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07 Apr 2019, 01:10
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Hello Experts,
I am Aalekh and I would like to have my profile evaluated for ISB intake of 2020. I'll be writing my GMAT in June, 2019.
Age - 25 years and Nationality - Indian
1. Academics :
CGPA's(out of 10) of 10th , 12th and B.E (Undergraduate) : 9.0 / 6.74 / 6.64 (I screwed up here! My bad)
Enrolled myself in International School of Entrepreneurial Leadership (iSOEL) - Duration 6 months. 3 cohorts of 21 days. (excelled in this and even got funded after the same)
2. Work Experience :
(i)I have 3 years of professional work experience (4 at matriculation) as a Product and Project Manager in an IT firm, which deals in fantasy sports solutions. (For your better understanding, these are the projects that are similar to Dream 11 / DraftKings/ FanDuel / Etc.)
- I was responsible for driving new products and projects from concept to implementation, serving as a liaison between senior management, IT team and business stakeholders.
- I have worked with many Indian clients and worked as a project lead for the official fantasy sports for Arabian Gulf League (AGL). Big client. Nice guys
- I was the brain behind an internal product of the company (perfectlineup) that saved over a million dollars to the company till date. I actually wrote down the website content and algorithm for the same. It was fun.
- I have managed the completion of over 10 software development projects and worked on the internal product of the company at the same time in order to push the latest updates in all the projects that we made.
(ii)I have 3 years of work experience with my startup(C-Cube) that I co-founded when I was 19. Though, I know this experience won't count into the total work ex. (That's actually sad!)
- It was during my graduation. C-cube is a campus company inside the college premises, acting as a one stop quality chain store and a cafe bestowing students stationary requirements and food.
- We managed around $30,000 then and break-evened in the 8th month of operations. Kudos to my team!
(iii) Active President and Manager of Royal Vikings Football Club (R.V.F.C) registered in District Football Association, Indore, Mahdya Pradesh.
3. Achievements -
(i) Lead a team of 400 volunteers in Global Investors Summit, Madhya Pradesh in 2014 organised by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII)
(ii) Winner of a national level group dance competition held at IIM, Indore
(iii) Ideated, executed and marketed an android application, which we developed as a college major project. It had 15,000+ downloads on google play store and 150+ 5 star ratings.
(iv) Secured 4th position among 107 colleges in National Entrepreneurship Challenge (NEC) held at IIT, Bombay
(v) Semi-Finalist of National level football tournament held at BITS Pilani, Goa.
(vi) Winner of Nodal RGPV Football tournament
I have mentioned above the most important achievements of mine. Apart from these, there are many other co-curricular activities wherein, I have worked as an E-cell leader, organizing various events during my college days. I have worked with Young Indians (Yi - Indore Chapter) and participated in many awareness programs and college fests, specially dance and football. I can get 2 LOR's from my employer.
Not to forget, one of the MAJOR factor for my profile still remains folded. THE GMAT! Let's see what happens.
Now, I request you to shoot your kind advises for me. I would really appreciate if you can guide me through this. Thanks in advance.
P.S - I'll be targeting US B-schools as well.
Regards!
I am Aalekh and I would like to have my profile evaluated for ISB intake of 2020. I'll be writing my GMAT in June, 2019.
Age - 25 years and Nationality - Indian
1. Academics :
CGPA's(out of 10) of 10th , 12th and B.E (Undergraduate) : 9.0 / 6.74 / 6.64 (I screwed up here! My bad)
Enrolled myself in International School of Entrepreneurial Leadership (iSOEL) - Duration 6 months. 3 cohorts of 21 days. (excelled in this and even got funded after the same)
2. Work Experience :
(i)I have 3 years of professional work experience (4 at matriculation) as a Product and Project Manager in an IT firm, which deals in fantasy sports solutions. (For your better understanding, these are the projects that are similar to Dream 11 / DraftKings/ FanDuel / Etc.)
- I was responsible for driving new products and projects from concept to implementation, serving as a liaison between senior management, IT team and business stakeholders.
- I have worked with many Indian clients and worked as a project lead for the official fantasy sports for Arabian Gulf League (AGL). Big client. Nice guys
- I was the brain behind an internal product of the company (perfectlineup) that saved over a million dollars to the company till date. I actually wrote down the website content and algorithm for the same. It was fun.
- I have managed the completion of over 10 software development projects and worked on the internal product of the company at the same time in order to push the latest updates in all the projects that we made.
(ii)I have 3 years of work experience with my startup(C-Cube) that I co-founded when I was 19. Though, I know this experience won't count into the total work ex. (That's actually sad!)
- It was during my graduation. C-cube is a campus company inside the college premises, acting as a one stop quality chain store and a cafe bestowing students stationary requirements and food.
- We managed around $30,000 then and break-evened in the 8th month of operations. Kudos to my team!
(iii) Active President and Manager of Royal Vikings Football Club (R.V.F.C) registered in District Football Association, Indore, Mahdya Pradesh.
3. Achievements -
(i) Lead a team of 400 volunteers in Global Investors Summit, Madhya Pradesh in 2014 organised by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII)
(ii) Winner of a national level group dance competition held at IIM, Indore
(iii) Ideated, executed and marketed an android application, which we developed as a college major project. It had 15,000+ downloads on google play store and 150+ 5 star ratings.
(iv) Secured 4th position among 107 colleges in National Entrepreneurship Challenge (NEC) held at IIT, Bombay
(v) Semi-Finalist of National level football tournament held at BITS Pilani, Goa.
(vi) Winner of Nodal RGPV Football tournament
I have mentioned above the most important achievements of mine. Apart from these, there are many other co-curricular activities wherein, I have worked as an E-cell leader, organizing various events during my college days. I have worked with Young Indians (Yi - Indore Chapter) and participated in many awareness programs and college fests, specially dance and football. I can get 2 LOR's from my employer.
Not to forget, one of the MAJOR factor for my profile still remains folded. THE GMAT! Let's see what happens.
Now, I request you to shoot your kind advises for me. I would really appreciate if you can guide me through this. Thanks in advance.
P.S - I'll be targeting US B-schools as well.
Regards!
07 Apr 2019, 22:01
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aalekhoza
Hi Alekh,
you have good work experience and have achieved quite a bit so far.
My first thought on reading this was, with all your achievements, why do you need an MBA? You are doing reasonably well in your career, are already a product manager, a post MBA goal for most. So you will have to come up with a strong reasoning, via the career goals about your career aspirations which could only be achieved after an MBA
Secondly, your extracurricular experiences are good, but they should show depth not just breadth. From now until the application cycle starts, I' ask you to focus on a few stronger activities and build more intense experience there rather than doing newer things.
Its helpful to bell the GMAT early. All the best for this missing piece of the puzzle. A 740+ score will help overcome the negative impact of a low GPA.
07 Apr 2019, 22:37
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You seem to have a solid profile. All the aspects of your application appear to be well balanced and anything above 700 will make your ISB journey easy.
A score of 730 and above will put you at a very advantageous position for colleges like MIT, Yale, Wharton. However, you must also aim to strengthen your community work aspect of the application.
All the best!
A score of 730 and above will put you at a very advantageous position for colleges like MIT, Yale, Wharton. However, you must also aim to strengthen your community work aspect of the application.
All the best!
aalekhoza
08 Apr 2019, 07:42
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MBADecoder
Hello Namita,
Thanks for a prompt response and your kind words. I hope you are doing well.
I actually want to start my own business and I have been working on an idea since past 2 years. I think I would need an MBA for the same because it will teach me how to turn my idea into a good business without the stress of the real world. I consider "experiences" and "learning" as one of the key factors in success and thus an MBA program would teach me the tricks and trades of doing business and the process of entrepreneurship, while I can test things and discuss them with industry experts.
I am focusing on the general management aspect of MBA so that I get experience in people management and some familiarity of hard skills, such as marketing, finance, strategy, etc. There's a lot an MBA has to offer(Alumni Network, Mentoring Opportunities, Free Space, Boot-Camps, etc)
Can I ask you one more question?
I am working in IT industry right now, and my idea is into F&B, and we know they are completely different, so that won't be a problem to convince the adcoms right? In why MBA kind of questions?
Sure, I'll focus on the depth of things now instead of spreading my arms into different things. Thanks for this beautiful piece of advice.
Kind Reagards!
