rhtmhjn wrote:
Background and nationality - Indian
Undergrad Information - B. Technology, electronics and communication, Non IIT/NIT, 69%
GMAT: 730
Work experience and leadership - More than 5 years in total.
Electrical engineer incharge in offshore industry with experience on vessels and in shipyard. During my training period, I was recommended to be promoted to an independent role before the actual time period. Was first one in my company to get promoted that soon. As an electrical engineer I was incharge of everything electrical and electronic with a small assisting team. Job included operational management, maintenance, installation and repair of electrical systems. Was a part of major offshore operations such as rig towing, platform service/support, underwater oil pipeline inspections with help of underwater robotic vehicles for different clients such as Exxon-mobil, GSPC, Reliance, ONGC etc. Was electrical supervisor/inspector for construction and commissioning of multimillion dollar platform support vessel from a Chinese shipyard to Nigeria. Passed numerous classification surveys by independent bodies such as DNV, ABS etc. Never had a single electrical downtime in my career. Have taught and supervised interns, and reported their performance.
Last year I quit to join an IT startup to get hands on business experience. Joined as an intern and got promoted to product strategy role after 3 months. Company is very fast growing and has over 15million users now. Managing product strategy now. It's been one year here.
Community and others - Coordinator in a local NGO dealing in awareness campaigns and free medications in rural areas. Coordinator of college youth fest fund raising team. Won and participated in several art competitions during schools and college days. Won annual inter-school quiz competitions twice in a row.
Have completed 2 coursera courses by UPenn in Marketing and financial accounting.
International experience(if any) - Areas of work include: India(2yrs), China(6 months) and Nigeria(15months). However, for few months was in involved in projects in Singapore, Cape town as well.
Post MBA goals - Work in a consulting/ strategy (in sustainability if possible)
I relate everything thing to creativity. I am an art buff since childhood and have participated, won several art competitions during college and school days. Be it my learning process or troubleshooting methods I try to find different ways to do so. However, lack of time has slowed me down. I don't devote much time to art now. Still, last October I organised an art exhibition with a theme of Human emotions. It was covered by local media. I am not sure how relevant this hobby, still i will write it here to get some feedback.
My concern- I am not able to relate my past with present and present to future. My experience and qualification in electrical sets me up to understand major sustainable technologies, but I can't vividly think of how to lay that out on paper. energy/power--IT business role--sustainability. I don't want to risk my admission because of lack of clarity in goals, so even if you suggest me something about altering my goals a bit I'm all ears.
I am targeting top 5-15 US b-schools or Insead. Or please give your suggestions.
Hey dude,
Good to hear from you!
So nice GMAT score there. It should help you come a looooong way with your applications. Now I have some good news and some bad,
Let's get the bad news out of the way first - Top 10 schools will be very tough with your profile. You lack the school, the grades, and the job for these schools which are soooo competitive, in which lacking any one of those, not to mention all three could make things iffy. Additionally, as the GMAT averages creep skyward, things get EVEN tougher for Indian candidates. Here are two articles that can illustrate how tough things can get. But no, I do not think you should retake the GMAT:
https://admissionado.com/mba/3-tips-for- ... n=mba_bloghttps://admissionado.com/mba/to-retake-o ... n=mba_blogNow for the good news: There are plenty of amazing programs, which can boost your career in the 10-30 ranking, which would be about where you should apply.
Let's start with two things:
1. Your goals - Okay, you don't know what you want to do. But it's not rocket science. It just needs to make sense and have some connect with your past, while at the same time being ambitious and managerial enough to require an MBA. What you ACTUALLY do after you graduate... well heck! who knows?
2 - How you present yourself - This is probably the most important thing in your profile. And it needs work! Right now you are presenting yourself as an engineer - your skills and tasks and achievements are all "engineery". But this is an MBA! They don't have about that. What they care about is:
a) LEADERSHIP
b) BUSINESS
So you need to retranslate how you conceive of yourself into those terms in order to make the best possible application!
I hope this helps! And feel free to drop us a line for a
free consultation.
Best,
JF
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20 Aug 2017, 00:13
