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Please evaluate my profile!

by chaitanyabhansali » Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:58 am
Hello,

Could you please evaluate my profile based on the following information:

1.) Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - 71% Aggregate - India
PG Diploma - Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Systems Management - Pass - University of Manchester - UK

2.) Work Experience

2.5 years by now - 4/5 years at the time of matriculation.
Family Business - Working as General Manager - started my stint in inventory management - took some good effective initiatives - implemented Inventory Management Techniques such as ABC Analysis, Economic Order Quantity estimation for about 5000 parts in the inventory - estimated the operation cost of the warehouse with these techniques - marginally reduced the operative costs to about 60% of before.
took charge as a plant manager to set up a building material (aggregate) manufacturing plant in a village with my team of 20 people and further hired contractors and labor on my own - successfully set up the plant which is now in a running condition already - formed a joint venture with a company from Malaysia to supply them the material on a consistent basis - liaison with the project manager of that company on a daily basis to resolve day to day issues (transportation, financial etc) - reported directly to the Chairman of my company.

Now, I am promoted as a General Manager of the company and into setting up of a sponge iron plant of 200 Tonnes per day capacity - the company has also proposed a 10 MW power plant in the future for which I will be the incharge again - I am right now looking after its civil construction and assisting the labor and the contractors hired by me few months ago - trying to handle the project professionally with the help of tools like Microsoft Project, ERP, Excel Spreadsheets.

Company's employee strength -- 400

Have formed a charity organization which funds the education of our employees' children - motivate them to perform good in their academics in order to avail these benefits - have provided 3 lacs INR till now - this helps our employees too - they feel quite secured and consequently they get motivated to work hard.

Can write good essays demonstrating my leadership and management potential.

GMAT - yet to take! will target 720+ !

Please evaluate my profile based on the information given above and also mention potential admits(schools).
Thanks

Chaitanya Bhansali
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by Tani » Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:20 pm
I am sure you recognize that there are many applicants from Indian with strong GMAT scores and undergraduate records. That makes for a very competitive applicant pool. However, your background in manufacturing and logistics should make you stand out. Be sure to focus on how your experience is different from all the candidates who have worked as engineers or IT specialists and have been largely sole contributors rather than managers. Your familiarity with basic industry would bring a fresh perspective to the classroom. With solid recommendations and a great GMAT you should be in very good shape.

By the way, for additional insights into applying to business school see Ask the Consultants Anything online from Kaplan at 7:00 Eastern time this Monday 4/25. Look for "free events" under GMAT on the Kaplan website. https://www.kaptest.com/enroll/GMAT/6310 ... cid=172619
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