Please evaluate my profile
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14 May 2018, 18:35
Hi Team,
Thank you in advance for your time and guidance. Kindly review my profile and share your thoughts. Please note that am yet to give my gmat (currently getting 660 - 670 in mocks, aiming for 700+)
1) Background - Indian Female (29)
Education
2) Xth - 85%
XII th - 79 %
Undergrad - cgpa 7.6 in engineering in ECE from a university ranked 21 in India
3) WE - 8 years of work ex as a business system analyst in a top IT organisation with 2 years of international experience. Have experience of variety of projects such as development, maintenance, opearatons and ITIL services.
Have seen 3 role changes so far and have been leading teams with varying strength ( started with a team of 5 and moved on to manage a team of 30 members, all geographically distributed across 2 continents and multiple states) since last 4 years ( proactively took up this responsibility at a very early stage in my career, and team strength has been growing ever since).
Have Spearheaded large projects, leading functional and non-functional teams from different vendors, to deliver optimised business solutions. Have always played a client interfacing role and have interacted with senior leadership on multiple accounts.
Have conducted various automation drives in the organisation, spanning across multiple technologies such as analytics, and domains such as cards and healthcare. This has helped to establish new systems, and achieve dollar saves/ get more work from the clients.
Have been integral in generating revenue and growing the business, winning work at a time when business was slow. Have been part of proposals as well. Manage quality and finance related systems for my teams.
4) extra curricular
In school, have participated and won a lot of olympiads, art and dance completions. Also, was the class monitor.
During college, was involved in organising our 1st college fest. Being part of the management committee for the fest, was responsible for team and prop management. Also, managed a few events. Have represented my college in other fest as well.
At work, I Have conducted various account level and team level activities such as games, parties. Have conceptualised a play and written it’s script. Our team came 4th.
I have founded a group wherein I teach excel automation skills to those required.
I contribute to the knowledge repository of the organisation , by writing various knowledge documents( functional and non- functional ). I manage access and compliance related activities for my account.
5) community service
Active blood donor and I contribute/volunteer in such community activities ( planting trees, school bag drives, etc) held within my organisation. Have taught a woman in my neighbourhood. Actively participate in animal welfare activities. Created a small crowd fund to help a family in distress.
Awards: have won multiple awards in school and at work.
Post Mba goals - strategy consulting/product management/brand management
Question - i am targeting European schools such as HEC, Iese, ucd smurfit, etc. Please let me know if my target is achievable with my profile, even if I score less than 700 in gmat. Also, please suggest any other schools that I can include in my scope.