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Hello RKBMaksim,

Thanks for writing in.

The target score looks good and will help you achieve the kind of admits you are looking at. Of course, putting forth essays that focus on your skills and achievements and tie your career goals up with your experience in a logical manner will be very crucial as well.

Good luck!

Hi RKBMaksim , hope you are well

You have a fairly long career in Finance behind you, and this could go in either direction if in your application you do not convincingly address key points such as:

1. Career Progression
The schools would be interested to see how you grew year on year in the last 7 years in terms of knowledge, professional opportunities, management skills and responsibilities. Make sure that someone glancing over your resume and reading your narrative clearly agrees with the upward trajectory of your accomplishments that is currently not coming through in the points you mentioned above.
Your career decisions should seem logical and align with what you are trying to achieve in the long term.

2. Extra Curriculars/ Outside work initiatives
For Finance professionals seeking MBA, showcasing a balanced right brain thinking and search for meaning beyond the numbers is also important. While you may not have been consistent in your outside work pursuits, I hope that this brief write up would help you massage your memory to recall instances where you subconsciously took initiatives that helped address some social concerns.

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3. Motivation to study/work in another geography
It appears that you spent most of your professional life in Australia, where you would have invested time and effort into building your social capital. Therefore, a desire to change geography (or pursue an MBA abroad) at this stage in your career would be an important point to address convincingly. In addition to a plausible explanation for your plan, demonstrate active engagement with MBA school alumni network or/and potential recruiters to position your candidacy strategically during the admissions process.

4. GMAT
Needless to say that you must target upwards of 730 on GMAT to remain competitive.

Best wishes

Hi, RKBMaksim,

Thank you for your post!

First of all, you have a good overall academic background, and clearing the CFA level two along with your RG146 compliance would definitely help you leverage them in your resume. Coming to your profile, target a score around 740+; it would definitely help you cement your spot in top MBA programs. Moreover, your professional profile is quite interesting, given the diverse roles you have played in different institutions. Now it may look disjointed; hence, what I would suggest you is to connect your experiences and use them as an example of developing new skill-sets, facing new challenges, and treating them as new learning opportunities that would help you achieve your post-MBA goals.

Also, I feel there is much work left for you on the ECA front - you need to include examples of leadership, the challenges faced, the impact created, and also need to work on improving and adding relevant accolades. Moreover, mention your post-MBA goals and work on connecting your experience with them, as you would require to convince the admission committee that your future goals are relevant and collinear with your past experience!

All in all, you do have a relevant profile; a lot depends on your GMAT Score; hence ensure that you give your all. Also, focus on boosting your ECAs, which would, in turn, help you bring diversity to your application. If you’d like, we are happy to get on a call with you sometime this week to discuss your profile in length and further chances to the schools. So feel free to book a free session with us at your convenience.

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