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18 Apr 2013, 11:59
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Dear future INSEAD MBA participants,
I was in your shoe a year ago and I must say it's quite interesting to relive the excitement of waiting for acceptance notice by following your posts on the Sep 2013 and Jan 2014 intake threads.
A bit about myself, I'm 28 years old from Vietnam. My background was 5 years in the consulting industry in the U.S. and in Japan, as well as a summer internship in private equity in Vietnam. At INSEAD, I am the vice president of the investment management club and helped run two student initiatives: the Robin Hood Scholarship fundraising campaign and the Photobook project for fellow students in my class.
I will be available in this thread until Sunday night to any questions that you have regarding the experience at INSEAD Fontainebleau (where I am). I think insightful topics would be courses, professors, non-academic life, job search, etc. If you have a question about admission however, I would be less useful as a source of information. Please keep the questions as non-personal as you can. If you do have a personal question that doesn't benefit the public, please PM me.
In exchange, I hope you guys can help support a viral video my group has created for the social media class. It's a parody of the LMFAO music video "I'm Structured and I Know It" that recounts the humorous job search experience during period 4. A harbinger for you guys for what to come, I guess... (:
If you liked this video, please support us by viewing, liking, commenting on and sharing it with as many people and in as many social media channels as you can. Your activities will help greatly increase the success of our project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSPYi8zVtEY
Thanks, and I look forward to answering your questions!
I was in your shoe a year ago and I must say it's quite interesting to relive the excitement of waiting for acceptance notice by following your posts on the Sep 2013 and Jan 2014 intake threads.
A bit about myself, I'm 28 years old from Vietnam. My background was 5 years in the consulting industry in the U.S. and in Japan, as well as a summer internship in private equity in Vietnam. At INSEAD, I am the vice president of the investment management club and helped run two student initiatives: the Robin Hood Scholarship fundraising campaign and the Photobook project for fellow students in my class.
I will be available in this thread until Sunday night to any questions that you have regarding the experience at INSEAD Fontainebleau (where I am). I think insightful topics would be courses, professors, non-academic life, job search, etc. If you have a question about admission however, I would be less useful as a source of information. Please keep the questions as non-personal as you can. If you do have a personal question that doesn't benefit the public, please PM me.
In exchange, I hope you guys can help support a viral video my group has created for the social media class. It's a parody of the LMFAO music video "I'm Structured and I Know It" that recounts the humorous job search experience during period 4. A harbinger for you guys for what to come, I guess... (:
If you liked this video, please support us by viewing, liking, commenting on and sharing it with as many people and in as many social media channels as you can. Your activities will help greatly increase the success of our project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSPYi8zVtEY
Thanks, and I look forward to answering your questions!
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18 Apr 2013, 23:19
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Thanks for taking the time to do this! My question to you is if you were in our shoes, with still a few months until (potentially) matriculating, how would you spend your time preparing? Are there any notoriously difficult courses or topics that we should focus on? Any "must read" books?
19 Apr 2013, 06:48
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In terms of courses, you would want to think about taking exemption exams in accounting, corporate finance, statistics and economics (both micro and macro). Passing exemption exams means you have more time to do other things, such as look for jobs. You can use a maximum of three exemptions but no more than two per period. Secondly, I would start networking like crazy in the fields I want to get into. This is more important for finance, but also quite important for consulting. Thirdly, if you are entering as a July candidate, I would recommend trying to secure a pre-MBA internship in the area that you want to get a job in. It may help if you are a career switcher.
