Cambridge / Judge - 11-24-2019 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

November 24, 2019 8:14am ET

Applying: Cambridge / Judge, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, Duke / Fuqua, HEC Paris, INSEAD, London Business School, Michigan / Ross

Pre-MBA Career: senior commercial specialist

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Investment Banking, Consumer Goods Companies: Bain , McKinsey , Citibank , Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan , Morgan Stanley , 3M , Coca Cola

GMAT: 740

GPA: 3.47

Years of Work Experience: 4

Location: shanghai,China

Post MBA Location: Beijing

Notes:

I'm Chinese female, by now i have 3 years of working experience. Because I was blind when I graduated from college, so I didn't plan well and just headed into the 500 fortune company such as IBM and Ericsson, but it turned out that the jobs in the big company is really tedious and require little thinking so I switch my career to data analysis and I start working as Labor cost analysis in a domestic online education farm, then because i still craving for more challenge so i decided to apply MBA--by then I have a 2-year-old baby so i basicly have no time after work so I quit and study the GMAT full time for a few months--will this gap look horrible in my resume? After fully prepared I found a new job as a senior commercial specilist in a German family business. I report directly to VP and GM, so I start touching the core business in an orgnizations. I do multidimension analysis according to different customer segment, product line, industry and so on, and the analysis will support product manager, GM,VP to set corresponding strategies--I don't directly make any decisions, so that's why I still feel I lack the ability to what Ii really want to do--making decisions.
So I'm craving for to attend a MBA program in the listed universities, please give me advice which are more reasonable for me? I know i'm not strong enough like the applicants from consulting or banking, or as a leader for a few years.But i have initiatives I know how to analyze. I think those are two of my strong points.

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1576 What are your post MBA goals? You list three quite different industries? How long have you been in your current role? If the gap between employment is less than three months, you should be fine. It will be important that you can show impact, at work. Curious how you selected your target programs? (0)

ivyyo Likes Earned: 0 I want to be a consultant after MBA, but I also consider banking, so I name a few bankings here. I have just been in my current job for 2 months. The gap is longer than 3 months. because I stay home study GMAT and take some online data analysis courses. My impact at work is not explicitly, because all I do is supporting work, I analyze the product line so as to help the product manager to improve their assortment; I analyze the industry we are focusing in, so the market team can update their strategy toward different industry; I also evaluate the perfornmance of sales person, in different customer group,product line, industry, so the sales manager can get the quick learning that the perfornmance of each sales team, so to adjust goals or forecast. I also assist in my GM/VP to do 5-year strategy, 10 year Asia strategy, and SWOT analysis. I select those programs because they are within my reach, and in London or New York, both are the places I want to live, In those big cities, I will have better chance to internship--because I have never been in consulting/banking before, so I want to make up this shortbacks during my study. But I'll return China because the competition in US or UK is too fierce and my child stay in China and so as my parents. (0)

ivyyo Likes Earned: 0 to be clear, I mean blind is not physically blind, haha (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1576 Because you are only recently in your current role, have you considered working an additional year, before applying? This might give you added time to make a real impact. Who is going to write your recommendations? Duke and Ross are far from NYC, but all top programs should be able to support you to get an internship. You should focus only on consulting for your short term goal. What is your long term goal? (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1576 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2019/12/episode-68-wire-taps-entrepreneur-with-low-gpa-gaps-in-work-experience-switching-to-healthcare-biotech/ (0)