MedStark wrote:
I'd like to kindly request you a profile evaluation on my candidacy for INSEAD. Here goes.
Nationality- Moroccan
Residence - France
Gender- Male
Age - 29
Grad- 3,6 GPA (Tier1 engineering school)
GMAT- 700(Q49, V37, IR6, AWA5)
Post MBA Goals:
Short Term : MBB Consulting
Long Term: Founding my own company with a focus on the African market // maybe do politics
Work Exp :
- 5+ years in a big telco company : I have joined the company within a specific an attractive recruitment scheme designed for high-potential graduates from the best international engineering and/or business schools. Rate of admission: 25 among 1500+ candidates (~1%).
- 4 different jobs/promotions in 5 years: deputy technical team manager (+100people), financial controller (~40m€), E-commerce strategist (Reporting to France's B2C E-commerce VP), Transformation program director (my current job).
-> Thanks to this experience, I have a transverse vision of the company that I want to consolidate with a mba from INSEAD (my dream school)
- Intrapreneurship: Since 2016, I devote part of my time to implement a solution that has become a major project: sponsored by an executive and included in the roadmap of the direction to which I belong.
Awards and Recognition :
- Merit scholarship awarded by the Moroccan government to pursue my studies in France
- Part of the high potential pool of my company
- Got promotion to the next level (there remains only one level to become top manager) as one of the youngest to access
- Had the opportunity to present my intrapraneurial project to the CEO and the executive committee.
Extra-Curricular Activities:
- Contribution to the seminaries organization dealing with strategic topics for the development of Morocco (politics has always interested me)
- Created and led, with HR, a think tank (50+ young employees, experts and senior executives ) on youth engagement based on design thinking techniques to empower young people in my company.
- During my studies, Moroccan representative within the “Assembly of Delegates of Residents’ Committee “ of the International University Campus in Paris which is the largest site hosting foreign students and researchers in France and maybe in the world (+12,000 students, researchers, artists and athletes from 127 countries !!!). My task was to represent the residents’ views on all issues to do with living on the International Campus and create bridges with other cultures.
Hi Medstark,
that's a great profile overall and I quite love it. You check a whole number of boxes for several b-schools, including INSEAD. You have international experience, diversity of experience, leadership experience through your initiatives, and excellent career progression. Your ECAs are somewhat differentiated (HR thinktank and Morocco related seminars) and would be more impactful if you have achieved some positive outcomes due to your efforts.
Now its your responsibility to submit a strong application. This includes a resume that shows your achievements, impact and career progression. Use strong, impactful action verbs for every pointer that showed you made a big difference to the activity in question. We see so many disappointing resumes every year even when applicants have excellent profiles otherwise. Along with the resume, your essays and recos need to be solid as well. Reach out f you need help with these.
Also, consider applying to LBS- great program for those have international orientation and its also top of the ranking charts.