inexistent wrote:
Hi,
Please evaluate my profile for ISB:
Age: 34 yrs
GMAT Score: 680 [Quant:48 , Verbal:34, I.R.:5 , AWA:4]
Educational Qualifications:
Graduation: Completed B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from ITER under BPUT University Odisha in 2010 with 7.77 cgpa.
12th: 67.20% from Science stream under CBSE
10th: 76.40% CBSE
Work Experience:
Approx 10 years.
1.6 years - Jindal Steel and Power- Platemill commissioning project.
5 years - BEML ( PSU under Min of Defence) - Mix of R&D and Marketing Division.
2.5 years - ACG (Pharmaceutical Machinery) - Head of New Product Development
Current - 1.5 years at a start-up
Long term: Entrepreneurship
Short term: Product Management role.
Extra Curricular:
Educational YouTube Channel.
Started a mobile based quiz competition at ACG.
Learned app creation basics and created an app for product specifications at one of my companies.
Member of cultural and sports committee at college.
Represented college in volleyball.
Represented school (12th) in kabaddi - winner of inter-school tournament.
HOBBIES:
Pranayama and meditation.
Singing and listening songs.
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Hey
inexistent,
To start off with the strong suits in your profile, you have got an extensive amount of work experience. Big brands like BEML and Jindal Steel and power certainly play a part in bolstering your profile, as you’d be facing competition from applicants from big4 companies.
Moreover, working for a startup also shows your entrepreneurial skills. In all these experiences, talking about the roles and positions you undertook, the teams and projects you led and the impact you created in those positions would help you establish yourself as a strong candidate.
Additionally, you come across as an academically strong candidate owing to your GPA of 7.77 that highlights your academic prowess. Furthermore, you have mentioned that you have scored a 680 in your GMAT exam which is pretty competitive but falls a bit short when compared to your target school - ISB. Therefore, a retake is definitely what I suggest (target score - 700+) However, if you are not planning to retake your GMAT exam, you can surely work with a 680 score, provided you ensure backing your profile with a very strong application. Since GMAT scores carry only 20% of weightage in your acceptance criteria, you can draw attention to other aspects of your profile such as work experience and extracurricular activities to overshadow this minor drawback.
Furthermore, your participation in extracurricular activities is equally important as it will showcase a holistically developed profile which is what the schools are looking for. Needless to say, you definitely possess a decent hold on your extracurricular activities through your active involvement in an educational youtube channel as well as your initiatives taken at ACG. However, to further boost your profile you can also talk about any major certifications that you undertook to highlight your constant thirst for knowledge and upscaling your skills. One thing that is missing in your profile is a socially responsible aspect that you can showcase by taking part in CSR activities and creating significant impacts. All in all, you need to dig deep into every aspect and bring out varied skills in your profile.
Moving on to your school choice, ISB comes under the dream category where your chances of acceptance will be something around 40-50%. That said, to hedge your bets wisely, a better strategy, in this case, would be to target a mixed bunch of schools from the dream, competitive and safe category.
Here are a few schools that you can be looking at:
Dream: Ivey, Duke, Rotman, INSEAD, LBS
Competitive: ESSEC, ESMT, Babson, Boston, Purdue
Safe: Skema, EDHEC, Grenoble
Lastly, it is important to be mindful of the fact that you’d be competing with much stronger profiles compared to yours. This is why I’d suggest you lay emphasis on your admission application as a strong application holds 30% of weightage in the entire admission process and is also the way through which you can highlight your strengths and give apt justifications for your weaknesses to smooth over any flaws in your profile. Moreover, a strong application sets you apart from the rest of the competition and hence it is imperative that you use this tool in your arsenal to the best of your advantage.
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05 Jan 2021, 18:34
