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renascence
- Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts
- Posts: 12
- Joined: Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:08 am
- Location: India
Hi Stacy, Hi Amy,
I have recently started looking through the posts by various people and your answers to those were impressive. So I thought I shall brief you about my profile so that you may guide me to shape up my profile holistically. The post is quite long but hope I get an answer to it
I plan to write GMAT and aim at around 700. I know that its already late for 2008. So I target for 2009 by when I shall be having 5yrs of workex.
25yrs, Indian with Btech in IT from one of the top 10 universities of India
CGPA in my UG - 9.27/10
acads have been good throughout - state rank, rank holder in UG course
Workex - first 2 yrs with Lucent technology and thereafter in Microsoft (since a yr) : total workex is in software.
International exposure: worked with teams in US, Spain, Ireland, Germany & China.
Leadership: worked in leading roles of feature design, delivery and customer interfacing in Lucent. In Microsoft, have been actively involved in team efforts and resource allocation types of work. Have acted as a POC for team in the absence of a lead. Have mentored juniors and new joiners throughout my career.
Non-work leadership: in college days, took the leadership of starting the hostel mess. Efforts involved starting and managing it to high levels of satisfaction of all.
Extra-curricular - my interests have been in the field of fine arts and have couple of prizes for the same in my school days. I lead the placement committee of our UG programme and handled responsibilities like brochure making(end-to-end), external interactions, etc I have also participated in dramas and skits. ALso have been part of off-stage support teams.
Charity - i m more into adhoc charity. Have been member of Lucent's youth programme that worked on charity. In MS also, I have been involved in promoting one of the charity organisations in the campus for donations. But never was an active member consistently and hence proving these might be difficult.
Languages- apart from English, I know 2 more Indian languages. Am planning to learn French after i write GMAT
Reason for MBA - am interested in polishing my mgmt skills to superior levels to enhance my innate mgmt skills. I wish to take the path of a mgmt consultant and further into the line of strategic/operations planning. Also I think my current tech skills augmented by managerial refinement will be great for any industry as most of the current work is software dependent.
With the above profile, pl. let me know which areas to polish and what else to start putting my efforts in. Learning French, taking dance classes or anything else- shud it help? If it may, then I may learn another language too as I have time for that.
For recos, generally how many are preferable? I was planning one from univ, 1 from lucent mgr and 1 from MS mgr. or 2 more would add to it? Will taking a PMP course from a PMI(Proj Mgmt Insti) help?
Though I m from India with a high count of apps, yet I belong to a state from which there are not many apps. Will a mention of my origin from there help me?
Thanks in advance,
Naresh
I have recently started looking through the posts by various people and your answers to those were impressive. So I thought I shall brief you about my profile so that you may guide me to shape up my profile holistically. The post is quite long but hope I get an answer to it
I plan to write GMAT and aim at around 700. I know that its already late for 2008. So I target for 2009 by when I shall be having 5yrs of workex.
25yrs, Indian with Btech in IT from one of the top 10 universities of India
CGPA in my UG - 9.27/10
acads have been good throughout - state rank, rank holder in UG course
Workex - first 2 yrs with Lucent technology and thereafter in Microsoft (since a yr) : total workex is in software.
International exposure: worked with teams in US, Spain, Ireland, Germany & China.
Leadership: worked in leading roles of feature design, delivery and customer interfacing in Lucent. In Microsoft, have been actively involved in team efforts and resource allocation types of work. Have acted as a POC for team in the absence of a lead. Have mentored juniors and new joiners throughout my career.
Non-work leadership: in college days, took the leadership of starting the hostel mess. Efforts involved starting and managing it to high levels of satisfaction of all.
Extra-curricular - my interests have been in the field of fine arts and have couple of prizes for the same in my school days. I lead the placement committee of our UG programme and handled responsibilities like brochure making(end-to-end), external interactions, etc I have also participated in dramas and skits. ALso have been part of off-stage support teams.
Charity - i m more into adhoc charity. Have been member of Lucent's youth programme that worked on charity. In MS also, I have been involved in promoting one of the charity organisations in the campus for donations. But never was an active member consistently and hence proving these might be difficult.
Languages- apart from English, I know 2 more Indian languages. Am planning to learn French after i write GMAT
Reason for MBA - am interested in polishing my mgmt skills to superior levels to enhance my innate mgmt skills. I wish to take the path of a mgmt consultant and further into the line of strategic/operations planning. Also I think my current tech skills augmented by managerial refinement will be great for any industry as most of the current work is software dependent.
With the above profile, pl. let me know which areas to polish and what else to start putting my efforts in. Learning French, taking dance classes or anything else- shud it help? If it may, then I may learn another language too as I have time for that.
For recos, generally how many are preferable? I was planning one from univ, 1 from lucent mgr and 1 from MS mgr. or 2 more would add to it? Will taking a PMP course from a PMI(Proj Mgmt Insti) help?
Though I m from India with a high count of apps, yet I belong to a state from which there are not many apps. Will a mention of my origin from there help me?
Thanks in advance,
Naresh
