MBA Interviews: Answer The Question Immediately — Great Advice For This Superstar

Here’s some core advice for a successful MBA admissions interview: Answer the question immediately and as concisely as possible. You don’t need to wind up or a curtain raiser. Just get right to it.

That’s the advice HBSGuru.com Founder Sandy Kreisberg and Poets&Quants Editor John A. Byrne deliver in this episode to a super star candidate.

Ishu has everything it takes to get into a highly selective MBA program. He brings with him a 760 GMAT, an 8.24 GPA out of a 10.0 at IIT in Dhanbad, India, and work experience with three well-known and highly respected global companies. And he plays an excellent game of snooker.

His post-MBA goal is to land a role on the leadership team of a healthcare startup, with the eventual objective of starting his own firm in that industry.

In this episode of Friday’s With Sandy, he is taken through the paces of an MBA interview, a prelude to the real thing for an admit to London Business School’s full-time MBA program.

If you would like to participate in a future Fridays With Sandy webinar, you can contact Sandy and Poets&Quants John here.

DONā€™T MISS PREVIOUS FRIDAYS WITH SANDY EPISODES

KEY INTERVIEW ADVICE: BY CONVERSATIONAL, NOT HYPER-ARTICULATE

HBS FOR THIS INDIAN MALE, 740 GMAT, PUNE

PUBLIC POLICY & NGO APPLICANTS ā€” SOME GREAT TIPS Ā 

A 4.0 GPA & A 770 GMAT: WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

MILLION DOLLAR ADVICE ā€” A CHANGED OUTCOME FOR THIS APPLICANT?

BREAKING INTO RENEWABLE ENERGY WITH AN MBA

LOW GRADES & COMPANY FOUNDER. IS HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL IMPRESSED?Ā 

BREAKING INTO FINANCE FROM GOVERNMENT CONSULTING

HOW TO DEAL WITH CLASSY JOBS AND A LOW GPA

WHAT DOES A 3.17 GPA DO TO A 780 GMAT AT H/S/W?

EXPLAINING FOUR JOBS IN FOUR YEARS

WHO SHOULD RETAKE A 730 GMAT?

BYU MAGNA, MCKINSEY, CHILEAN: WHAT GRE DOES HE NEED FOR HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL?

780 GMATā€“HOW COME SHEā€™S NOT APPLYING TO HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL?