Hi
SinghhChetan,
Thank you for sharing your profile. Your profile looks good on the surface. Starting with your work experience, I think this is one of the most competitive ones. I can see a good career trajectory. You will need to highlight the roles and responsibilities you have taken on and the impact they have had on the organisation. The finest aspect of your work experience is that you have worked on diverse projects, which may provide some wonderful stories of a responsible leader. Harvard, for several years now, places a great emphasis on considerable leadership experiences. Overall, a great work experience. When it comes to your ECs, they are very strong in their own right, bringing out your competitiveness and intellectual prowess. Another distinctive feature of your profile is your international experience. Your essays should focus on you as a person, any significant/difficult issue you handled well, or how a significant event in your life shaped you. I would say pick out the most impacting ones and craft a great narrative. Saying just entrepreneurship will not work for your post-MBA goals; you must have an idea of the direction you will follow. So, explore it.
Answering your queries:
1. What is the impact of dead backlogs on your admission?
As long as you curate a good application with strong gmat, there will be nominal attention to your dead backlogs.
2. I resigned from my job in November 2020 - working on my own web based application (Startup) . What would be the impact of the same on my application? Shall I join a full time job for the time being ?
You should give convincing reason for resigning and share your startup vision with the adcoms (If you resigned for startup). The startup could be interesting if it is in good form or can scale up quickly, and, more importantly, if it has some ties to your post-MBA goals. If you join now simply to fill something out on your application, you will be bombarded with questions. It might have a negative influence and call your decision-making into question. I believe you should concentrate on your startup and make a compelling case for the adcoms. Also, the fact that you have great work experience and ECs, which will undoubtedly assist you in demonstrating your abilities.
Overall you have a good competitive profile and had a shot at harvard. What matters most in your profile is
connecting the dots and creating a good narrative. If you’d like, we are happy to hop on a call with you sometime this week to discuss your profile in length and further chances to b-school. Feel free to
book a free session with us as per your convenience.
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SinghhChetan wrote:
Can someone please review my profile. (Thanks in advance)
GMAT - Yet to appear (targeting 750+)
10th - 89.4% (ICSE)
12th - 70% with PCM (ISC)
Graduation - B.tech (Production engineering) from Guru nanak dev Engineering college (70 %)
Nationality - Indian
Professional Experience- 41 Months of Full time work experience across manufacturing,trading
and energy industry (till november 2020)
Post November 2020 - Working on my own web based application (Startup), Working with
NGO’s as a project manager, Learning new skill sets (Certifications)
Professional Roles - Integral part of the Managing director’s strategy team, Deputy Manager
Business excellence team(Part of PMO)
Career key highlights -
1. Integral part of the Managing director's office team- Handled Coordinated and
managed frontend operations like Sales ,Strategy , IT, HR, VOC, Call centre.
2. Joined hero cycles as a business analyst to the plant head.Later I was promoted to
the business excellence team (Part of PMO). Established best practices across
industries,benchmarking, New product development, Product standardization,Cost
saving,Process automation,Digital transformation, Green field project.
3. Part of the corporate governance team - Coordinating with the government. officials
for upcoming policies on import export and subsidy in electric vehicles.
4. Handled a Cost saving project portfolio of 250 milllion INR
5. Part of CFT for greenfield plant project with the capacity of around 2 million bicycles
annually.Lead a CFT to design SOP’s for the new plant benchmarking the best practices in the
industry.
6. Synergized best practices and projects across plants in india with GROUP business
excellence initiative.
Extra-Curricular:-
1. Part of Technical societies:-
SCIE - Students chapter institution of engineers
(Executive member - Organized various technical events as a part of the
society-Awarded for the best event of the year)
2. Part of Cultural and art club:-
PFA - Photography and fine arts club
(Creative Head - Organized various events and took part in various inter college
photography competition)
3. Part of Non profit youth run organization acknowledged by colleges like ISB
and London School of economics
AIESEC - Non profit youth run organization across 120+ countries known for its
global exposure
- Cross cultural exchange with interns from ukraine,belgium,egypt ,russia,Uganda by
creating job opportunities for them in the city
-Best OCP (Organizing committee president ) Twice
-Generated revenue worth Rs 30000 from recruitment drives
-Interviewed more than 300+ students
-Handled a team of HR,Marketing,BD, Finance
-Collaborated and signed MoU with various brands and cafe's - Barter
marketing
-Conducted recruitment drives across colleges across the city
-Got my entity promoted to LC from an expansion
- Best Member of the year
4. Part of the core team for all cultural and technical fests
5. Due to flexible attendance - Volunteered as a trainee-utilized my time by taking
up practical knowledge of the industries to hone up my skills .
Also, Designed and conceptualized a logo for one of the companies from
scrap.
Post MBA goals - Entrepreneurship
Queries:-
1. What is the impact of dead backlogs on your admission?
2. I resigned from my job in November 2020 - working on my own web based
application (Startup) . What would be the impact of the same on my
application?
Shall I join a full time job for the time being ?