[deba_s56]

Even though I do not have any admit from any US schools yet, I think all fellow applicants will find the attachment useful. This attachment contains a list of action verbs arranged alphabetically as well as categorized by business skills.

If you are somebody like me who is in loss of words in a lot of situations and want to use some nice-sounding/looking words on your resume, refer to the list of action verbs. Try not to repeat an action verb too many times. Try to start all the bullet points on your resume with one of these action verbs.

Deba

[iday]

Originally Posted by inblue

Now, Dont worry, I am not going to head the Corporate communications department at McKinsey !

And even if u do, there'll be some Ivy league English grad who'll handle all the documents you ever need to type
In the choicest of words if i may add

[Rocky Balboa]

Hey good job there mate!!! Keep it up!!!

[inblue]

Originally Posted by iday

And even if u do, there'll be some Ivy league English grad who'll handle all the documents you ever need to type
In the choicest of words if i may add

Insha Allah!

[imjimmy]

If your HR title and work role are different, create a hybrid resume

Thanks for the post inblue. Couuld you please elaborate on the pt in quotes above. I did not quite understand your description.

What if your HR role is that of a developer, but you have been involved in positions of project lead and technical architect (as a project role). Is it really necessary to mention the HR role in the resume?
Won't it just suffice to say your role in the project(ofcourse with the recommenders validating the same in the recos).There are ocassions wherein one might perform a higher role than one's HR designation. HR role changes sometimes take time to materialize.

[inblue]

Originally Posted by imjimmy

What if your HR role is that of a developer, but you have been involved in positions of project lead and technical architect (as a project role). Is it really necessary to mention the HR role in the resume?
Won't it just suffice to say your role in the project(ofcourse with the recommenders validating the same in the recos).There are ocassions wherein one might perform a higher role than one's HR designation. HR role changes sometimes take time to materialize.

I agree most of the time Work roles are different from HR designations but then my personal take is to give both. Reason ?

Clarity! I think the adcom would love to know how you are rising the ladder ( designation change is that way ) and how much progress/ diversity are you experienceing in your role. Giving them just the role would confuse them.

Given the no of people that apply, the ad-com has a very fair idea of the designations, the roles and what is done in each role - Giving them the roles only would make them question why you did not mention the designation ?

My personal take it to give the designation and under it mention all the roles you have played in that time period.
Eg Software engineer
Project lead, abc, xyz
Testing lead, abc, lmn.

Hope this helps !

[mohayana]

HERE is a resume template I used - it is in WORD format so you can just edit it

As you can see I pinched it off the internet and you could find some better ones.
He also uses some good action verbs/spin

If you are using this one , note that some say to put your education after your professional experience section.

[iday]

okay!
Are we done?!?! I think i have run out of ideas

If anyone thinks anything is missing or if there is any other thing which will add value to the admissions process - just ask.

I'll reply them if possible and/or get ppl with better knowledge to pour in their views as well.

[cryonerve]

Disclaimer: This was the method I used when evaluating my 'FIT' for B-Schools, though I have got acceptance from HBS, IIMA-PGPX & ISB using this method as a bedrock to position my application for B-Schools, and in framing my essays, this in no way is the 'only right method' to go about it, other ways and methods may exist
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http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/b-scho...tml#post627819
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Though I am not a qualified admission consultant this is what I did when I started deciding for the right school for myself:

I wrote the following on an excel sheet

Academic Superiority
Aggressive go-getter
Analytical Abilities
Clear Career Vision
Entrepreneurial Nature
Experiences in Life
Impact at Work
Laidback Spirit
Leadership Potential
Networked
Overachiever
Quantitative Abilities
Risk taker
Standout from Peer Group
Teamplayer
Technical Abilities

And sent it to almost all my friends and asked them to rate me on a scale of 0 to 10 on each quality they perceived in me.

After getting their feedback, I was able to analyze my overall standing on a specific quality, and I found myself to be closest match to HBS and Stanford requirement set (the requirement set was gleaned from feedback received from some excellent books, alumnus and current students). I am attaching the requirement set with this post. People may disagree on the validity of this “requirement set”.

Hope this helps you in the same way it helped me- by limiting my choices and concentrating my Force.

[inblue]

I had been thinking on this for a while but never came across to posting it. So now here it goes - Writing a total application !

Without going into the details of the painful data gathering process for applications, goals and extra curricular, and school environs and fits, I’ll just share how I created an application. While there is not 'right way' like cyro said, here's just what I did.

1. What I did upfront was fill my application forms roughly. (filled in details in bullet points )


Application forms are great things; they can actually take a lot of words from your essays and allow you to write more in the essay. Like some application forms have separate section for professional awards, some others (like Wharton) allow you to elaborate on a personal activity hobby, some other like Chicago allow you to highlight the learning of your international experience, tuck had a separate section where I could describe the work environment and duties of my department. I treated all these in conjunction with essays. All that I would otherwise try and fit in my essay,I wrote here and in my essays, implicitly hinted to these.


2. Next, I chose my essay questions and filled them in bullet points and fixed up a writing style and a tone for the essay. Now what the heck does that mean? Basically I created a skeleton for my essay - (say incident description, dealing, learning, summary) or ( present state, how i came to this improvement( dealing with event a), how was I before incident a). I am not sure how many agree with a variety - I chose a diffrenent style and tone for most of my essays, some essays were really passionate with lot of data, some essays really hard on how I dealt with an event... etc. I started my Chicago movie essay literally with a dialouge in the movie that told why everyone should watch that movie -- While this might look really like spicing up, my whole idea was to keep in mind that I didnt want to bore my reader, rahter keep him interested in my file.


3. Lastly worked out a bullet point doc for each of my recommender, for each question the school had asked.

That was for the recommenders, I worked out a matrix (questions x recommenders) and filled it with the qualities each recommender was highlighting. That allowed me to see how exactly my recommenders would write about me.


I sent the rough draft of the whole application to my reviewers and discussed the application with them - that led to improving the choice of events to narrate and tones to use. Reviwers are key to an application.


Once the final essays were ready, I reviewed the total application along with the resume (wherever it was needed) to see if I had said every thing I wanted to, to see if there were any redundancy I could eradicate and make space in my essays.


While my recommenders worked on their stuff, I had 1 round of discussions with each per school. They gave me pointers on what all they were preparing to highlight and I tuned my application material accordingly. I also gave them pointers on how my essays and app was coming out and what all I was saying in the various parts of the essay.


In the end, I had the whole application reviewed for grammar and language by my Technical advisor for one app and by a couple of others (including I) for the other apps. I am really bad at typing and spellings



All through a school application, I maintained a small book where put down my thoughts on each part of the app per version per school. That allowed me to keep track of what all I was adding, deleting in one particular part of the app, correspondingly, I made notes if needed to balance some other part of the app. In a way, this helped me to keep my total application together.


Am sure, a lot of people have real great ways of crafting applications but I liked the prototype model and stuck to it. I am not a consultant or sort. In fact, I would probably be the laziest of the lot ( 3 schools ). Really slow!

While this might not suit everyone,for whoever likes prototype product development, All the best !

PS : Again this ain't fool proof - I have messed up one application even with such a 5 version prototype.