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Profile Evaluation Please - PhD - Marketing 18 Aug 2016, 04:43
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Hi,

Can someone please evaluate my profile?

Age: 28
Gender: M
Ethnicity: Indian
GPA (MBA in Finance and Marketing-Dual Major) - 3.26 out of 4.33 (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade)
GPA (Engineering in Electronics and Communications Engineering) - 8.34 out of 10

Work experience:
1.5 years: Worked as a Account Management in Amazon

Roles and Responsibilities -

-Managed two categories - Sunglasses and Apparels
-Taking up challenges like deriving strategies to increase the sale of the account managed sellers. Building strong communication channels at all levels of the seller’s organization, setting proper expectations and providing clear status communications are a part of my day in day out task.
-Developing key metrics and performance indicators to measure overall financial performance and provide foundation for continuous improvement.
Conduct deep dive analysis and provide routine executive-level reporting on the seller’s current business and future opportunities.

2 years+: Academic Head of an Education Institution (Start-up)
Domain - Education

Roles and Responsibilities -
- Faculty for Quantitative Aptitude, Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation
-Content Development : Developed structured course material for various management entrance examinations for close to 10,000 students
- Mentored and Counselled Students, regarding their preparation for various MBA entrance examinations (Mostly CAT,XAT)
Achievements
• Awarded: Top rating in 2012,receiving an overall score of 4.4 out of 5
• Recipient:3rd highest rating in 2011, garnering an overall score of 4.05 out of 5

Internship and Training -

Company - Daikin India
Project Title -
- Project ‘Reach’ – Gathering insights from influencers to increase penetration and Daikin’s distribution network in Eastern India
- Primary Research : In-depth interviews with all major influencers in HVAC segment to develop priority based profiling
- Analysis of profiles developed in previous phase, followed by further primary research to understand KPIs and pain points, finally providing recommendations to Daikin’s R&D
- Understanding the distribution channel and dealer networks, finding bottlenecks and loopholes, and finally recommending necessary changes to increase efficiency of dealer distribution network

Reason for PhD - Interested in being the Education and Research domain. Teaching I believe is what I do best and that can be seen from my current work experience as an Academic Head. I want to do a PhD in Consumer Behaviour (focus being on Market Research and Analysis).

GMAT: Target 700-750 (gave a mock test without prep yesterday and got 640)

Target schools:
Duke Fuqua
INSEAD
SIM
Nanyang
I am still deciding other colleges - not necessarily only US based - would really appreciate a few suggestions here :)

Thank you!