Hi team,
I'd like to get an opinion on whether my profile is different enough to stand out from the crowd.
Basic Stats:
- 29 year old Asian female who grew up in Singapore and moved to NZ alone for varsity and am now working there
- NZ citizen
- Graduated with BSc Combined Honours 1st Class in Psychology and Marketing Management (I custom designed my own degree) my GPA when converted works out something like 3.8-3.9
- Did a study exchange to Bocconi in Milan
- Bilingual in English and Mandarin, beginner in Italian and French
- GMAT score 740 (Q50, V41, IR 7, AWA 5.5)
- 7 years marketing experience in SMEs across 3 very different retail industries (fashion, building & renovation, liquor) with a strong emphasis on digital marketing
Schools interested in:
- INSEAD, Yale, London Business, Wharton, HEC Paris
Goals:
- Short term I'm looking at switching into management consulting and work on international business projects and projects involving corporate turnaround
- Long term I want to run a firm that buys small businesses and turns them around hence the need for experience in consulting and an MBA with strong entrepreneurship focus
Leadership Examples:
Current role
- Lead the development of a complicated eCommerce site providing real time data for 80+ individual stores
- Designed and established the eCommerce order fulfilment system including training of regional managers, store managers and retail staff
- Have recently found myself evolving into IT and driving some of their projects as well even though I'm in marketing
Previous role
- Ran the marketing department and grew sales 10% year on year during a poor economy where other retail businesses were closing stores
- Improved standards of the organisation's visual merchandising and established guidelines and a system for store managers to follow, which required behavioural change (they were previously doing whatever they wanted)
More interesting stuff:
- Started up a part time wedding hire company during the course of planning my wedding because there was better ROI in importing from China and re-hiring out than paying to hire items. Profits paid for the wedding
- I'm a Figure skater and have won several medals, some of which were as a synchronized skating team member (makes for excellent teamwork skills)
- Coached adults and children in figure skating and have been a judge at skate school competitions
- Board member of a new charity for chronic fatigue
- Was an organising committee member of a festival that promoted the Hong Kong culture in NZ and aimed to build business and educational relationships between NZ and Hong Kong
- I'm also a recreational aerial artiste specialising in aerial silks and I've performed in a paid production before
- I used to be an MMORPG gamer and held a leadership position of guild officer in one of the top ranking guilds in the game which had a mature international community 25-60 years old
I think I have the diversity for an MBA, but I don't know if Adcoms of the schools I'm interested in would think the same. Any insights you can provide on how I should make myself stand out would be ,uch appreciated.
Thanks!
I'd like to get an opinion on whether my profile is different enough to stand out from the crowd.
Basic Stats:
- 29 year old Asian female who grew up in Singapore and moved to NZ alone for varsity and am now working there
- NZ citizen
- Graduated with BSc Combined Honours 1st Class in Psychology and Marketing Management (I custom designed my own degree) my GPA when converted works out something like 3.8-3.9
- Did a study exchange to Bocconi in Milan
- Bilingual in English and Mandarin, beginner in Italian and French
- GMAT score 740 (Q50, V41, IR 7, AWA 5.5)
- 7 years marketing experience in SMEs across 3 very different retail industries (fashion, building & renovation, liquor) with a strong emphasis on digital marketing
Schools interested in:
- INSEAD, Yale, London Business, Wharton, HEC Paris
Goals:
- Short term I'm looking at switching into management consulting and work on international business projects and projects involving corporate turnaround
- Long term I want to run a firm that buys small businesses and turns them around hence the need for experience in consulting and an MBA with strong entrepreneurship focus
Leadership Examples:
Current role
- Lead the development of a complicated eCommerce site providing real time data for 80+ individual stores
- Designed and established the eCommerce order fulfilment system including training of regional managers, store managers and retail staff
- Have recently found myself evolving into IT and driving some of their projects as well even though I'm in marketing
Previous role
- Ran the marketing department and grew sales 10% year on year during a poor economy where other retail businesses were closing stores
- Improved standards of the organisation's visual merchandising and established guidelines and a system for store managers to follow, which required behavioural change (they were previously doing whatever they wanted)
More interesting stuff:
- Started up a part time wedding hire company during the course of planning my wedding because there was better ROI in importing from China and re-hiring out than paying to hire items. Profits paid for the wedding
- I'm a Figure skater and have won several medals, some of which were as a synchronized skating team member (makes for excellent teamwork skills)
- Coached adults and children in figure skating and have been a judge at skate school competitions
- Board member of a new charity for chronic fatigue
- Was an organising committee member of a festival that promoted the Hong Kong culture in NZ and aimed to build business and educational relationships between NZ and Hong Kong
- I'm also a recreational aerial artiste specialising in aerial silks and I've performed in a paid production before
- I used to be an MMORPG gamer and held a leadership position of guild officer in one of the top ranking guilds in the game which had a mature international community 25-60 years old
I think I have the diversity for an MBA, but I don't know if Adcoms of the schools I'm interested in would think the same. Any insights you can provide on how I should make myself stand out would be ,uch appreciated.
Thanks!
