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mehuldixit
02 Sep 2014, 11:10
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My profile is as follows
Indian / Male / 29 yrs old / Non-IT background
Xth - 91.4% CBSE
XIIth - 88% Maharashtra State Board
BE - 66% from Nagpur university in 2006
2 years of techie work ex after that in techmahindra from 2006-08
MBA from Scmhrd between 2008-10. GPA - 2.7/4
Worked for a top FMCG firm (Gsk consumer healthcare ltd) between 2010 till Feb 2014.
I was an area sales manager and led teams from size 5 to 10. Then was a Brand manager for 1.5 yrs and was part of a very successful brand team (Brand Sensodyne). I was the only one shifting to brands from sales in that year in my company. Overall good leadership exp in this phase of my career and lots of challenging assignments to talk about.
Currently I am working with a mktg analytics startup in Bangalore as a Domain consultant for CPG and have a team of 3 business analysts reporting to me. This is exciting work with most clients from the US and Europe. The culture is very different from a FMCG firm and one of the reasons I joined. I wanted to exp working in start ups before I went in for another MBA to better understand their challenges.
I have been an active quizzer throughout my college life and have won a few national level quizzes. I was part of the university quiz team. I have played football for the college team and I am a runner. I have ran a few 10ks and plan to run the half marathon in oct and I am training for it.
I have been active in committees and event organising (headed quiz comms, cultural festivals etc) and have been part of my earlier mba school's placement committee.
My aim is one of the following colleges Wharton / Kellogg / Ross / Stern. I was planning on keeping Anderson and Cornell as safe schools (Any suggestions on how is Kenan-Flagler, North Carolina would help).
Future aspirations are to enter consulting or get into a good program of a top consumer goods company as plan B.
Any comment on how realistic my college list is and which colleges to apply to would be great. Thanks.
Indian / Male / 29 yrs old / Non-IT background
Xth - 91.4% CBSE
XIIth - 88% Maharashtra State Board
BE - 66% from Nagpur university in 2006
2 years of techie work ex after that in techmahindra from 2006-08
MBA from Scmhrd between 2008-10. GPA - 2.7/4
Worked for a top FMCG firm (Gsk consumer healthcare ltd) between 2010 till Feb 2014.
I was an area sales manager and led teams from size 5 to 10. Then was a Brand manager for 1.5 yrs and was part of a very successful brand team (Brand Sensodyne). I was the only one shifting to brands from sales in that year in my company. Overall good leadership exp in this phase of my career and lots of challenging assignments to talk about.
Currently I am working with a mktg analytics startup in Bangalore as a Domain consultant for CPG and have a team of 3 business analysts reporting to me. This is exciting work with most clients from the US and Europe. The culture is very different from a FMCG firm and one of the reasons I joined. I wanted to exp working in start ups before I went in for another MBA to better understand their challenges.
I have been an active quizzer throughout my college life and have won a few national level quizzes. I was part of the university quiz team. I have played football for the college team and I am a runner. I have ran a few 10ks and plan to run the half marathon in oct and I am training for it.
I have been active in committees and event organising (headed quiz comms, cultural festivals etc) and have been part of my earlier mba school's placement committee.
My aim is one of the following colleges Wharton / Kellogg / Ross / Stern. I was planning on keeping Anderson and Cornell as safe schools (Any suggestions on how is Kenan-Flagler, North Carolina would help).
Future aspirations are to enter consulting or get into a good program of a top consumer goods company as plan B.
Any comment on how realistic my college list is and which colleges to apply to would be great. Thanks.
02 Sep 2014, 11:41
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Hi Mehul,
Thanks so much for posting and creating a new topic! So - let's talk about the 800lb gorilla in the room first. Why do you want your second MBA? That's a pretty BIG question for you to answer. Not only for the adcoms, but to pick schools in the first place. Most MBA programs won't let you apply if you already have an MBA.
Bhavik
Thanks so much for posting and creating a new topic! So - let's talk about the 800lb gorilla in the room first. Why do you want your second MBA? That's a pretty BIG question for you to answer. Not only for the adcoms, but to pick schools in the first place. Most MBA programs won't let you apply if you already have an MBA.
Bhavik
mehuldixit
02 Sep 2014, 11:53
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Hey Bhavik,
The simple truth is i did not learn enough from my first mba. For 2 reasons
1. I wasnt there as a professional when i went in to do that mba to have a well rounded perspective of what i was learning
2. Quality of education imparted was clearly not in the same league. But that's the admit i had in hand.
The earlier mba got me a job that gave me perspective on business, how industry works and made me appreciate rigor and drop all the fashionable "i-am-too-cool-to-do-this-job" (an affliction especially common in newly recruited IT professionals) pretense and take interest in what i do. Because it was a choice i made. So the first mba has contributed significantly in my career. But i believe it has run its course. I will need a skill upgrade (because i dint pick much in the first one) and because i have a desire to work in internationally i need to join a course that lets me do both.
This mba i believe i am actually ready to learn and get the best out of the course. And hence would like to go to one of the better schools in the world. That's the plain truth. Maybe needs to be said differently for the adcom.
The simple truth is i did not learn enough from my first mba. For 2 reasons
1. I wasnt there as a professional when i went in to do that mba to have a well rounded perspective of what i was learning
2. Quality of education imparted was clearly not in the same league. But that's the admit i had in hand.
The earlier mba got me a job that gave me perspective on business, how industry works and made me appreciate rigor and drop all the fashionable "i-am-too-cool-to-do-this-job" (an affliction especially common in newly recruited IT professionals) pretense and take interest in what i do. Because it was a choice i made. So the first mba has contributed significantly in my career. But i believe it has run its course. I will need a skill upgrade (because i dint pick much in the first one) and because i have a desire to work in internationally i need to join a course that lets me do both.
This mba i believe i am actually ready to learn and get the best out of the course. And hence would like to go to one of the better schools in the world. That's the plain truth. Maybe needs to be said differently for the adcom.
