Hey, You might just be the right one as I am too early in the process!! Could you please evaluate my profile, I'd be grateful!
I really am jumping the gun here but I want to start early and be prepared for any contingency plans (if needed)
INDIAN/24/MALE (Disclaimer: Please don't be mad but I am still to take the GMAT. Target is MINIMUM 750+ cause that is the least survival score for someone like me I know but call it a 730 for sake)
Education: B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from a non-IIT State funded autonomous university (Number 1 in my state, above NIT). Also, if this counts 1 of my seniors (3 years) from Mechanical made it to
GSB (FULL RIDE!) this year although he did a master's in Politics in India before he got GSB. Another IT guy with 6 years experience got into Wharton (Hey! Not basking in their success but just telling if its a little chance that I atleast have the pedigree factor there?)
Grades: 7.6/10 (Its tough at my uni!!) Ahemmm... but I was a great student and school and EC too was over the top lol
Work-ex: 1) Semester Intern at Thermal Power Plant.
2) 6 months job as an Engineer Trainee at
Johnson Controls-Hitachi.3) Switched to a very coveted job for any Indian Mechie: The largest automobile manufacturer of the country (
Maruti Suzuki) and now working as a Territory Manager (will get to Assistant Manager by the end of year). Again, A lot of my ex-colleagues from Maruti Suzuki make it to Top 15 every year so I assume it has some name atleast even though its not a feeder (Please do correct me if am wrong here).
EC: 1) I play
guitar and sing. I have performed
solo gigs all over North and Central India and won awards for a good 1.5 years before I got into the Indian startup ecosystem.
2) I love to
read and I can cook just about anything!
3)
STARTUPS: I won a couple of National and even one International
Business Model Competition beating teams from all over the continent including IITs and IIMs but the business couldn't take off. Helped an Edinburgh University professor set up a Not for profit here in India for helping startups. Althugh I didn't hold the founder Title I was the
city and state manager and head of content for 2 years straight, I left it then for work commitments.
(I got quoted by many national and business newspapers for my effort on integrating the Indian startup ecosystem). I also
cofounded a boutique consulting firm for new startups to help them take off, made some revenue as a studentpreneur but it was failing as we were bootstrapped. So again left it cause I signed up for the job.
My entrepreneurial streak has not gone but for some familial conditions I needed this job for sometime and it pays one of the best pay packages for this profile.
I have a product idea in mind and thinking of designing and Patenting it too.
I have not done much EC in the past one year, just traveled and hitch hiked, solo tripping. I am a good speaker too so thinking of joining Toastmasters, have an invite already.
WHY MBA? I guess it is getting clear now yeah? After being a failed entrepreneur and having managerial roles at a big firm, I now want to dive in for what I had always wanted. And that is why I need it, for the network and the exposure.
Okay, the
BIG CATCH? I am a die hard GSB Fan. I just do not know how to crack the Top 5. I just want to. People tell me its impossible but NO!
PS: My elder sibling made it to a top 20 this year with a 50% scholarship.Please advise me on what to do next and how to do it. I'd be obliged
When time comes, I want to take up your professional help as a client.
Thanks for reading the long post!!
Thank you for reaching out and providing your background information. While I would love to help you now, it is a bit early to say exactly the target range of schools for you. I help a lot of applicants at your stage through an advance planning where we work together over the next few years to create the right profile together. You do not have everything you need today, but I can help you get there by crafting it together. That package can be explored below:
It is very good to reach out and to want to begin early in your career. We just need a lot more info to be able to help you and ideally some time to work together to do it right. Now if you would like some initial advice before signing up, it would be to have consistent employment with promotion and management responsibility. When you say territory manager, what specifically is involved? It would be good to see the resume. That said, the more you can get on the business side the better. This means strategy, marketing or other planning roles.
I look forward to hearing from you and working together, whether now or when you apply to schools.
12 May 2017, 10:06
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