Riti4357 wrote:
Hello!
I am a female mechanical and automation engineer from India graduated in 2016. I am on an extended career gap since i graduated. I want to pursue my masters in finance but my profile is not tailored for the same currently. Landing an internship in finance has been a very tasking job and my attempts have been unsuccessful. However, I want to apply this year and I have begun my preparation for GMAT(full time right now). Could you please make any suggestions on how i can improve my profile and make up for the time lost in any way? I am open to studying in singapore , europe , US(if i could get any scholarships). Thank you.
Hi Riti:
I would love to make specific recommendations for how you can improve your profile, but it's impossible with the limited information I am being provided. I do appreciate the bit of information you have provided me about your background, but it's simply not enough for me to do a thorough and responsible job of offering on guidance.
For example, I have no idea why you have a significant gap after you graduated. Were you sick with some chronic or acute illness? Were you traveling the world on a fishing boat? Were you hiking through the Andes Mountains? Were you taking care of a sick parent?
You have told me that your background is not tailored for a Masters in finance. I can't take your word for that. I don't mean to sound disrespectful or brash, but I simply cannot take your word for that. I have to know what your background is so I can understand why it is you believe your background is not suited for a Masters in finance. Then I can understand how you think and how you make decisions and where you're coming from. Then I can offer pertinent advice.
You stated you are studying for the GMAT "full-time". What does "full-time" mean? Are you stating that you quit your job to study for the GMAT 40 hours a week? Or does this mean after you get home from your regular job, you then start studying for four or five hours per day? Without sounding the alarm bell, if you have quit your job to study for the GMAT, that looks very bad to an admissions committee. Certainly getting a high GMAT scores important, but they also expect you to maintain the other standards by which your application will be assessed. That means progressing your career along with applying to business school and taking the GMAT.
I appreciate that you are open to studying in Singapore, Europe or the United States. But I have no idea "why." Why is it necessary that you study in Singapore, for example? This isn't an exercise similar to choosing where you want to go on vacation. If you want to study in Singapore, we have to understand the advantages and disadvantages doing so presents to your career and your personal growth. Certainly when you apply to a school like NUS (for example), you need to articulate why the programs Singapore and Southeast Asia location is an incredible asset to you and your goals. So sad about being open to the idea of studying in a certain location, it's all about why you need to be in a certain city, country or region.
On that note, you need to determine what it is you want to do. Rhetorically speaking,
what on earth are your goals? I don't need to know them (even though that would be nice). Rather, you need to know them. Right now, I get the impression you have not vetted what it is you want to do with the MBA. I harp on this one point but you're asking me to assess the impossible. Think of it this way – the MBA serves as a bridge between where you are today and your current skills, and what you need to do to be successful in your longer-term goals. I don't know what it is you do now and I don't know what it is you want to do in the future. So therefore I have no idea why you need the MBA. Again, I don't mean to sound rude and that's not my intent at all - if I come across like that I apologize sincerely. But I want to raise a red flag here on your behalf. Figure out what you want to do first, fill me in with a little bit more of what you're doing right now – perhaps point me to your LinkedIn profile - and I can recommend a few meaningful things that can improve your profile.
Respectfully,
Paul Lanzillotti
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