Shortlisted!
Two days back I recieved an email from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila mentioning that I was shortlisted for the next round of assesment as part of the application process. The next round, as I was informed contains a round of Group Discussion and a round of Interview. However, I'm not sure whether a GD will be necessarily followed by the Interview. This I say because, god forbid, if I do not make it through the GD, I will not qualify for the interview. Nevertheless, I'm pretty sure that I will make it through the GD, for my track record with past GD's has been 100% sucessful.
Moving on to the format of the GD, I must confess I know very little or nothing of it. AIM is one such institute on which one manages to find little or no information whatsoever. And even if you do, the source providing that information might itself lack credibility or is not willing to share information wholeheartedly. I'm not sure of the funda behind the shroud of secrecy but from what I have heard from an current student of the institute, it makes for one hell of learning destination. Hearing his narration of experiences at AIM makes me feel that the choice I made in applying to AIM would not be an effort in futility.
Let me rewind a little bit and go back a few months. It was in August or September of 2006 that I decided to pursue my MBA as a vehicle to further my career prospects. The first thing I did was log on to Google and search with the keyword "MBA". The flood of search results took me aback, though I had faintly expected it to happen. Seeing the deluge of information, I was not sure of which link to pursue. I then remembered a few links that I had acessed some years back during my failed pursuit of IIM - CAT. Those links were of IMS India and TIMES. I went to their website and found some links to sites such as the mba.com. From there on I went to one URL after another and finally came across a site that gave me a list of top MBA programs in Asia and the World. Not sure whether the rankings were of any authority, I checked some other sites on program rankings. A few institutes were shown more predominantly over others and that made me to reasearch more on those highlighted ones. Helping me narrow my research on the institutes was a conversation I had with a few friends and my own readings of newpapers and current affairs, were I came across tons and tons of articles hinting towards an Asian MBA and its worth in the new global business melieu. I thus started looking towards institutes such as the AIM, Nanyang, NUS, MBS, etc.
A week past since my initial research I was chatting with a friend of mine and came to know of a mutual friend(let me call him the guy) who had started for the AIM to pursue his MBA. That news sprang me in to action. I got in touch with the guy and started to get more information on how AIM operated. I came to know of the institutes application and selection processes and ofcourse the teaching philosophy. The first phase on the process involved the AIM AptitudeTest. AIMAT was a 3 1/2 hour test covering Quants, Verbal and a Analytical Writing. I took the test on the 26 Nov 2006. I found the test to be fairly easy when compared to the GMAT for which I had already begun preparing. AIM would accept either a GMAT or an AIMAT score as a prerequiste before being considered for the next levels of assesment invloving a GD and a Interview.
And so coming to the present moment, I find myself getting ready for the impending GD and Interview, the schedule of which I'm yet to recieve. More on this in my next blog.
Two days back I recieved an email from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila mentioning that I was shortlisted for the next round of assesment as part of the application process. The next round, as I was informed contains a round of Group Discussion and a round of Interview. However, I'm not sure whether a GD will be necessarily followed by the Interview. This I say because, god forbid, if I do not make it through the GD, I will not qualify for the interview. Nevertheless, I'm pretty sure that I will make it through the GD, for my track record with past GD's has been 100% sucessful.
Moving on to the format of the GD, I must confess I know very little or nothing of it. AIM is one such institute on which one manages to find little or no information whatsoever. And even if you do, the source providing that information might itself lack credibility or is not willing to share information wholeheartedly. I'm not sure of the funda behind the shroud of secrecy but from what I have heard from an current student of the institute, it makes for one hell of learning destination. Hearing his narration of experiences at AIM makes me feel that the choice I made in applying to AIM would not be an effort in futility.
Let me rewind a little bit and go back a few months. It was in August or September of 2006 that I decided to pursue my MBA as a vehicle to further my career prospects. The first thing I did was log on to Google and search with the keyword "MBA". The flood of search results took me aback, though I had faintly expected it to happen. Seeing the deluge of information, I was not sure of which link to pursue. I then remembered a few links that I had acessed some years back during my failed pursuit of IIM - CAT. Those links were of IMS India and TIMES. I went to their website and found some links to sites such as the mba.com. From there on I went to one URL after another and finally came across a site that gave me a list of top MBA programs in Asia and the World. Not sure whether the rankings were of any authority, I checked some other sites on program rankings. A few institutes were shown more predominantly over others and that made me to reasearch more on those highlighted ones. Helping me narrow my research on the institutes was a conversation I had with a few friends and my own readings of newpapers and current affairs, were I came across tons and tons of articles hinting towards an Asian MBA and its worth in the new global business melieu. I thus started looking towards institutes such as the AIM, Nanyang, NUS, MBS, etc.
A week past since my initial research I was chatting with a friend of mine and came to know of a mutual friend(let me call him the guy) who had started for the AIM to pursue his MBA. That news sprang me in to action. I got in touch with the guy and started to get more information on how AIM operated. I came to know of the institutes application and selection processes and ofcourse the teaching philosophy. The first phase on the process involved the AIM AptitudeTest. AIMAT was a 3 1/2 hour test covering Quants, Verbal and a Analytical Writing. I took the test on the 26 Nov 2006. I found the test to be fairly easy when compared to the GMAT for which I had already begun preparing. AIM would accept either a GMAT or an AIMAT score as a prerequiste before being considered for the next levels of assesment invloving a GD and a Interview.
And so coming to the present moment, I find myself getting ready for the impending GD and Interview, the schedule of which I'm yet to recieve. More on this in my next blog.
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