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30 May 2010, 09:15
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Hi Alex,
Need your help to provide some input about the school range I should focus on this year (for R1).
General:
Female/Taiwanese/25yr/720/GPA 3.2/Engineering under from the top school in my country /WE ~4yr when apply at R1: 2yr engineer, 1yr&4months program manager, 3months ~now marketing/brand management
Work experience:
At the beginning of my career, I went to a famous US chip company development center because of the chance to work on the cross-country projects with team members from US HQ and also to gain more solid experience of the development process. After 2 years experience I switch to a Taiwan brand company (fortune 500) to be the strategic vendor management, I was in charge of partner strategic alliance program to plan on global promotion program and some innovative products with our business partner (a software giant…). Thanks to the ability to manage the global project and solid technical background, I was invited to join global marketing team and work on the sub brand build-up after being 1.5 years program manager. Now I am still work with big vendors to negotiate for more resources on co promotion activities.
In my college time, I have lots of fund raising experience for our departments’ activities and graduation activities. I started early to deal with those companies to persuade them investing their money, and I extend this specialty to my first job. I helped my department to get sponsorship from my first company and build up long term recruitment relationship. For other extracurricular activities such as community services, I always worked on the role to build up the relationship and get the sponsorship.
Short term: management consulting (Do you think this is somewhat achievable for me?)
Long term: back to tech industry and focus on strategy planning role
After reading your post about the cultural problem of Asians, I think I will try to make myself not too technical/analytical. I plan to apply for Kellogg, Wharton, Chicago, UCLA and Duke (Any other school recommend?). Do you think I can take a try on HBS or there’s no need to throw my money into water? Please kindly help to evaluate my profile. Thanks Alex.
Need your help to provide some input about the school range I should focus on this year (for R1).
General:
Female/Taiwanese/25yr/720/GPA 3.2/Engineering under from the top school in my country /WE ~4yr when apply at R1: 2yr engineer, 1yr&4months program manager, 3months ~now marketing/brand management
Work experience:
At the beginning of my career, I went to a famous US chip company development center because of the chance to work on the cross-country projects with team members from US HQ and also to gain more solid experience of the development process. After 2 years experience I switch to a Taiwan brand company (fortune 500) to be the strategic vendor management, I was in charge of partner strategic alliance program to plan on global promotion program and some innovative products with our business partner (a software giant…). Thanks to the ability to manage the global project and solid technical background, I was invited to join global marketing team and work on the sub brand build-up after being 1.5 years program manager. Now I am still work with big vendors to negotiate for more resources on co promotion activities.
In my college time, I have lots of fund raising experience for our departments’ activities and graduation activities. I started early to deal with those companies to persuade them investing their money, and I extend this specialty to my first job. I helped my department to get sponsorship from my first company and build up long term recruitment relationship. For other extracurricular activities such as community services, I always worked on the role to build up the relationship and get the sponsorship.
Short term: management consulting (Do you think this is somewhat achievable for me?)
Long term: back to tech industry and focus on strategy planning role
After reading your post about the cultural problem of Asians, I think I will try to make myself not too technical/analytical. I plan to apply for Kellogg, Wharton, Chicago, UCLA and Duke (Any other school recommend?). Do you think I can take a try on HBS or there’s no need to throw my money into water? Please kindly help to evaluate my profile. Thanks Alex.
30 May 2010, 10:45
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I think you're applying to a good range of schools - you should be able to get into at least some of them, assuming you put together some strong applications.
Based on what you wrote, it seems like your career and extracurriculars are more project management, less technical - which can be an asset in b-school applications. I get a sense that your success in your job(s) to date is highly dependent on your ability to get other people to be effective in their work - if that's the case, that's something you need to really emphasize in your applications.
As for management consulting, I think it's a reasonable thing given your background -- consulting firms really do value those who are great with people because that's the biggest part of the job - which is interacting with clients. If you have strong communication skills (you're good at presentations, one-on-one conversations with all kinds of people from the factory worker to the execs), you will do well in consulting.
As for HBS, you may have an outside shot that if you really want to apply, go for it -- you have enough other schools on the list where you have a reasonable shot of getting in that it may be worth giving HBS a shot. Given that HBS is 100% case method (you spend your entire two years *talking*), they really put a premium on your communication skills -- which they will try and infer from your essays and then in the interview. And that doesn't mean you have to be as fluent in English as a native English speaker (although quite a number of them are) -- it's more about your raw communication skills. In other words, you can still be a strong communicator even if your English is less than perfect.
Based on what you wrote, it seems like your career and extracurriculars are more project management, less technical - which can be an asset in b-school applications. I get a sense that your success in your job(s) to date is highly dependent on your ability to get other people to be effective in their work - if that's the case, that's something you need to really emphasize in your applications.
As for management consulting, I think it's a reasonable thing given your background -- consulting firms really do value those who are great with people because that's the biggest part of the job - which is interacting with clients. If you have strong communication skills (you're good at presentations, one-on-one conversations with all kinds of people from the factory worker to the execs), you will do well in consulting.
As for HBS, you may have an outside shot that if you really want to apply, go for it -- you have enough other schools on the list where you have a reasonable shot of getting in that it may be worth giving HBS a shot. Given that HBS is 100% case method (you spend your entire two years *talking*), they really put a premium on your communication skills -- which they will try and infer from your essays and then in the interview. And that doesn't mean you have to be as fluent in English as a native English speaker (although quite a number of them are) -- it's more about your raw communication skills. In other words, you can still be a strong communicator even if your English is less than perfect.
31 May 2010, 08:53
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Thanks Alex!
One more following question. Shall I spend one essay to emphasize my quant skill or you think my background can tell? I am a little bit confused about which pool shall I in (engineer with good soft skill or marketing with good technical/analytical skill ).
One more following question. Shall I spend one essay to emphasize my quant skill or you think my background can tell? I am a little bit confused about which pool shall I in (engineer with good soft skill or marketing with good technical/analytical skill ).
