S.P Jain (SPJIMR in full or SP as it is usually referred to) is one of the most underrated business schools in the country. One of the highlights of the S.P.Jain admissions process is that applicants have to choose their specialization at the time of application. While this might be tough for freshers who do not have enough information and self-awareness to choose a specialization, it is a boon for applicants with work experience.
Specialization Matters
The biggest advantage of such a process is during placements. The placement team will ensure that for each specialization there are enough recruiters coming on board during the placements. For example, for a person with 3-4 years of work experience in the operations sector, S.P.Jain will be a much better option than maybe even the IIMs since there will be recruiters coming down specifically to hire people with such a profile. At an IIM the placements committee does not have the responsibility to specifically find 60 niche operations jobs.
The college also enjoys having a huge locational-advantage with Mumbai being the financial capital of the country as a well as the city where the most sought after Marketing recruiters such as HUL are headquartered.
Profile-based Calls & Score-Based Calls
S.P.Jain also has two different routes through which it gives out calls after you fill in the application form, the deadline for the same is 23-November.
Profile-based Call: The first is an interview call based purely on your profile — your profile should be in line with the specialization you apply for and what recruiters hiring for that specialization look for. This shortlist is out even without a test score. Once the CAT/XAT/GMAT results are out you need to meet the criteria given in the table below.
| Qualifying Criteria | CAT 2018 | XAT 2019 | GMAT Jan ’16 – Dec ’18 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Qualifying Criteria | 85 percentile | 85 percentile | 650 |
| Sectional Qualifying Criteria | 75 percentile | 75 percentile | 75 percentile |
Score-based Call: This shortlist is released after the CAT scores are out and based purely on your CAT scores.
This goes on to show that if you get a profile-based call, you will need a lower percentile to get an interview call than if you get a score-based call.
How To Fill The S.P.Jain Application Form
A great profile needs to rank highly on the following parameters:
- Academic track record
- Co-curricular & extra-curricular track record
- Profile-specialization match
So a lot depends on making a good application that reflects each of these. We will look at a screenshot of how each component of the online application looks and then discuss the best way to go about filling it.
Academic Achievements
Academic achievements primarily relate to such achievements as standing in the top performers in your class at various levels, X, XII, Graduation Year or in an exam such as the NTSC or JEE or Math Olympiad.
How does one go about filling this part?
Make a list of all academic achievements. Rank order them not in chronological order but in terms of
- Level of achievement or position you secured
- Level of competition or perceived toughness – NTSC, Olympiads, AIEEE, JEE
- The scale of the achievement – school, city, state, district national
In case you do not have 3 academic achievements then list co-curricular achievements such as paper-presentations, journal publications or anything that is related to your academics.
Describe in less than 50 words: Try to be as brief as possible if the achievement is something that can be easily understood. Use the remaining space to describe how this is something that you have been consistently good at. For example, you have only one top 1-5 in terms of academic achievement but you have always been driven to do well academically. Add that part in the description — throughout your education, you have stood in the top 10% (do not write 10%, calculate your position) of your class etc.
Add anything that puts your achievement into perspective — the only person from your town/village/school/institution to achieve this, the number of participants etc.
Versatility
For the versatility section please make a list of all your areas of interest that fall out of the curricular and co-curricular category.
Do not approach it from the perspective of what evaluators might find attractive but rather look at the level of interest/achievement you have in that area. For example, if dancing is your biggest passion/interest then rank it first. Do not rush to rank social-service activities first.
If you have certificates and achievements great, but even if you do not, you can still go ahead and fill up three areas as long as you have a strong interest and have done more than your peers.
For example, if reading is a major passion, you will not have any certificates to show for the same! But use the description space to present how much you like reading — favourite genres, favourite authors, reading since age so and so, read so many books a month etc. Any genre is fine as long as it has some international/intellectual significance. For example, fantasy, science-fiction, historical fiction, all are fine. Just ensure that you do not cite Chetan Bhagat :-).
The same applies to any other area of interest that does not correspond with certificates. Applicants from this part of the world (TN & AP), please do not write watching movies since everyone does it. If you watch world cinema or any specific genre of movies a lot, are knowledgeable and can hold a conversation about the same then you can go ahead and mention movies.
Since this deals with versatility ensure that you choose three different areas. If you have participated in CSR activities at your workplace or volunteered for NGOs please include that as well.
Most importantly, when it comes to extracurriculars (not to be confused with interests), please understand that it is not a case of what you have done but what you have accomplished. So participation in various events is just that participation, no points for that, did you win anything is the question.
Again this does not apply to interest such as theatre or plays. For example, I will cite theatre or dramatics as an area of interest and cite that I have played major parts in plays right from my early schooling to college and PG, the high-point being a performing XYZ play directed by ABC etc.
Overall Versatility Rating: Rate yourself based on the diversity of things you have participated in and the level of interest across areas.
Responsibility Shouldered
The two sections, personal and professional are clearly demarcated.
In the personal section, include any activity where you took or were given the responsibility. They can be
- on-going or long-duration responsibilities such as helping you brother/sister in his/her education or guiding him/her throughout, taking up some household responsibility owing to a family situation (working parents), or
- specific short-duration responsibilities such as arranging the wedding of a sibling or family member etc or having to help out your parent in a specific task etc.
In the professional section include responsibilities that you undertook that were not part of your KRAs or job description. They can be can be
- handling responsibilities higher than your designation due to the absence of manpower
- special projects/initiatives that you undertook or were given to you
- organizing events at your workplace
In both cases use the description to put in perspective
- the scale/importance of responsibility,
- the role you played and
- the quality of the outcome
Programme Details
This is possibly one of the most important aspects of applying to S.P.Jain — choosing the right specialization.
How does one go about this? The first question is whether you are applying with work experience or applying as a fresher.
Work-experience candidates should apply to the area in with the reason “relevant work-experience”. This has to be the first preference.
If you are applying with IT work-experience, unless you can really connect the nature of your work with another specialization, choose Information Management (IM). In previous years, applicants whose profiles did not match with the specialization they applied to have been reassigned to a different specialization! DO NOT make your first preference based on “special interest in this area”, make that your second preference.
In many cases, you might not find your profile relevant to any other area apart from the one in which you have work-ex. In this case, choose any of the areas as a second preference citing special interest in this area.
Freshers should apply only to Marketing or Finance.
Operations and IM both attract recruiters who are looking at people with relevant work-ex. The batches of both streams usually have an average work-ex of at least 2 years.
If your job profile involves being part of the design, procurement, production, quality control, maintenance, or logistics — anything that is part of the entire process of manufacturing and delivering a product or service (not IT products or services) — you can apply to Operations.
Mechanical engineering freshers also do not stand a chance of getting an Operations shortlist since management roles in Operations cannot be given to a fresher, recruiters look for candidates with hard-core ops work-ex.
The same thing applies to CSE/IT freshers applying to IM. Post an IM degree you will be handling business roles in IT and there is no way you can take these roles up without having been part of a software product/services projects.
Non-engineering freshers such as Commerce, Economics or BBA graduates can apply to Finance. You can choose a second area as Marketing based on “done specialized courses in this area” or “special interest in this area”.
The reverse holds true for Engineering freshers, Marketing first and Finance next.
Please note that for Finance you will be competing with people who have “graduated in related area” such as the backgrounds mentioned above and CA. So do not mention it as your first preference unless you are really serious about it and are sure that despite your profile not being relevant you will get a shortlist through a stellar CAT score.
A safer option is to apply to Marketing (since recruiters in this sector look for freshers) based on “special interest in this area” and Operations/Finance as a second preference under “done specialized courses in this area” or “special interest in this area”, whichever is relevant.
If you are mentioning Special Area Of Interest, you have to provide an explanation in 50 words.
Use this space to mention
- why you like this specialization and how your skills or traits are aligned to the same and
- the things you have done informally that demonstrate your special interest in this area.
You might have done a lot of things for which you have no certificates to show —
- say organizing events in your college and firm or working unpaid for an event management for Marketing
- following stock-markets or investing on your own keenly for finance
- in both fields, you can mention the books that you have read to improve your knowledge of the same
The last part of the form is the work-experience details, the filling up of which should be pretty straightforward.
Also, freshers — internships DO NOT COUNT as work experience, whether it is done before or after college; work-experience needs to be full-time, paid, work. Start-ups can be counted as work-experience provided you have registered the firm and have proof of the same. Work experience in the family business also needs to be supported by salary slips.
Will I get a call from S.P.Jain?
If you look at the comments thread for this post you will see that there is a deluge of queries.
It is understandable. Everyone would be jumping at the chance to get a call at 85 and they just want to know if they can get a call.
Here is a simple way to figure out if you will get a call.
First Milestone — Profile-Specialization Alignment
Please understand that profiles are not evaluated independently of the specialization you have applied to.
Most aspirants think that profile-based calls evaluate the quality of your academics, extracurriculars, and work-ex in isolation. Wrong.
The question is never — do you have a good profile.
It is always — do you have a good profile for Marketing, Finance, Operations or IM.
So if you are planning to apply to specializations without following the guidelines above then you are taking a risk and you can rest assured that in all likelihood you will not get a call.
Second Milestone — Academics
If you have more than one — X, XII or Graduation — less than 80 then a profile-based call is well-nigh ruled out.
Please understand that since they are giving out calls at 85 percentile, they will expect you to have the academic capability to handle a rigorous 2-year MBA program. The only way for them to check this is your past Acads.
You might have a 90 or 10 CGPA in your X, a 75 or 7.5 in your Grad, both of which are great, but if your XII marks are less than 80 due to your IIT attempt, then there is no way that with two 70s you can get a call unless you some insane spike in your work-ex or extracurriculars.
Third Milestone — Extracurriculars
Extracurriculars kick in only after you have cleared the other two milestones. Given India’s population, you know that there would be enough people who clear the first two. This is where a good extracurriculars or versatility comes into the picture.
A good extra-curricular profile can be one that has a major achievement in one area — state/national-level sports, concert-level musician/dancer or any other achievement that clearly puts you in the top percentiles in that area — and one more interest which can be minor.
Another kind of profile can be one that has a lot of width — sports, music, social work, leadership — average achievements in one or two areas and minor in others.
I have had the odd student — an engineer with good academics and a big brand work-ex — who got a call for Finance but have not seen a single case where they eventually cleared even the first Group Interview. They themselves felt that the peer group they were sitting with was in a different league as far their knowledge and profile-match for Finance went. The same students made it to IIM-B and other big schools but could not clear the first Group Interview of SPJIMR.
So before commenting and asking me whether your profile is good, please do a sanity check above.
If you clear all the milestones your profile will be competitive.
But does it guarantee a call, it depends on the quality of the other applications.
For Finance, for example, you will be competing with candidates with two 90s and an 80 and a big brand Commerce college plus a CA/CPT/IPCC plus big brand work-ex plus social work and other extracurriculars.
SPJIMR Current Batch Profile
SPJIMR puts out the summary profiles of all the candidates who are part of the current batch. We took an exhaustive look at it and this is what we found:
MARKETING: 25 percent freshers, mixed educational background
FINANCE: 25 percent freshers, only 1 engineer
OPERATIONS: Only 1 fresher (city-topper in graduation), average work-ex of 2.5 years, 50% mechanical engineers
IM: No Freshers, only 2 students with less than 24 months of work-ex, all candidates had IT/Tech work-ex
What if I DO NOT want to apply to the specialization my profile is aligned to?
Well very often, especially for those with IT work-ex, the whole point of an MBA is to escape IT and rediscovering one’s real passion:
- Marketing — owing to an extroverted personality that puts people at ease or above-average exceptional communication skills or something that tells you that you will be great at making ads
- Operations — Mechanical Engineers, usually
- Finance — it is either straightforward – the money and glamour associated with Finance as projected through Wall Street and Wolf of Wall Street, a fascination with stock markets knowing a thing or two about it and maybe having invested your own or someone else’s buck or two, a fascination with stock markets knowing nothing about it or a reason that is still inscrutable like the nature of God
So whatever your reason, if you want to change your domain — do not apply to SPJIMR. Both recruitments and admissions are aligned to profiles.
Does this mean that your MBA dreams are sealed?
Not really.
All other b-schools give you more leeway in that you are not asked about your choice of specializations in the application and in the interviews but only your reasons for an MBA in general.
This has already been a super-long post. Hope I have covered most of the stuff needed to fill the form and give you a fair idea of whether you will get a call.
In the comments section, you will have seen that I have personally replied to individual requests for profile assessments. I would like you to post a comment only if you feel that you have a query that the post does not answer. I can easily make out if someone has only skimmed through the post and dumped their profile in the comments looking for a quick-fix 🙂
Do not take my comments about whether you will get a profile-based call or not as a referendum on the quality of your profile for MBA applications in general and become despondent!
SPJIMR is giving out a profile-based call at 85 percentile, which means that only outstanding profiles get a chance to have such a low percentile and get into a b-school.
Let us take a profile that I have seen get a call — 90, 90, 80, B.Com Final Year, Decent ECAs, Female. These profiles can be considered outstanding on paper in terms of academics and gender diversity and educational diversity but they still have to clear the 85 percentile cut-off.
A probable rejection from SPJIMR, as per me, does not mean that your profile won’t cut ice with other schools, even SPJIMR will give you a score-based call if you score above 96-97 percentile. So don’t take things too much to heart.
Another thing, I do not blog for a living, I am the Chief Learning Officer for IMS and do this out of my interest over and above my daily responsibilities. Why am telling you this? So that you don’t get jittery if you do not receive an immediate reply and post — Sir, please reply sir comments 🙂 You will usually get a reply anywhere within a minute to 36 hours depending on my schedule.
Also, only early bird’s get the worm, I usually stop comments to profile-evaluation queries posted one-week before the submission deadline since that’s when the last-minute madness begins 🙂
The CAT Writer 
X- 10 CGPA
XII- 91.4%
Graduation- 75.9
Won creative competitions
Won elocution competitions
Been core member of fest
Been incharge
Fresher
21-female
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What’s your query 🙂
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Do i stand a chance to receive profile based calls?
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X- 10 CGPA
XII- 91.4%
Graduation- 75.9
Won creative competitions
Won elocution competitions
Been core member of fest
Been incharge
Fresher 21-Engineering (information technology) female
Do i stand a chance to receive profile based calls for either information technology management or operations and supply chain management?
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Hi,
For the specialisations you would need at least 2 years of relevant work-ex. As a fresher you can apply to Marketing and Finance, first and second respectively.
All the best!
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In the academic achievements section,
Can I put this –
I have presented a paper at the ASAR conference and my paper was published as conference proceedings with ISBN number
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Hello sir,
X-93.5%
XII-94.2%
Graduation Final Year – 97.9%
Operations manager internship at Amazon India
Constantly ranked in top 0.5% of Graduation batch
Student Council Member in College
Captain and Vice captain of school in class XII and XI.
Finalists of national level technical competitions
Member of Make-a-difference (NGO) and Society of Automotive Engineers
Do I stand a chance to get a profile based call from SP Jain?
Thanks!
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Which specialisation are you applying to. Great Acads, since you are a fresher apply to Marketing first and Finance next.
All the best!
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I am a IMS Student. I have very poor profile. Can you tells me what are my chances.
Class 10– 7 Cgpa equivalent to 66.5%
Class 12–76.4% in Commerce
Graduation –BCA from GGSIPU; Graduated in June 2017 and passed with first class division with 69%
Work Ex–Fresher as I do not wanted to go in technical job
Certification Course–Finance and Banking Fundamentals from FLIP. I am thinking to give 1st preference to Finance and Second to IT
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Hi Hitesh,
Given your academics, it is tough to get a profile-based call. You have to get a great CAT score, around 96-97 percentile and hope for a score-based call. Not getting a profile-based call does not mean that you are not in contention for a score-based call, you will get a score-based call once the scores are out.
Hope this clarifies.
All the best!
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Sir my marks in 10 are 87.5%
12- 64%
Graduation(btech-civil) – 71.3%
Got national level partition certificate in essay writing from European union and India
Volunteer in vadodara international marathon for manegerial works
Been head of scout and guide in school
Got scholarships from government
Topper in computer and programing subject in graduation. And learn computer programming in 11&12th class. My 1st preference is IT manegment and 2nd as finance. Will it be sufficient for profile based call?
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Hi Devansh,
For both IT and Finance relevance if profile is a must. For IT, 2 years for work ex and for finance, relevant educational background. This is then followed by academic profile.
So I don’t think a profile-based call will be possible. You need to score around 97 and look for a score-based call,
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Hello sir,
X-10 GPA equivalent to 95%
XII-94%
Graduation Overall – 86%
Working as Business Technology Analyst in Deloitte.
Represented college in annual cultural fest.
Represented school in All India maths and science talent exam.
Participated in various community service programmes during college.
Do I stand a chance to get a profile based call from SP Jain?
Thanks!
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Hi Piyush,
You have a great academic profile. The next thing that matters is the relevance of your profile to the specialisation you are applying to.
So I can’t comment on it unless I know which profile you are applying to.
Hope this clarifies.
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Thanks for replying, Tony! My preferred choice of specialization is Finance. The thing is I don’t have any relevant work experience when it comes to Finance. Although I have done a minor specialization in Business Management which was part of a course during my engineering course offered by my college. This course covered topics like Financial management, marketing, HR, and Operations. So I have a fair knowledge about Finance. Will this help better my case?
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Hi Piyush,
I am afraid this won’t be of much use since you will be competing with Eco, Comm and BBA-Fin guys apart from the CAs.
But you might still sneak in a call with your academics, so do apply.
All the best
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Hello Sir
Please analyze my profile as follows:
1. 10th (73%) Goa state board
2. 12th (72%) Goa state board
3. BBA (80.55%) Symbiosis Pune (dual specialization in accounting and Finance and International Business)
I have a work ex. of 48 months in total till April 2018
1. KPMG- 2 years in Tax department specifically Transfer pricing Tax Analyst for their ITPC centre where have done the job of preparing form 3CEB and conducting detail economic analysis required for the Tax compilations as well as worked on TP related litigation analysis and fillings. With a knowldge base in OECD, BEPS guidelines.
2. A Teach For India 2016 fellow worked with Akanskha school full time till 2018. Have also worked as a Fellow advisor for TFI Pune where in I was the member of the team responsible for fellow training and teacher training and culture setting.
3. I am also an Ontario Maharashtra Goa exchange student selected by Symbiosis for a semester abroad at Ryerson University Toronto. (received fee wavier as well as stipend), Participated in a business case competition held at the university and reached the final round.
4. Was a placement co-ordinator for 2 years at Symbiosis BBA placement Cell.
5. Was a student council member as well as was awarded the most talented student at school level.
6. Have participated in kabbadi and kho-kho district level in school. Have represented my school successfully in many state level elocution and essay competitions and won prizes, have a NTSE rank in 8th grade and appeared for many science olympiads from grade 6 till grade 9.
7. Have been part of organizing committee for The college fest, and numerous other clubs and committees like Year book committee etc. during my college days at Symbi.
Is this a good enough profile for a call from SP jain?
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Hi Rama,
You have a really good profile as far as work-ex and versatility is concerned.
So if you are applying to Finance then you do stand a chance to get a call. The only thing going against you is your weak academic profile.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Hello sir thanks a lot this information is really helpful
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Glad to be of help Rama.
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sir.
X-87.4%
XII-89%
graduation B.Sc – 70.4%
diploma in TABLA , been in football team of my school and college.
1 month internship at UMEED-NGO.
sir, do i stand a chance of a profile based call . and if yes which specializations should i choose ,
PS: dont want to go in marketing .
thank you
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Hi Ketan,
The profile is not evaluated independent of the specialisation but in conjunction with it.
Basically they see if your profile is suitable for the specialization you have applied to.
Since you are a fresher, IT and Ops are ruled out and since you do not have the relevant educational background, Finance is ruled out, leaving you with only Marketing to apply to.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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sir, based on special interest can i opt Ops as a second choice . i had a skill enhancement subject named transportation and network skills in last sem of my graduation .
also 1 year course in Spanish language .
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You can but do not pin any hopes on it.
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okay sir , thank you very much
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Hello Sir,
First of all, thanks for the detailed information on filling the form.
Profile:
X – 89.64%
XII – 75.33%
B.E. in Computer Science – 7.63/10 (Mumbai University)
Work Ex – 26 months and ongoing in TCS. (Software Development and ERP)
Intended Specialization : Information Management
Extra Curricular :
– Co-headed an event during the college cultural fest.
– Participation and prizes won in MUN, debates, quizzes.
– Part of the college and school football teams.
– Ongoing volunteering with Tata Trusts.
– Taekwondo Black-Belt.
– A couple of medals in swimming (school level).
My second specialization would be Marketing (for the sake of putting a second one) as I hold a couple of digital marketing certificates.
Please let me know if I stand a chance for a profile based call. If not, what percentile in CAT would assure a score-based call for a similar profile and specialization?
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Hi,
You profile will score high on versatility but will be below par on the academic front.
I think it’s a borderline case may be the gender diversity aspect will tilt things in your favour.
All the best!
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Thank you for the response, sir.
1. Would it be fine if I mention a certificate of merit received from a local organization(community) for my 10th grade percentage under Academic achievements?
2. Under which section do I mention certificates/awards received at the workplace?
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Hi,
You can mention the local organization certification.
Make your workplace achievements a part of the closing comments describing your job role and responsibilities.
All the best!
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Hello Sir,
I am an Economics Hons. Graduate 2017. I have done Financial Modeling course on Excel. I am CFA L-1 Dec 2018 Candidate and just started working as a Valuation Analyst at an Investment Banking firm. I want to apply for PGDM this year for 2019.
10th- 8.2 CGPA
12th- 93.4%
Grad- 65.56%
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Your profile is pretty good, you should apply, chances are pretty high that you will get a profile-based call.
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Hi Sir,
10th/12th/Grad(BTech) : 79.2/88.2/79.8
Secured 2nd Position in school in 12th Board
Placement Coordinator during 3rd year
2 Gold, 1 silver and 1 Bronze in Inter College Cricket Championship (Among 80 Colleges Participation)
Various medals in other sports events during sports day and Technical Festival of College
College Flag Bearer and lead the college and a band of BSF during Parade(March Past) on Sports Day
21 months of experience as a Territory Sales Manager at Bharti Airtel Limited
A 6 month Internship in Network Optimizaton in Bharti Airtel Ltd.
Mr. Farewell (Best Student of the batch) award during farewell event of our batch
Specialisation : Sales and Marketing
Any chances of getting a profile based call from SPJain?
Regards,
Ravi Sharma
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Hi,
Since you have relevant work-ex your chances of getting a profile-based call are high. The only catch can be your average academic profile, hopefully the work-ex will counter that.
All the best!
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Sir, you haven’t mentioned anything about the overall profile?
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Hi Ravi,
More than the other aspects, the key elements for a score-based call are academics and relevance of educational background/work experience to the specialization applied. Only after these two checkboxes are ticked do the extra-curricular achievements come into play.
Your extra-curricular achievements are decent but most of them are within our school and college and not at a city, district, or state level.
So the biggest differentiator in your profile is that you have a sales work-ex which very few applicants have.
All the best!
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Hi,
Thank you Tony Sir.
The picture is now very much clear to me.
Regards,
Ravi
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Hi Sir,
If I have chosen Finance in second preference with (special interest in this region interest) option, what should I write where they are asking to mention the reason for this special interest?
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Hi Ravi,
How can I know what your reason for liking Finance is?
You can choose to link it your skills and talk about the specific areas within Finance — Trading, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance — as that interest you.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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It is done Sir. Earlier it seems like it is mandatory to fill the second preference as well. I have now just given one preference(ie marketing in which I have relevant experience) and left the other preferences as blank.
Thank you for your kind assistance in clarifying every minute doubt 🙂
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Profile:
X – 88.6%
XII – 87.2%
B.Tech in Electrical Engineering – 8.72/10 (WBUT)
Work Ex – 30 months and ongoing in TCS. (Software Development and ERP)
Intended Specialization : Information Management
Extra Curricular :
– Have Completed 4th Year Drawing and hold a diploma certificate for the same
– Part of the college and school Cricket teams.
– Ongoing volunteering with Tata Trusts.
– A couple of medals in Sports (school level).
My second specialization would be Marketing
Please let me know if I stand a chance for a profile based call.
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Yep, you stand a pretty good chance. Your profile ticks all of the check boxes. The rest depends on the quality of the peer group that applies.
All the best!
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Thanks 🙂
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Hello Sir,
I am a B Com Taxation graduate(2017)
My academic record is as follows:
10th – CGPA 10
12th – 96.2%
Graduation – 91%
Was the school topper in the Commerce Stream for Class 12 CBSE Examination.
Obtained Merit Certificate from CBSE for being ranked among the top 0.01% in the country for Accountancy in the 12th CBSE Examination.
Passed the Common Proficiency Test with a score of 137.
Extra curricular:
Participated and secured award in Model UN at school level.
Was the school leader for ISHARE (Non profit organisation)
Participated and secured prizes for several music competitions.
Please let me know if I stand a chance for a profile based call.
Thank you.
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Hi,
I suppose you want to apply to Finance. Your academics are really great and your ECAs are above-average so you do stand a a good chance of getting a call.
All the best!
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Hi Sir,
Please have a look at my profile,
X=90.15%
XII=82.67%
BE. Mechanical Engineering= 67%
Work Experience- 29 months in Process Planning & Control (16 months from one Company and rest from another small-scale industry) Till 11 Oct 2018
Extra Curricular-
Completed CAD/CAM/CAE design course in Creo Parametric 2.0 certified by PTC University • 2D, 3D Design & Drafting course in AutoCAD
Organized Technical Events/Seminar during College
Given Presentation on various topics.
Part of DIYA an NGO by Gayatri Pariwar where we have organised different events like tree plantation, Cleanliness Drive, rehabilitation drive where we help students & other people to stay away from drugs, gutkha etc and help them if they are addicted etc.
Volunteer in the various seminar organised by our NGO where we invited some great people around India to speak on various topics
Acted as a Volunteer/Cashier in National Book Festival organised by Gayatri Pariwar
Only Earning member in the family
Versatility- Interested in Cooking & Travelling. I would have been a Chef not an Engineer in the parallel universe.
Responsibility Shoulder-
Professional – Saved company’s cost by utilizing on non-moving unused material worth at least a crore
– Also utilised scrap material from the company and converted it to money.
Personal – Lost my father at an early age when I was in 12th so all household responsibility from that time is on me. Apart from that, I have helped.
Going with Work Experience I think I should go for Operation Management.
Please let me know how much is the probability of getting the call if not on profile based then on basis of CAT.
Thanks & Regards
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Hi Shubh,
You definitely have a good work and extra-curricular profile. Your chances of getting a profile-based call are decent, with your grad marks being the only things can throw a spanner in the works.
Else, you will get a score-based call at around 96.5 percentile.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Profile:
Xth : 80.20%
XIIth: 75.80%
BE: 72.20%
Work Ex (as on 16 Sept, 2018): 27 Months as ETL & Business Intelligence Developer in Cognizant.
Extra Curricular: 1. Regional Level Badminton Player (Delhi Region – Runners up in Team Event).
2. Event Manager in College Fest (2013).
3. LAN Gaming Champion in College Fest (2012).
4. Attended few workshops pertaining to my IT Domain.
5. Inter-college Badminton players (No certificates- Trying to get them from college).
Specialization interested in: IT Management
Sir, do I stand a chance?
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Hi Nikhilesh,
Your profile is decent. I am not sure of your getting a profile-based call given your academic profile. Since they give calls out at 85 percentile, they would expect you to compensate for that with a great academic profile.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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10th-85%
12th-95%
UG (BSc Physics) – CGPA-8.45/10
* Was awarded best outgoing student of my college ( among top 50 arts and science colleges in India) in 2018
* 2nd highest scorer in HSE at my school.
* NSS volunteer at my college for two years.
*District level disc throw bronze medalist in cbse
* Was awarded for excellent performance in intership by Internshala.(business development)
* Campus Editor of LinkedIn at my college (4 months)
* Campus ambasador of Internshala at my college
*Did online course in Digital marketing from Internshal
*DId digital marketing internship at an NGO
*pursuing diploma in sports management where in heading marketing activities of various projects.
* won a bunch of tournaments representing school at district and state level in football
* won table tennis tournament in interschool competition among all Bharatiya vidya niketan schools of kerala
*was awarded best goal keeper of the tornament playing for my school at all kerala bharatiya vidya niketan schools football tournament.
Do i stand a chance if I fill SP jain profile based form ?
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Hi Abhijith,
You have a great profile.
You haven’t mentioned which specialization you want to apply to?
As a fresher Ops and IM are ruled out. Between Marketing and Finance, you have to give first preference to Marketing and second to Finance since the latter demands relevant education background.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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sir indeed i wish to apply for marketing, so i there a chance for me for getting a call?
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*So, can i conclude that I have a chance
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10th-95%
12th-92%
Bcom- 82%
CA- All India Rank at 2 out of 3 levels
Is there a good chance of getting a profile based call for Finance?
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Yep, very good chance.
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Dear Sir,
My profile is as follows:
Specialization: Finance
Class X: 92.8%
Class XII: 85.67
Graduation: BE (Mumbai University): CGPA: 6.57/10
Work Experience: Full TIme: 22 months at EY (IT Risk Consulting)
Internship (Prior to graduation): 1 month at EY (Forensic Consulting)
Professional Accolades: Outstanding performance for the year 2017-18
Responsibility shouldered (Professional): Took on the additional responsibility of project planning and cost budgeting for multiple assignments
Additional Courses: CFA (All 3 levels cleared in the first attempt)
Basic Course In Stock Markets: Bombay Stock Exchange
Extra Curricular Activities: Speech and Drama (Completed Level 5 from the Trinity School of Speech and Drama with distinction)
Sports head for college festival
Kindly let me know my chances of getting a profile based call. Thank you!
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Hi Raman,
Your chances are pretty good given that you have ticked almost all the check boxes — decent acads, relevant work-ex and CFA! The CFA should outweigh the low grad marks.
All the best!
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Hello Sir,
I am an engineering graduate and have been working with TCS for a month now. Since I am working in IT field, should I keep my first preference Information Management or make it second since I don’t have 6-7 months of experience?
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Well, chances are a bit slim with less than 6 months of work-ex, you can apply to Marketing as your first preference if you are interested and IM second.
Hope this clarifies.
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Hello Sir,
I’m a CA final student with 92% in 10th, 95%(commerce) in 12th and 82% in B.Com.I was topper in my School and college, I have also received Merit Scholarship from MHRD. I have cleared my CA inter in first attempt and also have completed 3 years articleship training but have not completed final because of loosing interest/ family problems. My 1st preference will be finance and 2nd operations. Extra Curriculars- art & craft, have undergone training in Garment Manufacturing by MSME. Interested in Cooking.Are there any chances of getting profile based call?. Please suggest how do I answer the various behavioral questions?
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Hi Manisha,
You have a good chance to get a Finance call since your academic profile is great and you have the relevant educational background; operations is ruled out since you do not have full-time paid work-ex in the area.
I am not sure what do you mean by answering various behavioral questions, I suppose I have outlined a strategy to answer all the questions in the post on the blog.
Hope this helps,
All the best!
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Sir my profile is as follows:
10th:93.14% ICSE
12th:93.60% ISC (school topper)
Graduation: 9.01 CGPA which comes to about 79% in engineering in electronics and telecomm from MU
As far as academic achievements go
1. Came third in my college
2. 12th school topper
3. State level topper in an exam called ICAS conducted by Uni. of New South Wales
Extracurricular:
1. Playing the guitar both at school and college level
2. Tug of war(I don’t know if I should include this but at the school level our team won 3 years straight)
3. A certificate for a short-term course in game theory
4. Special interest in IoT
Responsib
As per your article, I need relevant work experience in Finance and IM to stand a chance to get a call but since I’m a fresher is there a chance to get a call in these fields with my profile? I’m also open to marketing so do I stand a chance?
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Hello sir, this is my profile
10th: 93.14% ICSE
12th: 93.60% ISC
Graduation: 9.01 CGPA in BE electronics and telecomm from Mumbai University
Academic achievements
1. Third in college overall
2. School topper in 12th
3. State level topper in an exam held by the University of New South Wales for ISC schools
Extracurricular
1. Guitarist at both school and college level
2. Tug of war( don’t know if I should include this but our team won at the school level 3 years straight)
3. A short-term course in game theory
No work experience
I was looking to apply for IM and finance but as those fields require relevant work experience, is there a chance I can get a call? also, should I drop one of those and apply for marketing as I’m open to that option too.
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Hi Mihir,
You have an exceptional academic profile and your extra-curricular profile is not too bad as well (you should not mention the tug of war 🙂 ).
As you area fresher, you should apply to Marketing first and Finance second to maximize your chances of getting a shortlist.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Hi Sir,
I am Aakash Narayan. I would like your opinion about my Profile to apply for spjimr-
My profile is as follows –
10th: 89.6% CBSE
12th: 84.4% – CBSE
Graduation: 7.99 CGPA – BTech in Civil Engineering from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Post Graduation: 7.82 CGPA – Currently in 3rd Semester – Mtech in Construction Technology and Management (on Sponsorship by my Employer(L&T ECCLtd.) – Although I don’t know how I can bring that into their attention) – from NIT Trichy
Academic achievements
1. School subject topper in Class 10
Extracurricular
1. College, University and Corporate (L&T) level Football Player. Won a bunch of tournaments and sports Olympiads from college and University. Have certificates, medals and trophies to back them.
2. Have been part of one Environmental Cleaning Campaign – (Have a certificate of appreciation from State govt of Kerala for that)
3. Have been part of many Blood donation camps and drives.
4. Certified Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma .
Work experience –
– 24 Months – Full time – in Larsen & Toubro ECC Ltd..
– 12 months in Execution Team and 12 Months in Operations management. Then L&T selected me to pursue Mtech in NIT under their sponsorship.
– Have undergone Beginner training program in PRIMAVERA software.
I am looking to apply for Operations as my 1st choice and Marketing (for the sake of selecting) as my 2nd choice.
Do you think I have a decent chance to get a profile-based call?
Thank you sir
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Hi Aakash,
Your profile looks good for an Operations short-list in terms of ticking all the checkboxes.
So you most probably get a profile-based call. It will boil down to the competition among the good applicants this year.
All the best!
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Thank you very much for the reply sir.
I shall try my best.
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Hi Sir,
Please have a look at my profile,
X=84.15%
DIPLOMA=77.67%
BE. Mechanical Engineering= CGPA-8.6
Specilization; Marketing/Finance
Extra Curricular-
1.Completed CATIA Course
2.Organized Technical Events/Seminar during College
3.Given Presentation on various topics.
4.Been treasurer of MESA during third year of engineering and an associate of mesa during second year.
5.Been part of management committee of college annual event during final year
6.Worked as part of management committee of mesa during diploma also for 2 years
7.Part of Robinhood army an NGO where we help the poor by donating food through various mediums and also clothes.
8.Volunteer in the various seminar organised by our NGO.
9. Volunteer for college placement cell.
Achivements:
1.Completed orange belt in karate.
2.Was part of school and college cricket team.
3.Was awarded in competition in school for maths compettion
4.Participated in international spelling competition during school.
5.Was a part of national level karate competition.
I have been helping my father in family business by looking over two shops for past 14 months. Have been soely looking over flow of stock in the shop and handleing with various problems faced.
Have been part of management committee of cousins wedding and also helped in wedding planning and execution of the plans.
Versatility- Interested in Cooking & Travelling. I would have been a Chef not an Engineer in the parallel universe.
Please let me know how much is the probability of getting the call if not on profile based then on basis of CAT.
Thanks & Regards
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Hi Akshay,
Your profile is above average. Your achievements and versatility are not really strong since they are at school or family level and if not then it’s only a participation.
Your chances of getting a profile-based call are very slim.
You should put in enough effort to score around 96-97 percentile to get a score-based cal.
All the best!
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Thankyou sir
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Dear Tony Sir,
I am a Chartered Accountant, along with CFA level 2 Cleared and also CS Executive cleared.
10th – 88%
12th- 81%
Bcom – 86%
I have work experience of 23 Months in Indiabulls Housing Finance limited in Project Financing department.
I have volunteered in Make A Difference NGO in 2017.
I was selected for ‘A day @ IIMA Ahmedabad’ competition held in 2016.
I also have a certificate in Garba.
Also, for a profile based call getter, does percentile have an impact on final admission even if cut offs are cleared?
Thank you for your time and efforts.
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Hi Krushant,
You have a great profile and should get a profile-based call.
As far as the importance of the percentile goes, in the final selection, different components (including CAT Score) have different weights, so a higher CAT percentile will definitely help.
Say CAT score weight is 30% then your CAT score divided by Total Score multiplied by .30 will be the contribution of your CAT score to the total score you get.
Hope this clarifies.
All the best!
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Sir
i got 77.66% in X
and 84.92% in Xll
Currently pursuing TYBCA from National College
Certified in MS-Office 2013
Certified in Advanced MS-Excel 2013
from Certified Institute
And i want to do MBA in IT….so do i have a chances of Getting profile based call or on the basis of CAT…..
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Hi Shivam,
The IM specialisation usually needs some amount of work-ex in tech/it usually around 2 years.
Freshers can’t handle business side of IT without having worked in IT at all since the gap between text book knowledge of IT and real world IT is huge.
Hence both recruiters and SP look at work-ex.
Hope this clarifies.
All the best!
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Hello Sir,
Profile
10th : 89%
12th : 79%
B.tech (Production Engineering) : 8.03 cgpa
Academic achievements :
Was 5th in school (10th)
Was in top 20 at district level (12th)
No work ex
Certified in Advanced Excel
Done an automotive training program
Extracurricular activities :
Dancing (performed at college level events)
Playing football (played at some college level matches during graduation)
Specialisation interested in : Operations and Finance
What are my chances of getting profile based or profile-cum-score based calls?
Thank You.
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Hi Naresh,
I am afraid your profile will not match the requirements for both Ops(no relevant work-ex) and Finance (no educational background).
As this point Marketing might be your best bet.
For a score-based call (there is no profile-cum score-based), you would need a percentile around 96.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Sir, My details are as follows:
10th: 85%
12th: 75% (Both Maharsahtra State Board)
Engg: Chemical Engg from ICT, Mumbai
Work Ex: Engg Consulting Startup (6months); Currently at HPCL Mumbai as Operations Officer (20 months)
Worked on Reserach project for 6 months; One Internship at an MNC; another annual project in last year of Engg
Shuold I opt for Finance (as i am intrested) or Operations (as per my work ex) ?
Also is 16lac+ fees justified for SPJain vs. that of IIMs?
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You should apply to Ops first since your profile is tailor made for that; your chances in finance are next to nil.
I think 16L is justified as far the quality of the jobs SP attracts, especially for Ops where they are better than IIMs, Marketing and IM on par, in Fin and Consulting they lag behind the IIMs.
So yeah overall it is justified.
Hope this clarifies.
All the best!
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Hello Sir,
My profile details are as follows:
10th (CBSE) – 10 (CGPA)
12th (A.P. State Board) – 96.2 %
B.E (Electronics & Communication Engineering) -7.88 (CGPA) from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi.
Academic Achievements:
1. Secured a rank of 10k (out of 12 lakhs people) in JEE Mains-2013.
2. Secured 1465 rank (out of 50k) in NSTSE (National Level Science Talent Search Exam) , 2011
3. Secured Rank-28 in C.V Raman ‘Young Genius’ Science State Talent Exam,2011
Work Ex: 15 months
1. As an Analyst (Software Engineer) in a Financial Firm (BlackRock) where I am responsible for the development of the mission critical applications to provide issue/incident management and Disaster Recovery operations.
Extracurricular Activities:
1. As a member of NSS, took the responsibility of the team for various social works.
I taught under-privileged kids of rural areas around the college campus, on weekends for a whole year.
2. Was Coordinator and organizer of Hospitality Team in our college annual technical and cultural festival, with a team of about 25 members, where I was responsible for management of resources for students & professors coming from different campuses and event management.
3. Participated in various CSR activities, which included Tree plantation, visiting old-age home, teaching underprivileged kids, clean hygiene & sanitation drives.
Are there any chances of getting profile based call? If yes, which specializations should I choose?
Since I am working in IT field of a financial firm, should I keep my first preference Information Management?
PS: Don’t want to go in Information Management.
I am looking to apply for Operations as my 1st choice and Marketing as my 2nd choice.
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Hi Sumit,
You have a pretty good profile and your chances of getting a profile-based call are high.
The catch is the specializations you want to look at.
Since you work in the fin sector you can make a pitch for Finance as your first preference using relevant work ex and Marketing as a second preference using area of interest or the other way around.
Applying to ops will not be a good idea since the applicants to Ops usually have hardcore Ops profiles in terms of work-ex.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Dear Sir,
I’m Tejas. Currently a student at IMS Deccan center.
10th – 94%, 12 – 72% (Both Maharashtra State Board)
BE(Mechanical) – 68.09% aggregate. (Pune University)
Working as an Engineer at ThyssenKrupp Industries India Pvt. Ltd from last 27 months.
Job Profile – Project Management (Spare Parts order execution)
Looking after MHE & Mining spares (50% business) from August 2016. Recently, due to my excellent performance & record breaking Turn Over figures, I received an additional responsibility for looking after total Sugar Industries Spare Parts business.
Project & Internships:
1. Thermoelectric Refrigerator – Received a scholarship from ASHRAE HQ ($2325) – International Level
2. Designing Modified Hopper – Thermax Ltd. Pune.
10th – School topper
12th – 2nd in Maharashtra State (SMS-Vocational subject)
BE institute topper with 76.2%
Participated in virtuals & main event of BAJA 2014-15 (ATV National level event & came 34th in India) – Headed Brakes & Purchase department.
Treasurer of ASHRAE Students branch at our college.
The German Language certified course – MMB – Level 1
Certified Training on Information Security by ThyssenKrupp
Attended Techducating India Convection (BOSCH – Certified course)
International Mathematics Olympiad (State Rank – 1653)
International Olympiad of English language (State Rank – 236)
Intermediate Drawing Examination held by Maharashtra Govt. – A grade
1st Prize – Ideation – National level event at CCOEW
Represented school & college in Cricket team
Coordinated events at the college level
Advance User – Microsoft Office & SAP
Regular Blood Donor since 2017
An active member of the CSR group in our company
Actively working for Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Sanstha from 2010
My first preference is Operations & second is Marketing.
Request you to evaluate my profile & guide further if I have the chances of getting a profile based call.
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Hi Thejas,
You have a good extra-curricular profile and your work-ex is suitable to apply to Ops, the only catch can be your XII and Grad Marks.
Since profile-based called are given at lower CAT percentiles, they expect that to be compensated by a very good academic profile.
So I am not sure if you will get a profile-based call. Scoring well on the CAT and getting a score-based call is your best bet.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Hello Sir,
My details are as follows:
X – 85.5%
XII – 86.6 %
BE – 70.5%
Work Ex – 10 months in TCS (till date).
1. Basketball – regional level U19 (Ahmedabad)
2. Letter of appreciation from Ministry of HRD – class X
3. Certificate of enforcement from Cancer Patient’s Aid Society
4. Working for a couple of NGOs.
5. Selected for course on Fusion-360 software from Autodesk among 60 students – graduation level
6. Summer internship at Crompton Greaves – 30 days
7. Awarded 2nd prize for final year project among 120 students – graduation level , organized under
TEQIP-II.
Do I stand a chance to get a profile based call from SP Jain?
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For which specialization?
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specialization preference :
1) IM
2) Marketing / Finance
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Good afternoon Sir,
I hope I’m at the best page to sort my constant nagging questions…
Here’s my profile…
Xth score – 9.2 CGPA equivalent to 87.40%(CBSE)
XIIth score – 87.40% (CBSE)
Graduation (Passed)- B.E. Electronics and Communication Engineering – 81.90%
Employment Status – Will be joining Infosys Ltd. from 26th November 2018
Courses – 1) Operations Management Course from IIMB through EdX
2) Done training on the Internet of Things under the aegis of Expertshub Industry Skill Centre
3) Done training on broadcasting activities at various centres of All India Radio Bhopal
Projects- 1) Smart Street Lights.
2) Smart Garbage Truck for Smart Cities.
3) Automatic Railway Gate Controller System.
4) Automatic Grass Cutting Machine.
Achievements – 1) Got a recommendation from Services Selection Board (SSB) Bangalore for technical
officer in the Indian Army.
2) Finalist of Smart India Hackathon 2017 under the Ministry of Electronics and IT.
3) Cleared National Science Olympiad at District Level.
4) Quarter finalist in Table Tennis Competition at District Level
5) Selected as college head coordinator of Student Activity Centre for organizing
various events.
6) Got certificate of merit for securing 100% attendance in the 10th and 11th standard.
7) Elected as a schoolhouse captain for 1 year.
8) House football team captain for 2 years and had won Inter-House Football
competition for two consecutive terms.
9) Won first prize in extempore competition.
10) Won first prize in chess competition (city level) under the age group of under 15
years.
11) Part of college football team and participated in various nodals.
12) Participated in 1st Madhya Pradesh Student Parliament.
13) Participated in Elocution Competition organised by GAIL India Ltd.
Co-Curricular Activities – 1) Constant topper in college (1-5%).
2) Won first prize in science quiz and second prize in GK quiz.
Social Service – Raised funds of about 2.75 lakhs in one month for treatment of friend who suffering
from fatal infection.
Specialization Interest – Operations
Least Interest – Marketing
Finallly, an obvious question to ask, Sir, what are my chances?
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You have a great profile but the catch is that since you are a fresher an Ops call is ruled out.
Recruiters look for candidates with production, quality control, logistics, design work-experience for Ops roles and hence SPJIMR also looks for the same.
Your chances of getting shortlisted for Marketing are quite high.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Sir,
Please tell me if my extra-curricular activities can compensate my poor academic record and if there’s any chance of profile based call for me.
X=6.4CGPA
12th=65%
BTech. Mechanical Engineering= 62%
Academic Achievement-99.4 All india percentile in AMCAT( employebility test) mechanical engg. test.
Specilization; Marketing/Operations
Extra Curricular-
1)Regional Manager-NCR(National Capital Region) of Thomso’16, cultural festival of IIT-Roorkee
• It was a unique post, first time given to any non-IITian, considering my past record and abilities.(Resut of an achievement)
2)Campus Ambassador at Thomso’15 cultural festival of IIT-Roorkee
• 400+ students participated from MIET, which is more than twice of any past record from a single college.(An achievement in promotion)
I took the responsibility of every aspect of participants from MIET
3)Campus Ambassador at Rendezvous, cultural festival of IIT-Delhi for 2 years
Over 100 of students participated from MIET
4)Coordinator (team was of 3coordinators) of Expanse-The Zonal Cognizance, 2 days’ Techfest by IIT-Roorkeein Meerut
Around 250 students participated with just 2 days of promotion(An achievement)
• I was responsible for promotion, conduct and strategic management of the various workshops and competitive technical evets conducted by various companies like ‘Codechef’ and ‘Robolabs’ district and surrounding level.
5)House vice-captain at school
INTERNSHIPS:
1) 1 month At SUBROS LTD. in production of ‘heat exchangers’.
2) 4 months • At Internshala, as a ‘Student Partner
3) 3 months as Student Partner at Cognizance’15(certified by IIT-Roorkee and Internshala), technical festival of IIT-Roorkee and one of the biggest technical festival of Asia, presented by IIT-Roorkee and Larsen & Toubro Limited under the patronage of UNESCO and International Year of Light.
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Hi Uday,
Your extracurriculars are great but you have to understand that since the profile-based call is given at 85 percentile there is no other way to showcase your academic capability to do an MBA than your marks.
So you will have to crack a good percentile on the CAT and get a score-based call.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Hello. I have done a couple of internships in Marketing. I have also headed college clubs. Where can I list my internships and positions of responsibility held in college clubs?
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In your extra-curriculars.
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Hello Sir,
My details are as follows:
X – 10 CGPA (CBSE)
XII – 97.7 % Telangana Board of Intermediate Education
BE – 68.3% (IIT Jodhpur) (in my final year)
POR’s+extra curricular
1. POR-Secretary, Science and Technology Society, IIT Jodhpur
2. POR-Vice-Captain, Robotics Club
3. POR-Captain, SOCH, Varchas-16 (Socio-Sports fest)
4. POR-Vice-Captain, Workshop, IGNUS-17 (Techno-Socio- Cult fest)
5. Football –represented IIT Jodhpur at IIT Delhi Sportech’16 and also was a part of my school Football team
6. Presently serving as a mentor to Science and Technology Society.
7. Participated in an event in Techfest’16 (technical festival)- organized by IIT Bombay
8. Participated and stood in top 3 in zonals in an event Escalade’16 (technical festival)- organized by IIT Guwahati
9. Served as a festival coordinator of NIMBLE’18- intra-college Technical Festival organized by Students’ Gymkhana
10. Participated and won numerous prizes in intra-college technical activities
11. Recipient of Merit-cum-means Scholarship offered by IITJ
12. Successfully cleared the NDA entrance exam and was called upon for next round in the process for joining Indian Forces (Air Force)
13. Was a Headboy and Captain during my 10th and 9th class resp.
14. Certificate of Merit from CBSE in class X also was 1st in school and 2nd in district.
Social Work: 1. Volunteered in activities like Clothes distribution, Blood donation camps organized by social wing of Institute, PARIVARTAN
2. Volunteered in organizing one of the biggest Marathon in Jodhpur in Varchas’16 (Socio-Sports fest)
3. Organized events for school children in Science Fair 2016 conducted by PARIVARTAN
Also Sir, few things mentioned above doesn’t have solid proofs like certifications (eg-football related), etc. so is it ok to mention them though I can justify them if questioned
I don’t have any work-exp not even internships but a lot of projects (6 till date ranging from core to non-core projects)
Do I stand a chance to get a profile based call from SP Jain? and what preferences would be appropriate according to my profile as reading above comments that you gave to other students shows it’s hard to get selected in finance and ops and even my profile is not coherent with any?
Also, I would like to ask if it is possible to get shortlisted in finance as I’ve already opted financial engineering course (elective), and I’m currently working on a project on financial portfolio management and optimization
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Hi Krunal,
You can apply to Finance citing an area of special interest and then use the space given to justify that to mention your electives, your project and your areas of interest within Finance.
You can also apply to Marketing, a shortlist for which has no requirement apart form good academics and great extracurriculars.
Choose three areas in which you want to showcase your versatility and even if you do not have certificates use the write-up to give a good account by quantifying/demonstrating your interest in that; so you can write football.
This is your best bet in terms of apps, the rest depends on the competing profiles.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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I am nithish pawar. I had completed my b.com graduation from allahabad university, allahabad with 72% and having experience of 4 yrs from unipoint solutions in finance field at Hyderabad location. Coming to my schooling i secured 76% in my 10th standard and 82% in my intermediate. And also completed ITT and ORIENTATION PROGRAMME mandated by ICAI. Also participation in many other activities like 10k run and sports.
Please help me in finding a business school for my mba education in finance field.
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Hi Nithish,
I need to know a few things before I can give you any suggestions:
1. What is your CTC and
2. Are you working in a core Finance role — trading, wealth management, etc. or in Sales & Marketing or Operations wings of a Financial services firm or a bank.
Let me know.
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HI SIR My work experience at unipoint is in finance department extends to kyc and transaction monitoring operations and it involves maintainance of risk profile and its review . My ctc was around1.8lakhp.a in first year sir and it raises to 4.2lakhp.a in 2nd year.so based on above profile can i expect a call sir.???
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Hi Nithish,
A profile-based is pretty tough since they look at great academics, and for Finance, you will be competing with CAs and CFAs and candidates with 90s and 80s.
All the best!
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X-86.67% (ICSE)
XII-80.46% (MAHARASHTRA STATE BOARD)
IN FINAL YEAR ENGINEERING -77%
extra curricular
-3 week internship
-participated in MUNs.
-won paper presentation at college level
-won in presentations competitions at college level.
-was a member of MUN working committee and helped in reducing cost in various sectors in it.
-was the lead to handle a event for girls for self defence with the footfall of more than 300 girls.
-part of blood donation camps
-successfully passed the entrance exam of ACTUARIES and admitted to institute of acturies india(IAI) thus interested in finance .
-first position in hindi essay writing school level
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Hi Srushti,
I know you are still in college but just putt in your profile details with neither a one-liner into nor a mention as to what query you have!
I suppose you want me to tell you whether you will get a profile-based call or not but for that I need to know which specialisation you intend to apply to.
Profile is evaluated for its relevance to the specialisation you are applying to.
So what’s your question?
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Hello Sir,
I have done my bachelors in Computer Science from BITS Pilani University with a CGPA of around 7.4 on 10.
I have secured a 97% in 12th and a 94% in 10th .
As far as my work ex is concerned , I have been working for the past 3.5 years in a startup and worked on various tech including the latest developments like blockchain, digital marketing etc.
But here is the trickiest part.Despite working in the IT industry, due to my personal interests and better opportunities, I would like to shift into the marketing sector instead and thought of marking my 1st interest as “Marketing” and the second one as “IT” just because I am afraid they might allot me IT in case I put it as my first option and get selected. But after reading your post, it’s mentioned not to mark Special area of interest as the first option and I am now a bit confused.
Please suggest me how should I go with this ?
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Hi,
You have a good profile and yes the confusion is understandable.
What you need to do is to apply to Marketing but somehow try to project your startup experience as being more holistic and hence work-ex relevant to Marketing.
If you are able to do that then apply to Marketing using relevant work-ex. But if you feel that your designation and other things will make it impossible to pitch it as a Marketing role then apply using special area of interest and use the writing space to justify why.
Apply to IM as a second preference.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Hi Sir,
Kindly review my profile:
Profile:
X – 91.6%
XII – 94.4%
M.Tech 5 years Integrated in Electrical Engineering – 7.7/10 (SASTRA University)
Academic achievements:
-Scored 300/300 in 11 & 12th Mathematics
-Stood school 2nd in class X
Work Ex – Total of 29 months
-Currently working since last 7 months with TESCO as a business analyst
-Prior to that had worked for 22 months with Mu Sigma as a decision scientist
My work experience mainly revolves around driving various data driven business decisions which require understanding of business and impact of each changes suggested (Big data analytics)
Extra Curricular :
1. Headed the entrepreneur development cell at my college (hosted many entrepreneur’s & startup’s)
2. The workshop manager at Repairshala (a college In house start- up)
3. Vice chairman of the cultural fest
4. In charge of the cultural committee of the college winning 8 overall cultural trophy across the country in a year
5. Head Hindi literary society
6. School head boy for the year 2008-09.
7. Campus ambassador for spring fest 2013 ( IIT Kharagpur cultural fest)
8. Have won more than 25 prizes in various events across colleges cultural fest
9. Vice captain of college football team & captain of school football team
Intended Specialization : Marketing or Operations
Please let me know if I stand a chance for a profile based call ?
Thanks in advance!!
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Hi Sohail,
You have a very good profile.
Honestly, it is suitable more for a General Management profile from a school other than SPJIMR since they slot people into categories.
Your profile can straddle both Marketing and Operations but is also not the perfect fit for both.
I suggest you apply to both of them and choose one over the other based on your interest.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Thank you so much for the clarity!
General Management is the thing which even i thing might fit me, but since SPJIMR does not offer GM i was wondering if you could tell me a way out to shape my profile for a call in marketing (it being my first preference)
Thanks a lot!
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Hello Sir, I am Nancy Srivastava. My details are:-
1. Academic Background – Class 10 – 93%; Class 12- 95% Graduation – 9.4 CGPA(pursuing from Amity University)
2. Participated in International events at School – Commerce and Economics, Geography and Chief Justices Conference
3. Internship – Finance (stock trading) – Religare Securities, Digital Marketing- Internshala and Operations – Entrepreneurs Development Institute of India
4. Won medals in swimming at district level
5. Elected the Head Girl of school and President of Cultural Club
6. Participated in MUN, Parliamentary debate, GST Review and Budget session at college.
7. Worked as a part of core committee for college fest. Also, worked at the admissions team for the college.
8. Won first prize for presentation at Round Table HR conference at college level.
9. Presented Model on Green Lucknow before Chief Minister at School level.
10. Completed Digital Marketing certification from Internshala.
Sir, I want to know if I will get a profile-based call from SP Jain. I want to specialise in Finance. My second preferance is Marketing.
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Hi Nancy,
You have a pretty good profile.
I would say that you stand a good chance of getting a profile-based but since Finance is very sought after, it will finally depend on the competing profiles.
You should be able to get a call for Marketing.
So go with your current choice of Finance first and Marketing next.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Academics :
10th : 89.83% with 99.33rd percentile(Gujarat board)
12th : 79.80% with 97th percentile(Gujarat board)
Graduation(Final Year): 78% (Chemical Engineering)
No Work-Ex
Projects:
1) Wastewater treatment through electrocoagulation.
2) Production of Ligno-Cellulosic Bioethanol.
Achievements & Extra-Curricular Activities:
1) Best idea award at National Robotics Contest “ROBOCON 2018”.
2) Completed 5 years of classical vocal singing.
3) Gujarat central zone Badminton winners in GTU’s annual sports fest “SPIRIT 2017-2018”.
4) Badminton singles Winner in LDCE’s annual sports fest.
5) Winner in chemo-car event in IFEST’16 organized by Nirma University.
6) Completed 10 levels of UCMAS with 95.36%.
Positions of responsibility:
1)Convener & Head ( Events and Campaigning) at Lakshya Fest 2018.
o Led a team of 35 junior coordinators, 245 associates and successfully completed a Technical
festival with more than 13000 footfalls.
2)Director, Club Robocon LDCE
o I took care of all the financial and sponsorship issues and generated funds of more than 15
lakh rupees for successful completion of the robot for two consecutive years.
3)Campus Ambassador, CHEMTECH 2017’s STUDENT OUTREACH PROGRAMME
o I managed the promotion of the event in the entire college.
4)Captain, Badminton team LDCE
I have an interest in both operations and marketing as well.
What do you think are my chances of getting a call and what specialization will best suit me?
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Hi Vasu,
Your extra-curricular profile is pretty strong but academic profile might be on the weaker side for a profile-based call from SP. You need to score a high CAT percentile and look at a score-based call.
Operations is ruled out since they do not take freshers.
So I would say Marketing should be your first preference.
You can apply to Ops as a second preference.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Hi sir,
I am Dheeraj.My details are as follows:
Xth – 9.5/10
XIIth – 97.5%
B.E (Computer Science and Engg)- 8.54/10
Presently working at an IT firm (4 months and ongoing) as a software developer. Did 2 internships previously during my engineering.
Coming to my extra curriculars :
-Executive Board Member for Dept. of Publicity for the event Carpediem,biennial college fest.
– College Ambassador for my college environmental club.
– Organized a department fest.
-Certified Grade 3 Electric Guitarist from Rockschool London.
– Finalist in “National Engineering Challenge” organised by Careers360.
– Head of Logistics for Human Resources & Accommodation for our college MUN
-Represented my department in our college sports fest for Football
– Member of college football team.
– Participated and won in various Inter-college quizzes and fests.
– Runner up at Inter school quiz competiton (around 20 schools participated) in 8th class.
Do I stand a chance to get a profile based call from SP Jain? and what preferences would be appropriate according to my profile. Can opt for IM as 1st preference citing relavant work experience? Also between Marketing / Finance (inclined towards finance) which one can be my best bet and what are my chances of getting a call?
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Hi Dheeraj,
As a fresher, you should be applying to Marketing & Finance. Do check the batch profile for IM and see if they take freshers or reach out a student there to find out. As far as I know, they take people with work-ex and even recruiters look for people with pre-MBA work-ex.
Chances are decent for Marketing but Finance might be tough ask given that you have no educational or professional experience.
I would suggest applying to IM, if they are taking freshers, and Marketing. Else, Marketing and Finance.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Hello Sir,
My academic details are
10 CGPA or 95 % in Xth
88% in Xiith
84.5% in B.Tech (ECE)
I am working for the past 3 months in the Pricing department (Outbound Marketing) at Enphase Energy.
I am interested in Marketing.
I have several technical papers published, was in the top-10 at the idea contest organized by Jain University, have done a couple of projects in embedded systems.
Have won a group discussion competition. Awarded a certificate by the college for the best student at extra-curricular. Member of the college band (drummer). Unofficially, worked for several NGOs.
Represented the college at various competitions etc
Could you please tell me the chances of me getting a profile based call?
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Hi Rahul,
You have a decent profile for Marketing. As far as chances go I can only say that it is a competitive profile, the rest depends on the quality of applications they receive.
For the rest of the specializations, it is not relevant, since you have very little work ex for IM and Ops and no educational or professional background for Finance. But since you can apply to two, apply to IM or Finance as the second preference.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Hi sir,
My name is Vikas, I am confused on how to present my profile in the form, if u can please guide on how to fill the workex part in 50 words so that it highlights the same, below are the details:
X-91.2(CBSE)
XII-90.2(CBSE)
B.E automobile -8.13(MIT Manipal)
Internship- Think and learn (4 months)
Workex-
Marketing associate(1 year)- at the family concern(Foreign trade consultancy firm)(My job profile included client acquisition via direct marketing, the firm turnover doubled after the telemarketing campaign and email campaigns held as compared to previous financial year)
Found a seafood exporting firm(2017-present)- this is a small firm started in April 2017, and in the year of establishment, we managed to export value added seafood worth 2.5 Cr to Vietnam.(Here my work included right from arranging supply of raw materials to negotiating with buying agents the payment terms and price, also production management ,quality and packing as per buyers demand)
Areas of Interest:
Trading in stock market
Gym
Position of responsibility held:
Head Boy,(School)
Sir my extra curriculars in college are none as i had serious health issues at that time and had to cover up my syllabus for the time lost due to the same.
I am not sure on what to fill under versatility and the CTC for the year when i started the firm. I am interested in Marketing as well as Operations, but are there any chances for profile based call given my extra curriculars are on the weaker side and work ex is not from a well known company?
Looking forward to your reply.
Thanks and Regards,
Vikas
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Hi Vikas,
The big spike in your profile is your academics. Your extracurriculars are weak but they carry a lower weight than academics.
You need not mention your work-ex as being a family concern, as long as you have salary slips and an appointment letter. Describe your job role and your achievements.
For your second job, you do not need to mention CTC, you can write NA or self-employed.
In the description of work-ex describe the turnover, team size, number of clients and the gross and net margins.
Operations is ruled out since the work-ex is not relevant. But a decent chance to get a call for Marketing.
Since want to specialize in Marketing, your first task is to market yourself within 50 words 🙂
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Yes sir, this cleared the doubts, thank you!
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Hi sir,
This is in reference to our earlier conversation, in description of the gross margin and nett margin, is it okay to mention just the value of nett profit, as only 50 words is the limit?
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Yeah it’s okay, all you need to give are some specifics.
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Hi Sir,
These are my details:-
X – 10 CGPA (95%)
2nd PUC – 92% – Christ Junior College
Graduation – B.Com – 84% – Jain University
CA (Completed) – 52% approx – First attempt
Work experience: 2.5 years till December 2018 with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Audit and Mergers & Acquisitions (Tax) department.
Professional responsibility – Managing a team of 2 people on field on a particular high profile client in the Audit department
Versatility:
1. Football – Captain of Football team that secured 2nd position in PwC Sports day and in intra-school tournaments
2. CSR – Participated in CSR activities in PwC and during school
3. Dancing – High level of interest and passion
4. Badminton – Medium level of interest
5. Boxing – Medium level of interest and attended classes for the same
Academic achievements:
1. CBSE Board Topper – Class X
2. Value education scholarship in Christ Junior College – Class XI and XII
3. Scored distinction in 3/8 subjects in CA Finals
I have selected Finance, as only interested in that and have relevant work experience. And I have selected ‘No’ for whether I’m willing to appear for interviews in Mumbai in Jan, if shortlisted.
Also this is my 2nd time of applying to SP Jain. Although I don’t remember the exact manner in which I had filled the form, the basic profile remains the same (Except work experience was only in Audit and one year lesser). I was not shortlisted based on profile or CAT score.
This year I want to ensure that I fill the form in the right way so my chances of getting a profile based call are higher.
Please let me know how I can present the above information and also my chances of a profile based call this year. Thanks a ton! 🙂
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Hi Aishwarya,
You have a pretty good profile.
I think you need to do present your work-ex. You have just stated what you currently do, mention the number of clients and the scale of the businesses you have handled over the past 30 months.
I hope you have small write-ups for each of the elements in the versatility section.
For example, Sports — You should start by saying that sports and physical activity have always been a part of your life since school. Then mentioned the sport you are most passionate about and what are current sporting interests are.
The same applies to the other two activities — dancing and Social Work.
You need to bring out your interest in a way that they get an idea of what kind of a person you are rather than looking at it from the certificates and achievements lens.
Also, why not take the interview in Mumbai in Jan?
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Thank you so much for the response!
It definitely helps a lot 🙂 Yes, I will elaborate on all the aspects mentioned like you have suggested.
As I stay in Bangalore and currently working, it might be difficult to attend the interviews in Mumbai. The form mentions that this will not affect the chances of being shortlisted. However, do you suggest that I should select ‘Yes’?
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No, you can stick to Bangalore.
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X-88% (ICSE)
XII-84% (ICSE)
IN FINAL YEAR ENGINEERING -74.6%
-16 months of work experience in TCS.
-Mentor to juniors in project n TCS.
-Co-Founder of an NGO (2016 till present) working in the state of Uttarakhand towards the betterment of the society by training the unemployed population and helping them to fetch jobs or to start a business.
-Organizing various events all around the State.
-Partnered with local Government and got some sewing machines issued to train the unemployed.
-Member of a Cricket team in college level.
-Member of an Entrepreneur Cell in college.
-Strong interest (following, watching, reading) in Cricket.
-Photography as a hobby.
No significant Academic Achievement or Co-Curricular achievement. How can I overcome this area?
I have an interest in Sales and Marketing. Will the absence of co-curricular hamper my chances?
And is the overall profile decent enough to get a profile based call and if not then what percentile shall I be looking at for CAT scores based call?
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Hi Kartik,
Your profile is decent but I am not sure it will fetch you a call.
One can’t really overcome the lack of achievements in a particular area. You can only ensure that you really highlight your NGO work properly — conducted X training/campaigns that reached Y youngsters across Z towns/villages.
For a score-based call, you need to score around 96-97 percentile.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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Hello sir,
My name is Ujjwal.
My details are as follows-
X- 91.20%
XII- 94.40%
B.Tech (Mech)- 9.03 (NIT Allahabad)
Work ex- 17 months (till 31 Dec 2018) in Tata Motors in Operations role.
Academic achievements-
Within top 1% at national level in class XII examination.
Top 10 rank in my branch at college.
Research paper presentation in an international conference.
I am looking forward to apply for Operations as the only preference. As my work ex is still less as compared to the average work ex in SPJIMR Operations batch, is it advisable to select Marketing as the second preference.
Also, sir, I had a few specific queries regarding the form filling,
In the personal responsibility shouldered I am thinking about writing helping my younger sister in her studies. Should I quantify it by the giving example of her marks in class XII?
Or should I project it as helping my younger sister in her studies as well as guiding her in making career choices, and writing example that I advised her to opt for Commerce based upon her interests.
Also, I participated in a street play event in my college’s Cultural fest but as it was just participation with no certificates as a proof, should I include it in the versatility section to project my versatility?
And, sir can I include all the positions of responsibilities shouldered at college and school level under one tab in the versatility section?
Thank you in advance sir for your time and efforts. 🙂
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Hi Ujjwal,
You have a great academic profile. You work-ex by the time of joining will be more than 2 years and hence it should not be a problem.
You can apply to Marketing as a second preference under area of interest.
If you do not have anything else to mention, mention being a mentor to your sister, helping her overcome an area of weakness and score well as well as helping her with her career choices. Maybe you start with saying that your parents could leave your sister’s education completely to you.
Mention all positions of responsibilities under one head and use the space to give a good overview.
You can mention cultural activities under one tab with the street play as one of the events.
Hope this clarifies,
All the best!
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