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Hi,

Please evaluate my profile.

Balaji A, 25 years, Indian Male

GMAT: Yet to take, aiming for 740+

Education

Bachelor of Technology (Civil) – National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli – 7.43 (2008 - 2012)
Class XII - 88% CBSE (2008)
Class X - 89.45% (Matric.) (2006)


Work Experience

3 years 7 months at the time of application

Business Head – Zepo Couriers 1 month (May 2016 – Present) [Start-up]
Business Development Officer – Zepo - 1 year 3 months (Feb 2015 – April 2016) [Start-up]
Senior Engineer (Execution) – Larsen & Toubro – 11 months (July 2013 – May 2014)
Graduate Engineer Trainee – Larsen & Toubro – 1 year (July 2012 – June 2013)

Cons: I had a brief 8-month gap in my employment after L&T. I took a break working with Make a Difference and practicing Contemporary Dance. I used this time to figure out what I really wanted to do and chose to go with the start-up for the profile I wished for.

Other than this I have done research projects with IIT- Madras & BPCL during my college time.

Volunteer Activities

Make A Difference – Fundraising Intern – 10 months (August 2014 – May 2015)

MAD empowers children living in orphanages and street shelters to discover their true strengths and unleash their full potential.

As a fundraising intern, my responsibilities included the following:

- Part of Bengaluru's Fundraising team, creating sustainable fundraising products with increasing revenue; Products include a rock concert, city’s largest corporate football tournament, a golf tournament.
- As Project Champion, led the Bengaluru chapter of ‘MAD-O-Mania’ (with a team of 35 volunteers), a school-based talent search event and effected a net fundraising of 3 lakhs INR through the event.
- As a team, brought in a net revenue of approx. 20 lakhs INR in 9 months.


Guardians of Dreams – Fundraising Intern – 9 months (September 2015 – Present)

Guardians of Dreams is a social start-up focused on a research based approach to ensure equal life outcomes for children living in orphanages and street shelters.

Our organization got selected for the Bootcamp at ISB’s Social Venture Competition 2015.
https://www.isb.edu/idiya

As a fundraising intern, my responsibilities included the following:

- Trained and set up the Sponsorship team for the Bengaluru Chapter.
- Recruited volunteers for the Bangalore Chapter.
- Worked on securing In-kind sponsorship for Shelter renovation project in Bangalore & Kochi.

Extra-curricular Activities

Leadership

Organizing Head (Core Member) - Festember 2011 - National level Cultural Festival, NIT-Trichy
• led a committee of 120 members and charted their respective duties
• efficiently handled Rs. 10 lakhs to execute the 50+ events with a footfall of 10,000+ participants.

Organizing Head - Moments 2012 -National level Symposium Civil Engg. Dept., NIT-Trichy
• led a committee of 50 members
• efficiently handled Rs. 2 lakhs to execute the events and workshops.

Teamwork

• Coordinator, Organizing Comm. Festember 2009
• Coordinator, Workshop Comm. Moments 2010
• Dy. Manager, Organizing Comm. Festember 2010
• Member - Apekshaa, Social service Organization by students of NIT-Trichy.


Honors & Awards

• Central Sector Scholarship by MHRD, Govt. of India based on merit of excellence in AISSCE.
• Diploma in Karate - Black Belt - 1st Dan - International Shotokan Karate Federation of India.
• Team Kata Championship - 1st Place at 2nd All India Open Sports Karate Championship.
• Performed Contemporary dance at Inspirit ’15, an annual dance show conducted by Nivesaa.


Hi

While your profile overall is good, you will still need to be careful in explaining the 8 month gap between L&T and Zepo. A career break just 2-3 years into your job can raise questions (not saying these cannot be answered, but that you will need to focus on this and answer them in the optional essay). Your extra curriculars are quite strong and so is your academic profile. If you can top that up with a good GMAT score (700 and above, preferably), you should be in good shape. Also, was your work at L&T related to supply chains? If it was, that can be a further connect with Zepo. The ISB iDiya selection really helps. Given your achievements and contributions, you can make it.

Focus on the GMAT for now and feel free to come back with further questions.
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