Background

• Tell me something about yourself

• What are your three major accomplishments?
• How would your friends describe you in 3 words?

SOP - Create an SOP from the perspective of a first year MBA candidate.

• Link your past accomplishments to your strengths and show how they have led you to IIML.
• What are you planning to do with your life in the next 2 years on campus, during your
internship and where are you planning to head towards at the end of this course?
• How is this linked to your short and long term goal

Goals/Career prospects

• What are your short and long-term career goals?

• Describe the job or the activity which has had the greatest impact on your career goals.
• Describe your most significant achievement in life
• Describe your biggest failure in life

Previous Bosses/Companies

• Situations when you stood up to your superiors: Both where you failed, and where you
• succeeded
• What did you enjoy most about your last employment? Least?
• Describe any event / situation in your life which has impacted / influenced you
• significantly

Leadership and Teamwork styles/situations

• Situation when you successfully resolved a conflict

• Situation where you led a team to achieve something significant
• Biggest Failure of your life/ Part of a team and failed
• Describe a situation where you initiated a new idea or approach and implemented it.
• How did you go about it?
• Describe a situation where you had to persuade others to achieve a goal after
• overcoming resistance. How did you go about it?
• Have you ever adopted a non-traditional approach to manage a project/situation or to
• solve a problem? Briefly describe the project/situation of the problem, the approach and
• the outcome.
• Describe a situation when you had to accomplish an objective after overcoming
• obstacles. What did you do to handle the situation? What was the outcome? What did
• you learn?

Qualities and Culture fit questions

• Please describe yourself as a person. What are the 3 most important values that guide
• your thoughts & actions?
• What are your strongest abilities?
• What is your biggest weakness?