Welcome to GMAT Club. As always good to see how mature experienced candidate. Keep in mind that unfortunately your experience sometimes can play against you. Admissions like to see progression and regular promotions and growth and seeing someone in the same role for an extended period of time can sometimes lower that career growth trajectory.

In your applications, you want to show growth and you want to demonstrate that you have outperformed your peers. Potentially it may not be visible in your promotions or résumé but it should be visible in some other ways. Maybe you have done things on the side or maybe you have Spend time doing some thing else. You just want to show that you basically are engaged in not sitting around or being complacent.

PS. Consulting is pretty competitive. And it will help you in recruiting and admissions if you have done public speaking or good with presentations and other client facing skills does consulting companies love to have for their MBA recruits.

Your GMAT is solid. The information you've shared is quite limited, making it challenging to provide specific feedback. But I would like to emphasize that MBA admissions committees primarily assess candidates based on the impact they've made in their professional sphere. Given your substantial experience across IT and PSU, showcasing a consistent pattern of career growth with tangible evidence of increased responsibilities is a critical aspect to highlight in your application. Given you have a public sector background, here are some ideas to get you thinking about your story. To begin with, put forth a strong narrative about your motivation to work in the public sector or IT. You may have interesting insights from working on the execution of projects that concern specific TGs. What problems did you identify and tried to solve? Demonstrate compassionate leadership through stories and iron will to mobilize such sectors post-MBA leveraging your prior experience in public sector and your increased business acumen after MBA. Be conscientious about your goals. This calls for more discussion and research but I think you can leverage your experience to get into a wide array of roles in advisory, consulting, startups, etc.

If you're seeking guidance for your B-school applications, I'd be more than willing to offer directional advice during an exploratory call to help you formulate the right strategy.

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