ESCP Business School MBA Recommendation Questions
The ESCP Business School MBA application requires two professional recommendations, preferably from a direct supervisor or someone who can speak to your professional qualifications and leadership potential. The ESCP MBA recommendation questions for the current admissions season are below.
2025-2026 ESCP Business School MBA Recommendation Questions
Section 1: Referee details
How long have you known the candidate and in what connection?
Section 2: Candidate rating
Please rate the candidate’s abilities with regard to the criteria listed below.
- Leadership potential
- Maturity
- Analytical skills
- Practical orientation
- Intellectual ability
- Creative innovative approach
- Aptitude for teamwork
- Oral communication skills
- Written communication skills
- Perseverance
- Organisational ability
- Ability to operate in an international environment
Referees are to use the following scale: excellent, good, average, poor, very poor
Do you have any additional comments concerning this applicant that you believe to be relevant?
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Hey Y'all,
Background: 27M, Mexican-American based in Texas
I am planning to apply this year. I studied petroleum engineering at a large Texas school and graduated with a 3.4 GPA. After graduating, I started working as a field engineer for a oil field services company for about 3 years. I was then promoted into more of an in office engineering role at this service company where I work with modeling & data analysis. I have been doing the in office engineering for about 2 years.
Post MBA, I want to work at a large oil company (think Shell, Chevron, etc) in acquisitions and divestitures using my engineering background + business skills.
Extracurriculars:
-I volunteer with coaching a local youth baseball league
-I volunteer with Hispanic students with college prep & admissions
-I volunteer with GED tutoring
Looking forward to hearing on how to improve my profile! I am really looking to maximize possible scholarships.
- ~5 Years in Air Force Special Warfare Officer, 1x combat deployment to middle east
- ~2 Years as a SWE for small defense tech company (AI/ML stuff, drone stuff)
- 3 publications (not peer-reviewed) on AI and warfare
- Former volunteer EMT