Admissionado wrote:
sujoshk:
Our pleasure. You bring a very unique background, which could work in your favor if you play your cards right.
Can you give us more information about your undergraduate performance? What about extracurricular activities at school or after school (not at work)?
Any more color on your background is helpful. You should look at other posts throughout GMAT Club to give you a sense for the detail people share when asking for a
profile review and/or their chances at certain schools.
Also, what do you want to study at these schools? What are your post-MBA goals?
Lots to fill in here, so please post again when ready.
Dear
Admissionado,
For the most part I was not a great performer in college. Mostly have been around 70% ( 2.8 GPA ). It is my career where I shined through leadership and operational excellence, quality assurance ( used six sigma concepts on a daily and quantifiable basis ) to refine processes and improve efficiencies while also honing the creative aspect of the craft itself. As a chef in a management role, I had to tend to the business side of things such as
menu engineering ( data about the sales and margins of various dishes on the menu and using this information to take decisions to knock off or upsell individual dishes ),
customer quality feedback reports
banquet rate negotiations in conjunction with sales,
statutory compliances, food safety audits and luxury standard audits
curating food promotions and food festival while doing the relative profit and loss analysis
food cost report, projections etc
I had a fairly large portfolio and team to handle.
Had a busy covid experience. Creating and implementing new protocols and food safety standards. We also tied up with hospitals and made a contactless food service design for infected patients. We also underwent relevant audits and passed them with flying colors. Covid demanded that we innovate and pull business and so we were one of the first luxury hotel chains to foray into the food delivery business in the peak of covid. I have directly been part of all of this stuff.
With regards to hobbies, I am a musician and have been learning to play the piano. Mostly been playing classical pieces such as nocturnes of chopin, a bit of liszt here and there. My first instrument was the guitar.
There was a significant community involvement in my case as well as diverse cultural interaction. I have changed about 8 schools and stayed in 8 different cities during the course of my school life. All of these cities were in different states and each of these states had a different native language and culture. I had to learn to adapt. My father is a retired colonel of the army and we had to learn to adapt. There was no choice. Corporate social responsibility makes up a big part of the activities of my previous organization. I was intimately involved with the same. We used to run a program to train people from very humble backgrounds in order to enable them to find work in the industry. We did relief operations during the 2015 chennai floods.
There are a few stories like the ones above...
As for my post mba goals, I was hoping to get into either operations or consulting. I have a strength in improving processes and have intimately worked with people on a day to day basis. In fact people are the biggest asset for a hotel. Understanding and working with available talent has made me a decent judge of human potential. Body language and culture building were a major part of my job. I feel like hospitality doesn't have a whole lot to offer me anymore. I want to move onto a different industry. So yes, it is going to be a career shift for the most part.
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03 Jul 2022, 07:03
