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Profile Evaluation for ISB

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SagarJaiswal

Current Student

Joined: 05 Apr 2021

Posts: 50

Own Kudos [?]: 12 [0]

Given Kudos: 46

Location: India

Concentration: General Management, Finance

Schools: IIMC MBAEx'23 (D) IIMA PGPX'23 (D) IIM (A) IIM (WA)

GMAT 1: 680 Q48 V34

GPA: 4

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Profile Evaluation for ISB [#permalink]

05 Apr 2021, 16:20

Hi Veterans,
I am looking forward to join ISB. I haven't given GMAT but gmat mock1 has put me on 640. Q49/V30 as of Apr5,21. I am aware of my weak areas and believe I would max out around 690-710 considering that I am thinking about round 1. Please evaluate my profile and suggest.

10th -88.8% (merit certificate in maths from CBSE for being in top 0.1 percentile)
12th -79.8%
Grad-B.tech civil from NBA tier1 college, passed with ~76% percent distinction.

Age -28

Work exp- 6.5 years in TCS. With 2.5 of which is in South Africa at Banking Client location. Currently in RSA handling operations of 9 countries. Not as project leader or managerial role. Have done few projects single handedly. I look into both business and IT sides of banking. I am technically very sound in banking and IT both.

E.C- 1) Few in organisation performance awards. Special intiatives, star of month, contribution to org. awards etc.
2) Worked over 2 years post graduation in a couple of NGOs simultaneously, got myself in newspaper and stuff.
3) I am recognized by both Education evaluation and IT skills evaluating bodies in South Africa
4) Had been in news for political party awareness campaign in Delhi.
5)Have done in house (organisation funded) "Project management" certification.
6) Had created a fb group for helping new joinees of organization. The strength of group stands at 2000+ members.
7) Active on quora, get around 3000+ views each month.
8) Organizing mobile game events.
9) Have membership of American society of civil engineers.
10) Several other school/college days certificates which I consider obsolete keeping I mind it's been a while.

Hobbies.1) Playing mobile game namely Pokemon go,PUBG etc.
2) Swimming with fins and everything
3)All kinds of gunshooting don't carry experience in snipers.
4) Have finished two marathons.
5) Currently busy learning guitar.

Thanks,
Waiting for reviews.

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Posts: 12745

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05 Apr 2021, 20:18

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MananS4G

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Joined: 26 May 2016

Posts: 1218

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Schools: ISB (A)

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Re: Profile Evaluation for ISB [#permalink]

06 Apr 2021, 02:49

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SagarJaiswal wrote:

Hi Veterans,
I am looking forward to join ISB. I haven't given GMAT but gmat mock1 has put me on 640. Q49/V30 as of Apr5,21. I am aware of my weak areas and believe I would max out around 690-710 considering that I am thinking about round 1. Please evaluate my profile and suggest.

10th -88.8% (merit certificate in maths from CBSE for being in top 0.1 percentile)
12th -79.8%
Grad-B.tech civil from NBA tier1 college, passed with ~76% percent distinction.

Age -28

Work exp- 6.5 years in TCS. With 2.5 of which is in South Africa at Banking Client location. Currently in RSA handling operations of 9 countries. Not as project leader or managerial role. Have done few projects single handedly. I look into both business and IT sides of banking. I am technically very sound in banking and IT both.

E.C- 1) Few in organisation performance awards. Special intiatives, star of month, contribution to org. awards etc.
2) Worked over 2 years post graduation in a couple of NGOs simultaneously, got myself in newspaper and stuff.
3) I am recognized by both Education evaluation and IT skills evaluating bodies in South Africa
4) Had been in news for political party awareness campaign in Delhi.
5)Have done in house (organisation funded) "Project management" certification.
6) Had created a fb group for helping new joinees of organization. The strength of group stands at 2000+ members.
7) Active on quora, get around 3000+ views each month.
8) Organizing mobile game events.
9) Have membership of American society of civil engineers.
10) Several other school/college days certificates which I consider obsolete keeping I mind it's been a while.

Hobbies.1) Playing mobile game namely Pokemon go,PUBG etc.
2) Swimming with fins and everything
3)All kinds of gunshooting don't carry experience in snipers.
4) Have finished two marathons.
5) Currently busy learning guitar.

Thanks,
Waiting for reviews.

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Hi SagarJaiswal,

Looking at your profile from four aspects,

Academics: Slightly above average. ISB considers 10th and 12th scores as part of their evaluation process.

Work-ex: I have evaluated the TCS banking practice, especially the wealth portfolio, as part of my pre-entrepreneurial life with one of the large banks and can vouch for its quality

You don't need a title / role to demonstrate leadership, the behaviors you would've demonstrated in your projects which you worked should be covered as part of your essays. It is good that you understand both the tech and business aspects of banking as it would come in handy during the interview. Make sure you also cover these aspects in the application form

Extra-curricular This is a healthy mix of initiatives outside work, especially the continuous learning you have demonstrated as part of #3 and I hope you were in the news for good reasons for #4.
The key would be to box them into certain themes so that it doesn't appear all over the place.

GMAT You are on the right track and should aim to be above ISB's average. If not, 700+ with a compelling application should give a more than fighting chance. For the 2021 intake, ISB did put more emphasis on the GMAT/GRE score and I'm hoping this should slightly reduce for 2022 intake if we don't have as many deferrals.

If the goal is for an MBA from India, you can also target the IIMs as your profile (esp international experience) is valued by them (esp IIMA) a lot.

Feel free to reach out in case of further questions. All the best with the GMAT prep, especially verbal

Manan
Co-founder, S4G | ISB Class of 2013
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mananpuri/

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