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Please evaluate my profile

by AlphaDey » Thu Dec 04, 2014 12:44 pm
GMAT:
Overall - 710 | Quant - 49 | Verbal - 38 | AWA - 4 | IR - 6

Academic:
a. 10th - 84.6%
b. 12th - 78.33%
c. Graduation - 70.8%(Computer Science & Engineering)

Work Experience:

3 years 6 months(by the end of March 2015) in Infosys Limited as a Systems Engineer.


Roles & Responsibilities:
1. Facilitator, educator and trainer for the Learning & Development (L&D) team in leadership, behavioral and communication skills domain.
2. Role of a consultant(without the official designation) for various production units - Gather requirements, design/customize courses and deliver them.
3. Learning mentor for 1800 people.
4. Batch manager of L&D for all training batches comprising of about 10,000 new recruits.
5. Presiding over Club Elate, an L&D initiative to nurture leadership skills amongst new recruits.
6. Designing and modifying various course contents.
7. Designing and modifying assessments.
8. Been working with global clients directly from a very early stage of my career.

Achievements:
1. Won the award of 'Best Educator for Foundation Program (training program for new recruits)'in 2014.
2. Trained over 20000 trainees in 200+ training sessions with an average feedback of 4.4/5
3. Doubled the number of participants and improved the overall quality of operations after taking the control of Club Elate.
4. Have received laudable feedback from the clients in the role of a consultant.
5. Built a tool which automated the project submission process for the training batches.

6. Part of the Design Thinking team. I am one of the initial set of employees who are trained to facilitate sessions in Design Thinking. Apart from delivering the sessions, I have made major contributions to redesigning the Design Thinking session. Design Thinking is the biggest initiative in Infosys right now, Our current CEO initiated this initiative and advocates it frequently.

Educational Achievements:
1. Certificate of Distinction in Mathematics International Assessment of Indian Schools.
2. Certificate of Credit in Science in International Assessment of Indian Schools.
3. Certificate of Excellence awarded by Robosapiens for the performance in industrial training cum internship program which earned me a grade of A+ for programming a robot whose movements could be controlled, which can monitor air cooling machines and can take pictures.

Extra Curricular:
1. President, Co-founder and English Teaching volunteer for Make a Difference-Mysore, a platform which engages the youth in empowering underprivileged kids by various interventions. Led a team of 30+ volunteers and 5 vertical heads in conducting two projects and stabilizing the chapter.
2. VP-Public Relations for Infosys Toastmasters. I have received the Competent Communicator award and the Competent Leader award. Trained all the other Public Relations fellows from other clubs in the city for Toastmasters International. Conducted a club level competition which was witness by around 400 people(This number is a record in the history of the club since its incubation which happened 5 years back).
3. Astronomy - I have received a certificate of Merit for my essay on 'Black Holes, White Holes and Worm Holes' which was chosen for an honorable mention in a national level competition on 'Breakthrough Invention of 21st Century Physics'. At my workplace, I have designed and delivered a Development Centre wide talk on astronomy.
4. I was certified at a very early age in 4 levels of painting - Pararambhik Part-I, Pararambhik Part-I, 1st year and 2nd year. In later point of life, this foundation provided a creative outlet to my desire to create abstract designs which I now express in the form of body art or in the form of art on paper. I have made more than 600 designs so far.
5. I have been the Master of Ceremony for spectacular events at workplace - which were attended by more than 1000 people.
6. Also, I am an amateur illusionist. I can show some mind blogging tricks which can trigger the reaction - 'What the hell just happened'.

My life's story and my choice of an MBA:

My dark skin tone and my obesity have been the objects of ridicule and pity for the society. I have lived in the zone of low self esteem for a very long time. After a long period struggle, I have managed to come out of it by mentoring myself and going through a process of exploration and conscious actions.
After my transformation, I decided to reach out to people who are in the same situation as I was. I had already picked up a gamut of skills to employ in my quest. I was chosen to be trained as a counselor by my organization so that I can counsel the employees if they need a support of that nature. I have also been trained as a coach by Make a Difference to manage my team better while working as a President.
I combined the skills that I picked up as a counselor and a coach and combined them with my life's learning into creating a tool which I use while reaching out to people. I have used the tool in the following ways:

1. I have mentored, coached and counseled kids at orphanages while working for Make a Difference, connected with them and enabled them to aspire a compelling future for themselves. I have used the same tools to keep the team at Make a Difference together, motivated and engaged.
2. At Toastmasters, I have mentored members, including the club president, to overcome barriers and challenges in Public Speaking.
3. In my day to day job as a facilitator, I have mentored various trainees in overcoming challenges which inhibits their potential.
4. I have finished writing a book based on the tool which I created. I am looking forward to publish it by the end of December or January.
5. I run a website where people seeking mentorship to overcome any challenge in life can seek my assistance for not cost at all.

--- I have mentored more than 1000 people via all these channels.

My mission is to create an organization which will provide the service of mentors to anyone and everyone across the globe who needs to overcome any challenge in life or career at minimal expense via telephone, via web or in person. I have gathered enough expertise in mentoring people and also in managing initiatives, teams and administrations. I want to leverage this expertise into creating the enterprise which I dream to. I believe an MBA program will help me to attain my goal.

I'm a little confused about where to apply and where will I have a good chance!

Can you suggest colleges from the FT top 20 and from the below list at which I'll have a good chance?

1. Harvard
2. University of Hong Kong
3. IE
4. IESE
5. HEC Paris
6. Mannheim
7. Cambridge
8. Cornell
9. Goizueta
10. ESADE
11. Duke
12. Tepper
13. Ceibs
14. Anderson
15. Georgetown
16. Darden
17. McCombs


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by Jon@Admissionado » Fri Dec 05, 2014 10:31 am
Hello there!
Glad to hear from you, and thanks for all the great detail. It helps me help you.

Although I have to say, I AM missing some detail about your work! (like what you do really, how much leadership you have, what your work reviews are like, what your achievements are, and so on). And as you can imagine, this is an important part of your profile. ;)

Nonetheless, it looks like you have some good stuff there. I especially like the training you have done, as well as the Make a Difference organization. I think both are strong and unique points and will help boost your profile.

Your toughest challenge will be your applicant pool - you have the unenviable (well from the perspective of MBA applications, because I think for India your career is VERY enviable!) problem of belonging to the largest applicant pool - Indian/IT/Male. It's a tough world out there. And if you are also not from IITs, it's even tougher at the Top 10 schools. So from your list, I'd say drop Tepper, Cornell, Harvard and Duke. And concentrate your energies on some of the rest of the schools. Make sure you add 1-2 "Safe" schools to your list (in your case, let's look at school in about the 20-40 rankings), to ensure that you will get an ADMIT!

Otherwise, things look good. But be wary of one thing - the AdComs get a LOT of folks with candidacies which look similar on the first glance. You CANNOT afford to have your application look like everyone else's. You gotta be not just good, but also DIFFERENT!

I hope these thoughts help you out, and lead you to the right place,

Best,
Jon

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by Johnson at Cornell » Tue Jan 06, 2015 6:53 am
Hi AlphaDey,

Congratulations on your transformation and bravo for the work you do in the community. I couldn't help but notice that Cornell is on your list of potential business schools. I am an Associate Admissions Director for Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and would like to chat with you about your profile and your interest in our MBA programs.

Feel free to connect with me over email: [email protected].

Look forward to speaking with you.

Sincerely,
Eddie Asbie