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MBA Interview Preparation Guide

The document outlines a series of interview questions aimed at understanding a candidate's background, experiences, motivations for pursuing an MBA, and personal qualities. It emphasizes the STAR format for responses, encouraging candidates to provide structured answers that highlight specific situations, tasks, actions, and results. Additionally, it prompts candidates to reflect on their strengths, weaknesses, and industry insights, while also considering their future career goals.

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MBA Interview Preparation Guide

The document outlines a series of interview questions aimed at understanding a candidate's background, experiences, motivations for pursuing an MBA, and personal qualities. It emphasizes the STAR format for responses, encouraging candidates to provide structured answers that highlight specific situations, tasks, actions, and results. Additionally, it prompts candidates to reflect on their strengths, weaknesses, and industry insights, while also considering their future career goals.

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Please write your answers for every question in the STAR format.

1. Tell me about yourself. (Childhood/school, college, something outstanding about acads/extra-


acads, job & tie it up to IIMU stint and future(JD specific))

2. What would you like me to know about you that is not on your resume? (An incident from
childhood or previous job/college that brings out initiative, leadership, courage, team work,
smart thinking) – Write as many examples/incidents as you can.

3. Tell me about your work-ex. (Elaborate on all the roles, companies etc and your major
responsibilities in
each role)

4. Why did you decide to do an MBA? or Why IIMU?

5. What are your short term and long term career goals?

6. What experience would you want to go back and change in your life? Or Give me an example
of a
leadership role you have held when not everything went as planned. Or Have you ever had any
failures?
What did you learn from them? (All of these questions would have a similar answer, elaborate
about your
leadership position, what went wrong, how would you change it)

7. What are your strongest abilities? OR 3 Major accomplishments (Find your real strengths.
Things that you can do better than most others. Be ready with an example for each. Build each
story.)

8. Tell me about a time when you successfully resolved a conflict. OR Give an example of a
situation in which you provided a solution to an employer. (Think of an example from your past
either during your graduation or workex. Think of what you did. Why were you able to resolve
the conflict when others could not? What fresh thinking did you bring to the table? What was the
outcome?
9. What is your biggest weakness? (Never say that being a perfectionist is your biggest
weakness. Some
applicants think that this makes you look better, but it seems that you not secure. Find a
genuine weakness
that you have identified as an improvement area. Something that doesn’t hinder your ability to
deliver
results at your job. But something you know must be solved. Be ready with an example. Build a
story for the
example.)

10. Why should we hire you? Or What would you add to our firm? (Standard question. Why
you? What special do you bring to the table that others don’t? Polite brag. Be ready to back it up
with data from your
life i.e. build an example story.)

My qualities:
Empathetic
Resilient
Benevolent
Strong character
Righteous
Hard working
Go getter

11. What did you do in the last year to improve your knowledge?

12. What do you predict is going to happen in this industry in the next 5 years?(No one expects
you to be
an expert in an industry you haven’t even entered. More like, do you have the potential to be
one. And how
do they find out? By seeing if you did some reading and thinking about it. Do you know what you
are
getting into? Do you have a stronger intent than others? Does that intent show in your efforts?)
– Write
about 2 different industries that you are interested in.

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