hi
its nice to see the activity on this thread picking up.Finally i decided to join GLIM .My name is shiv and i have around 5 years of work exp mostly in the service industry and tourism. i hold a masters degree in tourism from pondicherry university.I applied to glim with my cat score 93%.My Xat score is 96 and i have a final call from from XIMB.My interview was on 12 th march.There were about 25 people in our batch.After the formalities we were divided in to two groups.The topic for gd for the first group was importance of cricket diplomany today.For us the topic was what makes you proud to be an Indian.We were given a sheet of paper and one minute o jote down the ideas.Then we started it was a normal discussion and each one of us spoke well.After twenty minutes we were asked to stop.After that those people who wants to take get were asked to do so.My interview was fifth.In the panel there were two members from facult Rekha shetty and prof.Ballantyne and two members from industry and one student.
When i entered the room they greeted me and asked me to explain my name what it means then there were questions from essays and why you want to do mba and that too full time .Why glim.what makes you think that you will benefit from your one year with us.Tell me the difference between marketing and sales(i am working as a marketing and admin manager for a cosultantcy and training frim at that time).What makes your firm so unique and suppose we want to try your firm show us how you will market it to us.Then questions regarding my hobiies ie reading ,Tell us the latest book you read give us a summary.have you heard of the title who moved my cheese tell us the core point of that book.The interview was a pleasant experience coz the bord was actually trying to pressurise me by asking questions one after another.they were shooting one question another entirely different from the topic and content of the previous one.They are interseted in finding out how you will cope with surprises in corporate life.Regarding academics they did not question me anything except the direction of the tourism industry in india.My interview lasted for 35 minutes and in the begining they were grilling me throughly and in the end we were having nice discussion.I came out of the room feeling good.
After the inter view i met deputy dean narasimhan.He asked me about my work experince and in front of him were my interview and gd score sheet.we talked about my work and family and after that he told me that i am selected and i will get my offer letter with in a week.They couriered it to my address and asked me to pay the fees before 24th march.
That was it my decison is mainly bsaed on the brand value of bala uncle and the duration of the program.If i can get into any good company like godrej or hdfc by spending one year in glim than spending two years in XIMB for the same kind of placement i will take glim any day.GLim willbe a brand to reckon with in 3 to 4 years time .Acoording to to plan of the campus the new buildings anre designed on th e format of MDI and there is going to be a live trading room for honing stock market skills which is part of the initiative with yale.
All in all its a good investment considering that from next year the same program may cost 5lakhs once they move in to the new campus.Five years down the lane supose if you want to start your own company and funds are low if the plan is viable you will not face any problem to get the attention of VCs since at that time if things are going well i am sure it will GLim will be one of the top ten institutes in India.
so people wiith work exp this is the place to be in one year of hard and smart work ,one year of togetherness and friends for life.Hope those of youwho are aspiring to get in will succeed in their efforts.
chalo bye
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29-03-2005, 08:11 PM
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