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Hi,

Request somebody well versed with NUS admission process to evaluate my profile. Still quite new to NUS admission process so not sure if I am a right fit for this school. I will share a brief about my profile. Please let me know if any other detail required.

GMAT - 700 (Q50, V34, AWA-5, IR-8). Work ex – 52 months as on date. Will have 57.5 months of work –ex as on 31st March, 2019.


Grad & Work Ex:
I have done my graduation in Fashion Technology from National Institute of Fashion Technology. My college is regarded as the best fashion college in the country and is among the top 3 colleges in Asia. Right now I am working with the biggest apparel organization in the country. I have reached middle management role in a very short duration. Currently I head pan India operations of my brand.

Profile:
Qualitatively I have a strong profile. I have worked hard to build my profile over the last few years. I am national level athlete and a national level quiz medalist. I have led teams during my college days and have also worked for couple of spiritual and non-for-profit organizations in the past.


Reasons for MBA:
Though I have got good success in the initial years of my career, a graduate degree won't be sufficient to take me to senior level roles in future. There are certain areas in the field of strategy and finance where I feel I am still not equipped enough to handle things completely on my own. An MBA at this stage will also help in making my profile much stronger. A master’s degree will make me financially more stable.


Post MBA plans:
Post MBA I want to work in roles of Brand Management with specialization in the fields of Strategy and Marketing. I am open to industries outside the fashion industry though I wouldn't mind coming back to this industry.

Dilemma:

Under the given geopolitical situation, will it be advisable for Indian candidates to apply to Singapore schools? Not too aware about job scenario in Singapore for international candidates.

I'm targeting colleges within top 30.

I am not in a position where I can spend more than 100K SD. So scholarship will be a deal breaker for me to join any college. Is getting a scholarship a possibility with this profile?

Hope I have given all the required information to suggest the best course of action. Let me know if any other detail from my side is required. Will be obliged if you can suggest the way forward. Thanks.

Hi,
Would appreciate a profile evaluation for MS Finance course in NUS
I am a 22 years old Indian and did Bachelor of Business Studies from Delhi University.
Worked for 8 months in S&P Capital IQ
Grad: 82.15%
12th: 92%
10th: 10 CGPA
Cleared CFA Level 1.
Scholarship in college, academic awards in school. Organized various events, member of management club in college, won case-study competitions and debate competitions, participated in Model United Nations in college.
Wrote a dissertation on Mutual Funds. Passed a certificate exam on Mutual Funds conducted by National Stock Exchange of India.
GMAT: 730 (QA:50, VA:39)

Which college of DU? CBS?

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Deen Dayal Upadhayaya College.....why does it matter which college I belong to or do they only see the university name?

Would anybody like to have a go at analyzing my profile? Below are the details:

Age: 26
Class X: 87%
Class XII: 82%
CGPA: 7.19 (VIT University, B.Tech in Computer Engineering though there are a fair share of backlogs which I successfully cleared within the 4 years)
Best GMAT Score: 710 (Q47 V40 IR 7 AWA 5)

Work Experience: 5.5 years by March 2019 - All in Marketing. The last 4 years of those has been in a pan-Indian Fintech startup, with the last 1.5 years in a Managerial role.

Extracurricular: Ran a Culture Critic portal during my college days, Moderator of an aviation community since 2009, volunteered with Greenpeace India for 6 months in 2017.

Other: Completed a course with Coursera on Engagement & Nurture Marketing

Many thanks in advance!

Female, age 25
GMAT : 680
Class X : 93%
Class XII : 88%
College : BITS Pilani, B.E. Electrical and Electronics
CGPA : 7.94
Experience : 3.5 years
Company : Nvidia Graphics, working as ASIC engineer for past 3.5 years. Mentored many people and have onwership of many features and tools

Other extra curricular :
1) Theatre artist
2) NGO(Bhumi) volunteer for more than 1 year. Teaching kids at an orphanage and also doing theatre shows for them.
3) PR manager for College Model United Nations
4) Core Member for College Election Commission

Career goal : Product management roles in IT sector. Want to leverage my experience as engineer to move towards business side

I am planning to apply to NTU, NUS this year. Please evaluate my profile

Age- 30 years

GMAT- 700 (Q49, V36, IR-6, AWA-6)

UG- B.E. in Instrumentation and Control from NSIT, Delhi

UG %age -79.7 (2nd ranker but no document for that)

12th-85.4%

10th-89.4%

Work Experience-8.5 years

Company- Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Department- Operations

Present designation- Incharge of a plant having annual turnover of Rs. 2400 crores and supplying petroleum products to 6 districts, heading a team of 18 employees, 50 contract labours, 300 Tanker crew.

Previous roles- worked in similar plants in different roles as supplies manager, safety officer, maintenance manager, second in command in 3 different plants including present one.

Professional achievements-

1. youngest plant incharge of IOCL at present.

2. developed a new supply model for a 500 crore customer to prevent him from switching on account of enroute pilferage from tankers leading to huge losses to customer

3. brought about market realignment to save 2.2 crore annually on logistics costs in the plant

4. designed the automation system for Rail wagons for which pilot project is being undertaken at my plant and post successful commissioning will be replicated on PAN India basis.

5. undertook capitalization projects worth Rs. 33 crores as maintenance manager in previous plant and Rs. 16 crore in the capacity of plant incharge presently.

6. All India winner of a series of online quizzes conducted by our operations department on various topics covering downstream oil operations.

7. My plant awarded British International Safety award for commitment to occupational health, safety and welbeing.

8. presented techincal paper to management proposing modification in core facilities in the plant to meet future challenges.

9. Developed e-learning modules for Operations department for effective training of employees, labour etc.

International experience- Nil

Extra curricular

1. Silver medalist at one National Level Painting competitions and have significant achievements in fine arts at various levels throughout school and college life.

2. President of college's annual cultural festival

3. Organised oil conservation rallies/signature campaigns

4. Provided borewell for local villagers near my plant.

Future goals
Plan A- Management Consulting
Plan B- Operations/downstream oil & gas

Background- Rose from a very low economic status by working for 8.5 years and considering an MBA now since I have stabilised my fiancial conditions.

Please suggest suitability of profile to NUS.

NITUNKUMAR2018, You have a great profile for NUS. You have demonstrated great leadership qualities at workplace. You also have had descent academic record. All you need to do is to submit a powerful application.

I made it to NUS MBA program last year but unfortunately could not join it.

naina168, you have an excellent academic track record and descent extra curricular. With your work profile, you can demonstrate impact and leadership potential. Overall, these things work in your favor for NUS and NTU application. I am little concerned about your GMAT score. Though your GMAT score is above the average GMAT of these schools, it may not be greater than the average GMAT from their INDIAN cohort. I will suggest you to put in a strong application this time and if things don't work out, work on your GMAT score.

PS: Both these schools focus on gender diversity and you could have an advantage if you put in a solid application

Hi All,

Please go through my profile and suggest me.

Background and nationality :B.Tech,Indian
Undergrad Information: 69%
GMAT: yet to give expecting 700
Work experience and leadership
Community and others

5.4 years as of now in Tech Mahindra limited. Current role Sr.software engineer - Delivery and service Assurance Department.
Takes care of production servers and applications.

Leadership:

President of Tech Mahindra toastmasters club (infocity) Jul18-dec18.
Vice president education Apr18-jul18
Secretary Jul17-Dec17.
Current Assistant Area director for area H3 division H district 98.

Volunteer at Bhoomi foundation(Making public places clean and safe).

Organized CSR trip to oldage home in october2013.

Mentored Various members to give speeches and take up roles in Toastmaster meetings.

Awards:
club level humorous speech champion FY 2017&2018.

Received various awards from Tech Mahindra for showing commitment , professionlism, and excelling in work.

Won sell show competition organized by Elan Toastmasters in their 350th Toastmasters meeting.

Post MBA goals

Want to be on the strategy and operations side.

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Hello chaitanya54

The outline of your profile looks decent for NUS (assuming you score your target GMAT)
Make sure you talk about career progress, achievements at work and in extracurricular more than just a laundry list.
Over and above this you may want to talk about the long term vision of your career and how does NUS tie into it.

Best
Varun Sharma
+919137133507
MBAkarma.com
GMAT Score Predictor
info@mbakarma.com

Hi Chaitanya,
While b-schools wish to see holistic profiles, your work experience is still the most important to them as its most relevant for MBA. Although you have not mentioned anything much about your work experience here, I would suggest you do a great job explaining it in your essays and resume. Coming from the common IT profile, you should show your career progress and impact at work, and use this to differentiate yourself.
Also, a 720+ GMAT score will help.

Hi chaitanya54,

While your overall profile looks decent, your chances will also depend on the quality of the essays you put forth. In this regard, the career goals become particularly significant and "strategy and operations" sounds way too broad. At the same time, the essays must be truly representative of your strengths and achievements.

To add to the above, we also recommend that you aim for a score a bit above the 700 mark. This will help differentiate your profile.

Should you feel the need for a detailed discussion, feel free to reach out.

Thanks.

All the best!
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Hi,

Please go through my profile and suggest:-

Background:Indian,B.Tech-Mechanical with 72.48%
Intermediate:74.6%
GMAT:610 (Q48,V30)

Work-exp:- 12 Years
1. 4.5 years in Aviation PSU in manufacturing
2. 7 Years in Aviation in Private industry in Mid-Managerial role
3. Lead a team of more than 100, a complete manufacturing team
4. Worked with customer representatives from US and Switzerland

Participated in multiple CSR activities

Assess my profile for NUS

Hi All,
Would appreciate a profile evaluation. Targeting R1 this year.

Background and nationality: Indian Female

Undergrad Information: B.Tech - ECE. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University(MSIT). CGPA: 9.0(one of the toppers of my stream)
10th : CGPA 10 (95%)
12th : CGPA 9.3 (88%)

GMAT: 760

Work experience and leadership : 4.5 years at present in a techno-functional role. Working as a Senior Software Engineer in Infosys Ltd serving domestic and international banks. Have worked with private, public sector and international banks, all at client site. Currently heading all clients in Africa and Sri Lanka region (about 2 years of international work ex). Regarded as a domain expert and have worked as a team lead in multiple project implementations.

Awards: Top Performer in the Entry Level Training, Most Promising Joinee Award, Listed as Infosys Pride Factor, Awarded by multiple clients for contribution to the project.
Was the head of Self-Governance Team in Infosys for a year.

Community and others : Associated with Leaders for Tomorrow and part of their project – Igniting Young Minds to provide life skills to the disadvantaged; Member of Help Age India in higher secondary for care of disadvantaged elderly.
Recently Joined Toastmasters. Awarded as Best Table Topic Speaker in the guest meeting. Event Head of Technical Fest in college ensuring a footfall of more than 2500 people in the event. Member of the organization committee of Infosys Finacle Fever’15.

Post MBA goals: Consulting.

Thank you for your help.

Hello prashant6923

Some pointers-

1. What are your career goals? This is the most important piece of the puzzle. With 12 years of work ex you will be an outlier in the class and will need to communicate why an MBA is the most logical step in your career at this stage.
2. I'd recommend a retake on the GMAT. In absence of any information on career goals and achievements in extracurricular, one doesn't have much to evaluate, but a 610 is definitely going to be cause for major concern.

You may want to read here on what factors work in a profile and here to add to your research on career goals.

Best
Varun Sharma
+919137133507
MBAkarma.com
GMAT Score Predictor

Hello aroraishita02

You seem to have a lot going for you in terms of academics and GMAT.
The work profile belongs to the typical Indian IT (that too Infosys)- not a deal breaker by any means, but what it means is that you must showcase good career progress and talk about your achievements and impact at work through your essays.
The extracurricular activities, though good at a first glance, will need you to bring out your personal contribution and accomplishments here instead of being just a member and putting this forward as a bullet list.
You have a decent shot at NUS as long as you do not mess up the essays/interviews. What would be more interesting to know is why are you targeting NUS specifically?

Best
Varun Sharma
+919137133507
Free Profile Review
MBAkarma.com
GMAT Score Predictor
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HI MBAkarma,

Thanks for the reply.Regarding your reply, i would say your reply is polished , rather i am looking for a candid response as going for one year MBA is huge investment for me.

Regarding my career goal, i am looking for top position in a time frame of 5-7 years.

Thanks
Prashant

Hello prashant6923

You are welcome. If you are looking at a candid feedback, you will have to share candid information too. Unfortunately, the goals that you have mentioned do not tell much. Reach a 'top position' is not a goal. What industry, what function do you wish to work in in the short term/long term. Why can't you reach this goal on your own (especially after 12 years of extensive experience)? Where does an MBA fit in? Where does NUS fit in?
These are important questions to answer. Currently the statement is vague. In absence of this information, most of the feedback that you will get is generic- and that is why I have added that a feedback specific to your profile is to answer these questions and retake the GMAT and improve is by at least 40-50 points.

Best
Varun Sharma
+919137133507
Free Profile Review
MBAkarma.com
GMAT Score Predictor
info@mbakarma.com