Careers Week

This week is dedicated to personal and career development (PCD) related activities. It is designed to help us to prepare well for the coming recruitment activities whether it is an interview for a consultancy project/internship or a full time employment.

The week started with a very useful case study workshop on Monday followed by a one to one mock case interview with experienced recruitment consultants. Wednesday and Thursday were dedicated for mock competency based interviews. The good thing about these events is that since they are mock, you can try new things and see whether they work, moreover, unlike real interviews you get immediate feedback on your performance. In all these events, one thing is apparent that preparation is the key to success; this is especially true in case interviews – scariest of all. I have learnt a lot by participating in these events and looking forward to tomorrow mornings assessment centre workshop.

Some of my colleagues could not experience some of these events due to limited number of spaces but I hope PCD will and should provide them another opportunity.

Good luck to you for your real interviews. I am sure we all will do well in real situation as well.

We are in Top 30, So?

Warwick MBA climbs to no 29 in prestigious and arguably the most influential rankings for MBA education i.e. FT Global MBA rankings. You could talk about Business Week, which is mostly US focussed and Which MBA, which is relatively new and yet to make any real impact.

Firstly, many congratulations to all associated people with Warwick MBA. So, how does it matter to us if we are in top 30? Well a lot, if you are a prospective MBA student, where do you look first to decide on a B-school of your choice? If you are an employer, how do you decide which school to visit to beat the competition in "war of talent"? If you are a professor, apart from salary, what attracts you to take a teaching position at a B-school? These are the kind of questions for which you would look at FT rankings, wouldn’t you? Make no mistake this is just a starting point for your “long” research, but it's a good starting point because FT rankings arguably covers the areas that matters most or rather should matter most for a good MBA program (with some exceptions of course).

I am here not to defend or criticise FT rankings but can't avoid it, as right now, it is probably the most talked about thing at B-schools after global financial crisis and a fall in US sub-prime market.
Two most talked about B-school in this year’s rankings are Indian School of Business(ISB), which participated in the rankings for the first time and entered directly at no 20 with a bang, and second one is Judge Business School at Cambridge University, UK, which has moved into top 10 in just 10 yrs of inception. So, what is so special about these schools? It seems no one has the right answer for this question. May be the guys at FT can help us?

You can proceed to term 2

Today, we received our results for the term-1 and I can now officially proceed to term-2, four weeks of which I have already finished. Overall, I am satisfied with my result, scored two distinctions and scores very close to distinction in rest of the three modules; however, there is a scope for improvement.
Generally, the whole MBA class did very well in the exams, reports, and presentations. Economics preofessor is particularly very impressed by the quality of analysis and level of information presented in various individual reports. So, well done guys and good luck for term2.