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Hello sssanskaar

No evident weakness in your profile, looks good to go and apply.
You have enough meat in your profile to stand out even in the competitive pool of IT applicants.
Judging by the quality of your post, looks you have given decent thought to your goals as well.
All the best.

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sssanskaar

Requesting to evaluate my profile and provide any valuable suggestions

About me:
Age: 30 years.
Work ex: 8.5 years at the time of admission
Current role: Senior Test Automation Engineer (For US and Canada based-clients)
Organization: Accenture
Field: IT

Marks:
10th: 83.6%
12th: 85.8%
B.Tech: KiiT University, Bhubaneswar, CGPA- 81.5%
GMAT: 710 (V39 Q48 IR7)

Leadership/Managerial experience:
Have been leading the team and handling the responsibilities of a team leader/manager in my team for the past 2 years for an average team size of 8-9 people.

Extra-curricular:
- Was an active member of various CSR activities in my organization.
- Organised various sports events/competitions and gatherings on both team and project levels.

Awards/Distinctions:
- Have been promoted twice under the span of 8 years.
- Have more than one certificate directly from our client appreciating my work excellence.
- Received Accenture's highest company level award for work excellence.
- Received Accenture's 2nd highest company level award for contributing to various successful deliveries as a team.
- Recognised on multiple occasions at the team level.

Why MBA and future goals:
Why MBA: To accelerate my career to a leadership role so that I am able to use the accumulated industry skills and knowledge on a larger scale and on the business front while taking various strategic decisions.

Future goals: To go into Product management/IT management because it relates to my field of experience, and therefore I can immediately put my business skills to use.

Current plan:
Targetting 1 year MBA courses in IIM A,B,C,I , ISB, XLRI, SP Jain (Round1)

Please let me know if you need any more information. I have seen a couple of previous posts on this thread and hence using the format in this post accordingly

Thanks MBAkarma,

Thanks for your inputs.
I have just one last question.

Will it be a bad decision if I apply in R2? I am specially targeting IIMA and I am thinking to go for a reattempt in case I can score better in GMAT by a few points or so. Will it affect that much if I go for R2 instead of R1?

Thank you for your valuable inputs. Highly grateful.

Regards,
Sanskaar Sekhar

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Hello sssanskaar

If you are highly confident of scoring at least 20-30+ points then apply in R2, else go for R1. 710 and 720 won't create that big a dent in your case.

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Hello sssanskaar

If you are highly confident of scoring at least 20-30+ points then apply in R2, else go for R1. 710 and 720 won't create that big a dent in your case.

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Varun
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Thanks Varun,

Even if i take the worst case that i have to apply with 710 only, since gmat is always a gamble, in R2- will this imapct my chances by a great extent because I didn’t apply in R1?

(sorry but just thinking of taking an informed decision)

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Hello

Here is my profile. I want to get into IIM-A/B/C. A'bad is the top choice, of course. Here are my questions:
- What is the GMAT score I must have to secure a call from IIM-A/B/C?
- With my poor score in class 12 and grad, do I even stand a chance to get a call from a good college? (Parents had forced me to take up science, thus the decline in performance.)

Nationality: Indian
Gender: Male
Age: 33 years
GMAT: Not taken yet. Still preparing
Work experience: 9+ years as journalist. 3 years as a musician
- Currently (5 years): News Editor with an online news agency (media-tech startup) since five years. Started out as a freelancer, quickly rose through the ranks to become de facto editorial head. Have declined the top position to focus on GMAT prep.
- (3 years): News desk of a national newspaper in Bangalore. Joined as senior sub-editor, rose through the ranks to head the desk.
- (1.5 years): Sub-editor at a national newspaper. Bagged all the special projects.
- (6 years, 3 full-time): Failed musician (original band, some underground success)
- (<1 year): Failed farmer. Tried hands at a new farming technique on leased land, hoping to reap rich dividends. Of course, had my plan materialised, I won't be trying to do an MBA. 😄

Academics:
- Post-graduate diploma in journalism from a top J-school in India: Cumulative grade B
- Graduation: Bachelors in Business Administration: 59.9%
- Class 12: 59.8% (Science)
- Class 10: 77.6%

Extra-curricular:
- Extensively took part in and won extra-curricular activities in school and won most of them. Have represented school in elocution at regional level multiple times.
- Have won intra-school sports events and won a medal at inter-school meet at regional level.
- Took part in music competition (instrumental - solo) at college.
- Quit full-time job after 4.5 years of newspaper experience to start a band (original music) with friend. Left band a few years later (owing to fallout with bandmates).
- Some notes about the band:
> Shortlisted for Radio City Freedom Award in the Best Pop Song category (I wrote the lyrics)
> First Indian artiste to be a part of a digital audio workstation's sample files.
> Voted as Artiste of the Week once by popular, international EDM label Spinnin' Records.
> I managed the band, wrote lyrics, was to front it and brought it in contention for major shows.
- Have edited/proofread a book on economic frauds.
- I help my company's founder teach investigative journalism at our J-school. I design the curriculum, give assignments to students, evaluate them, work on their investigative stories.
- Have ghost-written a course on media literacy for college literacy.

Leadership:
- Have quickly climbed up the ladder in all the companies I have worked at.
- Used to getting job offers from seniors who leave and join elsewhere.
- Been handling/co-managing business development, conflict resolution, hiring, firing, affairs of the editorial department of my startup for a few years now.
- I am a high-level performer. I am the go-to man for crisis management. Any of our publishers declines a story, it comes to me, I whip it into shape and get the job done. In my current role, I handle a network of more than 2,000 grassroots reporters across India. My edited stories have appeared in national as well as global publications. Two of our reporters, on whose stories I have worked with them, have won global recognition.
- Have won a Mobile Journalist Fellowship this year.

Community:
- Been part of some local charitable initiatives.
- Currently engaged with a central government authority to expose a serial wrongdoer (to put it mildly) whom I could not expose through journalism because media houses are afraid to publish such a story (thanks to the threat of a defamation suit).

Post-MBA goal: Get a high-paying job in any industry or company that pays the best.

Why MBA: As satisfying as journalism is, it is frustrating too. Investigative stories get killed. Serious journalism is fraught with risks as it is (India ranks 146 in World Press Freedom Index) and owing to the shrinking media economy, jobs at the top are becoming increasingly insecure. I am an ambitious individual and want to achieve my potential. I have a flair for dealing with people and communication. A shark can grow only as big as its tank, which is why I am keen to do an MBA to seek a bigger ecosystem to facilitate my growth.

Thank you to whoever chooses to reply to this. And thanks to GMAT club.

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R1 is always slightly better even if schools deny. But chances will be better if you have a significantly better score.

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Hello sssanskaar

If you are highly confident of scoring at least 20-30+ points then apply in R2, else go for R1. 710 and 720 won't create that big a dent in your case.

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Hello RiyaJain69

You would have strong chances with even a 680+ considering your diverse profile. Don't let that keep you from targeting higher.
If you get such a score, low score in school should not impact you.
Everything else seems to be helping you stand out- career journey, extracurricular all make you a very diverse candidate.
Only thing I'm concerned about is your career goals. While I understand what you're trying to say, but this narrative will most likely not work in b school essays. You will need to be more specific in terms of what roles, industry and companies you want to target and what is your motivation to do the same (not because you're disillusioned by your current industry).
You get the narrative right and you have a good shot.

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Thank you very much for the insights, Varun. What a relief it is to know that I am not doomed because of my academic history. I am aiming for a GMAT score in high 700 to strengthen my chances. I agree with your point about needing a better narrative for post-MBA goals and choosing MBA. I will figure these things out before the application stage. A big thank you again! 😊

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Profile Evaluation request for IIM A,B,C,L

Gmat Score: 640 (Q-50, V-25, IR-3) Age:37 Nationality: Indian

Target Sectors: Retail (1st priority) ; Consulting- Strategic : (2nd Priority) ; Venture Funding / Startup : (3rd priority)
Target Roles: Strategic Decision Making (general management) ; Growth Leader / Business Development (Sales and Marketing) ;

Work Experience:
• Total = 8+ years (2 years post BE and 6+ years post MBA). This does not include 1.5 yrs of part-time work experience post MBA
• Launched two startups with collective experience of more than 4 years working in them.
• Currently serving as Founder and CEO of Hundred Plus (Rural Retail - Ecommerce). I have initiated a planned exit from my startup, and shall close down the organization by September 2021. Meanwhile, I have started accepting consulting assignments on a part-time and freelance basis.
• Worked at MNCs viz: HDFC Bank (1yr) and Idea Cellular Ltd (6 months).
• Served strong leadership roles involving Business Planning, Team Building, Product Management, P&L Accountability, Go-to-market Strategy, Category & Vendor Management, Distribution Channel Management, Wealth Management, Venture Funding and Leading large Teams.

Educational Qualifications:
• MBA – SIBM-Pune (India’s tier-1 B school), Regular Full Time - 2010-12, CGPA (2.64/4.0)
• B.E.- BMSCE- Bangalore (one of the top 5 colleges in state of Karnataka in India), Regular Full Time – 2004-08, %marks – 67/100

Key Achievements:
• Authored the book “Bitcoin Basics: Logic and Magic of Digital Gold”, 2018
• Selected among India’s Top 30 promising Youth Leader, by Indo American Centre, sponsored by the US Department of State, 2019
• Invited as Mentor – Entrepreneurship Cell, IIM-Rohtak, 2019 and 2020
• Invited as Judge, B Plan Competition, IIT Delhi, Department of Management Studies, 2019 and 2020
• Selected at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Entrepreneurial Bootcamp at Croatia, Europe, 2020

Community Connect:
• Took guest lectures at more than seven MBA colleges, 2018-21
• Rendered startup-consulting to more than 10 startups on pro-bono basis, 2018-21
• Worked as Mentor-of-Change – Atal Innovation Mission, Niti Aayog, Government of India, 2019
• Guest Story teller on Entrepreneurship at “The Loudspeaker”, 2017-18
• Volunteer Partner, Tech Delhi, contributing to the entrepreneurial ecosystem at Delhi/Ncr, 2017

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Hi bansalgaurav,

Thanks for sharing your profile.

You have an extra ordinary profile. Such profiles are very unique and rare. You can use this to your advantage to offset the negative effect of lower GMAT score, considering the colleges that you have mentioned.

For IIML, you have a very bright chance. For IIMC, you have a decent chance. For IIMA and IIMB, you have a fighting chance. This is considering your performance in applications and interviews as above average.

Do work sincerely towards preparing a great application showcasing your varied and rich experience. Given that round 1 applications have closed and you will be applying in round 2, you need to up your game even more!

Thanks

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Profile Evaluation request for IIM A, B, C:

About me:
Age: 30 years.
Nationality: Indian

Work Experience:
• Total - 9 years
• Currently working as a Manager (Electrical) in Navaratna Iron Ore Mining PSU (Iron Ore Mining major in India)
• work ex in present company 5 years 8 months
• work primarily involves co-leading a team of 30 employees (workmen) and looking after operation & maintenance activities of various electrical equipment in different workstations
• Also, Managed various works & services contracts (electrical related) & proficient in the entire contract management process, which involves preparation of cost estimates, tender documents, evaluation of tenders & supervision of the execution of contracts.
• Previously worked in a private owned thermal power station in a purely technical role for more than 3 years

Academics:
10th: 91%
12th: 95%
Graduation:Electrical Engineering from JNTUK, Percentage- 75%
GMAT: 730 (V38 Q50 IR6)

Extra-curricular:
• Not my strong forte & not participated much in any extra-curricular activities
• Member of Inter Project Tennis Championship winning team 2 years back
• Member of football team, which represented our project in IPT football Tournament

Certifications:
• Accredited Energy Auditor from Bureau of Energy Efficiency

Target Sectors: Cosultancy & Genearal Management

Please let me know if you need any more information.

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Hello RajeshDasu

Diverse work experience, strong GMAT score really make your profile shine.
The extracurricular are also decent as some of these look recent and can further help you stand out.
General management, operations management seem to be reasonable organic goals for you. Niche consulting can also be a way forward, Management consulting might be tough with the years of work ex.
But overall, looks a strong profile and pretty good chances if you do a decent job on your essays/interviews.

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Hi RajeshDasu,

Your GMAT score is very good. The work experience of a PSU brings its own flavour in the application of the candidate. People management and operations management are the core skills that you bring to the table.

But, your extra curricular are a little weak when compared to average students. Your post MBA goals are also not well defined.

You would need to work 1) in bringing clarity in your goals and 2) showcasing your application as different from other candidates with similar profile.

With the assumption that you submit an average application and perform average in the interview, your chances at C are very bright. For A and B, you would need to perform above average in either application part or interview part.

Hope it helped. Thanks

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Requesting to evaluate my profile and provide any valuable suggestions

About me:
Age: 27 years.
Work ex: 5.6 years at the time of admission
Current role: Project Engineer - Middle east
Organization: Shapoorji Pallonji
Field: Infrastructure

Marks:
10th: 87.4%
12th: 89.8%
B.Tech: Thapar university - BE CIVIL - 7.26
GMAT: 660 (V34 Q47)

4 years international experience in middle east and 1.5 year in India

Leadership/Managerial experience:
Have been leading the team and handling the responsibilities of a team leader/manager in my team for the past 4 years for average team size of 50 people

Extra-curricular:
- Founder member & Mentor at The 500 MBA club , a diverse blend of members and directly mentoring 2 young professionals to face the challenges of a corporate world and to explore their career
- Active Member of Har Hath kalam, a non profit organization with an aim to remove beggars from the street by educating children.

Awards/Distinctions:
- Have been promoted twice under the span of 5 years.
- Have more than one certificate directly from country head.
- Monetarily awarded by my firm for my contributions.
- Saved $5 Million for firm by properly elucidating the EOT indenture to the client
- Recognized on multiple occasions at the team level.

Why MBA and future goals:
Why MBA: To accelerate my career to a leadership role so that I am able to use the accumulated industry skills and knowledge on a larger scale and on the business front while taking various strategic decisions.

Future goals: To go into a top notch consultation firm as a strategy consultant.

Current plan:
Targetting 1 year MBA courses in IIM A,B,C,I , ISB, SP Jain (Round2)

Please let me know if you need any more information. I have seen a couple of previous posts on this thread and hence using the format in this post accordingly

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Requesting to evaluate my profile and provide any valuable suggestions

Hi Ankit415,

Thanks for sharing your profile. And the format is perfectly fine

Your work experience, the international exposure and good extra-curricular make your profile stand out.

The point of concern is your GMAT score, which is on a lower side. IIM A,B,C and ISB will be not so easy to achieve unless your application and interviews are flawless. You have good chances at IIML, IIMI, IIMU, SP Jain, IIMK. So apply everywhere with an open mind to choose the best option.

Also, your post MBA goals are not well defined. You would need to work on that.

Hope it helped!

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Request for profile evaluation:

10th Marks: 92% (State Board)
12th Marks: 85% (State Board)
B. Tech (Mechanical engineering): 8.24 DGPA from Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College (West Bengal)

GMAT 700(V37, Q49), IR 1

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7 years of experience in design & engineering in Transformer manufacturing industry. [3 years in Transformers & Rectifiers (I) Ltd. 4 years in Hitachi Energy/ABB]. Primary responsibilities include design and development of mechanical features in Transformers, supporting global factories in design activities/mechanical simulations, working in few of the R&D, design to value projects. Though the profile looks very much technical, highlights of my career have been some interesting projects and few international exposures.

1. With my previous company, I had been part of technology transfer collaboration team. Me along with my senior manager visited Fuji Electric factory in Japan for a week to understand & absorb the technology for single phase reactor. Also, successfully designed the similar transformer, which was later commissioned to Power Grid Corporation

2. I was the first recruit to support US factory of dry transformers in my current organization. I was sent to US for 3 months to learn the factory practices, manufacturing limitations, US design standards. Trained and mentored five more mechanical engineers for the same factory, now co leading the team.

3. I had a two week visit to Shanghai for a global team meet on ABB Mechanical Design Platforms. Successfully implemented the same in my ABB’s Vadodara transformer factory design team

Community:

In our college, we run a nonprofit night school, where we teach the local under privileged kids up to 10th standard. I participated in the field work, books and stationary distribution and taught the kids in the school.

Extra curriculars

I was the secretary of Drama club in my college. Successfully organized inter college drama competition. Awarded ‘best director’ in 2012 & 2013 drama festivals. Also, I actively participated organizing cultural events, took part in music club in college

1. If anyone could please evaluate my profile and chances of getting admit in IIM B/C/I or XLRI?

2. Though my GMAT overall score is 700, my IR scaled score is embarrassingly 1. How much weightage do the IIMs give to IR score?

3. Should I retake to improve my IR score? in case in the second attempt I score lower overall and I cancel it, will that have a more negative impact?

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Hello Tito13

Work ex and GMAT look fine and based on these two, you have a decent shot at the schools on your list.
Curious to know your career goals as that will also play a major role in selection.
Extracurricular activities seem old and may not add much weight to your application unless you have something extraordinary to talk about or tie this seamlessly into a single narrative.

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Concentration: Operations, General Management

Schools: IIMA PGPX'23

GMAT 1: 640 Q49 V27 Verified score

GPA: 4

WE:Engineering (Manufacturing)

Schools: IIMA PGPX'23

GMAT 1: 640 Q49 V27 Verified score

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19 Sep 2021, 03:21

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Hi Experts,

I would request for a profile evaluation for IIMA & IIMI one year program,

- Age: 34
- Nationality: Indian
- Educational Qualifications: B.Tech from NITJ with 7.77 CGPA

- GMAT: 670 (Q49 V32)

Work Experience: 10.5 years in Plant and project management in manufacturing sector
- 1 year as project coordinator for strategic cost reduction projects with PwC consultants
- 3.5 years as project engineer for brown field debottleneck projects of approximate CAPEX INR 24 Cr
- 3 years as Electrical Design & quality lead for green field projects of approximate CAPEX INR 1500 Cr
- 3 years as Maintenance lead

Extra Curriculars: event coordinators at college, nothing unique after graduation

Impediments:
1) 11 month gap because of personal reasons
2) no international experience
3) no certifications

I am planning to apply this year. Please let me know if these colleges are in my range or which could be safer colleges to apply in India? Can I do something to improve my profile at this stage?

All inputs are welcomed and valued.

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19 Sep 2021, 03:28

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aarkay87

Hi aarkay87,

With your GMAT score, work experience and extra curriculum, you have realistic chances in IIMC, IIML, IIMI, IIMU. ISB and IIMA will take a lot of efforts in application and interview to convert.

If you are planning to apply this year then time left is not much! Give your best in the applications and pre prepare for the interviews.

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Schools: ISB IIM HEC EDHEC INSEAD IIMA HBS Rotman

GMAT 1: 750 Q50 V42 Verified score

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19 Sep 2021, 08:03

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Hello aarkay87

Schools are going to evaluate your profile on 4 factors- Academics, Work Ex, Diversity and Career goals.
1. Academics- past scores are average and the GMAT is lower than avg for IIMA, but will do for the likes of IIMI/IIML. For IIMA/B this must be compensated with other strengths.
2. Work ex- shows potential and can be your strength if presented well in the essays/LOR/interviews.
3. Diversity- except for the industry, diversity is low considering the Indian Engineer background. Lower GMAT and lack of extracurricular activities hurts too. This is something that needs to be addressed (mainly through your work profile) in order to stand out.
4. Career Goals- You must show clarity of thought while presenting career goals. Goals must be clear and realistic and should address your vision and motivation for short-term and long-term. This is missing for a complete assessment.

To conclude, work ex has potential, but other areas don't show a spike. You may want to read here on what factors work in a profile and here to add to your research on career goals.

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GMAT 1: 730 Q51 V37 Verified score

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19 Sep 2021, 08:24

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Hey,

Please evaluate my profile for IIM-A, ISB as experience is less than 4 years (If I am right, only ISB and IIMA are the options for me) :

Age: 25 yr

GMAT Score: 670 [Quant:50 , Verbal:30, I.R.:8 , AWA:awaited]

Educational Qualifications:

Graduation: Completed B.Tech from IIT Jodhpur in Mechanical Engineering in 2017 with 9.1/10 Pointer.
H.S.C: secured 92.6% 2013 CBSE Board.
S.S.C: secured CGPA 10/10 CBSE Board 2011.

Work Experience:
Working as a Scientist/Engineer in VSSC/ISRO from last 4 years 3 months .

Extra Curricular:
Participated in National Level Competitions from College, Head Of Intra college technical Fest and also for the inter-college technical Fest.

I am planning to retake the GMAT after more preparation (In Nov. around), any help would be really appreciated on how to increase the verbal score.