Friday, April 14, 2006
Israelis Rock !
Hello everyone, the Israeli week rocked overall. I have witnessed, the amphistorming, watched a movie and participated in the Passover dinner and had gulped in some israeli yogurt (Tastes the same as the French ones) before rushing for one of the interviews. The star event was the Passover dinner. The ambience, the rigor with which the event was planned and conducted was just extra-ordinary. I got to understand after the process (with about 100 fellow MBAs/Partners and families) the idea of what a passover dinner is and why the dinner follows a certain process and how important it is to the families. It was an amazing experience. The most special part is when the hosts were incredibly hospitable and felt honored to have us around despite being fellow inseaders. Hats off to the Israelis for bringing the experience to INSEAD.
Industry recruitments heating up.
Industry interviews are all coming in. Unsolicited interview requests are coming in too. I had two industry interviews this week and three more next week. I haven't received any dings after the consulting one. Thats got to be good. I am extremely happy with the pipeline. I would actually like to accelerate time if there is anyways to see what happens at the end. With many consultants having arrived at decisions, the campus has individuals more focused on the job search or "enjoying" the rest of INSEAD as they already have offers.
At this point, I am almost certainly anyone with a decent amount of focus on what they want and having enough contingency plans to actually have atleast a job on graduation.
Hello everyone, the Israeli week rocked overall. I have witnessed, the amphistorming, watched a movie and participated in the Passover dinner and had gulped in some israeli yogurt (Tastes the same as the French ones) before rushing for one of the interviews. The star event was the Passover dinner. The ambience, the rigor with which the event was planned and conducted was just extra-ordinary. I got to understand after the process (with about 100 fellow MBAs/Partners and families) the idea of what a passover dinner is and why the dinner follows a certain process and how important it is to the families. It was an amazing experience. The most special part is when the hosts were incredibly hospitable and felt honored to have us around despite being fellow inseaders. Hats off to the Israelis for bringing the experience to INSEAD.
Industry recruitments heating up.
Industry interviews are all coming in. Unsolicited interview requests are coming in too. I had two industry interviews this week and three more next week. I haven't received any dings after the consulting one. Thats got to be good. I am extremely happy with the pipeline. I would actually like to accelerate time if there is anyways to see what happens at the end. With many consultants having arrived at decisions, the campus has individuals more focused on the job search or "enjoying" the rest of INSEAD as they already have offers.
At this point, I am almost certainly anyone with a decent amount of focus on what they want and having enough contingency plans to actually have atleast a job on graduation.
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One thing that most INSEAD MBAs seem to forget or gloss over is that while most companies are "interested" in them, very few go ahead and make them the actual offer.
Pipelines of job interviews mean nothing without offer letters.
It's very different from Wharton, Stanford or HBS where the companies will go to any lengths to hire.
Pipelines of job interviews mean nothing without offer letters.
It's very different from Wharton, Stanford or HBS where the companies will go to any lengths to hire.
# posted by 
: 3:35 PM
: 3:35 PM
Just one more comment in passing....have been following a few INSEAD blogs (Pguy, yours and a few others). All that you MBAS seem to do is party, drink and chase skirts. The academic side of the program seems to be very weak indeed.
Thanks for providing a honest insight into the school. I for one will stay way. I need to develop hard skills and cannot afford to blow thousands of Euros for a national week experience.
Thanks for providing a honest insight into the school. I for one will stay way. I need to develop hard skills and cannot afford to blow thousands of Euros for a national week experience.
# posted by : 3:56 PM
: 3:56 PM
If diversity and cultures are not important to you...you CERTAINLY will feel out of place in INSEAD. So you have made absolutely the right choice by not applying. I am surprised you want to do an MBA to "acquire skills" without the "breadth of experience". I strongly recommend you consider non-MBA speciality programs, there are many of them and they are good to meet your objectives.
There is no need for me to consider non-MBA programs. Plenty of programs-LBS, Chicago, Sloan are very rigorous and will provide me the quantitative skills I need to do well in the future. Plenty of diversity in the serious and career-oriented cohort at any of these schools.
Diversity and culture does not mean drinking all night, chasing women and partying till the wee hours every night.
Thanks again for providing the insights via your blog. You have saved me and others from most certainly wasting our money.
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Diversity and culture does not mean drinking all night, chasing women and partying till the wee hours every night.
Thanks again for providing the insights via your blog. You have saved me and others from most certainly wasting our money.
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