Wharton Alumni Interview 03/01/2007

well...I hv to admit I am lazy...I should hv shared it earlier, but my lazy mind dragged it by stating..."maybe no one cares to know...whatever..."

Anyway, I saw someone's post asking for interview experience sharing...so here it is mine.

Wharton Alumni Interview 03/01/2007 12:00pm—12:40pm:

Overall impression: The interviewer didn’t take any note…looks like she considered it more of a required step to check out anything wrong with the applicant if there is. She dressed really casual…while I was sooooooo formal…haha~~

I think I didn’t do things wrong, although sometimes rambled a bit…but pulled myself back to topic quickly always…(I guess I was just too light hearted…didn’t feel even a little bit nervous…bad...). The good part I would think is I was all the way smiling and kept a steady pace and stable voice…fluent and clear in speaking. Yet the bad thing is i also didn't show the outstanding coz she didn't really inspire my interest to talk passionately...all questions were standard...and were not quite challenging. well...so I think the decision will be based on the competitiveness of my whole package.

Walk me through your resume. Emphasize those team work and leadership experience.

Education – in and off-class learning; extra-curricular, what I did and what I learnt; part-time work(sales promotion, xxx internship) She asked about what’s specifically I did for the sales promotion work, what’s the biggest challenge, and where I got the job.

Then she asked I did internship in xxx, and noticed my first and only company is also xxx. So why I chose to be in the admin. area in the beginning and why I transferred to other function.

She then continued to ask how I managed to transfer from admin.

Asked about PMI’s structure, Shanghai office structure. How many people I supervise.
Why MBA ---I talked about my background and a little bit of my goal here, then I told her 3 reasons.
Why Wharton ---I also gave 3 reasons…then she asked any Wharton alumni you know….haha…..fortunately I do know some…I said one alumnus helped a lot to give insight of the Wharton community….and then we talked about a class my friend doesn’t like….she drilled down to ask which class…
How to contribute to Wharton
How I will continue to reach my career goal if I don’t get into an MBA?
What I want to do exactly in my career xxx, general management or a particular part?
What kind of challenges I think the manufacturing industry faces ---I mentioned unfair competition….then she immediately asked what I mean by that…..so I gave an example…
Any question for her.

Hope it helps.

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