Hey everyone,
Please evaluate my profile for ISB:
Age: 21 Years
Educational Qualifications:10th - 8.8 CGPA (CBSE)
12th - 80% (Commerce without maths) (CBSE)
Undergrad - 8.21 CGPA (Bachelor of Business Adminstration from Christ University, Bangalore)
GMAT - N.A (would be taking it next year)
Total Work ex - 16 monthsProfessional Experience:1. Worked as a Learning Consultant for Great Learning from June, 2020 to March 2021 for about 10 months. The role was of Inside Sales where I had to call prospective leads and counsel them to take up the course. This was a client facing role
Programs: PG Certification Program in Strategic Digital Marketing | Stanford Executive Education Design Thinking: From Insights to Viability
● Driving inquires & admissions for two online learning programs for the international & domestic markets
● Managing sales life cycle by identifying & generating 120 leads daily to achieve targets & streamline selling process
● Counselled and enrolled 35 professionals via calls, emails & 1:1 interaction to suggest courses for career progression
● Updating & maintaining daily MIS reports for giving strategic feedbacks to marketing team for further improvements
● Generated a turnover of approx. 30 lakhs for the company over a period of 10 months
Awards:
● Certificate of Achievement for achieving highest number of enrollments for the months of September and October, 2020
2. Currently, working as an Operations Associate with Kingfish Group which is a middle market private equity firm based out of SF. My role involves handling the entire back-end of the firm i.e databse updation, signing NDA's, finding out prospective leads, maintaining and building relationships with executives for getting potential deals, updating the contact info of executives to be contatced, logging email outreach etc. (Mostly back-end work, not front facing) - 6 months (as of October 2nd, 2021)
Extra - Curricular Achievements:College Level -
● Core team member of the Christ University Management Alumni Association (CUMAA)
● Class Representative of 'BBA F' for the 6th semester
● Mentor and student trainer for 1st year students in the art of Resume and Letter Writing
● Volunteered for the Hospitality department for Esprit 2017 - The flagship event of the Department of Management Studies
● Placed amongst the ‘Top 10’ in Human Resources for Thrive 2017 – The Launchpad
Represented the department's official theatre and cultural team 'Zealous Productions' in various national level fests:
● Symbhav – Symbiosis Law School, Pune, 2020
● Autumm Muse – St. John’s College, Bangalore, 2019
● Malhaar – St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, 2019
● Riviera – VIT Vellore, 2019
● Revelation – SIBM Bangalore, 2018
● Darpan – Christ University, 2017
School Level -
● Awarded "Extreme Gamer" - St. Peter's College Cultural Fest, 2016
● Awarded “Outstanding Speaker” - Indian International Model United Nations, Agra Chapter, 2015
● Winner of the Inter-School English Debate competion, 2014
Social Work - Volunteered at the Spastics Society of Karnataka for 3 months as part of my unergrad degree requirements and:
● Assisted 5 physically & mentally disabled children by organizing games, writing activities & cultural events
● Drafted 2 daily reports & interacted with 4 teachers & doctors to learn about coping mechanisms of disabilities
● Visited 1 NGO with 5 fellow members to teach arithmetic & grammar via fun activities to 30 underprivileged children
● Presented our learning via a report infront of a panel of 3 professors of the University
Post MBA Career Goals - Consulting (MBB) preferably. That is why I want to target ISB and other top schools
Questions:Q1. I understand my work ex. is below the minimum threshold for admission into ISB. Please, do provide me tips on how I can further improve my profile and maximse my chances, any help would be appreciated
Q2. I feel my acads are below average to crack ISB and maybe, MBB firms also in the future. Please do advise on how I can compensate this? Should I increase my social work ex. or do some financial courses?
Q3. Please advise me on the kind of 'safe' score I should aim for when giving the GMAT?
Thank You!