[原创]LBS MBA 06 Interview completed

终于今天把LBS 的面试做完了. 地点: 悉尼, 面试校友是个前麦肯锡的顾问; 时间: 一个小时左右.

问题问得都比较客气, 没有特刁钻的. 但是集中问了"如果上不了MBA, 怎么实现你的目标?". 即席演讲是"是否应该申办奥运会"

似乎CD上关于LBS的申请资料比较少, 以下是我根据LBS对MBA申请人的五大方面要求归类的面试准备提纲, 可能有些分类有些牵强, 仅供参考, 希望对大家有所帮助.

别的暂时也没什么跟大家分享的, LBS是我申请的唯一的一所学校, 有了录取再回来CD吹吹牛吧, 没有就算了.(有趣的是, 面试我的校友说根据我"没有MBA如何实现目标"的计划, 我可能更快达成我的目标要是我足够努力... )

Intellectual Capacity

1. You are the professor in a strategy class, what would you present to the class as "what worked" or "what did not work" based upon your industry/work experience


2. What do you want your obituary to say?


3. The US Federal Reserve Board had raise interest that morning, what you thought of that decision and why the timing of it


4. The process you went through in writing the essays and why you chose the answers


5. What's your favourite book? Who is the author?


6. What was your biggest intellectual challenge?


7. What historical event would you like to have witnessed and why?


8. Ask about faculty research and interests, especially in areas that concern you.


9. Why did you choose your undergraduate major?


10. It is the year 2010 and you have been invited to give a keynote speech, showcasing your career development since graduating from laceName w:st="on">LondonlaceName> laceName w:st="on">BusinesslaceName> laceType w:st="on">SchoollaceType>. Who have you been invited by, what is the occasion and what are the key points in your speech?

Management Potential         

1. What is your management/leadership style?


2. Leadership style admired


3. How to make people follow me


4. Tell me a business person you admire


5. What is the most important factor for managerial success?


6. What would you think is different about business leadership now vs 20-25 years ago


7. What are your leadership development goals?


8. What do you think are the skills of a good manager?


9. Describe occasions when you exhibited leadership at work and outside work


10. What is the biggest problem facing your industry and what would you do to solve it


11. What areas I thought my company was weak in and how would I improve it.


12. What is the biggest opportunity and challenge facing your industry?


13. What would you change in the way your organization works?


14. Describe an ethical dilemma faced at work


15. How do you define success?

Personal Motivation & Maturity

1. Why MBA (most important factors)


2. Why LBS (most important factors); what distinguish LBS from other schools


3. Why now


4. What would you do if you never got an MBA?


5. What do you want to learn during the MBA? What are the skills you need and what do you need them for?


6. What would you bring to LBS MBA?


7. Job progress, current job and function


8. Why this career choice/Why do you want to go back to your current industry?


9. Future career goal


10. Tell me about a recent project you've worked on


11. Do you enjoy you current job? Why, what do you enjoy most? What do you like the least?


12. What is a typical day like at work?


13. What are your biggest challenges at work?


14. Problems with client, how to handle it


15. Describe your career progress along with learnings and failures.


16. How did you choose your job after college?


17. Why did you choose your current job?


18. Your strengths and weakness


19. Have you ever failed at anything/Describe a situation where you brought an idea forward, and it failed.


20. Greatest challenge you have solved


21. What have been your biggest achievements?


22. Tell me about yourself


23. Describe yourself as a person


24. Ask three people to describe your strengths and weaknesses; a personal friend, a professional colleague and another person of your choice. How did they describe you, what were their reasons and what are your reactions?


25. What do you want to do with your life? Long term plans


26. Leisure activities (personal activities and motivations in addition to professional accomplishment)


27. What is an activity you are involved in* Why is it important to you*


28. What do you do to relieve stress?


29. Tell me something about yourself that is not on your application


30. What matters most to you?


31. What/who has been the single most influential event/person in your life to date? Why?

Team Skills:

1. Team conflict


2. What would you look for if you were recruiting your own team?


3. A situation where you had to choose a team and why you chose who?


4. Any problems with the team members, how did you deal with the situation?


5. What position you normally take up in teams


6. What kind of communication skills you use when interacting with peers/customers/bosses etc


7. What would you bring to your study team?


8. Resistance from your team


9. How do you deal in an international team environment?


10. What would you do if a team member wasn't pulling his own weight?

International Exposure:

1. Culture experience


2. How to deal with different culture situation


3. What kind of barriers you might face when working in a multicultural environment, how do you cope with them?


4. What benefits have you gained from working with people from other countries?


5. What should you take into consideration when working with people of different cultures?


6. Places you have lived

thank you so much

看到自己差不多3个月前发的贴子, 真是感慨万千. LBS把我放在ＷＬ上一直到现在．．．又加上这段时间一直在找回国工作的机会，渐渐的对ＭＢＡ　开始丧失热情．

说实话LBS的就业情况一直不能让我放心，３００个左右的学生出来进顶尖的投行或咨询的机会按比例来看好像也不是很高，我看了他们发布的０５年就业报告，除了Mckinsey, Barclays是１２个之外，其他都是１０个以下，而且多为三三两两的，其中应该不少是在欧洲．．．

想想自己也不年轻了，工作才是硬道理！