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saivijay20,
Thank you for sharing your profile. Your profile looks good on the surface. Starting with the stats, your undergrad GPA is good, and you have a quite good GRE score. In terms of work, I can see a clear career progression in your profile from startup to MNC. Your profile has good examples of powerful leaders as well as insightful contributions in the organizations where you are now working. You can speak about the roles and responsibilities you've undertaken and their impact on the organization. Your entrepreneurship experience seems to be good. I'd like to learn more about it because it might be one of your major USPs. Your startup experience can be interesting if you can communicate it well. Overall, you have good work experience, but it all comes down to how you tell your narrative and leave an impression on the adcoms. In terms of your ECs, they appear to be good. Your interest in sports and stories about them will add diversity to your profile.
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Hello Experts,
would be extremely appreciated if you can provide me a review of my profile. Below are the details,
Indian, Male, 27 years, Engineer
GRE - 328 (160V, 168Q)
Work Exp - 5+ years
Education - Undergrad degree from top 5 colleges of India
Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship graduate from MIT Bootcamps 2019 - 1 of 94 students selected from 54 countries cohort, <5% acceptance rate. The final 4 teams got to pitch for investors and the only team to attract investors to fund
NIT Trichy 2016 passed out - 8/10 CGPA, actively involved in organizing college fests, sports, and head of the department web-dev team.
Work experience - 5+years work ex in two companies (MNC & a startup), two industries (Media &Advertising, Automobile) with 3 promotions overall
Right now working as a manager providing high-end analytical solutions to companies clients -
Have been actively involved in building strategy for the team, moved the team from traditional working ways to the agile way of working, planning and managing 10 people work on providing analytics solutions to 10+ clients worth 30% of company revenue, building a new verticle of advanced analytics solution for the company, and clients from scratch.
Prior to that, worked as a senior analyst and analyst-
worked on providing high-end reporting and analytics solutions to clients, product owner of an application that drives major analytics of the company, Mentored and trained colleagues, Handled and drove conversations with multiple clients and multiple accounts. Launched 2 programs worth $5M successfully right now defining, optimizing, and implementing. Implemented few analytics solutions that increased efficiency and reduced costs by almost 40%
Entrepreneurship experience - working actively on creating green and sustainable products.
Failed to launch the beta product in the market that attracted 20+clients in < 2 months
The startup I worked as an Intern is awarded as NEXT GEN B2B Startup by Global shapers community in germany - Took active part in strategizing products, bringing new clients, etc.
Extra-Curricular- District-level player - participated in many tournaments and built a team from scratch in school.
Corporate team vice-captain - won few corporate tournaments, intra and inter.
Actively provided coaching to kids on sports.
A group of students and I started providing free coaching to students who want to establish a career in analytics
Raised a few fundraising and safety awareness campaigns.
Post-MBA goals - Short-term: To establish a career in consulting and work for MBB as a strategy consultant offering high-end solutions to clients and learn industrial challenges. or second preference would be working as a product/program manager for a top tech company
Long-term: To build my own consulting firm, or venture into a start-up solving a real-world problem and add value to the future - majorly focusing on accessible education, sustainability, green earth
Please do evaluate the profile of my strengths, weaknesses, unique selling points, schools to target
Thanks in advance.
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