from both "categories" of work -- plus the particulars of a given MBA program -- will all come together to uniquely prepare you to pursue and succeed toward this short-term goal. (Don't forget to develop a specific, coherent long-term goal too!)
Regarding schools, you might do a little more research into Georgetown (McDonough), Indiana (Kelley), Vanderbilt (Owen), Washington (Foster), Notre Dame (Mendoza), Boston College (Carroll), and Boston University (Questrom). It would be helpful if your GMAT score improves with your next take. And if it does improve significantly, then don't be shy about considering a "dream/reach program" as part of your school strategy, provided you have the capacity to include it and would still be able to produce quality applications for all schools.
Please feel free to reach out with any questions, and please feel free to sign up for a Free Consultation (below) if you'd like to chat!
Kind Regards,
Greg
Thank you very much for your note. As always, if you'd like to cover anything in greater detail and with more nuance, please feel free to sign up for a Free Consultation via the link below.
Regarding career (your second question), I generally like the coherence between your prior experience and what you're thinking about for the future. You have credible experience in both education / social sector and business / IT roles, including promotions. Your experience includes a couple of moves within a five-year timeframe, but the moves are synergistic with your career goals, and I actually think they create a strong platform for your story (in the sense that you will draw from both experiences -- plus the MBA -- to pursue your goals).
With that in mind, I prefer the social sector consulting or education and social-sector career path for you. You have a unique and relevant combination of experience that positions well with this path, and you can continue to research the jobs and opportunities that are out there (as you've done) to put more substance to the viability of this path. I believe this is a more differentiated path for you (as opposed to the more mundane IT consulting option... plus... why an MBA for *IT* consulting?). And again, you should be sure to highlight how your prior experiences from both "categories" of work -- plus the particulars of a given MBA program -- will all come together to uniquely prepare you to pursue and succeed toward this short-term goal. (Don't forget to develop a specific, coherent long-term goal too!)
Regarding schools, you might do a little more research into Georgetown (McDonough), Indiana (Kelley), Vanderbilt (Owen), Washington (Foster), Notre Dame (Mendoza), Boston College (Carroll), and Boston University (Questrom). It would be helpful if your GMAT score improves with your next take. And if it does improve significantly, then don't be shy about considering a "dream/reach program" as part of your school strategy, provided you have the capacity to include it and would still be able to produce quality applications for all schools.
Please feel free to reach out with any questions, and please feel free to sign up for a Free Consultation (below) if you'd like to chat!
Kind Regards,
Greg
