Why MBA? And Why do a MBA without Work ex?

Personal Interview Tips

Ok so as per request laid down by some of you I will throw some light on the two questions above.

Why MBA?

Now first I will answer this for those who have a work ex. For fresher’s answer needs to be different.

In simple term’s say

“During my career in so and so company I had a chance to know a bit how Marketing, Finance and HR department works. But I had just an overview of the processes and so never was able to know exactly how this three processes gel in a company and helps it to move forward in a stable manner. During my 2 years of management studies I would like to have a deeper knowledge of these three processes and would want to excel in one. Moreover I would also like to learn and develop attributes that would help in problem solving, strategic decision making and a framework approach to a problem.”

NOTE: In an interview always be clear what specialization you want to do (even if in your mind you are still confused) in MBA as in 80% interviews this question is asked or if not asked panellist can sense if you are confused or know what you want to do.

Why you want to do a MBA without a work ex?

See first of all it’s always better to do a MBA after having a work ex and whatever you say believe me the panellist sitting over there are going to laugh. But still in order to make them laugh a bit less and in order to give them something to think about I will give you two responses. Choose either of them or both of them.

1.       Throughout my career I have craved for knowledge. I generally would like to know the things in detail or will work hard to get the knowledge about a particular activity and then perform it. (Try and back it up with some example: like talk about some quiz competition u have taken part in, tell them you joined your graduation course after learning the industry as a whole and also overview of the subjects of the course.) So if I start working in a company which would obviously have a finance, marketing and HR dept and if I would not know what this department do then I might not be able to give my 100% to the job. So I would like to do a MBA and then pursue my career in the Industry.

2.       Say that I have throughout my career kept a balance between academics and extra/cocuricular activities. I have been involved in managing events at intra/inter college level. (Come up with numbers like I have managed event concerning x no of colleges having y no of events and some z no of students participated in it). I was able to do that in my third and final year of graduation because I had seen how the events work for first two years of college. So now I want to enter a company after knowing how different departments work in it so that whenever I get a chance to lead an activity I am ready, with me having attributes that helps problem solving, strategic decision making and a framework approach to a problem.

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