ISB Profile Evaluation - Tools for B-School Profile Evaluation

Hi!

New to the forum, my name is akash, i am a textile designer by training. Finished my bachelor's from NIFT, bangalore and then went on to study at NID Ahmedabad. Did textile design in both the schools. I also had a semester exchange at NID to ENSCI, paris.

Work experience consists of 2 internships 2 months each and 2 graduation projects 6 months each. Worked for a year at a textile mill in surat, then worked at a design studio in bangalore and now engaged with the development sector.

My background is very vague I guess and my core skills are in textile and business development in this field. I feel that as a creative, your voice is not heard as much and people look up to the b school guys in the team for final decision making. This is the reason to consider applying. I am late for 21 intake i guess so i am considering the 22 intake instead.

I have identified isb and hec as some schools that are of my interest. But i am not sure. Working on my gmat right now, mock scores are about 610 but i know it needs to be better i guess. Just wanted to know of such a profile is considered at a B school like isb?

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Oh...a lottt better Akashtextile!

Hi Team,

It will be helpful if you guys can evaluate my profile for ISB:

10TH - 91%
12TH - 88.46%
B.TECH Mechanical engineering - 7.4/10 CGPA
GMAT - 720 (Verbal - 39, Quants - 49, IR - 5, AWA - 4)

Work experience - 10 months in a manufacturing firm and 2 years in a pharmaceutical consulting firm

My first 10 months of work experience in the manufacturing firm included engaging customers, providing a product-based solution to bulk material handling plants. In my tenure, I have improved the existing inventory management, designed a process that led to increased production with decreased operational cost. I worked on another project where I did desk research to identify the key steel-producing plants across countries and converted potential per area that could help me clustering the plants onto groups based on their proximity.

In my 2 years of tenures in the pharmaceutical consulting industry, I have been closely working with clients to help them in decision making. I have been part of projects related to Digital promotions and have helped in identifying key targets, measuring the past impact of promotions, and allocating of media dollars to optimize the promotional spend

Extracurricular - I have been part of a program where we taught underprivileged children; In college, I have volunteered various programs conducted by a club to look after the safety of stray dogs; I have been the head of the sports club for a year and also Robotics club

My future goal is to be a part of a strategic consulting organization where I will have a key role in making decisions for the clients that can impact a large section of society.

MBA will help me to gain knowledge in broader aspects and improve my decision-making and team-building skills through various group projects and case study format of pedagogy.

Thanks,
Sumit

Hi All,
Can someone evaluate my profile for ISB?
Xth: 94.00%
XIIth: 89.80%
CGPA: 6.70/10 NIT Allahabad- Mechanical Engineering
GMAT: 650(Q-50 V-28 IR-6 AWA-5)
Total WorkEx - 4 yrs 9 months (At the time of applying)

Job Profile:

L&T EWAC Alloys Limited
Application Specialist (Industrial Sales and Marketing)

Achievements:

• Awarded as the best sales representative for two consecutive years in my zone.
• Two promotions in a 3-year professional career.
• Head co-ordinator in the company's annual zonal conference, attended by CEO and Director.
• Successfully executed a challenging and important turnkey job at IOCL Haldia, handling 20 workmen.

Extra-Curricular:

• NCC B certificate
• NCC Best Cadet award in my college
• Formed athletics team of my college, now has more than 100 members and has won many Inter NIT events in the different NIT and different sports events in some
IITs.
• Represented college in Athletics at IIT Kanpur, IIT BHU, IIT Roorkee, NIT Jaipur, NIT Rourkela, NIT Kurukshetra, NIT Trichy for 1500m, 5000m, and marathon events
• Head of the coordinating committee for Annual Athletics meets held in college.
• Runner up in Robotics event in college technical meet.
• Formed alumni association of my college, now has more than 50 members, and donated blankets in slum area through mutual contribution.

Reason For MBA now:

Being from a Mechanical Engineering background and having experience of almost five years in the Maintenance and Repair consumables organization as a marketing manager, I have accumulated diverse experience and knowledge about the operational process, working culture, and business structure of different core sector industries in public as well as the private sector. Pursuing an MBA would provide me with the opportunity to get in-depth knowledge about setting up my own enterprise.

Any inputs will be very valuable for my candidature. How are my chances affected if I apply to ISB with my GMAT score?

Hi SumitC29995, transition from a manufacturing firm to a pharmaceutical consulting firm seems quite radical. How did that happen?

Dear Experts

I just received my Online GMAT score.
Score - 710 (Q49 V37 IR 5)

First GMAT as I had reported earlier 700 (Q49 V35 IR 7)

Is the IR score of GMAT online a Red Flag while applying?

Hello Nightfuryy,
You may want to aim for at least a 30 point increase in your GMAT score to make your profile competitive for ISB. Also, it will help you to talk about your accomplishments at work and leadership than providing a job description in your essays.
For your EC, are you involved in any EC and Volunteering activities that are recent?

Hi whitemiror, unless something has changed recently, ISB does not take IR scores into consideration.

Thank you very much RUCHIPCONSULTING for the valuable input, but I do not have any attempt left to appear for GMAT this year. So, I will have to stick with this score for my application.
As per my EC, I have donated blankets to poor children of an orphanage in Kolkata with the contribution from my college's alumni circle in Feb 2020. Will it be enough, given the COVID-19 pandemic from the last 6 months?

Hey,

Please evaluate my profile for ISB

AGE: 28 years
GMAT score: 640 (thinking if I should take it again, but would really not want to if not required)

Work Experience: Total experience 6 years
Currently working with BCG with the Principal Investors & Private Equity(PIPE) vertical.
Responsibilities include: Working on cases which are primarily
1. Due diligences for Private equity (PE) firms i.e. evaluation of potential investment targets through commercial due diligence
2. Portfolio Acceleration for PE portfolio companies which includes strategizing for portfolio companies on various fronts
3. Fund Strategy: helping drive fund strategy i.e. industries/geos to invest in etc
4. Driving Internal Initiatives at BCG that majorly involves ideation, development, deployment and driving adoption of digital tools for the due diligence process in the PIPE vertical

Previously worked with Moodys Analytics in their Private Equity & Venture Capital(PE/VC) Vertical
Responsibilities included:
1. Managing teams (9members) that work with PE/VC firms through out their deal cycle identifying companies, conducting due diligence, financial modelling, GTM, market research, valuations, post investment portfolio monitoring, helping in LP fund raising and LP reporting
2. Worked across industries healthcare, energy, utilities, technology particularly in the fintech space (payments, insuretech, personal finance, block chain crypto currency)
3. Helped ideate, develop, deploy and sell the company's portfolio monitoring tool to PE/VC funds

Also worked with a Saas product start up in the corporate strategy team help set up systems and processes in the company

First job was with a boutique Investment Banking firm helping execute Buy/Sell Side. Successfully executed 2 cross border transactions advising Indian companies on their acquisition by foreign players

Education
College of Business Studies, DU: 54.4% (Bachelors in Financial & Investment Analysis)
XII (Commerce): 81.8%
X: 84.4%

Future Aspirations
Would like to work at PE/VC firms.

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Hi, Please evaluate my profile for ISB:-

Age-28

Class X-85% (CBSE)
Class XII-80%(CBSE)
Graduation- B. Tech Mechanical Engineering (KIIT University)
CGPA-9.2
GMAT Score-650 (Q48,V31.IR-7)

I have 7+ years of work experience with one of leading Construction and Infrastructure companies in India
Responsibilities Include:-

1. Tender Cost analysis.
2. Vendor Development.
3. Coordinating drawing and design among all stakeholders while performing scope management
4. Finalizing subcontracts and providing technical clearance.
5. Schedule and cost management of varied projects across the region from the PMO (Project Management office)
6. Risk assessment and mitigation/transfer.
7. Procurement management by creating procurement management plan, procurement strategy and selecting appropriate contract type.

Achievements and Certification-

1. Was selected for internal Accelerated Leadership program (10/151).
2.Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

Extra-Curricular:-

1. Certified Advanced SCUBA diver (PADI).
2. Ardent Trekker.
3. Played cricket for District level in school days.

Hey, Please evaluate my profile

GMAT Expected Score-750
BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIIT Jabalpur
GPA 8.4/10(6th rank in class of 87)
HSC: 96.15% (3rd rank out of 1,20,000 students)
SSC: 91.33%

Work Ex:
~5 years at the time of application

1.Founder and CEO of a Startup developing assistive technology for people with speech and hearing disability.(started in early 2017)
-Taking care of product development , starting from Idea to Launch
-Raised fund of around 150,000$ in mixed of equity and grants
-Working with NGOs, Govt, Special schools for co-creation and co-execution
-Defining marketing strategy
-Working with business to create job roles for deaf people where using our technology they can perform as good as anyone else or better
-Managed a team of around 10 people.
Startup is still running though pace is bit slow because of COVID

2. Co-Founder and CTO of another startup working in the domain of Solid Waste Management and circular economy.
Products/Offerings- Effective Door to Door waste collection,Material Recovery Facility, Waste Recycling,
-Bootstrapped to a ~$2m annual revenue within 2 years
-Handling ~150MT/Day waste everyday
-Working with Govt Providing cleaner and sustainable world to 500,000+ population of multiple cities/towns
-Some of our products/Services have been chosen as best practices by state govt and recommended for implementation country wide under Clean India Mission of Govt of India
-Total team of 150+ people with offices at three different location


Patents
3 patents published, 2 granted


Extra Curricular Activities during College:
1.Only person in the class to be elected as Student Senate member all 4 years.
2.Associate Co-ordinator of Student Counselling Services
3.Head of Event Management for College's Cultural Festival
4.Media and PR Head for couple of other fests
5. Co-coordinator of literary club
6.Chief-Editor , Hindi for Institute's magazine
7.Started different initiative during for years related to cleanliness, Education for unprivileged and youth awareness.

Hello Nightfuryy,

Your experience and your profile is quite promising for schools such as ISB.

You can spin a great story around your career progression. Extracurriculars look dated. Again remember it's not about just adding extra curricular it's more about
what does it say about you as a person. Why are you different?

It's great that you have helped people during COVID times, however it has to be something that brings in a tangible longterm impact.

Your GMAT score is the only challenge - it's a good score, only that with the competition you will be facing it might be the only challenge.

You still have time till Jan to work on it - my suggestion would be to work on it in parallel along with your applications to give it another shot.

If you can improve by a 30-40 points it will improve your probability of admit for sure.

Hope this helps.

rgds,
Shree

Hi AbhinavSV, make this expectation a reality and everything else will fall in place!

Hi

I am looking to get me profile evaluated for ISB and to get some guidance on the application process. My GMAT score is 690 and I have diverse 3 years experience in Dairy Cooperative sector under several leadership roles. Due to government initiative and hard funding in dairy sector, I have done infra projects for my company. Due to my wide experience, I wish to work in operation management in the future and I am looking for someone to guide me and assess my chances at ISB.

Thanks

Gagan

Hi gagan03,

Your work experience, on the surface, looks good. To get an evaluation, you need to share more details, like your undergrad college and GPA, details of your work experience, ECs if any, hobbies you pursue and any other material info. You may provide the details here on the forum itself or mail ur CV, GMAT score, schools you are targeting, any major community service/hobbies you are involved in at shantanu@mbaandbeyond.com.
If you want to discuss your profile at length, feel free to book a free session with us as per your convenience.

Cheers!
Kashish Garg,
Community Manager, MBA and Beyond

On behalf of,
Shantanu Sharma,
Founder and Admissions Consultant, MBA and Beyond
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Hi
Requesting profile evaluation for myself.

Background:
IT Engineer Male Indian
Age - 29 (Soon to be 30)

Education
10th grade : 86.53%
12th grade: 83.00%
Engineering GPA - 4.0 (As per GMAC website)
GMAT: 740 (Quant - V51 , Verbal- V38 , IR - 8)

Work Experience:
7.5 years in IT MNC. Worked as a software quality engineer/scrum master for US based telecom clients.
3 years experience working in US at client location with daily interaction and client handling role.
Experience with managing and leading teams for both offshore and onshore.
Received multiple recognitions during my career for showing good work ethics and leadership qualities from employer as well as clients.
Completed IT certifications provided by PMI for project management and scrum.

Extra- Curricular Activities:
Currently part of JOSH team at my employer which is responsible for organizing fun/social activities at org level.
Volunteered for an NGO in college and currently at work (don't have certificate to justify this)
Organized and participated different events at college.
Vice-President of my school.
Have achievements in terms of participation of Cricket, football during my schooling and now work days. Now I play for my company's corporate team.

LOR's -
Can provide letter of recommendation from my current and previous program managers.
Also checking with my previous US client for the same.

Post MBA goals

Goal is to get into Consulting.
Short Term: Strategy/Management Consulting
Long Term: Take up a general management role(maybe a role in strategy and planning team) for an established firm

Thanks in advance

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