Columbia MBA Alumni Interview @ HK

zonia · 发表于 2009-12-8 11:18:42

Hey all,

Just finished interview with a Columbia Alumni in HK, not a very traditional IB background interviewer, but one who works in executive search, a very nice lady. So, wanna share my experience with other candidates here.

(So sorry my chinese is not so good so to save translation time, I rather write it in english to reflect the real setting)

My background

Big 4 IT audit / Financial audit 3.75 years
Leisure/entertainment group IA 0.5 year
GMAT: 7XX

Goal

Family Business: Wine Trading

The interview was set at my interviewer's office, small conference room. Very conversational

Process / Questions: (Interviewer said no set list of question required to be asked except one, ethical dilemma)

1. Interviewer introduction (brief introduction on her background and career b4 and after MBA)

2. Tell me about your background, what you studied and what you did after graduation

3. Plan after MBA (Mine is going back to family business in wine trading)

4. What do you like Columbia? How Columbia can help on in achieving your goals

5. How do you think the prospect of wine trading in asia? (I shared some insights on the industry) And there are keen competition since there are lots of traders so whatz the competitive edge for your company? (I said something about our supply chain and customer network)

6. Difficulties / Challenge in Family Business

7. Ethical Dilemma experienced at work (I said two senarios in my auditing / internal auditing work experience)

8. Any question to ask her

The interview is conducted in a friendly atmosphere and the interviewer said i'm a good fit (maybe out of courtesy of coz) to the school. And she also tell me this year's competition is keen (which i knew) and let her know our results.

Columbia is my dream school for the last 10 years... so... May all dreams come true~

Best wishes to other candidates. Happy holiday season.

turbo2008 · 发表于 2009-12-8 14:03:25

zonia - thanks for sharing your experience.
Wish you all the best!

Darlynn · 发表于 2009-12-8 22:46:46

Sounds quite promising... Columbia is also my dream school too... are you applying the Jan program or just fall admission? because for people who is going to work back to family business are usually join the Jan program.

I'm planning to apply for the regular round for Fall 2010, fingers crossed...

zonia · 发表于 2009-12-9 19:45:16

turbo2008 - thanks, good luck to you too

Darlynn - I'm applying for Fall, I have quite some time to spend on the program and I would like to extend my personal network to "non-family business" colleagues. Given the Columbia Family Business Network and Entrepreneurial program is actually quite good, according to my research.

I just got my interviewer's reply on my thank you note and interview complete notice from system... now really time for final judgment...

Finger crossed~

michelleho · 发表于 2009-12-9 20:37:51

good luck, zonia. Thanks for sharing~

ray_anne · 发表于 2009-12-9 22:51:56

thanks for sharing. May your dream come true

zonia · 发表于 2009-12-10 02:55:06

Just got the decision actually... waitlisted... a bit down in fact... but well... the game is like this so it means I needa work hard to beg them for an offer and need to continue on other applications as well.

agnesRED · 发表于 2009-12-10 08:45:26

hi zonia, i think i met the same interviewer as yours....
and got the same result.....i saw in bw forum that they defer quite some ppl from ED to RD....

zonia · 发表于 2009-12-10 12:49:15

hey agnesRED... your interviewer also start her first name with "V"?

so... I'm kinda lost now, what's your plan on this decision? are you applying to other program as well?

weeksuper · 发表于 2009-12-10 14:41:09

only 3 days between interview and decision? that's so quick!

keep close contact with the adcom and hopefully you will be removed from the waitlist in Jan. good luck!

[面试经验] Columbia MBA Alumni Interview @ HK

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