# Early Career Programmes - Programme Overviews

Data: 11-01-2025 21:43:41

## Lista de Vídeos

1. [Masters in Analytics and Management Programme Overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ1PjIqBM1c)
2. [Masters in Management and Global Masters in Management Programme Overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGH2bDmQqds)
3. [Masters in Financial Analysis Programme Overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93rx5h9DDPQ)
4. [Early Careers Information Session with EDHEC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMhv2nymqW0)
5. [Early Career Programmes Application Bootcamp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihSigvBZS-Q)
6. [Make the strategic choice for your career: Post-grad business education for STEM graduates](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUpddUoHkKU)
7. [In Conversation with London Business Schools Early Career Directors](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpA89wbbgg)

## Transcrições

### Masters in Analytics and Management Programme Overview
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ1PjIqBM1c

Idioma: en

hi everyone and a very
warm welcome to london business school
my name is alex salter i'm the senior
recruitment and admissions manager
working across the early career programs
portfolio
and it really is my pleasure to
introduce our portfolio to you today
and i'm going to be concentrating
specifically on the masters in analytics
and management program
or the mam for sure
so in the context of who we are as a
business school
we're structured a bit differently from
a traditional university setting
as a postgraduate only specialised
business school you would be part of an
intimate and close-knit community
allowing you to form a lifelong global
network which is a really powerful
resource for you
at any stage of your studies and career
our any careers portfolio is designed
for students coming straight from the
university with the majority of our
students joining us
at that time but of course one size does
not fit all and we have flexibility to
allow a maximum
of two years after your undergraduate
degree
to join us internships do not count
towards your work experience total
so when we refer to two years that you
can see on the screen here
we are referring to postgraduate
business
experience master's in analytics and
management is designed for those who
want to be
at the intersection of data science and
machine learning
and translate that into a business
context ideally for those who already
have a stem or highly quantitative
degree background
and wish to elevate not only their
understanding of data
but who are people that are passionate
about the transformational
capabilities of data all our early
career programs are full-time offerings
whilst no work experience is required
our students often have some experience
under their belt or can really
demonstrate a commitment to other
activities
such as extracurricular activities and
or volunteering
as well as i said i'm going to focus on
the mam today
but my colleagues have recorded other
on-demand content about each of the
other programs
you see on the screen here you're likely
to be exploring your opportunities so do
check them out if you have an interest
in finance
in general management or you'd like to
take the opportunity
to do a longer program all of the
programs except the
global masters in management are 12 to
16 months 12 months
is the typical exit point for the
programs
when you officially have earned all your
credits to graduate
we have the option to take fourth term
which is why you'll see here
that it says up to 16 months
you don't have to make that decision
before you apply to the program
you can make that decision whilst on the
program and the program team will give
you the full details
of the available exchange partners
it's great for those who are maybe
looking to
relocate and want to explore a school
and network in their area
or specialize in something that lbs
potentially
doesn't offer you can also take the
option to stay at lbs
for the fourth term so you don't have to
go on exchange you could pursue
more electives at london business school
the next intake for our program is
august 2022
applications are now open it's a staged
admissions process
and there's more details on the website
of the dates that you
are expected to meet so do check those
out if you are interested
in applying
the masters in analytics and management
is really a unique
program because it blends different
interdisciplinary
skills together apply data analytics
skills that recruiters really demand
with world-class teaching in general
management it's very integrated
like many of our other programs is
highly practical
and really focuses on that intersection
of business data and machine learning
the core curriculum for the mem is
designed into two fully integrated
learning threads
around analytics and data science
blended against a general
management framework as well core
courses
include applied statistics data
visualization
storytelling using data science
responsibly
machine learning for big data through to
more of the management
focus aspects such as strategy digital
marketing and organizational behavior
as well as access to three further
electives that are offered across the
london business school portfolio you can
choose to explore a real diverse range
of topics
i just picked out a few that caught my
eye and there are things like advanced
competitive strategy
social media and internet marketing and
fintech but that really is naming three
a
portfolio of over 35 electives so you've
already got a wealth of options
at your fingertips you can keep it broad
you can go more into the management
science and operation area
you can deep dive into strategy
analytics
economics and whatever has caught your
attention
there's options for you to do that key
to success on
this program will be your technical
abilities as well and prior use of
programming languages
data manipulation manipulation and
visualization experience
you'll develop a substantial analytics
and programming toolkit
using tools like sql and tableau and
apply languages like python and r
in the classroom you'll also learn how
to create and launch
an app this program is going to help
build your awareness of the
real latest cutting-edge technologies
big data blockchain
cryptocurrencies ai cyber security
and mobile payments you'll also
understand how to manage
assets in the cloud
throughout you're going to strengthen
your team's skills and sharpen your
ability to translate and communicate
data into keen
business insights in our classrooms you
would do your core courses um
in lectures alongside your fellow
masters in analytics and management
peers
but you'll also be put into study groups
so study groups
are not chosen by you they're chosen by
london business school
and they're ready to blend different
nationalities different academic
backgrounds
different gmats together and so you can
brainstorm the best solutions and no
doubt
challenge each other in a safe context
as well
there are chances to integrate with
other portfolios and other
aspects of the school and through things
like the london lab where you'd be
alongside your master's in management
students
that's a really practical element of the
program
where you'll be working on a real life
project it could be for a
corporate such as coca-cola it could be
for a charity
and but you'll be working alongside your
and masters and management
peers um to present real life solutions
to these companies which is a great
opportunity
and to be exposed to other ways of
thinking
but also to get a hands-on opportunity
with some of
the problems that corporates are facing
in the real world lbs really is a lot
more than the academic journey you're
going to have access to
a specialist career center team we're
one of the largest
career center teams of any business
school in europe
we have coaches and specialist resources
available to you and these people are
really going to help you develop a
strong grasp of the market
how to help you explore how to navigate
it and how to be successful
in doing so
as we've mentioned the electives before
just to note that they're really a way
for you to tailor your program
and again you would be alongside other
portfolios
what i mean by other portfolios is
alongside mbas
other early career students could be
full-time
masters in finance students could be
part-time members
as well so that's our executive mba and
you're it's really to facilitate
cross-generational learning and deepen
your practical knowledge by learning
from a variety of perspectives
your program's also going to be
underpinned by a personal development um
journey helping you to develop lifelong
skills that have business
impact we'll help you to identify and
address
skills gaps and teach you about
capitalizing on your strengths and
selling them to recruiters
this could be anything from presentation
skills through to networking
and obviously with this program you'll
be working on practically applying
programming languages as well lastly i
want to emphasize the distinct
elements that really make up the
outstanding peers that we have here
at london business school we have around
2000 students every year
from a range of 12 degree programs
postgraduate focused
specialist school and it's really
allowed us to become
leaders in the field of business
education
all our early career programs including
the mam have an expected work experience
parameter of zero to two years as i said
many students will progress directly
from their undergraduate studies
but typically they'll have several under
internships under their belt as well
with the expectation that you've joined
us from a stem or quantitative degree
background
or able to provide us with strong proof
of your quantitative and data abilities
the diversity here really is undoubtedly
one of the biggest strengths
that we have we place an emphasis on
learning as much from your peers as you
will
our faculty our internationalism with
over 90
of our community being at non-uk
nationals really brings diversity
and different perspectives to your
doorstep
the diversity and background is a real
strength here we have lots of people
from different
disciplines from different companies
from different walks of life
joining us and you're really going to
learn to value learning as much from
your peers
and others perspectives and it's going
to help you to diversify
your outlook the diversity on our campus
ensures there's no
dominant nationality or background
and we really value you as an individual
and the diversity of thought that you
can bring to your peers
there's also a lot of diversity in the
student experience that you will have at
london business school
which isn't just contained to being
within your portfolio we have clubs
that range professional interest
regional
sporting and social interests as well
and they're open to all
programs there are no program
restrictions there
these clubs can really help support your
professional network
help you destress through sports and
even help enable
relocation opportunities and this will
happen
even once you've graduated there are
many worldwide alumni clubs as well
and you can sit on the international
alumni council
too in terms of what you can get
involved in
with clubs you can help organize events
you can take an official position
such as treasurer or event secretary
but you're also welcome to just be a
club member
as well it's the community aspect is
why it's so important to us to bring
this diversity because it really
enriches
the student experience that you are
going to benefit so much
from the clubs can really give you
endless possibilities to sort of shape
and form your experience at london
business school
and help you enrich your network and
your knowledge
whilst doing so
some particular highlights here of your
mam peers
include the intimate class size learning
from quite a
intimate cohort with over 30
nationalities
it's really going to ensure that you're
able to form meaningful connections that
go beyond
your student experience at lbs we're
also incredibly proud
this program has achieved gender parity
paving the way for equal opportunities
for our leaders of tomorrow thank you so
much for listening to this session
do continue to explore our on-demand
content that will go over our other
programs in the portfolio so that's the
global masters in management and masters
in management
the masters in financial analysis as
well
we've got plenty of information on our
website on our social media channels
and do check it out for the most
up-to-date information
about our programs and your application
journey

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### Masters in Management and Global Masters in Management Programme Overview
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGH2bDmQqds

Idioma: en

welcome
everyone and thank you all so much for
tuning in
my name is malak hamid and i am the
student recruitment manager
at london business school um i am here
to give you an
overview of the masters in management
and global masters and management
programs that we offer
hopefully this will allow you to better
assess which program
is better suited for you by getting a
better understanding
of the program content
so as you can see here the mim and the
jimin programs are similar and different
in a few ways they both have
one intake per year which starts in
september
applications are now open so i'm
guessing most of you are probably
interested
in the next start date which is
september 2022
both the programs are full-time
the mim is a one-year program with an
option to do an additional fourth term
so the 12 months can be extended to 16
months
if you wish if you like the programme
is taught on our london campus
campuses in london on the other hand
the g-mim is a two-year program with the
first year being identical to the mim
in terms of location and also content so
you'll be doing
the mim in your first year however your
second year
is then taught in shanghai at fudan
university
so both the programs have the same entry
requirements
and we look for zero to two years of
post-grad
work experience so no more than two
years
experience at the time of starting the
program
and we look for a minimum
of a uk 2-1
or a 3.3 gpa or equivalent
so here you can see everything that is
going to be
um covered within that first year or
within that year if you're doing the mim
so of course this is definitely relevant
to gmm students because
you'll be completing that mim
program within your first year so the
min program we offer
is ranked fourth in the world by the
financial times
it's of course recognized worldwide and
highly respected within the business
world
and the mim curriculum is obviously
designed to combine
uh theoretical um knowledge with real
life exposure just
to provide students with really that
deep understanding of business
so the lbs mim
course curriculum includes everything
that you see here
on the screen um so you can see here the
core courses and that are going to be
covered in the triangle boxes
in addition to core courses you'll have
um two week long integrated modules
these are really designed to allow
students to kind of draw on
learning from their core courses in a
simulated environment so just by
making connections between subject areas
this is really going to allow
students to prepare themselves for work
in really that professional environment
once they graduate and that's going to
be
you'll see that this is really a theme
throughout your year at lbs we want to
prepare you for that real
world um you know that real world
adventure
and just making sure even throughout
your studies you do have that exposure
to it
so in order to do that and one of the
ways that we do that
is through london lab so most of you
have probably heard of london lab it's
an experiential course that allows you
to really engage
in a live project and it tackles
business challenges
from leading companies based in london
so you're able to apply
again you're learning from the core
courses to the challenges
of these companies are going to be
taking part in that project so it's
essentially a 10-week project
it's designed to help organizations
again address those real
business issues and challenges that they
face
so you'll be placed in project teams of
five to six
students and you'll have guidance from
the lbs faculty members
um in the form of structured
consultations
online modules and lectures so yes it's
a 10 week project
it's quite long but you do have that
support throughout
students will also have the opportunity
to
submit their company preferences
once the portfolio of companies is
confirmed
so you will obviously have your first
and second choices
the london lab team will obviously take
those preferences into account
when creating and allocating the groups
for those companies and so we just want
to make sure that each group represents
a diverse and balanced set of skills and
backgrounds so
it's important for us for you to learn
not just from the project itself or from
the curriculum
but also from your peers um so everyone
will bring
a certain set of skills um which is
obviously going to be a great learning
experience for everyone
involved and on the topic of
experiential learning
we have what we call the global
emergence
field trip better known as the gift
so it's a program requirement for
students who are doing the mim
the gmim the mfa and the mam so it's all
early career and program students
they all take part in the gift which is
a five
day long immersive faculty-led
learning experience it allows you to
apply
um the frameworks you've kind of studied
to organizations and business challenges
in
emerging markets around the world so
it's it it's designed to kind of further
enhance your global awareness to
challenge your preconceptions about
doing business in kind of other parts of
the world
and kind of put that knowledge put your
knowledge and skills to the testing kind
of complex real world settings
and so last year the locations that you
could choose from
were cape town san francisco
kathmandu tel aviv beijing
and medellin now these locations they do
change sometimes year on year but
ever so slightly um and the gifts
they're really focused on two general
themes so to help you pick a location
there will be the themes there to to
kind of split those
so the first theme we have is
technological innovation and
entrepreneurship
and the second theme is social
innovation
and impact so a typical gift will
consist
of faculty briefings guest speakers
company visits and so all of these kind
of really highlight the theme
and you know hopefully allow you to
engage with those leading thinkers and
practitioners
in that field and in that location that
you've chosen
um again something worth mentioning is
the gift is part of your program
cost so there is kind of no additional
fee to take part in this
um and i just want to mention as well
that
this year's gifts were completed
virtually
due to travel restrictions but we do
think that for the upcoming year
the gifts team is planning to kind of
return to in-person experiences
again if government restrictions allow
and also something else to mention in
your program structure you might see the
gift mentioned
in term one two and three not because
you go on it three times but because
different groups go at different times
in the year
um again another way to kind of make the
most
out of your program is through the
electives
so for those of you who don't know the
electives are
they allow you to kind of tailor your
learning experience and just
explore areas and topics of your
indirect interest in just a bit more
depth so over the program you will
choose three electives from a selection
of over 60 subjects now if you want to
know
um the electives that are available for
to you or your program
um you can go on the website and the
full list will be available
and the electives they kind of provide
like a deep dive into
specialist areas and so you'll be
studying alongside
students from other degree programs
across the school
and the electives they are offered in
flexible firmware formats so it could be
on weekends evenings and block weeks
um and they're just there to just kind
of really i would say encourage that
cross-generational learning that we
we encourage throughout the school so
you're mixing in the classroom with mba
students masters and finance students
and students
who are you know on leadership programs
who have
you know up to 15 years of experience so
we really encourage those debates
and there's a lot of heated debates and
there's a lot to really learn
um from from these students and
again the aim is to just expand your
business network
and build kind of a wealth of knowledge
and really flesh out your
your professional development i think
that's really the aim there
and again another way to do that is you
know through the study groups
um so you will be placed in a study
group before
the beginning of term one this is the
student like it's it's the group that
you work with on your core course
group assignments so that study group
consists again of five to six students
each study group will really be a mix of
you know students from different
educational backgrounds
nationalities ages and gender
and as you can tell like i mentioned the
theme there it's it's across all of the
you know it's across it's something that
you'll experience throughout the year
and most of the projects the
collaborative work is big for us
um and we really do expect it's a
central part and we do expect students
to freely contribute and of course
engage
constructively with their group
and in terms of like the groups they
will change from term one
to term two and this will just give you
an opportunity to kind of work with
other students and get to know
more of your classmates um as the year
kind of goes
goes by so there's definitely a lot
um that the mim program offers within
that first year
and there's definitely more to talk
about but if there are more elements of
the program which you kind of want to
know about or want to learn about
i would recommend checking out the
website there is a ton of information
on there or reach out to the recruitment
team
at mim london.edu and we'll be more than
happy to
kind of answer your questions
so moving on to the global
masters in management program so
the students here they really do build
um on their year at lbs so
gaining exposure to the western and also
the eastern business practices
so something about the demon worth
mentioning is
and we have up to only 40 demon students
and uni for this program so it's a much
much smaller cohort
and again like i mentioned your first
year is in london
at lps doing the mim and then your
second year is at
fudayan in shanghai the jimin students
leave the program
um with both a masters in management
from lbs for completing the mim
and also a masters in international
business
from fudan university for completing
that second year
um i think something worth mentioning in
year one
students complete the mim program but
also on the side of that
um they have a kind of taylor
tailor-made business china course
um through their first year that
includes mandarin
lessons chinese culture and and
doing business in china um so those are
the kind of three elements that they do
in their first year alongside the mim
in addition um lbs also offers kind of
like a
three they're just like three dedicated
touch points what we call them
just for gm students in their first year
so the first
touch point is team building and working
in teams
the second touch point is chinese
cultural insights and a call with the
second year students who are currently
in fudan and the third touch point is
a call with the fudan program office and
the career and development office there
so these touch points they they're just
there to make sure that the gmim
students have an opportunity to get to
know each other a bit better as a cohort
separate from the mim the fulmim cohort
and again the you know the touch points
with the second year students
and the program office and career
development office it's just to make
sure that they are supported
and well prepared for when they make
that transition
um to move to shanghai and just make the
most of that experience
so that's just touching a little bit on
the additional things that the gmim
students do in the first year um
but once they complete the first year as
you can see on the screen here
there's an opportunity to do a summer
internship during those summer holidays
that they have
um and then in year two at fudan
you join four core courses in the autumn
term
as you can see on the screen some of
those courses are business law and
ethics
politics for chinese students global
business management
strategic management innovation and
entrepreneurship
and they also have the opportunity to
choose three electives across
autumn and spring and they range from
obviously
everything that you can see here in the
red boxes so
luxury brand management behavioral
finance
so there's there's a few to choose from
there
and students also prepare a thesis
on a topic of their interests
so they will have a dedicated faculty
member supervisor to support them
through that and guide them through that
process
just to develop their research and
obviously writing that thesis
and then just in addition to these core
elements of the program
fudan also provide mandarin lessons to
kind of build on those that were offered
in your first year at lbs
and there are also company visits and
other
visits to cities to kind of learn more
about doing business
in china as a whole so that's really the
second year
in a nutshell and again if you have any
other questions related to
gm or the second year you can definitely
get in touch with the recruitment team
at
mim london.edu
and finally i just thought to kind of
give you a summary of the mim
and gm class that we had last year
just to give you a better understanding
of what it kind of looks like so there
was a total of 298 students that's
including the 40
gm students and we had a 43
female representation as a school we
always kind of
aim to thrive for you know gender parity
in our classes
the average age across both of the
programs
is 23 and there were 46 nationalities
represented and we recommend
that you aim for something close to the
class average when it comes to
gmat scores when you are putting
together your application
um so the minimum gmat score is 600
but we would probably recommend um
anywhere around
the gmat average class the gmat average
score for the classes which is around
680 plus
and i think something amazing to mention
is the previous year they had a
96 employment success
so as all of you are aware last year was
an incredibly difficult
year um with the uncertainty in covid
it's just amazing to see that the class
has really been able to prove themselves
and
take those opportunities and make the
most of it
so that really leads me to the end of
this summary
for the mim and the gman programs i hope
you found this helpful
and please do reach out to us if you
need any further support or guidance

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### Masters in Financial Analysis Programme Overview
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93rx5h9DDPQ

Idioma: en

hello and welcome to london business
school information session
on masters in financial analysis program
my name is xiaoya i'm one of the
recruitment admissions managers
working for early career programs at
london business school
so here you can see a snapshot of all
the early career programs that we
provide here at
lbs including the master testing
management
global masters in management masters in
financial analysis
and masters in analytics management
here we're going to give you some brief
introduction into the mfa program
and talk about the cohort if you're
interested
in all the other programs we do have on
demand recording for each of them
do click and have a listen in
so all of these programs are grouped
together
because they are designed for students
who are at an early stage of their
professional
life we are looking for candidates
who have graduated less than two years
ago from their undergraduate degrees
and some of our cohort comes in with
certain level of
full-time work experience but the
majority
of them are fresh undergrads with some
level
of internship experiences
all of these programs apart from the
global mastery management management
are one-year full-time taught programs
on our london campus gmail myself
is a two-year double degree program in
partnership with food and university in
china
so they normally last 12 months
but you do have the option to extend it
into a 16 month one
by either taking an international
exchange with one of our partner schools
or do an additional fourth term on
campus
with more electives by doing so you can
further enrich
your learning journey as well as
fulfilling some of the pre-ultimate year
internship requirements of some
employers
so why lbs why study an early career
degree at lbs i think what makes
lbs special is that we are a standalone
postgraduate only business school and
one of the top rated one in the world as
well
here you have the opportunity to form
some
network and connections with a highly
international
and vibrant community and those
connections
are going to last for a lifetime
so looking at the mfa program itself
it is a specialized program designed for
students
who have a genuine interest in finance
it will not only give you a solid
theoretical framework
of on the financial knowledges but also
give you all the
skills and tools that you can apply into
the workplace
so we have several core courses
those are built around fundamental
financial pillars
including accounting corporate finance
financial markets date and time
analytics series
and so on and so forth
but you do also have the chance to
further tailor your learning experience
by choosing on more electives
so in those electives you will be
sharing the classroom
not only with your fellow ec students
but also with students coming from other
senior programs
including the mba the masters in finance
the emba and sloan
so cross-generation learning
cross-programs monitoring is something
very unique
at lbs you will get the opportunity to
opt-in
for mentorship scheme with one of the
mba
and or mid students which gives you
a platform to build a more in-depth
one-to-one relationships and get advice
on your professional
and personal development
and you will not also get the hard
skills
but you'll get all the practical and
soft skills training as well in the mfa
program
so you will receive wonderful support
from our career center and to hone in
some of the necessary skills
for you to succeed into the workplace
including how to present yourself how to
work the room
how to build a personal brand et cetera
and sector
and also you get financial industry
tools training
including vba advanced modeling
bloomberg terminal as well
and student life is a huge part
of your lbs journey we have more than
80 student clubs here on campus spanning
over
few categories including the
professional clubs
such as private equity and venture
capital club
investment management club finance clubs
those are wonderful places for you to
further
build your professional network and
attend some of the recruitment events
and training sessions organized by the
clubs
and you can also join some of the
regional clubs
if you are interested in certain region
in the world
and though there are also leisure clubs
and sports clubs
also um perfect places for you to form
more casual relationships and
friendships with your fellow students
at lbs london business challenge week
is also a big part of the mfa program
it is a live business project that lasts
a week you will be working with a group
of the mfa students
to um deliver a real-time
business solution to one of the clients
which is a financial
institutions based in london
so this is um a great chance for you to
apply what you have learned in the
classroom
and to be reality all of these will get
you job ready
and will make you a wonderful
professional in the financial industry
so who you will be studying together
in the classroom of the mfa program
so in the typical intake we have around
210 to 250
mfa students we are working towards a
gender parity here
we are currently at around 40 female
peers
but of course we're working very hard to
push for more
and your mfa cohort is an extremely
international and diverse one with more
than
40 nationalities represented
and the average age is around 23 which
fits in
what i have said before mostly
undergrads and some with certain level
of
full-time work experience
and the average gmat or gre score
um we usually see in the mfa class
is around 700 to a 710
it is a high score to aim at
but rest assure we do look at each
application
holistically so do not hesitate
to put on an application um
if you think um your score is not um
good enough because it only is um just a
part of your application we do look at
your skills
and abilities through all the other
aspects as well
so we don't have a requirement on the
subjects or undergraduate disciplines
that you come from
but we do look look for a established
track record of your numerical skills
and quantitative skills
from your experience either through your
academic
studies your internships projects
the research you have done
and where do our mfa students go
um so understandably most of them will
go into
the finance industry and a big
chunk of the class will go into in
investment banking
where some of them will go into other
industries
um including hedge funds
pvc funds fintech companies
financial consultancies and all the
other diversified
industries and we have an amazing career
center
to support you along the way with the
sector lead
the program lead and peer leaders
to help you achieve what have you have
set out to achieve
so hopefully from um what we just
covered
you have uh built a more deeper a deeper
understanding of
what out what the mfa represents and
what the program entails but of course
do have a listening
to other on-demand recordings of the
programs
and decide what is the best one for you
to
go for we do have way more detailed
information on our website in our
student
and admissions blog and we do encourage
you to get in touch with the community
as soon as possible reach out to alumni
to student ambassadors get in touch with
our
recruitment team and we are more than
happy to help you
and support you along the way of your
application
so thank you very much for your time
today and we do look forward
to meeting you in your future
application journey
thank you

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### Early Careers Information Session with EDHEC
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMhv2nymqW0

Idioma: en

thank you very much for joining this
information session um for london
business school it's great to reconnect
with ed heck i've had the opportunity to
do uh one of these um information
sessions with you guys before
and it's it's great to reconnect with
your school
so let me
introduce myself
my name is hammy i'm one of the
admissions managers at london business
school for the early career programs
so the early career programs consist of
the masters in management the global
master's in management the masters in
financial analysis and the masters in
analytics and management
so
i'll be taking you through all four of
these programs today
let me uh
let me quickly show you the agenda for
today's presentation
um
so i i'll be taking you through some of
the insights into london business school
in terms of
the the actual community and the school
itself and and and to give you a bit
more information about what lbs really
is and then i'll walk you through the
program portfolio this is for the early
career programs that i just mentioned
previously
and then i'll talk to you a little bit
about the career center at london
business school and some of the um
the career aspect of the school and how
you can make use of this to really
propel yourself into your job after the
lbs experience and then finally the
admissions insights as well so i'll tell
you about the admissions requirements
and the admissions process so if you're
thinking about applying to lbs after
today hopefully you'll have a much
better idea about what the process looks
like and what you should be expecting
and finally we'll do a q a so i can see
that we've already got quite a few of
you in here so this is really a great
opportunity for you guys to ask any
questions you have about london business
school about the application process
about the uh student experience maybe so
i'd like to i'd like to allocate maybe
half of today's session or maybe 20
minutes just to allow you guys to ask
some questions that i'd be happy to
answer any any if you have any so um
we'll be doing that through the
q a function so please feel free to
start actually posting your questions
now and i'll get to them at the end
okay
so
first of all i would like to
just talk to you a little bit about
the location where london business
school sits
so we're essential to london uh
we're central london campus i don't know
how many of you have already had an
opportunity to to come to london but
it's a really vibrant and diverse
exciting city there's so much to do in
london in terms of
the cultural side of things and the
historical side of things and also the
really modern aspect of of the um
of the attractions as well you've got an
unlimited uh
kind of different areas to visit to go
eat and things like that we as a campus
we sit right
by baker street station which is
opposite regions park so it's quite
central but you've also got a beautiful
green park right opposite the campus so
we're um we're very well situated within
london and of course the city where a
lot of the head offices of the different
investment banks and also the consulting
firms and and all of the multinationals
are based their headquarters are also
very close by
and in terms of uh
rankings and reputation so this is
obviously
one of the things that you guys will be
thinking about when you're making a
decision on where you want to apply for
london business school it's uh it's a
big decision this is uh this is
a full-time full-time masters is more
than just really a one-year program it's
something that's going to stay with you
for the rest of your life in terms of
the connections that you make and the
and the uh the brands that you're going
to have on your cv so it's important to
make a decision that it's right for you
and it also fits your needs we've been
london business school has been ranked
number one business school in europe for
a good five consecutive years now by the
financial times a master management
program has been ranked
in the top three in uh in the uk
in in the world in fact consistently and
often number one in the uk
and um
we've we've of course added our master
and financial analysis and masters and
analytics and management to to our
portfolio more recently as well and
they're getting a very good reception as
they make their way into their rankings
as well so these are the kind of things
you should be uh thinking about it's
it's obviously not the only factor but
it is a is one of the things that many
people will look at when deciding where
to apply for
for a master's degree so this is why we
wanted to cover this a little bit these
rankings have global exposure and
they're recognized by a lot of the
institutions so it's um it's just
something to keep in mind
and
of course one of the one of the really
big highlights of london business school
is the peer group there's so much
emphasis on um peer-to-peer learning at
london business school it's
it's so much more than just learning
from your lecturer and from your uh from
your kind of textbooks it's very much a
practical element at london business
school
and the community is really what makes
the school stand out each year we have 2
200 students across our 12 programs
representing over 130 nationalities so
really really diverse community as as
i'm sure you can imagine all our
students come from diverse backgrounds
as well it's not just in terms of
nationality
but also
diverse and experiences and
career aspirations and interests so
we'll
it's not necessarily just for business
students lbs we we have people coming in
from engineering from law from um
from computer science we've really got a
broad range of experiences that we bring
into london business school which is
really adds to the the richness and the
diversity of the community
and as an
as an early career student you can
choose
elective courses as well uh which would
allow you access to actually study with
mba students masters and finance
students executive mba students so this
is part of that cross-generational
learning that you get at london business
school you could be doing an elective in
say
real estate finance or in hedge funds
and you could actually be sitting next
to a
executive of a company who's got 30
years of experience for example
think about how much you can actually
learn from your peers in this kind of
setting and the kind of network that you
can build as well
you'll have access to 42 000 alumni as
well so the alumni network at london
business school is very strong and one
thing that you often hear our alumni
talk about is how it's
beyond that one year that you study your
program you do really belong to the
network in a way that you don't in in
many schools
where for example in your undergraduate
um
here in the uk if you compare them to
the lbs
network afterwards they say that you do
have much stronger ties
generally because of the um because of
the nature of our programs and we don't
have undergraduate programs so it's it's
a bit less
um
populated and it means that you can
actually make more meaningful
relationships with your peers
and
for the first time ever 51 of our early
career programs are uh represented by
women so we're really happy to break
past that 50 50 parity and uh it's the
first time we've come close to doing it
so um just another kind of highlight in
terms of the diversity we have at london
business school
and it's something that we're something
that we're very proud of
okay so let's talk a little bit about
the early career programs now i'm sure
some of you have had the opportunity to
to research and think about which
programs you're interested in
uh so the first of all is the masters
and management
so what we have here is
um core courses that really give you a
um
a really well-rounded toolkit for
a business professional going into many
different industries within business
from economics to marketing to
consulting to um investment banking and
things of that nature we've got a
elective bidding system these are the
share these are shared with all other
students at the school so you can learn
from others in the classroom as i
described earlier
and then you've got different
backgrounds
of students interested in business you
could be you could be working with
people who've worked in finance or
technology or filmmaking um and this is
really kind of brought out in the
practical elements as well where you
really get to learn from each other's
experience
and we have um practical elements of the
program are very big as well so london
lab is a six-week program where you're
really doing a hands-on uh case study
you'll have a um you'll have a case
study brought to you by uh often an
external um
an external company and you'll be
working on this project for them for for
for a set number of time with your study
group so it really gives you that
hands-on um
real real world experience which is a
which is a big part of the lbs um
lbs the teaching model and we've got um
of course
uh the the additional kind of aspects
outside of the traditional core courses
that help you build your professional
skills as well you've got the career
skills and the
personal development program all of
these are kind of added onto the program
to make sure that you're also building
up your
your non-academic skills to really get
you ready for when you go into the
workplace
and as you can see there's a really
broad range of modules that are covered
as well so you get a very well-rounded
business um
business knowledge with the master
management
and moving on to the global master
management this is a
this is essentially a two-year program
the first year is exactly the same as
the master management which i just went
through and then
the difference is that it's a two-year
program the second year you do a masters
in international business at fudan
university based out in shanghai
so
the the second year of your program is
really to give you
an additional
master's degree in a different area of
business in a different part of the
world and this is more for people that
really have a strong interest in
business in asia
who are potentially wanting to work in
asia after their master's degrees
and really want to immerse themselves in
the asian region so
the difference is that
the the electives on this program you'll
have the chance to learn mandarin
obviously to get you a bit more um
get more customized with the with the
shanghai environment and also
further electives as well and this is a
this is an exchange program uh
opportunity that you would do in the
middle uh because you do have a break in
the middle between the two programs
where you should be looking for an
internship as well
okay thirdly we have the masters in
financial analysis this is the mfa
so this is really our master this is our
finance focused masters at london
business school for the early career
programmes this is
more attuned to people that already
maybe know that they want to go into
finance
investment banking asset management
private equity
some of the most common um career goals
of the people that apply for this
program
you'll and and the uh the modules really
reflect this as well you'll do
modules such as financial tools excel
modeling vba
bloomberg terminals you'll have access
to as well as coding
so it really gives you a strong uh
financial toolkit to go into the finance
world core courses are focused around
five main financial pillars which is
corporate finance asset management
accounting financial markets and
financial economics
we have 116 student
we're constantly growing the class size
of this and and um
this year we're
we're hoping to to to grow this class
even further and
you don't have to necessarily go into
one of these programs that i just
mentioned for the mfa but it's more
attuned to those kind of people but
there is there is um
cases where some people who perhaps
prefer the masters management but want
to go into investment banking or perhaps
some people that prefer the master in
financial analysis but they want to
actually go into maybe uh consulting or
something like that where you just feel
like you may have done something
similar in your undergraduate program
and you want to get a different kind of
experience for your masters so it's not
necessarily set in stone that one
program is right for you it's more of a
personal decision
and then finally we have the masters in
analytics and management so this is our
newest program it's only been launched a
couple of years ago and
this is really
this is
this program was made with
modern recruiters in mind based on
feedback on what are the kind of um
what are the kind of uh staff the
employees that they're really looking
for in the coming years and
they they of course have excellent
business managers and they have
excellent uh data analysts people who
are more
aware of uh data and analytics and and
and the data science science aspect of
things but one thing that they're
missing is people that understand both
of these and can understand how they uh
connect and relate to each other so this
program is really the intersection of
business and management data science and
machine learning it's for students who
enjoy working with data the curriculum
around data analytics manipulation and
machine learning is um
core to the actual program
as well as
managing your
managing the business principles as well
you'll really hear
you really get a
well-rounded experience here that gives
you the
exposure to the data science as well as
to the business side of things so you
really need to think about how much
exposure to data do you already have
because if you've never kind of got any
experience with coding languages or um
quantitative subjects perhaps you might
find this program a little bit difficult
it's for people that already have an
interest with with data and they really
want to accelerate that rather than
people that have not necessarily ever
thought about um
working with data and and just trying to
get into it for the first time in the
master's degree it might it might be a
bit difficult to do that
and let's have a look at our class pro
our latest class profiles just to give
you an idea of the kind of classes that
we have at the moment so
the latest cohort of the master
management we have 282 students
56 percent of those are female which is
the uh which is the highest female
representation we've ever had on the
program so we're we're very happy to see
that
51 nationalities are represented
and the gmat average for this year is
692
on the mim
so in terms of the gmat averages just to
give you a bit more of a
of an idea
we we we let you know these averages
just so you have an idea roughly what to
aim for when you're submitting your
application there's not a set uh
kind of a minimum that if you don't get
that you're not going to be considered
but realistically you should be looking
to get somewhere near the average to
have a really competitive
gmat but we do of course get
um
get it's just an average so you will get
average gmat above and below the gmat
average of course
and then the mfa program this year we've
got 208 students
uh 42 of them are female
48 nationalities represented
which is really great to see with only
208 students 48 nationalities so
you could easily be in a study group uh
of five people and all five of you are
from a different country how how
exciting is that and then
the gmat average for the mfa
program this year is 710 as well
traditionally a little bit higher
and finally the mam program we have 68
students on this program this year
because it's it's a much newer program
so we're growing it more
slowly
and then 53
female representation on this
and 27 nationalities represented among
those 68 students and the gmat average
is 698
currently for the mam so i hope this
gives you a bit more of an idea of the
the kind of broad
broad stroke uh features of the current
class and i can show you some um
profiles of some uh students that have
joined us in the last few years these
are um
this is more focused on the on the mim
but we've got uh four that i'd like to
highlight for you so charlotte
she joined the mim in 2016 and she came
from uh
dofan university in paris before that so
that's where she joined us from and then
after
doing the mim program she joined she
went into the consulting route and she's
now an associate consultant at bain and
company
and we have arthur as well who joined us
from essec
and then he he came to the mir in 2013
and he went down the finance route uh
he's
worked in private equity
and he's now working in private equity
in the blackstone group which is um
a very sought after private equity firm
these days and then we have clementine
who joined us from utrecht university
she also chose to go down the finance
routes and
she joined
jp morgan after doing her year with us
in 2018 and finally we have uh matthew
luster who's joined us from bocconi
university and after his year in 2018 he
went on to amazon to be a brand
specialist
this gives you an idea of the kind of um
the kind of roles that people do go into
after doing their year at london
business school often and to move on to
careers in a little bit more detail let
me let me talk to you about our career
center
so
obviously an important
aspect of pursuing a master's degree is
the career prospect it's going to be one
of those things that you're going to be
considering um
when you're actually
considering where to join and the
masters programs are short you're on
campus for less than a year altogether
so it's important to begin thinking
about your career journey and our career
center is on how
they're on hand to help you throughout
the process um and they really take a
hands-on approach to help you with your
career search very early on
into the into the year so you can
actually try and secure a role
soon after you join the program
we've got 40 people in our career center
so this consists of
career coaches sector specialists we've
got
um
services that they offer in terms of
online preparation before you even
arrive so when you join the lbs
community as an admit you will actually
have access to some of the services that
they will provide you in the terms of um
presentations about specific sectors and
and things of that nature
historically we've done introduction to
consulting introduction to investment
banking for example for people that want
to go down these routes so just so you
can
actually start preparing for um for this
even before you join the program
and then we of course have uh coaching
one-to-one sessions you'll be able to
book a one-to-one session with a coach
you'll really be able to look through
your cv and help you prepare those job
applications and give you advice on how
to improve your
profile application as well
they offer mock interviews where they
will actually
sit down and do an interview with you
as a mock interview for a specific job
that you've applied for just to really
help you prepare for the interview
process and and get it um
get it fine-tuned as much as you
possibly can for any specific role
we do cover letter reviewing and cv
reviewing of course at london business
school and assessment center prep as
well
in terms of uh
access you have to recruiters at london
business school we do have very strong
ties with some of the
really the leading firms in the world in
in many industries such as um finance
and consulting
specifically is is is where a lot of our
students want to go into where we have
very good ties as well
we have recruitment fairs that are
sector specific and we also have uh
employment
employers come to campus and offer um a
kind of an information session and a
networking session with them as well so
there's
lots of networking
opportunities at london business school
uh one of the things we always
we always
like to remind people is that the the
lbs experience is really
a lot more than just your classrooms
about half of your lbs experience is
certainly outside of the classroom where
you'll be going to networking sessions
and employment fairs and things of that
nature
to really
build up the professional side of your
profile while you're simultaneously
studying as well so um it's it's it's
it's a it's a very uh busy year uh when
you're a london business school student
certainly a lot more to be done outside
of the classroom which you have access
to and especially those few months
when a lot of the
recruitment period is for some of these
industries as well
um so let me talk let me show you kind
of a brief uh
snapshot of some of the
some of the companies that you that have
hired lbs students in the past obviously
this is just a snapshot but it and it
gives you um
an idea so
big names like google boston consulting
group goldman sachs mastercard you can
see that it's quite a broad range of
industries as well um there's telecoms
there's technology there's oil and gas
private equity
investment management
investment banking and of course
consulting as well
and you can really have a look at where
some of our alumni have gone to by uh
looking at our looking at some of the
alumni ambassadors on our on our website
as well
uh just to give you an idea the the
the three top
recruits this for the master management
program last year were uh
the top three uh consulting firms in
fact mckinsey boston consulting group
and uh bain as well
okay
now let's talk a little bit about the
admissions process
um i'd like to just walk you through
what happens when you apply for london
business school and also some of the
things to keep in mind when you're
preparing your application
and after we do this i will be opening
it up to um a q a for as long as people
have questions it may be it may last
until the end of the hour or may last uh
10 minutes it's really it's really up to
you guys but feel free to start posting
some of your questions in the q a now
and then i'll be happy to get to those
in about
five to ten minutes okay
so admissions requirements
first of all
when you're considering where
whether or not to apply to a business
school or a master's degree in business
think about if the school is the correct
fit for you in the admissions team we're
only we're not only considering uh your
application based on the admissions
criteria or your grades or anything like
that but we're also considering are you
an overall
fit
uh with the program and the community
and it's something that you should be
thinking about as well do you feel like
um lbs is a good fit for you
is it somewhere that you think you would
be
well fitted and be happy at you need to
think about
what's your motivation for studying
at lbs what's your motivation
specifically for studying the mim or the
mfa or the gm or the mam
what research have you done into the
program and and into the school this is
something that we like to see that you
have researched the school and the
program when you submit your application
and um
it's not uh just a case of you've looked
at the rankings and you've just decided
that you wanted to join lbs because it's
because of the rankings we really want
to know what is it specifically about
lbs that has drawn you to attracted you
as well
what impact would you like to have
perhaps you want to take a leadership
role in the impact consulting club will
help with the tedx conference we want
our students to be active in the
community and also active members of the
alumni after you graduate so
um
it's it's really an opportunity to
enrich the learning of your peers and to
make a positive impact just the way that
you would hope to get from other people
at london business school as well we see
it as very much as a as a as a two-way
street at lbs you'll be
gaining so much kind of um
insight and opportunity from your fellow
peers that we want people to be
motivated to contribute to the over
overall lbs community as well because
you get in what you get out basically
and
within a few years of graduation we
expect our alumni to be leading teams in
the workplace what are what are your
ideas about leadership have you had any
opportunities to do have any leadership
roles in a in a club for example or
perhaps in a sports setting or perhaps
in a um
in a group project we're obviously not
expecting any of our early career
program
students to be managers at this stage
because it's still very early on in your
careers but what are some of those
leadership potential or leadership
attributes that you've already kind of
um identified and then of course
global mindsets
were as i've already been talking about
we're very
international at london business school
so many nationalities represented on
these programs
and as you know
97 percent of our students are actually
from around the world
for these latest uh for these latest
programs traditionally
so what experience do you have of
working in diverse teams have you had
any experience immersing yourself in
another culture perhaps on an exchange
program abroad if not what international
experience have you had perhaps you've
met with international students or
colleagues while studying in your home
country but
in certain group
settings we'd just like to know
how are you going to adapt to working in
a diverse group and is it something that
you value
okay so let's talk a little bit about
the specifics now the application
requirements which you actually uh
the black and white things that you need
to have in mind when you're preparing
your application
okay so we have an online application
form at london business school
so
uh this is if you go on the lbs website
you'll you'll be able to apply through
there and you can actually start your
application
uh it's a good idea to get your
application started and have a look
through the questions get an idea for
what are the things that we're actually
looking for
in terms of
the questions that you need to answer
and then you can come back to it and
take your time
in terms of
referees we require one reference
of your application and we do very much
encourage this to be a professional
reference because we can get an academic
reference
we get an academic insight
from your grades and your transcripts so
in terms of the reference would rather
have a
a professional reference
if you have an internship or something
like that
also
there's essays that you
need to do for the application so
we we do encourage you to take a look at
those just to give you an idea of what
these essays will consist of
it's um the first one will be along the
lines of
what are you hoping to get out of the
the uh lbs experience and
um why do you think uh why do you think
this is going to help you in your in
your development and also how do you go
how are you going to use the rbs
degree to
to forward your professional goals as
well so it's really an opportunity for
you talk about why lbs is right for you
and what you hope to get out of the
experience and um what kind of research
have you done
to show that it'll be this specific
program is a good good fit for you
and also there's another essay about um
what you hope to contribute to the rbs
community so this also can be an
opportunity to show that you've done
your research and what do you want to
get involved in in the lbs community
which clubs are you interested in uh
what kind of events do you want to get
involved in things of that nature
and the gmat or the gre so
everyone needs to take a gmat or gre
there's no
whether you've taken the gmat or gre
there's no preference we we accept both
uh but
if you've taken the m if you're applying
for the mfa you can also submit a cfa
exam
if you've already done that you don't
need to do a gmat or a gre
but for all the other programs the mim
and the mam you have to have done gmat
or gre
and i talked about the gmat averages
before
you saw the the averages for this year's
class just to give you an idea generally
um 690 is the um
the lowest average across all our ec
portfolio this year
and then finally the transcript so
what we'd like to what we'd like for you
to do is just
provide your latest available transcript
when you submit your application this
we we realized that a lot of applicants
are in their final year of their
bachelor's program when they apply so
they haven't actually completed their
degree yet and
the uh transcripts okay can reflect that
of course we just want your latest
available transcripts we don't expect
you to have finished your program
and we don't expect a final certificate
necessarily unless you've already
received it so
we just like what you have at the stage
of application
okay
and uh in terms of the actual
application process what it looks like
when you've submitted your application
so you submit your
you submit your uh online application
which is what i talked about earlier and
then what happens after that is we'll
move to a
review stage which is
which is what happens on our end so
we'll be reviewing your application
and then that will last a few several
weeks until we've reviewed all of the
applications for that specific stage
and then after the review deadline you
will receive a
review decision which will be either
inviting you for an interview or not
so if you're invited for an interview
after your application that
will go into the
interview stage of the
application which is
several weeks and what will happen for
the interview is actually you'll be
either matched with a member of the
alumni community or with a member of the
admission staff so
one of the things that people actually
find really
useful and and beneficial about the
interview process is that if you do get
matched with an alumni you can have an
opportunity to connect with someone who
did the program who may have been in
your shoes a few years ago and you can
really get you can ask them questions as
well about the lbs experience and about
how they found the the entire process so
it's a good opportunity to learn more
about the lbs experience as well
and finally after the interview uh after
several weeks
which has allowed everyone to do their
interview
then we will be sending out final
decisions so if you've been successful
then that's when you will get your final
decision
you'll get your final decision on that
date anyway
and then
this is the uh
intake deadlines just to give you an
idea of the dates you should have in
mind for for if you're thinking about
applying for this coming academic year
which is starting september next year
so we're already in stage two now stage
one is finished so
uh the the application deadline for
stage two was third of november
which means that
we've been reviewing for stage two at
the moment and then interview decisions
which means if you're going to be
invited for an interview goes out on the
22nd of november and then final
decisions for stage to go out in
december so if you wanted to be
considered for the next stage which is
stage 3 you would need to submit an
application by the 24th of january and
that means that you would then be
considered in stage 3 and receive a
decision in march if you apply after the
24th of january then you will be um
your application will be
put on hold until stage four and you'll
be considered among the stage four so
really that application deadline
is what you should be keeping in mind
for dependent depending on which stage
you want to be considered for
and we do say
generally you should be applying when
you're you feel that your application is
strongest so don't apply early for the
sake of it if you feel like you want to
retake your gmat or if you're going to
get a internship offer and it's like
almost there or something like that we
we generally say
apply early if you're if you're ready
and you feel like you're you're you're
at a place where
your application is as strong as it's
going to be otherwise uh
you should really apply when you feel
your your profile is at its best
but
by all means
it's good to apply early if you can
okay and uh that gives you a kind of
like a broad idea of of the lbs
community and also the early career
programs and also the application
process
so um i i'd really like to give you guys
an opportunity to ask any questions you
might have for us at london business
school uh before before we go into that
if you do have any questions that you
can't think of now
you can email our recruitment team at
depending on which program you're
interested in so the mim
at london.edu for the master management
mfa at london.edu for the masters in
financial analysis and also the mam at
london business school
for the um
for the master in analytics management
so what i'll do now is i'll i'll allow
you guys to ask any questions that you
might have uh in the q a and then we'll
wrap up uh
when we've got through all of those so
first of all
is there a possibility to do
a follow-up
to follow up
a master's part-time to have a side job
where clementine has asked this so
these early career programs are all
full-time positions uh full-time uh
master's degrees so
uh the the they don't have the they
don't have the part-time option for
these for the early career programs for
the for the later mid-career programs
you do have an option to do it for
example the the masters in finance uh
can be done part-time but uh that's for
people that have
around four to five years experience so
you're probably going to be more
interested in the early career programs
which is for fresh graduates or zero to
two years of work experience after
you've completed your bachelor's degree
and for these early career programs
it is all they're all full-time so
you wouldn't really have time for a
part-time job on the side we do
as i've said it's a very busy year on
these programs
at london business school so you don't
have time for a part-time job
um and of course you need to think about
the
the visa
requirements as well which which limits
uh
work on the side of these programs to
on a large scale at least
you're going to be spending so much time
preparing for the for the job that you
hope to secure for after the program so
that that's really what you should be
focusing on during the program as well
um okay so we've got a question if we
majored in finance during our undergrad
is the gmat still mandatory for the mfa
it is so as i mentioned before everyone
needs to
do the gmat or the gre but
for the mfa specifically i did also say
that you can provide a cfa which is a
finance
which is a finance professional
qualification so if you've done the cfa
then you don't need to do the gmat or
gre but
most people haven't done the cfa in
which case you you still need to provide
a gmat or gre
yeah
and you need to do that but you need to
have done this test before you actually
submit your application everyone so
don't submit your application and then
think you're going to get a conditional
offer on gmat or gre
the gmat and gre is actually a crucial
part of the evaluation process so we're
not going to consider your application
until we've got the gmat or gre so um
there's no point applying without one
because you're not going to
your application will at best be put on
hold
at worst be rejected as incomplete
okay we've got a few more questions
coming in um feel free to feel free to
post your questions um
and we'll get through as many as we can
we've got carolyn has applied as us can
we apply multiple times
good question you you can apply if you
can apply it once for the per academic
year so you can't
apply for the mem
and be rejected in stage one and then
reapply in stage four so you can only
apply once for every academic uh intake
we do sometimes have people that have
applied for one year
and then um it hasn't worked out and and
they perhaps needed to do some more work
on their profile maybe get another
internship
just to really stand out and then
they've applied the following year after
they've spent that year to to to work on
various things
and then they've been accepted the
following year uh so that that can
happen but
uh in terms of multiple applications in
one year that's um
you can't do that so you will only be
considered for that first application
for every academic year
i hope that makes sense and you can't
apply for multiple programs as well so
you do need to choose
do i want the mfa or the master
management or the analytics and
management you can't apply for all three
and hope and see which one you get into
so you really need to choose which
program is right for you do your
research before you submit your
application because you're only applying
for that one program
that you choose first
um is there a partnership with edek
for all early career programs so we we
do uh we do have very strong ties to ed
heck and and you do get uh
um
we
we we do every year we do have one of
one of these sessions for you guys which
really allows you to um
which really allows you to get hands-on
um
information from lbs and we do welcome
edtech students every year so we're very
we're very welcome to
to connecting with you guys and you can
we encourage you to reset reach out to
um
uh
uh reach out to our recruitment team and
also there's a um
to be confirmed if there's going to be a
an application fee waiver for this year
as well um i'll need to double check
that with and let you guys know but we
have historically had one of those as
well
um and then in terms of uh if you want
to work in um
if you want to work in
is the is the mim really
what i should pursue if i should be
working in operational excellence
so
the mim as i said it really gives you an
overall
toolkit for many different areas of
business so the mim is the broadest
program of the early career program so
it's it's also has the most career
outputs
you can generally go into any area of
business when you've done the mim
program so
i'm not sure exactly what you mean by
operational but we do we do have lots of
people going into
operational roles within different
industries such as finance or um
technology or things of that nature so
um if i understand your correct question
correctly
the mim would be suitable for that yes
okay so um
approximately how many calendars are
taken at each round is it necessarily a
decreasing number
so
basically
we have space
every single round of course uh
for people and this is um
if you've got a strong application
then you've got a strong application and
that's not going to
be that affected by which round you
apply for um
because a strong application is always a
strong application but
um
we do say if if your application is
ready to go if you've if you're happy
and you've got all your um
all your documents ready and all your
ducks in a row as they say then you
should
why not apply early because we do
generally um obviously the class size
gets fuller and fuller as it goes on so
um
my advice would be as i said before
apply when you feel your application is
strongest if you're not comfortable with
any aspect of your application
and you want and you're looking to
improve something then i would maybe
say consider waiting until the following
stage because you do only get one
application for that academic year but
if you're happy with everything then
apply early because it does it can help
and um as as i've already said we've had
we've had a partnership with edek which
we're very happy about and we're um
welcoming students from edek um we're
happy to welcome them every year i'm
sorry i don't know the specific numbers
of how many students we've enrolled uh
from edtech for each
program i don't have those numbers at
hand but edek is a
school that we do regularly get um
applications from and we we welcome
we will welcome edex students every year
as well
do you offer a more marketing orientated
masters so there are marketing aspects
um in the in the master management
program we don't have a marketing
master's degree
so for the early career programs for for
fresh graduates the the the masters that
i've talked about today are the the four
options that you do have
um and i would encourage you to actually
look at the the the module breakdown
look at the core courses available on
the master management program
and
sees and also look at the electives and
think about if those
courses are right for you or if you want
to go
something that's maybe specializing in
marketing a little bit more
and um
we've we've got a final question which
is thank you
and i was wondering about the language
requirements such as ielts um
such as i also grade so yes the ielts we
do generally want to see
at least um 7.0 when you're applying for
for the for the mim program uh we do
sometimes have some people um with a 6.5
sub score perhaps like a 6.5 in reading
but overall it's seven which is fine um
but we we are we are looking for
generally at least
at least seven on these programs uh
which is um
uh which is which is what you should be
aiming for which most of our students
haven't
it's not a um
it's not it's not a huge concern but we
you may also choose to take a
you may also choose to take a toefl
score and for the toefl uh generally we
would say aim for around 110 altogether
which is which is what you should be
what you should be looking at
and um
it looks like it looks like we've had
all our questions come in now so
thank you so much to everyone that's
joined us today
if you do have any other questions
please feel free to send them to um
send them to our recruitment team at mim
london.edu or mfa london.edu or mam
london.edu
and would be
very happy to answer
any questions that you have and we hope
to um
and we'd love to um
answer your questions further and if you
go on our website you will see
all
all the information you need for your
application and also um
and also the contact details to reach
out to us so we look forward to hearing
from you guys and thank you so much for
joining us today bye

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### Early Career Programmes Application Bootcamp
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihSigvBZS-Q

Idioma: en

hello everyone and welcome to the
application bootcamp hosted by london
business school today
on the first session of the day
we're going to explore how to submit a
strong application for the early career
programs
my name is dimitra and i'm one of the
recruitment and admissions managers for
the early career programs
and today i will be talking a bit more
about the school and the programs as
well as the application requirements and
look a bit more specifically into
certain elements of the application
like the gmat and gre scores the essay
questions and the references
please feel free to ask your questions
in the q a box in the chat and at the
end of the presentation i will try and
answer as many of them as possible
and you can also kind of give a thumbs
up to questions that you really need to
be answered in today's sessions because
the more likes the question uh gets the
higher it appears in the q a chat and i
will answer those questions uh first
okay
oops
so um
some of the elements that make london
business schools that's a great
business school that can transform your
master's experience are our world-class
faculty the outstanding peer group that
you will find on campus
the actual london location and of course
the diversity you will find yourself um
here
to elaborate a little bit further our
faculty are actually well recognized in
their fields
and they are currently conducting
research on current affairs so apart
from actually being full-time professors
here at london business school they also
are external consultant to business so
when they actually teach you in
classroom they bring in this kind of
real world experience with them
and in fact in some of the um lectures
that you will go into your professors
will invite business practitioners
coming in from the industry
to actually help you get a real
understanding of how what you're taught
in classroom ties in and is applicable
in the business world
following that as i said there is an
outstanding peer group that you'll find
yourselves among
during your master's degree programs
there are no individual assignments so
you will be having only group work going
into the program
more specifically for each term you will
be a part of a different study group now
study groups are devised by the program
team they are very carefully curated
so that they can demonstrate the
diversity you find in your classroom
because another way to learn at london
business school and how we expect you to
absorb knowledge is through
collaborative learning and by
collaborative learning we mean that we
expect you to learn as much from your
your peers as you do from your own
professors so when you find yourself
among your study partners what you will
be able to witness is that the true
diversity of your class and that does
not only come from what they have
studied academically so for example you
might be in a study group
where somebody has studied a stem degree
but someone else comes from a business
background and somebody else from a
literature or for example film studies
background
and we would like you to learn from
people with a different perspective on
the same assignment
that you have
but also diversity is found in terms of
your experiences joining the program uh
your internships and as well as of
course your nationality
mentioning london as the location of
course london being such a multicultural
environment such a huge metropolis
london business school really reflects
that diversity of london in our student
community
and apart from that practically being in
london means that you can have access to
companies um
in different industries from tech to
finance to consulting to startups all
happens here in london
and our career center actually organizes
career fairs where we invite companies
to come on campus and meet with you and
recruit you so for example you can meet
with representatives from amazon or
revolut or jp morgan here at london
business school
and all of these experiences really help
you develop a global mindset these
experiences will really help you adapt
to a global environment and prepare you
to work in a very diverse
environment whether you stay in london
or you move abroad
now the first thing and perhaps the most
important thing that you need to take
care of
when you decide to apply at london
business school is to do your research
about the school and there are a lot of
ways you can do your research for the
school
the first way is to attend events like
this one
but also events um uh which are
information sessions whereby you will
hear us talking a bit more about its
specific program and
what it entails and what your masters
year is going to look like but also
invent events with our students whereby
you can hear their own perspective and
and gain insight into their own
experiences studying at london business
school or better yet if you find
yourself in london you can attend one of
our token tours that happens once a
month here
on our campus meet with students and
actually get a tour
around
you should also be looking forward to
connecting with student ambassadors the
insight and the knowledge you can get
from their own experiences is invaluable
truly it can really help you save your
perspective about the experience you can
have at london business school and what
you should be expecting but also really
give you uh things that you can discuss
and you can put into your own
application if you go online on our
website in the program that you're
interested in you can see the student
ambassador profiles and if you identify
with somebody or somebody has studied
something similar to you or their
interests
are similar to you you can find their
email address and you can start a
conversation with them our student
ambassadors are here to share their
experiences sometimes they do certain
things on uh submitting applications um
as well but they're really happy to
you know meet with you have a zoom call
or if you visit london actually get on
for a coffee start on campus so it's
really truly viable um source of
information and when you speak and you
connect with a community you can hear
about opportunities um to join for
example one of the 80 plus clubs that we
have available on on campus
clubs are an integral part of your
entire experience at london business
school and clubs are categorized into
professional clubs like our investment
management club or the tech and media
club then we have regional clubs now
regional clubs can be like the china
club the africa club the latin america
club and then we have clubs that have to
do with sports and more recreational
activities like our photography club the
snow club sailing drawing and there is a
pretty much anything for everyone and
you can gain a bit more insight into how
this
activities and being part of the club
can really save your whole experience
during your master's
degree a lot of our clubs organize
flagship events every year for example
next month our women in business club is
hosting their equal conference which is
their flagship conference and event uh
other clubs like for example the art and
business club organize a european
conference that's called you're out
that is very popular and is open of
course to a lot of other students from
other schools another business school
and they really um give a very different
perspective
um
from their own experiences but also
clubs in organized tracks that you can
be a part of so for example you could be
joining the israel club on a
professional track and visiting
technology startups in israel so truly
there is a lot of information that you
can gather if you connect with a
community and if you attend
this type of events to get a feel of
what it means to be part of lps and how
these are going to save your lbs
experience
but of course apart from doing you know
your desktop research and attending
events and connecting with students
another great source of information um
would be our incredible alumni we do
have some of their profiles online on
our website that you can find from the
program that you're interested in of
course but then you can look them up
onto linkedin and see for example if
they are graduate from the masters in
management program where are they now is
this like a path an industry or even a
company you see yourself at
and don't be afraid of course to reach
out to them
here at london business school we are
very close-knit community because we are
only a business school so we have around
45 000 alumni across the globe and you
know when you become part of this school
and you are a future alumni you are
actually part of lbs for life you belong
into that community
and the network reads is immense and
throughout your life
um
in addition to that you also have the
opportunity to
um
talk with career coaches and actually
receive support from our alumni career
center as well
so truly your investment in doing a
master's degree and coming to london
business school
is something
for life
a little bit more about the outstanding
peer group as i was saying before the
ties in kind of with the network and the
whole reads that you can have globally
what it looks like for us at london
business school so any given day in our
full-time programs we have around 2000
students on campus from 130 and more
nationalities so you can understand the
extent of diversity and representation
we have on campus
from the world
we offer 12 degree programs so apart
from our early career programs we offer
full-time mba programs executive mba
sloan
and masters in finance programs
and as i said before clubs play an
integral part into your experiences and
into the way that you can connect with a
community but from an academic
perspective this is something you can
find from our electives portfolio
so we have around 70 served electives
which essentially means that you might
be going into
a class
called like real estate finance or
advanced corporate finance or pathways
to startups where in your study group
there is someone who is studying their
executive mba and somebody who is doing
their full-time master's in finance and
you find yourself having to
um
drive uh around dynamics with some with
students who are a bit more experienced
professionals than you and this is truly
how you can collaboratively learn in the
program
we're also very
proud that within the ec portfolio we
have achieved parity when it comes to
gender representation in our programs
so as i spoke a little bit about the
research that you should be doing this
school
um when it comes to applying to lbs for
me there are two key questions you
should be asking yourself the first one
has to do with whether lbs is the right
fit for you and this is where the
research come in very handy
uh because it can help you determine
whether the school is aligned to you and
your vision and your aspirations for
postgraduate education
the other question you should be asking
yourself is whether you're a good fit
for lbs
and
on that to expand a little bit further
questions like what is your motivation
for applying to the program
that you are applying at london business
school how does it fit in with your
career aspirations
what do you hope to learn from the
program
and therefore how does this academic
knowledge ties in with your professional
path
and
just to
echo a little bit what i said before
around clubs and activities that you can
participate while you are student here
we want you to show us that you would
like to have an impact in the community
and be involved into into clubs and
activities
for example you might want to take a
literacy role in the impact consulting
club or help organize the tedx
conference that happens every year at
london business school
we are also
looking to identify what your
experiences and ideas are around
teamwork and literacy
as you may have understood we really
place a very important part of your
education and your learning in the fact
that you work with teams and study
partners throughout
so think about your experiences to date
have you ever led a team for example
maybe you were the captain of your
football team in undergraduate level or
um you have worked into teams through
volunteering or your internships
did you ever have to deal with conflict
and what did you learn from that how
will you apply this learning when the
time comes and you find yourself in a
team here at london business school
and perhaps the most important thing
is your ideas and your mindset when it
comes to international exposure and
working in diverse environments
and by that what i mean is how open are
you to
um
adapting in a new way of life in a
diverse environment do you speak other
languages have you traveled extensively
abroad did you do an exchange program uh
during your undergraduate degree and how
have these experiences equipped you to
better adapt here at london business
school
and some facts and figures from our
current early career classes you can see
that the diversity is key for us
and if you go actually online you can
download the class profiles and learn
more about where students come from both
in terms of our academic achievements as
well as their country
i would like to talk a little bit more
about the application timeline and what
it looks like
when you sub we're currently actually
going into the fourth uh round of
application we've just finished off from
our third round and next we have another
two application rounds one in march and
one uh late may
you can find these dates on our website
actually so when you submit your
application um the admissions team is
going to review it and if you are
successful you will be invited into
interview with us
and following your interview the
admissions committee is going to review
your application again along with the
interview feedback
and they will
send out their final decision the whole
process takes around six weeks and you
can find the specific dates on the
website as well
our applications are online so you can
sign up on the website and open an
online application form this is
something that i suggest you do as early
as possible there is no need to rush
with your application and you definitely
shouldn't and need it do not need to
submit overnight
in the application form we ask you for
your transcripts your scores a reference
and
just write
some essay questions
looking specifically into
the gmat and series course
um i would like to clarify that every
part of the application weights equally
so your gmat gre score does not play a
bigger role than your essay questions or
your reference your reference
um we do not have a preference between
gmat or gre i have just noted here that
zmad averages from our current early
career classes so that you can
understand what a competitive score
looks like
with that i would like to clarify that
it does not mean if you score a lower
than the class average score that
your application will be rejected or if
you score higher than the average class
score that your application will proceed
to an interview
the students who are interested in
applying for our masters in financial
analysis program and hold the cfa level
one
they can submit that with their
application instead of a dmac or gre
score as there will be exam but this
only applies to candidates for the mfa
program and only if they have already
passed cfa level one by the time they
submit their application
when it comes to essays
by essays it's literally two questions
that we ask you on the
application that you have a bit more
word limit uh imagine that combined they
only take one thousand words so you can
understand it it's just a normal essay
there are no right or wrong answers that
you can give in your essays because
essays are personal and tailored to your
own aspirations your own needs and your
own career goals
but essays are also a great way to
demonstrate your research and your
connection to the community and your
thoughts and ideas of how you're going
to be as a student
at london business school
so you can tell us a bit more about
which electives you would like to take
or which global experience
you're most looking forward to but also
this is a good place to be
honest and demonstrate your
self-awareness for example maybe you
have identified knowledge or skill gaps
from your undergraduate degree and your
internships and you feel like certain
elements of the program are going to
eliminate that gap for you this is a
place where you can tell us about it and
because we in this question that we ask
about your motivations to join the
program will also ask you about the
challenges you might um
need to overcome think about what is
going to be challenging for you and you
know be honest
um perhaps it is moving to london you
know or studying in such a rigorous
program for one year
you know this is really personal to you
and what i always suggest the students
to do when you finish with your essays
just take them and give them to somebody
who knows you to read them without the
question if they can understand from the
way that you have answered these
questions what the question might have
been then you know you're on the right
track answering
and finally i would like to talk about
referees
so currently we only ask for one
reference with your application and
ideally we would like to see a
professional one especially if you have
uh completed an intrinsic when it comes
to selecting your referee
think about somebody with whom you have
interacted with on a daily level
maybe it's a line manager it's a team
leader a colleague but really think
about whom would be the first person to
talk up on your behalf and talk to us
about your strengths and how you appear
in the workplace
and just to clarify we do not need your
referees to send us a reference letter
and that is why
uh putting down referees contact details
should be the first thing you do when
you open your application as soon as you
put their details in our admissions team
is going uh to get in touch with them
and start an online questionnaire that
does not take more than 20 minutes for
them to answer
there they can really talk about you and
their interaction with you
um and they need to submit their
reference by the time you submit your
application um as well so make sure you
let them know
of the deadline in the round you will be
applying at
and that brings us to the questions part
so thank you very much for um attending
the session
let me just open up the chat box and see
the questions that you have
um okay
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okay just give me some seconds as i read
your uh questions as well
um
so martin hello martin is asking a
little bit more about the tracks and how
they are scheduled along the regular
regular lectures
so um
tracks are actually organized by clubs
and they of course find you know maybe
weekends or weeks that you are actually
on a break so that they give the
opportunity for you uh to actually uh go
and participate
so
they make sure
because even the students for organizing
those you know they are um
students
so they make sure there are no classes
uh with exams for example or elected
block weeks so that everybody gets a
chance uh of course
there is always you know classes between
um what different clubs do actually and
there might be like there's a plethora
of events and activities that happen on
a daily basis on campus so
you really need to kind of prioritize uh
what is most important to you and what
kind of events are really important to
you and you need to attend so i hope
that answers the question
uh okay hello
uh so my nudes uh hello my manoj is
asking um
he has done already a master's in
another school and does that make him um
does it still make sense to get into lbs
okay
so
the early career programs um are
addressed to students who have just
graduated from their undergraduate
degree or with an average of one year
work experience
usually students do not hold another
master's degree and more importantly
this ties back to the actual question we
ask you in the application so for
example what would be your motivation to
pursue another master's degree at london
business school um
what are the key takeaways you're
looking to take but in that case i would
also like to
say to everyone that we have a wonderful
recruitment team
and if you are ever in doubt whether the
program is for you or you simply want to
learn more about the program as well as
so um your cv to someone and have a
discussion feel free to get in touch
with us and my colleagues in the
recruitment team are really happy they
schedule calls on a weekly basis um with
candidates they can also give you a
specific one-to-one consultation based
on your profile and your cv so do not
miss out on that um opportunity
uh
okay
yes my colleague tawya has just put down
their um
email addresses that you can get in
touch with our recruitment team based on
the
program that you're interested in
okay
uh paul no we only require one reference
if you uh go online and open an
application you can see that we only
request one referee if you've done an
internship um ideally we would like this
person to be from your professional
experiences
um
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okay
so
um someone else is asking
um about english test scores
um if your degree was not fully taught
in english and you have not lived in an
english-speaking country in the last two
years before applying to london business
school you are required to take an
english language test and submit it with
your application
generally we expect applications to
reach us completely if you're missing a
dmacc score or an english test your
application will be
marked as incomplete and my colleagues
in the admissions team are going to
reach out to you and ask a bit more
details and
ideally you should be submitting
everything with your application unless
for example
you couldn't find a date to schedule in
your test and you are taking it the day
you need to submit your application
but this is in the discussion of the
admissions committee so you should reach
out to the admissions team to help you
with that
okay
okay yes so critique is asking about the
global experience courses for our
students given the pandemic
um
so global experience um
courses are still available to students
yes and now students have the
opportunity to either take a global
experience or they can take an elective
um as well
so it is totally up to you um our teams
are constantly reviewing processes and
of course uh you can only understand how
much more complicated it gets on a
global scale um when
you know the travel restrictions and
everything but yes our students are
traveling and they are doing their own
um global experiences but of course
those who do not uh want to go on a
global experience they can alternatively
choose one more elective which is a very
very good um
opportunity for them to engage more
with the um
with their program
okay let's see
so someone is asking about
um whether they have been working in a
family business and if they can ask a
professor to submit a letter first of
all working in a family business is just
as important as working and completing
an internship in the um
in another you know firm
so
i assume that during your experience
with your family business somebody was
there to line manage you or you were
part of a team so we would like to hear
from them of course i'm not um
suggesting that you use maybe if you've
worked closely with your parents not use
them but use another colleague this is
equally important for those students who
do not have work experience yes you
can't submit a
academic
referee
as well there is no problem with that
uh okay
the final
round christian is actually in may and
you can see the dates uh on our website
uh for each of the rounds so that you
can keep
in mind the dates
um
okay
okay i see a lot of questions about
their referees so
um
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when it comes to choosing let's say you
have a lot of different um
let's say you have a lot of different
experiences uh working in in
um the industry
um we are not necessarily looking for a
referee from your latest work experience
um
think about anyone who with whom you've
worked uh a lot or um in a very big
project uh so your connection and
interaction with them was kind of on a
daily basis so
there would be a good uh option too they
do not necessarily need to be from your
recent internship
uh you can find list of our clubs
actually on the website
uh alejandra but my advice is to get in
touch with our students because if you
see the student profiles
at the end they actually have put on
things that you can get in touch with
them and this could be you know the
impact consulting club
or other activities they do on campus
and so definitely
get in touch
okay let's see
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so
okay
yes so hong you if if i pronounce this
correctly is asking if internship
experiences can be counted as working
experience yes when it comes to early
career students because we understand
most students are actually um
still
students yes uh we count as a work
experience your internship experiences
okay
let's see what else we have here
anyone who is wondering if they are
eligible
in terms of their
um
profile or their work experience please
get in touch with our recruitment team
and have a one-to-one consultation with
them
because they can see your cv and you can
really get your own time with them to
discuss maybe whether you're eligible
how to tackle you know your um
application and more importantly what
kind of areas you can enhance and they
will put you in touch also with a
student so it's really important to not
miss out on that opportunity
um
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to your people
the people the people who do the
additional term for any program get more
advantage or preferences when it comes
to job uh okay like
um
yeah so programs are one year long but
you have the opportunity for a fourth
term which is optional and the fourth
term gives you another three months
into the program which can be either an
international exchange to one of our
school partners or it can be um here on
campus at london business school and
this is a great opportunity for students
who are want to explore their
career further and do an internship with
them
that summer
and internships which usually are
available to penultimate year students
and that they use for the fourth uh term
you will be looking to
graduate around february march the
following year
as well
and
there is no difference or preference in
what kind of jobs they get um
either and the fourth term is it just
gives a bit more time for students to
think about their career path you can
really uh talk about it with your own
career codes uh actually
um
and they can help you map your path and
also you get a full briefing in your
second term with the school about the
requirements to
go on international exchange and do a
fourth term so you don't really have to
decide
anything before you come on board
as well
um
yes so the minimum gpa requirements for
an application is a
an equivalent to one in in uk terms or
3.3 gpa
when it comes to your transcripts that i
said that you need to upload and please
do not do any conversion of your
own um
transcripts and your own gpas in your
own home countries with those skills
because the admissions uh team when
reviewing the applications we actually
know how to convert them and we actually
review the application based on the
country somebody has studied at the
institute and we know the
grading scales that each different
country and institution uses so there is
no need for you to convert any gpas um
as well with your application just
i put on the transcripts as well
um all right and referees who do not
speak english
as i said we do not need a reference we
will send them out and a questionnaire
that they will need to submit
and i'm afraid we do need them to speak
english to be able to submit their uh
reference uh for you you're not supposed
to know um what they have written you
know it's uh confidential um
so
think about somebody who can really
answer uh those questions alejandra and
anyone else who's thinking about the
same thing um as well
and that brings us to a close for the
first station of the day thank you very
much for attending and for all the
questions um that you have posted in the
chat and for the next session of the day
you're going to hear from my colleague
hammy who will be talking more about
what to expect when you're invited to
interview with us and how to best
present yourselves in an interview
thank you thank you very much demetra
and hello everyone and thank you for
joining me today
let me just get this prepared for you
all
okay so as uh dimitri said i will be
talking today about the interview
process at london business school what
you can expect from the interview
and some of the key themes to really be
thinking about if you've been invited
for an interview as well
so first of all a lot of the themes that
have been covered by demetrius section
today will be relevant for the interview
process as well so some of the things
you've been told to think about such as
program research
um suitability for london business
school how to consider if you're right
fit for the program
uh your career aspirations
teamwork and leadership and how you want
to contribute
the
lbs community all of these things are
relevant for the interview as well
because it's basically another chance
for us to dig deeper into some of these
things which will be assessed across the
uh application review stage and the
interview stage
um
so there's really two opportunities for
us to get to know you better and we will
be covering all of these themes that
have been discussed during during both
uh portions of the application process
uh so really uh the things that you
cover in the interview and then the
application sorry in the uh essays on
the application and also during the
uh
during the application questions
we will dig further into during the
interview
i actually saw one question in the q a
related to this which asked will we
automatically be uh invited for an
interview if we submit an
application by the deadline so the
answer to that is no so there's a review
stage after you submit your application
and then it will take several weeks for
all of those reviews to be done for that
particular stage and it's very important
to keep an eye on the application
deadlines if you want to be included for
the interview for that stage otherwise
it will be put on hold until the next
stage and then you will receive a
decision about if you will be invited
for an interview or not
so then if you've been shortlisted for
an interview then that's when um this
section today will be relevant for you
because you've made it past the first
stage of the application process
okay so let me quickly introduce myself
my name is hamid dadangi i'm one of the
admissions managers for the
early career programs as well i'm
currently covering the mfa program and
the mam program specifically but i also
have experience on the mim and the gmim
i've been at london business school for
three years now so so it's been it's
it's been a while already but it's gone
by very quickly and um if you join if
you join the lbs community uh there's
such a richness in the culture and
there's so many things to get involved
with that really time really does fly it
feels um like three years has gone by
very fast for me so if you join the
lbs community as a student that's also
one thing that you should really be
trying to maximize and utilize all of
the
opportunities available for you
because one year does really go by very
quickly
okay so getting on to the specifics of
the uh of the interview um
so
this is uh basically
some of the things to keep in mind
before you know before the interview if
you've been invited once a candidate is
shortlisted for an interview
alumni interviewers or a member of the
admissions staff so our alumni uh
volunteered to do interviews for us
which is which is we're very thankful
for and it means that there's a good
chance that you'll actually be um
having your interview with someone who
went through the exact same process as
you and they had their interview uh just
like you and then they became an lbs
student and now they've gone on to um
now they've gone on to uh various um
now they've gone to various different
roles in their careers post-graduation
so
matching the matching process if you've
been invited for the interview takes
into account factors such as your career
goals your target industry
your program that you've applied for and
we'll use this information to try to get
the best possible match relating to
the
alumni interviewers backgrounds and
experiences and your background and
experience and your target program as
well
where possible we'll try to match you
with an alumni of your own program
however this is not always possible and
there are important other important
factors that we might consider in
matching uh to have a meaningful
interview experience for yourself as
well
so um
if you're applying for the
mf
investment banking for example and we
would try to potentially match you with
a mfa alumni who maybe has also gone
into western banking so it's really a
great opportunity to connect with
someone
who's actually
gone through the same process as you and
now they've gone into a certain career
path that you would be interested in as
well and it's a great opportunity to
learn from them as well
so in terms of the technical uh
technicalities of what to expect if you
if you're invited for an interview
you'll receive
an email with guidance from your
regional manager so that would be
someone like me
and this will give you an
uh the interviewer's name and the if
it's an alumni interviewer the
graduation class and their email address
it'll be your responsibility to reach
out and schedule the video interview
directly with your interviewer so we're
currently doing zoom interviews still
because uh the situation is still
different everywhere so it's um easier
for everyone if they're still done
virtually for the time being to ensure
the safety of all our candidates and
interviewers so we would ask you to try
to be as accommodating as possible to
the interviewer's availability and agree
on a time and date that's mutually
convenient for both you and your
interviewer
uh our alumni have uh very busy
full-time jobs outside of their uh lbs
supports uh so uh we we do need to um uh
uh to try to find a time that works for
everyone and you should also inform the
admissions team
once the date has been set so that we
can keep a record
of uh how the interview scheduling is
going but but it's um
it's part of the process that ownership
will be handed to you to actually
schedule your own interview with your
interviewer
and the entire stage of the application
process will take around
uh
one month five days to be processed and
you'll have around two weeks to schedule
and attend the interview
as dimitri covered in the previous
section uh the application and the final
decision deadlines are all available in
advance you can find them on our website
so all application application decisions
are sent together for each round so you
can find the final decision deadlines on
the website so you'll know where after
you've had your interviews exactly when
your decision will actually be sent
um
and then
in some just some pointers in terms of
how to conduct yourself business stress
is generally expected at the interview
even for
during the virtual interviews please do
remember to turn your phone off and
maintain
the focus on the interviewer as you
would during a face-to-face interview
ruffling through your notes during an
interview or being distracted
looking for something else does not
generally give a good impression during
an interview as you would expect in a
face-to-face interview as well
and as i as i mentioned this is really
is a great opportunity to start building
your network and connect with someone
who went through the lbs student
experience really and you can use this
opportunity to ask any questions that
you might have about the lbs experience
people start building their network as
soon as they join the lbs community and
this is really a great first step to
doing that if you're if you made an
offer because you've already made that
connection from your interview already
our our alumni are lifelong ambassadors
of the lbs brand and they're more than
happy to talk about their lbs
experiences and and all of the positive
uh impact that it has had on them on
their lives we we um have a kind of like
an ethos at london business school that
it's not just a
one-year relationship that you have with
the school but it really is a lifelong
bond that you build with the lbs
community
and that's why we have so many uh
alumni interviewers that like to
interview for the program that they
studied for because they really do want
to give back to the lbs community uh
because of all the things that um
they've taken out says it's it's kind of
going back to that two-way street what
can you contribute to the lbs community
it's um it's it's really uh you get in
you get out as much as you put in to a
certain extent
okay so let's talk a little bit about um
some
interview
uh preparation tips so
in order to prepare for the interview
it's advisable to carefully review your
cv and application beforehand and
consider some of these questions
um
why do you choose
uh
choose to apply for your program why is
london business school the best school
for you to develop professionally and
personally so this goes back to that
interview um
lbs research that you've done we'd like
to see
that you've carefully looked into the
program and thought about why this is
the right fit for you why do you want to
study this program and why do you want
to study lbs in particular what are
those things that you want to get out of
the lbs community and how do you hope to
contribute to the lbs community
thinking about all your experiences so
far is there anything that you haven't
mentioned in your
in your essays or your cv that you would
like to share with us so as i said
there's two stages to being assessed for
the uh lbs
um for the lbs application there's your
essays and everything that you've
already discussed in your application
and then there's also the interview so
anything you feel that you'd like to
emphasize or dig further deep into into
the
interview that we haven't necessarily
heard about yet this is a great
opportunity to do that
or otherwise just to really reiterate
the things that you want to talk about
them that you think make you stand out
as a candidate your experiences and your
um and your life lessons that you've
gained so far academically
professionally and all of these things
um and then think about how your
experiences will contribute inside of
the classroom and during group projects
what exposure do you have to teamwork
and leadership and will you work in
diverse groups
so this is also i um kind of explored
with
contribution to the lbs community as i
mentioned before it's it's really
something that we want to see that
you're going to be an active member of
the lbs community
lbs perhaps would not be the right
school for you if all you're interested
in is attending the lectures and gaining
the academic exposure which is very
strong but there's so much more to the
obvious experience than that there's the
networking events the clubs
um the the uh
all of the extracurricular activities
that you can get involved with outside
of the classroom
uh
certain events that you can get
technics and the various tracks and the
and the conferences that um the
different clubs put on like the private
equity and venture capital club has a
big conference every single year
these are all different ways that you
can get involved in the community
and we want to want you to think about
how you want to get involved in this so
it's very much beyond the classroom at
london business school
and um also exposure to diversity so
it's a very diverse school that we have
um
the obvious community and
you'll find people from all around the
world um not just geographically and
culturally but also
in terms of their educational background
and their professional background it's
not uncommon to see for example an
engineer joined the mam program at
london business school so we we really
love seeing that richness and diversity
of um
of exchange of ideas at london business
school and what will you bring to the
community that will make you um
you know add to the diversity of the
program and bring a unique perspective
to the classroom perhaps you'd be having
some uh experiences that wouldn't be
that common for for the business school
community that you would be able to
communicate in the classroom this is all
uh great factors to emphasize in the
interview
and what do you plan to do after
graduating from your post graduate
degree
and how does this program fit in with
your career plans um
and are you aware of the realities of
the realities of the job market in your
field of interest and what would you
actually bring that would make you the
right fit for the industry so this is
really the career aspect of the pro of
the um application
uh it's quite a career oriented school
london business school and a lot of
people know what they want to go into
after the program
uh
and and you can that bears fruit in the
uh
in the employment report that you can
see what are the newest ones just come
up
very very high number of job placements
at london business school in the high
90s for every program uh which just
shows the the commitment that people
have to their career when they come to
london business school and we want to
see if you've thought about it and uh
lbs really makes sense and your career
plans make sense for the program that
you're pursuing as well
with their career goals but
of course there needs to be that
commitment and um
drive and also a clip kind of plan in
place for students if it's going to
be a good fit for you to actually be
able to use all those resources
and then do you follow international
business school so
we're one of the highest ranked business
schools in the world certainly in europe
as well and um
we want people to have a good business
acumen coming to london business school
so you can exchange those ideas or at
least have an idea
or some knowledge of the industry that
you want to go into have a good market
knowledge please do do consider the
current issues within the business world
and including how these may impact your
future job and industry
okay
so
i've gone into some details and just to
summarize some of the key themes that
we've talked about here just to give you
an idea of what to think about for the
interview
it's your experiences and achievements
so
this is really an opportunity for you
talk about what makes you stand out with
your previous experiences you can talk
about your internship experiences if
you've had really uh
impressive uh exposure already for your
internships we love to see that or
perhaps it's some of those
extracurricular activities that you've
got involved in you're the captain of
the football club or you're um
the treasurer of the uh
investment management club at your
university or
or really your academic excellence if
you've if you've taken a a
significant role in a group project at
university all of these different things
build your character and build your the
caliber of your profile and your
application right so these are all
different things that you can explore
during the interview and then the
teamwork leadership and diversity aspect
as well it's something that um
we value highly at london business
school it's already been discussed here
today um
it's really about how can you um
contribute to the to the team dynamic at
london business school we have a lot of
practical
um event uh practical um teaching models
at london business school a lot of the
modules have um group project assessment
criteria uh so we really want to see
what how have your previous
experiences prepared you for working in
a group in a very diverse group in a lot
of cases or taking a leadership role in
a group project or in the lbs community
or more widely these are all things to
consider and the program and school
knowledge so as we've said we want to
see that you've clearly looked at the
program and lbs and
what is it specifically that lbs offers
or that the program offers
that stands out to you
um we all know that lbs is very highly
ranked it's it's not enough just to want
to go to lbs because
it's a highly ranked school because
there's also many other highly ranked
school and we want to know um really
what is it about lbs that that makes
sense for you
and so it's program research
authenticity community fit
are we the
right are you right for this specific
program that you've applied for so
there's multiple early career programs
there's the mim g mim mfa and mam so if
you've applied for the mim for example
why are you a good fit for the mim over
the mfa have you thought about if your
program choice makes sense
and also this is really an opportunity
to show that you've done the research in
the club and the community and talk
about where where you want to get
involved in the lbs and the campus
community and finally the career
aspirations the goal setting and the
market knowledge
so
this is really about are you a good fit
for the sector have you done your
industry research do you do you have the
industry knowledge for whatever you want
to go into and and the market landscape
of that industry if you want to get into
consulting or investment banking for
example
um
are you aware of the key players in
those industry are you aware of the
application process for these kind of
roles and are you aware of the realities
of the role and it's something that
you've actually looked into perhaps
you've already started networking with
some of these industries that's great
and of course flexibility as well you
need to have multiple ideas of where you
want to go with your career in your head
because it's always good to have a
backup plan because uh certain career
goals are very competitive and and it
should or you should always have um
flexibility in mind as well
okay and lastly just uh just to wrap up
from me this is what you can
uh what you can expect if you actually
get past that interview
process and receive a final offer so if
you receive an offer you'll be become
part of the lbs community immediately
and be able to connect with your fellow
offer holders and the rest of the lbs
community
we will hold admits events where you
will learn more about what comes next
and have the opportunity to start
building your network
there will be events held by the career
center
before you join this these are usually
summer series events where you can
actually get a bit more idea about
guidance on how you should prepare for
your career search once you've joined
the program so it's really um
sorry it's really uh
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even before you join the program you do
have exposure to some of this advice as
soon as you receive an offer even
whether it's in december or january or
march every stage of the application uh
if you receive an offer you'll become
part of that rbs community immediately
and you can start building your network
with your fellow peers at london
business school
um
and then of course the decision dates
which we've already discussed these are
when you will receive the final
uh offer
at london business school so we're
currently in stage three and uh
decisions will be sent out on the 22nd
of march for um stage three candidates
and then uh
bearing in mind the previous application
deadlines mentioned the final decision
uh date for stage four and five will be
in may and july
okay so um we do have some time for
questions uh we've got about five
minutes and i'd love to take any
questions you have about the rbs process
sorry about the interview process and
anything else that may have come up uh
during during my
uh
during my uh presentation today so
thank you very much for listening
everyone and
i'll look at the q a to answer any
questions you might have
uh we have one question while applying
for mfa is it necessary to have strong
quantitative background yeah great
question it's it's really it's really
good to see a quantitative background
for the mfa we are generally looking for
that so
you don't need to have studied a finance
uh program it's not a prerequisite to be
an econ or a finance uh graduate to come
into the mfa but then we'd want to see
some other uh skills uh or exposure to
quantitative
fields such as inter
internship experience or perhaps you've
got involved in some of the finance
related initiatives in your
extracurricular activities
uh or perhaps um you've got a strong
quan score in your gmat uh we want to
see that you actually have the the
prerequisite skills to be able to keep
up with the mfa because it is quite a
quantitative
program of course by definition so
there's not a prerequisite and exactly
specifically what you need when it comes
to quant background but i've mentioned
some of the things that would be looked
at
um okay
can we apply to mim and mam both i'm
confused between them
you can apply for one you need to choose
which program you want because you you
apply to one of these programs and
you're not considered for multiple
applications at the same time for for
one academic year so you need to do your
research
and decide if you want to apply for the
mim or the mam
or the mfa or the gmail so
um i'm confused between both
maybe i can just quickly explain the mim
is the master in management and the mam
is the masters and in analytics and
management so the mim is the early
career version of the mba some might say
it's just a pure generalist business
masters and the mam mixes the management
side of the the program with the
analytics side of the program so you
really need to have a strong interest in
data analytics and and all of the um
latest trends in in in big data and it's
really useful for you to look into the
mam very closely if you're considering
it because of the
that um key exposure to machine learning
and data analytics and things like that
okay uh
what are some of the leading business
news magazines that you'd recommend for
us to read um
good question so we do want to see
people that are very engaged in the
business world and um
a very highly recommended one at london
business school once you join is uh ft
the financial times but there's really
um uh countless uh
well regarded uh business news that you
can
sources that you can follow so we don't
want to tell you specifically where you
should be getting your business news but
um
you know the mainstream ones such as
bloomberg wall street journal
um
and financial times and the economist
these are all
well-regarded sources for business news
um
but there's a delayed admission round
cause issues in terms of visa and delays
um
to attend off of flying classes so um
all of the all of the application rounds
are set in advance at the beginning of
the year so that you do have enough time
for your visa
so uh
there's
i wouldn't call any of them a delayed
admission round because even if in the
final stage at london business school
you do have ample time for the visa um
but you should of course be getting on
it as soon as possible if you receive an
offer in the in the final round
but you you can't really be applying
your for your visa more than three
months before the start date of the
program
uh so that gives you an idea uh if
you're receiving an offer for this round
for example you do still have some time
to prepare for the visa application
um
we've got a good question here i want to
pursue career in investment banking can
i apply for mim instead of mfa
you can yeah so we do
consulting is the biggest career output
in the mim and then the second would
actually be finance um
such as investment banking so it's um
it's not as it's not like you're
ineligible or not well uh well suited to
the mim if you want to go into
investment banking
but we do want to
we do want some rationale for why the
mim is a better fit for you instead of
the mfa because uh the the main output
career output of the mfa is investment
banking so why does it make sense for
you as it does for many other people to
do the mim instead of the nfa perhaps
you've already done a finance undergrad
and you want some generalist exposure
because your long-term career goals
are maybe uh starting your own business
entrepreneurism something like that
where you do need those generalist tools
and it gives you exposure to other
aspects of business or perhaps um you
you've already done a
master's degree sorry
regular business
undergrad and you want to get exposure
to finance and to have a really varied
toolkit which is why you would go for
the mfa even if you um want to go into
some of those traditional routes so
there's no right or wrong answer but we
want to see a logical rationale for that
and then i i am worried of time i would
like to hand over to um
to the
to show you for this next um portion of
the of the session today who will be
talking to you about uh the the funding
side of things so thank you so much
shalia i'll i'll hand over to you now
thank you honey and i'll just quickly
set up my screen share as well
um
just put it on slide so hello everyone
thank you for staying with us and now
we've moved on to a session on
scholarships and funding i know it's
where a lot of people have a lot of
questions for and so today we're gonna
address them in this specific session as
well and just to introduce myself my
name is xiaoya i'm a senior recruitment
admissions manager for gm mmm program
i've with i've been with the school for
almost four years now um
before this row i've been working as a
recruitment missions managers across all
easy programs and so if you have any
questions about funding opportunities
for any programs please feel free to
send it in q a and we will get it to you
so
um
today's um my role is really just to
open up the session and give a brief
overview about the funding and uh
programs um funding opportunities of the
programs um from the admissions side but
then my colleagues lydia will join me
after and give a more in-depth um
description about all the scholarship
opportunities and what you can do to
prepare yourself as a scholar and also
make yourself stand out in the
applications
so
we have two major resources of funding
the first is obviously scholarships and
the second is loans so scholarship
really is a powerful tool that can turn
the dreams of business school into a
reality and we as a school are super
proud to recognize outstanding talent
and provide the critical financial
support to those students who are um
either demonstrate a strong marriage or
who are in need for that kind of support
so um scholarships can be categorized in
several ways the first one is the rbs
funded and external so i would say for
early career programs most of the
scholarships are out funded by the
school directly um and also by our
friends alumni and supporters
for example the mary scholarship
and of quest people ask how do i apply
so admitted students um aka the offer
holders they are automatically
considered for all the merit scholarship
at lbs so um you are not required to
submit a separate application it's more
straightforward you will um you will be
informed after before you pay your first
uh installment of the fees so then you
can make a more well-rounded decision
based uh
around your offer
we also have external um scholarships uh
such as layla bilbans etc and lydia well
as i said talk more about some of them
and they are usually funded by external
partners some foundations individuals as
well and they usually require you to
submit a specific application um and
detailing why you need that kind of
scholarship
and also scholarship can be put into a
need and merit-based categories so most
of the merit scholarship and
as the name indicates are based on the
merit we take similar approach towards
um your scholarship consideration as we
review your application and it's all
done in a holistic view um we'll also
take your interview performance your
interview feedback into considerations
as well so overall the stronger your
application interview performance is uh
the higher chance you'll get a
scholarship and obviously we have other
diversity scholarship that looks at
different metrics of diversity as well
and then we also have bursary
scholarships which is specificated
for
those are in financial needs so uh they
we have staged application as well you
generally um fill in a very
quick form um which will be shared with
you once you admitted and detailing why
what kind of source of fundings you
already have why you need that extra
financial need um and then just provide
any proofs that can back up your
need-based application um and those
decisions will be usually made alongside
the mary scholarship decision as well
and apart from scholarships we also have
student loans which is also a very very
common um
common approach for our early career
students to get their financial
financial aid from so we have our loan
partner um
several of them and the details are on
the website for example prodigy loan
which is one of the biggest they are
open to all the nationalities
um but also it's worth researching for
your local resources because you never
know what kind of loans are provided by
your regional bank by your in your
nation and in your region as well and
a lot of our students do come on the
region alone um and i i would say from
all the feedback we get from our alumni
the return on investment rate is very
very high for the early career programs
they usually if you look at our
employment report people usually get
really good career options and they pay
off their loan fairly quickly after they
graduate so if you consider purely from
a financial point of view it's still
early career a very very high value
option for you to invest
your time and
financial resources in
so um
how do you get these informations i will
post the link to our financial aid page
in the chat box after the session and
also it's worth looking at your local
forums and any regional government or
organization website and also once you
become a admits all the information will
be put into a notification format on the
meet platform which is the social social
media platform we use for all the all
the admits so you won't be uh you won't
miss that and then we'll give details on
how to apply when to apply and also we
have huddle for financial aid which is a
chat group with our financial aid team
on on hand to help you with any queries
also we have a dedicated inbox for you
to send any of your queries around
financial opportunities um in in so
don't worry you are left in safe hands
um so um i'm gonna hand over to lydia
now and she will give you more details
and dive deeper into how to source
fundings and how to approach scholarship
applications for your degree so lydia
over to you
i'll just stop sharing now
wonderful thank you sharya it's a real
pleasure to be here um with everyone
today thank you so much for joining us
um i'm just going to quickly
share some slides with you
hopefully everyone can see that
um so thank you everyone for for joining
us today um as shalia mentioned my
name's lydia wakefield young i'm the
assistant director for external
partnerships and scholarships here at
london business school and so whilst a
lot of my content today is copying and
kind of like reflecting on what sharia
has said but hopefully will be an
expansion um of uh sharia's content as
well um so hearing it sometimes multiple
times is always good but hopefully we'll
we'll go into a little bit more detail
on some of these areas today um as well
funding and financing is a really
important aspect of your most
preparation
so today as well as exploring our
scholarship options at lbs i also want
to
make sure that we have discussion around
the importance of taking responsibility
for your planning for your master's
finances effectively i know that shelly
has already mentioned loans but there
are also a number of other options that
you can consider when you're looking at
funding your studies
and then also in consideration of our
scholarships
we're proud to have a modest book
growing portfolio of early career
scholarships supporting and celebrating
our exceptional candidates who
contribute really significantly to the
london business school community
and around 20 of our students
will receive scholarships so just to
give you a bit of an idea of of how many
scholarships we have available it's
about 20 of our students um who
who are who are awarded scholarships and
these awards are typically around
one-third of tuition fees but these do
vary depending on the scholarship so
some of them are smaller
but we do have scholarships that are up
to full fees i think there was a
question actually in the question uh in
the q a box which was asking around
stipends as well um we have the majority
of our scholarships do you specifically
address your tuition fees as opposed to
living expenses although we do have one
or two um that do
contribute towards your living expenses
as well
so really importantly i want to start
with kind of what should you be
considering
when you um are thinking about your
finances because it's very important
that you know kind of where where you're
starting from
and so yes i think everyone
automatically thinks um
they sort of go towards their um
their tuition fee costs and yes that is
absolutely kind of one of your key costs
that you need to consider
but there are other aspects as well that
you should be taking into consideration
so beyond your tuition fees it's also
taking into consideration your living
costs so that will factor in things like
where you want to live will you be
living by yourself will you be living
with peers with friends or with family
whilst you're studying with us in london
thinking about the social aspect so um
thinking about what you want to get
involved with during your time at london
business school
and that will be a really important
factor because naturally if you are
drawn towards being super social whilst
you're on program and you want to get
involved in lots of activities do
consider what those those financial
implications may well be
we also run a lot of treks and trips um
at london business school that's all
hosted by both the school and by our
student body
that might well have an impact if you're
looking at choosing lots of different
trips or the types of trips you're
looking at um it's worth considering
which ones are right for you and which
ones are going to fit within your budget
you also need to take into consideration
particular early career programs whether
you're going to take your fourth term
with us um and that will have an
additional cost allocated
but then there's also opportunities for
you to find ways of earning money whilst
you're on programme
and i sure you mentioned sort of your
return on investment and i'll come back
to that in a little moment is important
to look at so thinking about how quickly
you'll be learning um you'll be earning
again um once you complete your studies
with us so hopefully that'll give you a
little bit of idea of your starting
point when you're thinking about your
finances
so then what your funding options now
sharia's already mentioned um sort of
loan opportunities and absolutely loans
are kind of one of the the main things
to consider
um and i suppose when we're looking at
exploring our funding options as well
even if you are awarded a scholarship as
we mentioned before the majority of our
scholarships are normally around about a
third of your tuition fees or even if
you are uh fortunate to obtain a full
tuition fee
uh scholarship take into consideration
what all of these other factors around
your living costs and trips and what
those might be as well
because that will come into
consideration um of your other things so
this is why it's really important to
start planning around your finances um
as well as thinking about scholarships
beyond loans um so there was mention of
prodigy there's also organizations like
loanwise um in the uk there is a uk loan
scheme if you're coming from the uk
but really importantly
do your research into what's available
within your home country um because all
over the world there are different loan
options whether you're looking at going
through private or through banks or
other options there are quite often
different options available to you so
it's not always out of reach if you're
thinking that it might be
there are other opportunities such as
grants and bursaries externally that are
available
again really worth doing your research
i'll show you in a moment our funding
tool on our website which does outline
some of these loans and some of these
grants and external bursaries that are
available
but really do your research have a look
into
what options are there because there
might be more funding options available
to you than you necessarily realize at
the beginning
quite a lot of our students will take
the opportunity to have saved a little
bit of money before they join us so
whether you
for some students we do have an hourly
career program students will come
directly from that undergraduate degree
but some of you may have been super
thrifty whilst you are studying your
undergraduate degree or working
alongside
um and some will gain family support as
well
if that is an option that's available to
you
it's also worth thinking about kind of
your internship opportunities and what
you'll be earning later on because again
that will take a factor um into how you
can sort of start paying those loans
back quite quickly
afterwards as well but really
importantly do start thinking about your
budgeting do you start planning um early
because that's really important that you
have those in place before you join us
and
it's also really worthwhile recognizing
particularly for our international
students you will need to have certain
funds in your account before you apply
for your visa as well for a certain
period of time so do make sure that you
check that and check your availability
and have those plans in place as you go
along
now we mentioned a funding tool that we
have on our website and we'll share this
link with you so that you have it
available it looks something like this
um and you'll have filters that will be
on the left hand side where you can
refine
um your choices
and so here you'll see that i have
narrowed down by the different early
career programs that are available and
that will really help you to understand
what scholarship opportunities and some
external options are available to you so
really worth looking at this particular
tool but also looking externally as well
now moving on to scholarships this is
always a popular conversation
particularly for myself as i lead on
scholarships here at london business
school in recruitment and admissions
and so i just want to cover up a couple
of things and i know that shannon's
already mentioned them but it's always
worth kind of going through these areas
again so we'll look at the types of
scholarships that are available to you
we will also look at how you are
considered for them and we'll also
mention the decision processes that come
along with those as well
so the times scholarships are available
um we mentioned already merit
scholarships and the majority of our
scholarships are on the basis of merit
and this is considered holistically as
shalia said
so really importantly we don't just look
at one aspect of your application i've
had questions before where the where
people will ask do i need a really high
gmat score to obtain a scholarship for
example or do i need to have had a
certain type of experience
at london mr school i think one thing
that i'm really proud of is that we look
at all candidates really holistically
when we're looking at merit and what
that means so it's not based on just one
aspect of your application to really
make sure that throughout your
application throughout the admissions
process that you're really bringing your
best self in every single aspect because
that not only has an impact on the
decisions for your place on the program
but also the potential for scholarships
as well
we do have a number of scholarships that
will support different regions and we
really really proudly at london business
school um support a hugely diverse
community it's one of the main reasons
we know that a lot of students come to
study with us as hammy mentioned earlier
on
um and then we also have
um
a lot of school so some more and more
scholarships that are supporting
diversity inclusion belonging at london
business school
this is because at london business
school
diversity inclusion and belonging is
hugely important it's embedded
throughout the entire university and
this is reflected in our scholarships
that are available
so to give you a couple of examples of
how we support diversity through
scholarships
we have scholarships specifically for
women
and this is because we recognize that in
industry
that there is gender disparity
um particularly as you kind of go
through to your leadership level um and
we do have a number of scholarships that
specifically support women so that we
can increase the number of women that
we're preparing for business and for
leadership as well
so to give you an example um you'll see
rachel here who is one of our laid law
scholars and uh had mentioned ladle
briefly but just to give you a little
bit more background
uh we work very closely with the label
foundation very proudly and the lady law
foundation supports 20 students across
our programmes here at london business
school every year for specifically for
our masters in management program and
where we mentioned earlier are their
full fee scholarships available that are
for full fee scholarships available for
uh masters and management uh women
particularly women who wouldn't be able
to afford to attend business school
otherwise so this is a really great
opportunity
um we're enough that we're coming up to
our third year of welcoming our laid law
scholars so we currently have eight
ladle scholars on programme
and we'll be welcoming another four on
the min program in
september
but we do have other scholarships as
well so it's just an example of one for
women
as of this year this academic year we've
proudly introduced scholarships
specifically for
students of black and blicksback
heritage
which is through our black and business
scholarship through which we've
partnered with our black and business
club here at london business school this
is particularly to support the
underrepresentation of black
professionals um in key careers and we
want to ensure that we're enabling
progression for all um and particularly
those who are underrepresented within
industry but also a business school as
well
um and we've had a great opportunity and
we know that our
students particularly on our black in
business uh scholarships have taken up
key
co-positions or executive committee
positions in the black and business club
here at london business school and
they're already having a huge impact um
in their roles so we're really excited
to see that growth and development
we hugely support the lgbtqi a plus
community here at london business school
and as of this year we've also
introduced our early career out in
business scholarships
and our early career out in business
scholarships help to support those who
have already and and continue to intend
to support the lgbtq i8 plus community
both out in business um and in in london
business school as well so those that
are particularly looking at supporting
and contributing to the efforts of the
outside business club and lgbtqia plus
uh community here at london business
school and when they go on afterwards as
well
and we do also have scholarships that
specifically will support um financial
need
so
um the the scholarships such as the late
law women's leadership scholarship as i
mentioned before specifically support
students you wouldn't be able to study
with us otherwise but a couple of others
to mention around those with particular
financial need
shall you mention that we do have a
number of bursaries that are available
you can apply for and we also have
scholarships like um we are bill burns
scholarship um and also this year where
we've introduced the rainer miller
scholarship um which has been a
scholarship that we've been able to
introduce to support both full fees um
and to support uh stipends as well so
we're very very grateful to be working
with our donors our very generous donors
and members of our community
to be able to support those who need it
and wouldn't be able to attend otherwise
so a little bit of a range of
scholarships are available do you use
the funding tool on the website that
will help you to navigate you can
certainly send through more details
about these afterwards as well
as show you mentioned um there's kind of
two ways in which you can be considered
for scholarships you've mentioned
already
that the majority of our scholarships
you'll be automatically considered for
when you apply for your program
so when you're applying for your program
really make sure that throughout your
application for your particular program
that you are utilizing every aspect
how you mentioned earlier kind of really
bringing authenticity to your
application
um who are you as an individual what are
you bringing to the school what will you
bring
not only to the program but potentially
to the scholar community as well
and then for those that are specifically
needing an application from these
typically will be for those scholarships
that require additional information for
the committee to understand about you as
an individual that perhaps you wouldn't
have had the opportunity to
in your
program application
so for the likes of labor women's
leadership scholarship or for the black
and business scholarship or the absolute
business scholarship we need a little
bit more information about you as an
individual so you may be asked to share
information if it's for a financial
needs scholarship on your financial
circumstances
or if it's for the black and business
or the elton business scholarships we
need to understand a little bit more
from you about your intentions to
contribute to the community during your
time at lbs so those will be shared with
you through meet as xiao you mentioned
um so it's good for you to be aware of
those options that are available for you
and really importantly
what does it mean to be a scholar i
think sometimes um is people get caught
up in that this is just a financial
award um but at london business school
it's much bigger than this
and so at london business school you'll
be joining an exceptional community of
scholars i am so proud of all of the
things that our students go on to
achieve whilst their scholars at london
business school a number of our scholars
will go on to lead our student clubs
we'll be actively involved in the
executive committees
but they will also contribute in
different ways whether that's in the
classroom whether that's contributing as
a student ambassador and giving back and
supporting the next generation of
potential scholars that will be coming
through to us
and they'll also be
have the opportunity to raise their
profile with a scholarship not only does
it come with the financial awards but it
also comes with the opportunity to
really raise your profile through our
website and as you'll see through our
own website already a number of our
scholars
are profiled highly are highly
recognized and have the opportunity to
use that in their cv when they're
applying through um
post graduation as well so it's not just
a one-off opportunity it's a really
life-long opportunity to be involved
with us here at london business school
so hopefully that has given you um a
little bit of insight into our
scholarships and funding um and sharia
and i are very welcome to um hear your
questions
and we look forward to taking those
forward with you
thank you so much lydia i think that bit
of presentation is so comprehensive and
hopefully that will help you um when
when you guys start sourcing fundings
and start budgeting for your studies at
lbs
and we can see a couple of questions
coming up uh the first question are
there any student job opportunities at
lbs um
we don't have a large scale student job
schemes on campus i know just
anecdotally and there are probably very
small number of people who help power
with faculties and but to be honest most
of programs are very intense they're
very front loaded so we do not
absolutely do not recommend you to take
on any part-time work during your
studies uh we think it's the best for
you to focus your energy on to the
studies um but as lydia mentioned the
roi is really high so once you graduated
you'll be very quickly um able to find a
job pay off your debts and and help
alleviate that financial burden um but
it's it's always the best practice to
focus on your steady and lbs experience
during your during your time here
absolutely and just to sort of add to
that really
that your job search will probably begin
in your very first term um and so where
you want to be focusing your efforts
will be looking at how you're gaining
your first place out of school so it
won't be i think sometimes the
expectation is that you wait until the
last term until you start looking for
your for your graduate placement but
actually at london business school it's
really important you get involved in
those very very early on i'll show you
said there are a small number of
opportunities that do arise
but really do consider
your your time and your energy and where
that's going to be spent um whilst you
are studying on the program
yeah absolutely and also i think that
links with sunny's questions on how they
in turn can you in turn or work along
the program so the recommendation is no
uh about how to manage your living costs
there are a lot of ways especially
around accommodation will probably
consist
uh a majority of your monthly spending
uh we have uh the
the whole atmos group they're very
active connecting with each other so
most people renting flat shares and they
rent quite close to campus and so that
help with the travel cost that help with
your living cost as well and and also as
lydia mentioned uh our mostly our
scholarships and uh fundings are there
to cover um your tuition fees so
definitely look for loan options and
other sorts of fundings to cover your
living expenses but it really it's down
to you um but once you received an offer
we have a very active admit groups and
people talk about all sorts of um
choices to arrange their finance and
rank their living style so no matter
what your budget is i'm pretty sure
you'll find a
a way to fit in
your your financial
restraints and just to add to shows and
points they're around kind of reducing
living costs and i think this comes to
um quickbooks um question as well around
kind of the support that we offer our
students really supportive on that but
also in terms of where you're looking at
living in london
it does vary quite dramatically
depending on where you live and the type
of accommodation so
things like if you're looking at saving
money look at flat shares look at where
you're living in london
as a city do you take into consideration
kind of the travel costs but sometimes
that does balance out if you live a
little bit further away from campus you
can get more for your money so there are
lots of different options available for
you on internships um it might be worth
considering and really preparing in
advance you might want to consider
internships before you join um lbs
because that could be an opportunity for
you to earn money before you join in
this all comes into the financial
planning that i was talking about
thinking about how you can earn that
money before you arrive so that you're
more prepared for whilst you're here and
it's less of um a concern and priority
for you whilst we're on program
yes definitely and just aware of the
time i can see our next guest is already
waiting um
in the waiting room so um thank you so
much lydia for sharing for your sharing
on today's session so
uh we're just gonna hand over to ryan
he's from who represents gmatkin who's
gonna give a more insights on how to
prepare your gmat um
test which
i think is a huge part for a lot of
people's applications so yeah over to
you ryan
hello everybody i am indeed ryan um i
would be lying if i said i represented
gmac i represent manhattan prep who is a
test prep provider
for gmat but i do know a lot about gmac
and i am going to talk to you
about the
gmat like the test the test that's
required to get into such fine programs
as lvs's
um
thank you for having me i'm happy to be
there i miss real lds but
in the backgrounds were nice
all right let us talk about this
so first i want to invite you to ask
questions in the panel at any time i'll
try to get to them in line and
especially if you've come here with
certain questions about the gmat how it
works and stuff like that please ask
them
um i'm going to talk about the gmat as
though you've never heard of it before
or never really experienced it and don't
know what it's about especially for
those of you who truly haven't hopefully
this will be useful to get to know what
this test is like because even if you've
taken standardized tests before the gmat
is kind of
on its own um it's one of a kind in its
way especially in how
basically spoiler alert it adapts to you
as you are taking it all right so
more on what the gmat is and what it is
like okay first
gmat's a test you take on a computer
there basically is no paper and pencil
version available anymore except in very
very few places in the world
most places in the world you'll be
taking it on a computer especially now
that you can take the gmat online from
whatever location
i had a student taking it from sri lanka
the other day on her own personal
computer because that is the world we
live in now
you take it your score is good for five
years so
typically you would take it probably
the year you're going to be applying to
schools or one or two years out um
schools tend to like to see a score
that's not super old so that while you
could technically apply with a score
that's four and a half years old
lvs might say all right any chance you
could take it one more time just to make
sure
that you know you're still
you're still rocking these same skills
try to take it fairly close-ish to when
you're applying with a score now
you can take it multiple times up to
five times in any 12-month period um and
you have to wait 16 days between
attempts and those five times
can be done all online from home or
office or wherever on your own computer
they can all be done in a test center
though
test center scheduling has been a little
bit difficult lately
because they're still observing social
distancing and things like that so
they're running their test centers at
like half capacity essentially
and that can make for
long kind of wait times before you find
an available slot to take it in person i
know in london or around london there
are a few places that they offer it
there's
a test center at wholeburn there's one
in lime house
i think the next closest one is in
slough maybe there's one in watford
junction um stuff like that and they
offer other tests there as well so
you'll be in there with people maybe
taking their driver's license
um knowledge test or things like that
all right
costs 225 pounds plus v80 to take it in
the uk the cost varies depending on
where you're taking it
a lot of places they'll just charge you
on a converted dollar basis it costs 275
us dollars and if you're taking it
outside the uk v80 may not apply
um it just depends on where you're
taking it from now the important thing
is that
your score on the gmat is going to range
somewhere from 200 800 there will be
other scores associated with it talk to
you about those in a second but this is
kind of the marquee number right when
people talk about the gmat score you
want to be applying with and stuff like
that it's usually a squad of 800. um
scores like
700 are considered
really good anything above a 700 is
considered pretty fantastic
however
lbs accepts scores in a wide range okay
and so whatever score you get talk to
the good people at lbs as you can see
they're all incredibly friendly they
want to talk to you and see what can be
done um lbs is
happy with scores in the 600s upper 600s
and of course scores in the 700s just
see how well you can do
talk to the school and
um go from there now
one really annoying thing about the gmat
so the gmat's gonna have a quant section
and a verbal section as i'm gonna tell
you in a minute
but there's no calculator on the quant
section so you've got to do a whole math
test
without the luxury of a calculator and
you might wonder
what's the point in that
in real math in the real world which is
a dubious thing anyway you get to use a
calculator you get to use excel we have
machines to do that for us and it's
absolutely true
the answer is basically the gmat styles
itself as a reasoning test all right
they use math
they use grammar and other things
but they are nominally at least testing
reasoning and so when they give you a
setup that looks like it's going to
require some fairly extreme arithmetic
without a calculator oftentimes what
they're really testing is
can you find a way around
doing that extreme arithmetic
can you find some clever side step for
it so that you don't end up really
needing a calculator and you can still
get to the right answer and all
in a timely fashion all right
time is going to be the big arbiter on
the gmat
all right finishing up the basic
logistics you will get your results
right away when you take the gmat
whether you take it online from home or
whatever or in person at the end of the
exam you get your results right away
that is
one and perhaps the one nice thing about
taking a computer-based exam they don't
make you wait for your results okay
and that means that theoretically you
could be taking the gmat on the day your
application is due and still have a
score to report on that application
the official score reports will be sent
out a little while later but for most
schools that's not at all an issue you
do however need to report a score on
your application in most cases
and if you feel like you're gonna be a
little bit late with the score again
talk to these wonderful people and they
will let you know what to do all right
typically
schools are happy with your highest
score which is to say we saw that we
could take it up to five times in a 12
month period you can take the gmat up to
eight times in your life before they cut
you off and say nah you've had enough go
home
um
that's totally fine because schools
really only care about your highest
score all right so if you've got some
lower scores that you're not super proud
of but they're okay maybe or maybe
they're disastrous it doesn't matter and
then you finally get the score you were
really looking for your score report is
going to contain all the scores you
decided to keep you can cancel scores if
you want to
but
whatever scores you don't cancel they
stay on your score report for five years
and so when the school sees your score
report they might see a few scores on
there that is 100 normal
and schools do not mind that at all
schools are very interested in seeing
how high you can score as evidence that
okay there we go that is
at least one look at what this student
is capable of on this exam right um a
school's not going to say oh but they
also got this much lower score so
maybe they're not capable of this higher
score of course you're capable of that
higher score otherwise how would you
have scored it and again that's all
schools want to see
everybody wants to believe that you can
be great and the gmat is essentially
another opportunity or obstacle
depending on how you look at it to
demonstrating that very thing now
what is on the gmat so i mentioned a
quant section earlier right
31 questions in this section and they
give you 62 minutes to do it two minutes
per question just pretty flat now that's
not to say that they will cut you off on
each question at two minutes the test
will absolutely not do that if you want
to spend 10 minutes on a single question
you are well within your rights to do so
the test will say go on my son spend
those 10 minutes
don't do that though don't do that
that's
bad news all right essentially it's two
minutes per question on average but
you've got to move yourself on from
certain questions and that's going to be
particularly important when i explain to
you the adaptive algorithm in a little
bit but
you're gonna have to move yourself on
all right hugely important that you do
so
um 62 minutes is not meant to be enough
time to do all 31 questions to the best
of your ability
at all
and a big part of the reason they give
you
so little time to do this section
is
to see if you will have for lack of a
better term the fortitude to move
yourself on from a question instead of
saying but i could answer it i could get
it right just give me the time test i
can do this
sometimes you've got to cut yourself off
on a question and say i could do this
but
it's not worth it and indeed that's
because to see the next question on the
exam you have to answer the question
you're on and you're never going to be
able to come back to it it's over once
you've answered it right or wrong put in
your answer it's done you never get to
see it again and that's a kind of
intense exam experience all right we'll
talk about why that is the case
all right um
there's also a verbal section about the
same length of time 65 minutes 36
questions here
you notice that there are two problem
types on quants and by the way i see
your um questions in the q a i'm going
to answer them very soon
two problem types and problem solving in
which they just pop you a question give
you five answer choices and you choose
the best one data sufficiency which is a
little bit weirder
three question types in verbal sentence
correction in which you're given a
sentence with an underlined portion and
you have to choose from among the five
answer choices which is the best version
of that underlined portion and that's
kind of testing grammar but again it's
still very much a reasoning test so it's
also testing just what makes sense
as a fill in for that sentence
critical reasoning in which you're given
short
arguments bad arguments usually a kind
of position statement with some
reasoning and your job is to respond to
it by saying okay this argument could be
strengthened with this answer choice or
could be weakened with this answer
choice or whatever
and reading comprehension which you're
given
a passage it could be a long single
paragraph it could be a few paragraphs
and you just asked questions on the
contents of that passage some of those
questions of course can be a bit tricky
the nice thing is all of this is
multiple choice all of these questions
the 31 and 36 questions in these two
sections have five answer choices one of
which is right the other four of which
are wrong
so that even if you're just randomly
guessing on a question which again you
will have to sometimes
you still got a 20 chance of just
randomly getting it right
all right
these two sections alone out of the four
sections that are actually on the gmat
these two sections inform your score out
of 800 so if you score say a 51
51 you're going to be getting a 790 or
800 at the very top end of lbs range if
you score a six and a six you're going
to be getting a 200 and for a while
actually from there you're going to be
getting a 200 but perhaps what's maybe
most important is that
to get a 650 let's say
you want to score
about
79 or so combined points between the two
sections all right so that if you score
say
uh 45 in quants and uh 34 in verbal
there's a good chance you score 650 on
the exam very respectable score and it
only goes up from there to score
around a 700 you need to get about 85 or
86 combined points between the two
sections so that could be a 45 in quant
and a 41 in verbal
should get you to about a 700 all right
now easier said than done of course and
to be really clear and i'm going to go
into more detail on this but
these points the like 51
scaled score you get for each of these
sections don't really correspond to the
number of questions
you get right or wrong okay
it's very much down to the weird weird
weird adaptive algorithm that i'm about
to explain to you that is at kind of the
heart of how the gmat operates
but before that let me tell you about
the other two sections one of which
touches on a question somebody's already
asked in the q a
the integrated reasoning section is one
of two sections on the gmat that are
separate from your score out of 800. now
they do have their own scores
so you can see here the integrated
reasoning section is scored on a scale
of one to eight
typically if your score is in like the
top half of ir you don't worry about it
at all so if you've scored especially a
six seven or eight
no big thing even up five lots of places
no big thing if you score under that
it'll be kind of school dependent
however
if you tend to score
like really well on the quantum verbal
sections if you tend to get a score in
let's say the 700s
i think most schools will be pretty
forgiving of your ir score i will also
say though that the ir score is
interesting in that
some
actual like firms especially consulting
firms and i think some investment
banking firms and this is probably
confined to
american like east coast consulting and
investment banking firms
some of those firms will ask for your
integrated reasoning score if you've
taken the gmat before and so
there may be implications to your ir
score beyond simply applying to schools
but usually the ir score is
very much uh
after thought in terms of your gmat
score as part of your application it's
the score out of 800 that matters most
it's your quant score usually that
matters second most um
and ir score importance varies from
school to school but i would say
um
usually if you're scoring that high on
the overall test even if you're scoring
a three in ir it might not matter and
you may find that ir on the real test
is
quite a bit easier than on mock tests
all right
um
last section on the gmat is
the essay section
this is the only part of the gmat that
is not multiple choice as much as i wish
it were you simply have to type your own
essay however this argument essay has a
lot in common with critical reasoning on
the verbal section in that in this essay
you are going to be given an argument
that would be totally at home in that
critical reasoning type in the verbal
section given one of those arguments and
instead of having five answer choices
with which to respond to that argument
you have to write an essay in response
to that argument but it is the same
skill which means
as you're studying for verbal you're
also actually preparing for the essay
the structure of the essay can be very
formulaic and predictable introduction a
couple of body paragraphs i say usually
two
and a conclusion and boom you're done
the essay is graded incredibly gently um
especially compared to the gre which i
know there's a question about
essays created super gently on the gmat
such that like
82 percent of people get scores in the
upper half and as long as you're doing
that you're fine schools very much don't
care about the essay score unless the
essay is
a disaster
all right
um
there is a question in q a about gre
over gmat and i'll say if you come from
a non-plant background i mean
there's a trade-off in the gre versus
the gmat
the gmat's gonna be a lot more forgiving
of wrong answers than the gre you may
have heard that the gre has the easier
quant section and it kind of does but
you pay for that with the fact that if
you make some careless mistakes or
whatever happens to get some questions
wrong on the gre they start costing your
score pretty fast like basically one
question wrong on the gre tends to be
one point off of a perfect score and it
just goes from there so if you end up
missing like 10 questions between the
two quant sections on the gre
you're maybe scoring a 160 and that's an
okay score but it's not great whereas
you can get
10 questions wrong in the quant section
on the gmat and you can have a score
ranging anywhere from the very lowest
i've seen is 34 which is not a great
quant score
to 49 at the highest end which is a
great quant score on the gmat and i've
seen
many many more 49s
from people who miss 10 questions on the
gmat quant section
than anything in the 30s i've only seen
two people score in the 30s having
missed 10 questions in quant ever in the
years since they've started like making
those results a little more exactly
available
two people who missed 10 questions and
quan and scored in the 30s every other
person i've seen miss 10 questions in
the quant section of the gmat on a real
test
scored in the 40s
okay and a score in the 40s can get you
to the overall scores in the 600s or
700s that will be good for your
application to lbs so
even if you're not feeling really great
at quant the gmat could be a bit of a
better fit um especially because the gre
also forces you to learn a bunch of
vocab and that can be a really time
consuming thing now in terms of time
needed to study for these exams
um the gmat
probably i mean it depends on whether
you're working full-time or things like
that usually people will quote you a
number of hours and say the gmat takes
between 100 and 200 hours of studying to
fully prepare for the truth is it
strongly depends on where you're
starting from
and therefore how many points you need
to increase
but
i'd say 100 hours is
pretty much a fair amount of time to
think about studying for the gmat and
that usually means three or four months
worth of studying
if you're working full-time and you can
devote maybe
half an hour or one hour a day to
this whole studying thing and the gre
would be about the same but if you need
to learn vocabulary that can stretch the
gre's study timeline out a great deal
all right so
i know kashav was wondering about gre
versus gmat if any of you were wondering
too
there's the thing i don't totally
endorse the gre thing unless your
vocabulary is fantastic out the gate um
i don't think it's quite the escape in
quant you want it to be though it does
offer you a calculator and have some
other advantages all right
you can take the gmat sections in one of
these three orders and this is true
whether you're taking it in person or
from home i say that because
there's still old information on the
internet that says you have to take the
online gmat in a certain order and
without breaks and stuff like that that
was true in the beginning nowadays you
take the gmat from home
you can do it in any one of these three
orders you will get these two eight
minute breaks if you're taking it from
home and you will get your scores
immediately at the end of the exam
all right
however there are some differences
between the in-person and online tests
and while there are more subtle
differences than you have
presented here
probably the biggest difference that
you're going to really notice is if
you're taking the examiner test center
you're going to be given this pad
we call it the yellow pad it's usually
not yellow anymore for instance in
holborn it's cream colored i remember
from the last time i took a test there
um but it's a pad of
longer paper it's not a4 it's a few
inches longer than a4 paper usually five
or six sheets it's a grid paper spiral
bound and laminated and you write on it
with a fine felt tipped pen it feels a
bit like very smooth pen and paper but
it's not really erasable as you go it's
not dry erase at all so you kind of
treat it as though it's pen and paper
still it feels a bit like the scratch
paper experience you may be used to
when you take it in a test center if you
take the exam from home you don't really
have that option all right instead what
you've got is an on-screen whiteboard
and the option to purchase your own and
use a physical whiteboard
the size however must be um no greater
than 30 centimeters by 50 centimeters of
that on of that physical whiteboard that
you have and again you purchase it at
your own expense which is kind of
annoying however i would say if you are
going to take the gmat online it's
pretty necessary to have as it happens i
am taking the gmat online in about an
hour for like the first time in years
and
i don't know if i'm gonna be able to use
my whiteboard
i'm a little worried about that because
it's got writing stuck on it make sure
you have a nice clean whiteboard for
that
because the on-screen whiteboard option
is terrible and the internet will tell
you that too that the on-screen
whiteboard is terrible the internet's
not lying about that however the
internet will also say that you have to
use the on-screen whiteboard and you
have no other option
that
is outdated information that was again
true at the beginning of the gmat online
days two years ago
it is less true now you do get the
option to have a physical whiteboard
with a dry erase marker and all that to
help you with of course the calculations
in the algebra and just taking notes and
setting stuff up and things like that
the on-screen whiteboard is not useful
in that respect
all right
okay
last thing i want to talk to you about
and feel free to keep those questions
coming there were a couple of them there
and i appreciate them i'll try to leave
a couple minutes for just fewer
questions at the very end but um if you
lodge them now i'll know how many i need
to save time for anyway so do it
how does this whole adaptive thing work
for the gmap
so essentially it's like this
they're trying to guess your ability
level the test is trying to get your
ability level by almost playing a high
low guessing game with your score right
so like
if i told you that i was thinking of a
number between 200 and 800 right you'd
probably say okay 500 and i'd say higher
or lower right you'd say 500 i'd say
higher and you'd say 650 and i'd say
higher and you would essentially like
home in on that score
by progressively going higher and lower
until you got it and that's essentially
what the gmat is trying to do with your
ability level on this exam right so
they're going to give you
starting questions that are kind of in
this wide difficulty bracket but in kind
of a middle range right and it can be
let's say anywhere within this
difficulty bracket it'll be like
randomly chosen within a difficulty
bracket but let's say they give you
a question right around here right
and let's say your
ability level is actually up here like a
46 that's the score you really deserve
given your abilities and given the
difficulty of the test right what's
going to probably happen is you'll get
this question right and they'll say all
right
this question was a bit too easy for
this person
let's give her a harder one
and they'll bump your difficulty bracket
up now again i want to be really clear
that it's a bracket and that means that
it won't necessarily feel like when you
get a question right you're definitely
getting a harder question afterwards
it's there's a bit of randomness mixed
into it right and i say that
specifically because it can be tempting
to start thinking
in terms of well this doesn't seem
harder so is it am i doing well am i
doing terribly no it's going to be
kind of random within a bracket however
the more questions you get right the
more your bracket goes up and that means
that you have to answer whatever
question you're on right or wrong to get
the next question because your next
question
isn't really decided until you answer
that question right or wrong and they
can say okay person got this right need
a harder bracket or a person got this
wrong need an easier bracket essentially
right and that in turn means those
things i said earlier you have to answer
any question you're on to see the next
one but also
at that point there's no moving back to
previous questions because those
previous questions and their answers are
set in stone that's what determined the
course you were on okay
the bracket tends to narrow as you go
further and further through the test and
essentially what happens is this if you
get to a pretty high level you'll start
getting questions that are too hard for
you and remember that doesn't mean
they'll look
really really hard like they won't look
impossible they'll be too hard for you
to do in under two minutes on average at
some point in the test you shift gears
from i'm gonna try to get everything
right which is often the mindset you
have in the beginning to
i've just got to make sure i finish this
section and when you're getting kind of
relentlessly hard questions
it can feel pretty impossible to get
everything right and it is they're hard
because they take too much time and so
at a certain point in the quant section
especially if you're doing the test
right you've got to start deliberately
guessing quickly on questions to make up
time all right you've got to start
deliberately getting questions wrong and
that's why i mentioned before that on
the quant section you can easily miss 10
questions get 10 questions wrong and
still get scores in the not just 40s but
in the high 40s because it's not about
how many questions you get wrong it's
about how well you manage the section if
you're in a high difficulty bracket and
you get a question wrong that does not
really hurt your score at all
especially if you then go on to get the
next question right your score just kind
of stays at that level till the end of
time it's only when you get a bunch of
questions wrong in a row that you start
actually hurting your score
and that is why the worst thing you can
do just about is run out of time on this
exam because if you run out of time in a
section your score
goes kind of off a cliff at the very end
it's not that dramatic but it's not
ideal either
don't go into the gmat trying not to
miss any questions you've got to go into
the gmat thinking
i want to make sure that the questions i
miss are the hardest questions
but and that i don't miss a bunch in a
row but i'm going in hoping to miss some
questions because that's the best way to
get through the section especially the
quant section on the verbal section even
though the verbal section is adaptive in
much the way the quant section is
you really do try to get everything
right just as an overall strategy on the
gmat but if you go into the quant
section trying to get everything right
unless you're blazing fast at quant
stuff
you're going to shoot yourself in the
foot so make sure you go into the quant
section planning to skip some questions
pretty quickly put in a random answer
and move on
so that you take time away from certain
questions and you can invest that time
in questions that are more worth it for
your abilities and skills and things
like that all right that is the basic
strategy to this exam
if you're studying for it
basically it's high school math algebra
1 and some geometry that kind of level
stuff you would have studied at age
around 14 13 15 around there it's not
super hard math um but they are tricky
questions wrapped around that math all
right
and that is my time i don't see any
other open questions though if there are
any please send them in but i'll say
thank you for having me um we have a
discount code for people attending this
thing and so write that down use it
and feel free to email me any questions
you happen to have about the gmat going
forward thank you very much i'll hand it
back to shaya thank you ryan thank you
so much i feel i've learned a bit from
the session as well and good luck well
for your
for your test a bit later on i'm sure
you're probably too experienced to worry
the slightest
but it's so inch it's so good to have
you and so good to hear your insights on
to the gmat which is a lot of people
consider the biggest hurdle in that
application for london business school
and i absolutely agree with you if in
doubt talk to us when nice people would
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### Make the strategic choice for your career: Post-grad business education for STEM graduates
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUpddUoHkKU

Idioma: en

so good afternoon everyone good evening
uh anyway from a warm welcome from from
london this is a london business school
event aimed at post-graduate stem
students so students who may have
recently graduated from a stem
background and are really exploring
their options whether to maybe enter the
workplace and to the workforce or
potentially other business opportunities
as well
so in this event we would like to
present some of our alumni who attended
london business school from from a stem
background as well and and what they're
currently doing and hopefully you can
gain some good insight and hopefully
some good recommendation as to why you
should attend london business school so
just to begin with my name is alex
pedersen i'm the senior recruitment and
admission manager for the masters in
analytics and the masters in financial
analysis i've worked at london business
school for nearly eight years now i
really enjoy working in such a
international and collaborative
environment and i'm delighted today to
be joined by two of our alumni as well
so maybe we could just start alessandro
by introducing yourself
sure hi good afternoon everyone my name
is alessandra
i am half spanish have italian and
i joined the mam program graduated last
year so still relatively relatively
fresh to the workforce
before joining lps i did an
undergraduate in finance so just bsc and
finance and i had no prior work
experience so
um joining the mam
right after the a
undergraduate experience was hugely
useful to me of all the experience i had
and have to to date
for the past now nine months i've been
working at a consultancy called capital
consulting and i've joined as a
junior data science associate consultant
so very fancy way of saying that
data science console
brilliant thank you very much alessandro
and david could you kindly introduce
yourself for the audience
yeah sure alex um so hi everyone thank
you all for joining uh i'm david um
i'm alessandra's classmate we have we
went to lbs together um graduated last
year um before lbs i did my
bachelor's in
mechanical engineering back in india
and then i worked in consulting for a
couple of years
and then moved out of consulting and
decided to do my masters so i came to
london
and now i'm currently working
within a data science team at edf um and
i'll shortly be moving over to a
software engineering team so i'm doing a
rotational scheme uh where i do a few
placements in data science and software
engineering teams
um for a couple of years
brilliant thank you very much david for
that introduction so these are our
alumni our panel for for this evening uh
so as i said delighted to be joined by
them as well and i suppose what we're
going to delve into a little bit further
is the reasons why they attended london
business school specifically the masses
in analytics and management and how they
have benefited from the teaching from
the career acceleration and what they're
currently doing now working in london
so just a bit more info on tonight's
presentation so we have um insight it's
just a brief overview of the masters in
analytics and management and i'll
probably continue to call it there the
mam uh just to abbreviate a little bit
there we'll then have an alumni
discussion with alessandro and david and
we'll also open up the q a function as
well so the q a box you can feel free to
send in your questions there we really
like to have your interaction and um and
presence here at london business school
as well so all questions are welcome and
we look forward to discussing this
further as well
so just a little bit about the masters
in analytics and management so it's a
very comprehensive program and a lot of
kind of data analytics programs we'll
use maybe one language but with london
business school we we use two
programming languages so we we use r and
we use python as well so you get a
comprehensive overview of programming
language as well and how to effectively
use that in the workplace uh there are
many electives and with the uh man
program you can take between three and
six electives and there are some very
kind of heavy data science electives in
there included but there's also kind of
you more general electives that you can
choose from and strategy as well
um
a big important part about london
business school is is the community so
the student clubs and the masters in
analytics and management they have a
variety of clubs that they can attend as
well we have our professional clubs uh
if you're looking to maybe brush up in a
particular industry maybe consulting or
finance and then we have kind of your
more social clubs as well so they're a
great way to either build your
professional experience or really
connect with other people who have suits
similar skills or hobbies as yourself as
well
but i think what sets london business
school apart and what really gets our
students ready for the workplace is the
applied learning and the applied
learning element as well so
our faculty are industry experts they
actually
work within data analytics and they come
to the school and teach our our students
uh what they know what's happening in
the business world as well so they gain
so much from from this industry
knowledge that the faculty share with
them and a lot of the teaching
will be doing with case studies
and group work as well so very
collaborative environments and we often
find in the classroom that the
professors they want to be challenged
they they want to be questioned about
their research as well um so it's a
really great learning environment that
applied learning element
a massive part of the program is the
career development as well so all of our
students will have access to our
fantastic career center
and the career centre is there for for a
number of reasons to help support our
students so they'll provide our students
with um industry knowledge in different
sectors so there's sectors leads for for
consulting uh for finance even different
um industry sectors within finance the
likes of private equity or asset
management or hedge funds as well and
also kind of do more general like
consulting and um and healthcare we have
a sector specialist for all these major
sectors um they have industry experience
they've
had experience within that sector and
are able to share it with our students
as well
and essentially when you start the the
mam program the career center really
starts speaking with our students even
before they start the program so they
begin working with them on their journey
and how they can
help implement their career plan so
there's a lot of work done on cover
letters and cvs to
help our students apply for the right
roles and make sure that they get their
key responsibilities and achievements
over to employers
and then when the opportunities arise
the interview opportunities they can
then sit with our career coaches as well
and go through questions and really help
support them as well
and just when we're kind of going on to
the career side of things as well we had
some fantastic results from our latest
uh mam employment report so you can see
here that 38 of our students went into
consulting and then 38 within tech and
you can see the breakdown of the
different tech that uh tech sectors that
our students go into as well
but i think what you can really gauge
from from this slide as well is just the
the variety of sectors that our students
are going into within financial services
which is in tech but also within
diversified sectors as well and i think
this really amplifies the need that
these big institutions these big banks
or big consulting firms they really need
data analysts at the moment and they
really need them to help present data in
a articulate way
so a lot of students graduating they
might have kind of all the knowledge and
and the it like the the data analytics
experience but they won't have the kind
of business environment the applied
learning the safe space that they'd be
able to present this data and articulate
it as well
we are very diverse in terms of the
class makeup as well so a lot of our
students come from from over the sea
overseas i think it was 96 international
students uh for this year's
for this
careers report so you can see just how
international it is but also the
internationalism of where our students
go post program as well
and just a little makeup off the class
so uh the mam 2022 class which started
last august we had 67 students so it's
quite intimate they they get to share
their experiences they get a lot of
professor time and a lot of career
support as well um and great to see that
we have 53 females so great that there's
a good representation of female students
within the cohort and as i touched on
before very international 27 different
nationalities within the mam class of
2022
now the masters in analytics is a 12 or
16 month program um i do have to warn
you though it is very intense there's a
lot of content within that 12 to 16
months and what we see from our students
is good time management skills as well
so that they can concentrate on
recruitment they can make the most out
of this experiences and all the extra
curricular activity as well
and for the next intake uh it will be
september 2022 so it starts late august
so our students will be starting then
and we require either them to have not
to two years work experience
what we tend to find in admissions is
that a lot of stem students they come
from the stem background and they either
enter the the workplace as an in an
intern function or even a full-time role
but they feel like they need to obscure
they need more data analytics insight
but they also need the more business
acumen and the way to present data in an
articulate way
and here are the next uh career early
career deadlines as well so this is
applicable for the the masters in uh
analytics and management so our next
deadline is actually tomorrow and then
we have one more on the 27th of may as
well so we will have um upcoming events
with more detail in regards to the
application process and i'll put the
links in the chat box as well so you
guys can see that as well as the mam
employment report as well but i just
wanted to crack on really uh with the q
a session as well
uh obviously i think this is the the
best part for our students to sorry our
alumni to share their experience about
being a student at london business
school but what they're currently doing
and how they have benefited from the
masters in analytics and management
so i'm going to shop stop sharing now
and again delighted to be uh joined by
alessandro and david uh thank you very
much both for your introductions as well
um just let's go back a little bit to
before you applied
maybe alessandro you could kick us off
for just about you've graduated from
university i think it was a finance
degree that that you'd studied for
and just take me back what made you
apply for the masters in analytics and
management
sure
so
as i said i i did my bachelor's in
finance it's a very
broad
bsc on finance and a lot of my time
doing that course was spent really doing
economics econometrics uh mathematics
and a lot of
mathematics and statistics heavy modules
with very few modules such as strategy
or
business related
modules so it was something that i
thought that was that was quite lacking
but for me the main driver and decision
that pushed me towards
the lbs and the program of the software
is
is precisely tying the two ends bringing
the
the data in the storytelling and
technology which are the three areas
that interest me the most all together
and being able to tie them all together
so be able to take my strong one skills
be able to draw out a story very
professionally highly polished and able
to deliver that with the necessary
business knowledge that is required to
destroy compelling and work really
brilliant thank you uh thank you
alessandro and david how about yourself
can you can you have similar experiences
with alessandro there or is you're
slightly different
yeah mine's actually slightly different
because when i graduated from
my undergrad degree in mechanical
engineering
at that point i decided i didn't want to
work in engineering full-time so i took
a job in consulting so i actually worked
for a couple of years
to to figure out what i liked i worked
in consulting because i would get access
to a broad range of industries
and learn a little bit about business
um
but while working in consulting i i
found
uh
yeah i found i wasn't really using any
of my engineering skills any uh any math
statistics
um
which which i actually uh really love
doing so
uh i i looked for a degree that would
blend both uh engineering and management
um and
um
i decided i wanted to do a career in
data science but uh also learn how to
apply data science
to solve solve real world business
problems and at that point i started
becoming very interested in the
renewable energy industry in europe
so that was one of the reasons i
chose to come to to europe and study
over here as well um so yeah
so those were the main reasons why i
picked the mem at lbs
fantastic thank you david um
were either of you kind of considering
any other schools or maybe any other
professions
uh before you decided to go for that for
the masters in analytics and management
was there anything that anything else
that stood out for you or were you just
convinced that this was the right
program for you
sure
so
i i think there's no one's surprise that
all students kind of apply to other
universities and they they try name for
other offers and you know most of us
were or also offer her loser at the
university so i think that's what of
course of course we considered uh other
things and amongst
not just
the other london competitors but even
abroad so myself i applied to french
universities as well just because i
thought they they were quite interesting
some of the programs are are very
different and enough for
kind of a different experience
but what pushed me to obs was was
precisely that different experience some
of the universities pushing very hard on
the technical skills and want you to
leave with
a more technical programming background
that is something that while it's
something that interests me in appeal to
me i wanted to have a strong economi
background i didn't want to leave um
with
more technical and then soft skills i
wanted really this 50 50 blend
and i think that's something that the
email program achieved quite
successfully really
brilliant thank you alessandro and david
anything to anything to add
uh yeah i think similar to alessandra i
applied to a few places um i was
focusing on mainly uh applying to london
because my partner at the time was
working here so i applied to i think uh
imperial business school and a few other
places um
i i was specifically focused on on the
blend of data science and management so
i tried to look for programs um that
offered uh
both of these
elements um and yeah
i think i think there were very few
schools that actually did
and lbs was clearly one that stood out
because the program was uh very well
structured compared to the other other
courses that i
applied brilliant thanks david
you just touched on it there kind of the
blend of data science and management as
well how does lbs how does the the
master's analytics and management blend
them together um i touched on kind of
the applied learning but do you have any
other examples of kind of the way the
course is structured in regards to kind
of the data science side of things and
then also how it gets the kind of the
general management side of things as
well and combines the two
but
um i think in general um
the way the course the way the semesters
are structured so you'd never only be
doing like data science courses or
management courses
so you'd start off with i'd say i'd say
more data science heavy but you'd also
have a few uh
few really important
courses such as economics and marketing
to start off with uh
while you're also learning like
statistics
and data science for business machine
learning
uh very very heavy data science courses
so you always
you're always
taught to think
about how you can apply what you're
learning in your data science courses
to real world problems
and also all all the competitions that
the various clubs uh hold uh also help
you give you an avenue to actually
practice those skills um yeah so just
just the way um
the way that the courses are structured
throughout the year uh you're never
really
learning one element but always both at
the same time so i think that really
helps
yeah thank you david
um
so maybe to add a different perspective
i quite like thinking data of updating
kind of four different segments and that
is kind of descriptive analytics
diagnostic analytics prescription ethics
predictive analytics and what and what
it all means is just understanding what
happened why did it happen what will
happen and how could we make it happen
and i think that a lot of the courses
that are yes we're really structured in
allowing you to have that linear
progression so at the very beginning of
the year you spend a lot of time kind of
getting your hands very dirty with all
these descriptive analytics to see what
happened what happens in a data set what
happened uh in the london housing price
uh i think is one of the for example one
of the
data sets that we touch on
we touch on for example the classic
titanic data set in which i say you know
what happened and why did it happen and
towards the second semester you start
building on machine learning and machine
learning 101 and start doing predictions
and at the end of the year your
i'd say your electives are where you
take the completely different spin and
you start saying you know how can i make
this happen so i don't know i know how i
can use data to make an impact now let's
let's kind of apply and let's look at
several strategy models so at the very
beginning you spend a lot of time coding
an r coding in python learning a little
bit of sql learning you know what is in
the first place in good practices second
semester is more now that you know the
very building blocks let's start playing
around a little bit with some of this
and see what happens and last is hey i
think i found something good how did i
make it really happen
thanks alessandro and just kind of
adding on to that did you take perhaps
more general electives which weren't
related to data science were the ones
that kind of have added to your your
business acumen or i know there's
obviously electives like negotiation and
bargaining and and all sorts really lots
of strategy kind of focus but were there
any more kind of general uh electives
that you decided to take
yeah i the most memorable one for me is
probably one of the most generic ones i
could have possibly taken
i took a module in fintech so very hot
topic this very big buzzword um and i
just didn't know much about it to be
very frank and that's kind of why why
chose it it was a blend of you know what
what is for example what is blockchain
what is it in the first place and then
what are the uses of it and you know
aside from this big buzz what's kind of
underneath it how can we make it or not
make it work in in a business context so
it's kind of again
trying to break down what it is how it
works and how can we apply it and you
know is it worthwhile applying in the
first place
um and along with that i took another
elective called digital strategy which
just focus more about you know how do
you go about optimizing the
implementation of data solutions in
in an ecosystem or environment that
you're in so very generic modules but to
be honest probably the most impactful
for me
thank you alessandro and david how about
you in terms of your your electives did
you choose kind of kind of general ones
as well or
um
actually i chose a few specific ones um
and one of one or two of the electors
was the reason i chose lbs as well so i
took the elective on energy markets
because
i was focused on uh and i knew that at
that time i was gonna work in uh
renewable energy so i'm currently
working at edf energy uh so that that
was a really
i think a really valuable elective
gave me a good good understanding of how
the
electricity market works in europe
uh and around the world
and i think i
yeah i've benefited from that immensely
in my current role i also just purely
out of interest took an elective on
supply chain management because i'm just
very interested in the subject
and i mainly want to learn about how we
can make supply chains uh
greener in the new world
and i also took an elective on
behavioral economics again that was just
purely out of interest because i was
really interested in the subject and
how it could uh how you could apply
behavioral economics to
influence decisions uh
in in day-to-day business
thank you david and just touching on
electives just for the audience
knowledge i suppose is that when you
take electives at london business school
you'll be taking them with the rest of
the student body so you'll be taking
them with executive mba students mba
students masters and finance students
the other early career portfolio as well
and i think
not just the early career students but
everybody just benefits from that
teaching style from learning from each
other the electives are taught in
slightly smaller classes than than the
core courses as well so it's a great way
to to build your connections with people
from from um who have similar interests
within that industry as well how did you
find kind of the discussion within those
electives did you did you speak with
other student cohorts uh maybe mbas or
executive mbas
um yup i can go first in this one uh so
actually i took a fourth elective called
managing a digital organization um which
was towards the end of the program and
um i think it was complete the class was
completely filled with executive mbas
which um which is uh quite cool because
they've had a lot of a lot of years of
experience in the industry um so they
can they can yeah they can pass on a lot
of valuable knowledge and i found that
they were very
especially when it came to assignments
they were very like
very methodol methodical and they
planned out and structured everything
much better than um
yeah the rest of the groups that i've
done done assignments with so that was
something that i learned
i would say that i'm considering
experience to be honest uh we may
feel like
uh plus i have a lot of time with
executive mbas and
the
very organized
methodical approach they have is
very insightful just as a as kind of
it's almost inspiring to really
understand how to break down an idea so
comprehensively and lay it out and it's
probably something i i probably haven't
even appreciated
fully until now as i said you're kind of
storyboarding
your your thoughts and i think that's
something that they
valuable that they bring because they
bring not not just this
structure which they apply for what they
do but also
what they have to say is
backed by a lot of experience so you you
get
these half an hour snippets with them
which which are really short really but
they've
had you know years of preparation for 30
years for 30 minutes of knowledge
condensed there and it's this this
condensation of information is
is really satisfying to receive as
someone that's from kind of an early
careers program and say wow this is
gonna not only what awaits but also
something that kind of excites you and
kind of moves you along
excellent thank you very much alessandro
um we've had a couple of questions just
in in the q a chat box as well uh i
think we've kind of covered um
srinivasa's question about the
distribution of courses i think you gave
a good overview of kind of the electives
and everything else as well um advise
use uh
as well just to look onto the website
into the program content as well and if
there's any kind of questions there feel
free to reach out to the recruitment and
admissions team as well and another
question from as front of us as well
about what is the expected skill level
for python programming do you also need
sql well from a recruitment admissions
perspective what i'd say is that you
should have some experience within data
programming languages okay it will
definitely help you on the program uh
having knowledge having some some
insight or even experience and in fact
one of the essay questions touches on
give us an example of when you've
managed big data and a lot of our
candidates or applicants will will
include their their knowledge or their
use of uh programming languages within
that as well but as i've said before
it's a very comprehensive program using
kind of multiple uh programming
languages as well but did you guys find
maybe a steep learning curve on the
program in regards to um the programming
language did you have to do any kind of
pre-work to get yourself up to scratch
or how did you how did you find your
time actually on the the programming
language side
was a context in my
undergraduate i did zero programming
ahead of this course i had zero hard
python technical programming experience
um any and all experience
from sadly big data had come through
excel
so i
i wasn't ready at all for this and this
was one of the very big reasons that
pushed me towards lbs and it was like
that i i just very kindly didn't know
how to crunch
very large amounts of data and didn't
have the skills
for me
the learning curve was completely
vertical um from from day one i went to
my first class and i sat there and i
knew
nothing from the moment it started to
the moment it ended
so in the sense
a lot of value added for me as a person
in terms of you know soft skills but
definitely also the hard skills that i
learned were tremendously valuable and i
definitely
wouldn't be in the position that i am
today had i not joined and learned these
hard skills
and did you find yourself maybe studying
um after hours just kind of in
comparison to other peers maybe studying
a bit harder a bit longer or did you
kind of get up to speed pretty quick
alessandra
um
it definitely required a lot of uh after
our studying and you know for
for anybody that is considering lbs
this university is filled with very
bright people uh you will find the best
of the best uh here it's
incredibly
impressive uh just how smart people are
in terms of how quickly they they can
learn something they just something
understand it and kind of reapply it in
a completely different context
so i had to spend a lot of time getting
up to speed in terms of the minimum
knowledge required but also kind of
accelerating the knowledge and kind of
getting to where some of the math
students
are because as you said some people
already come with experience and already
know some of the building blocks uh so
if you don't you need to know that you
need to be prepared to put in the the
extra effort but
thankfully
as as very
demanding as the irs can be i can
definitely attest to the fact that the
students are all very helpful it's a
very welcoming community and i got a lot
of support from a lot of my classmates
and
not just support but also a lot of
learning that you do outside of the
classroom something was also immensely
valuable and just irreplaceable
so it's tough it requires extra time
um
but you can get there
perseverance and resilience is key then
alessandro yeah fantastic and david how
about you did you have any experience
within kind of programming language
data science beforehand
um yes a little bit so uh i came from an
engineering background so done uh used
matlab before
um and also i also knew a bit of python
but i had to get up to up to speed with
r which is which wasn't super hard
because if you know one programming
language uh a lot of the uh a lot of the
knowledge is transferred below with the
others but yeah it took a little bit of
time to get up to speed with r um but
also i think i was able to uh help other
people who uh had to had to learn
programming from scratch so that was
something i could bring to the program
um and i think the i think the study
groups are very balanced
uh in that you'll always find someone to
help you out uh someone who has prior
knowledge uh
and yeah
yeah you'll you'll be able to add a
different angle so
you don't have to know how to program
but you just definitely should be
willing to put in the work
and uh pair with other people on
assignments uh you know if you want to
get up to speed here
brilliant thanks david
um now i'd like to kind of just delve a
bit further into the the career
opportunities as well within london
business school maybe we could start
with the career center and how the
career center helped you prepare for the
work workforce as well so i suppose the
whole program helps you right they'll
give you the skills the knowledge but
then it's kind of the industry insight
and what roles are going the network as
well to some extent what really helped
you guys get to where you were now i
mean david you wanted to work in energy
you took the relevant elective did you
network with the energy club how did you
manage that did you speak to any of the
kind of career advisors at the school
could you maybe just walk us through
your kind of journey or strategy
uh yeah so um
even before i came to lbs i think i
had a few chats with uh some of the
career coaches
uh who were very helpful and they
pointed me to some useful resources
the main thing i learned was that most
uh energy indus energy companies require
you to know a lot about the industry
because it's a very complex complicated
and heavily regulated industry
so to apply to any job you need to have
deep industry knowledge
so i did a few sessions
with one of the sector leads who
specializes in the energy industry and
they were very helpful in pointing me to
some resources
which could help me
learn a bit more about the industry
before i actually sent in job
applications
apart from that i got a lot of
advice on how to uh present my cv how to
write my cover letters uh
specifically for uh for the for a data
science role in the energy industry
uh but yeah they were they were super
helpful all around and uh i'd say
uh
even though a lot of students uh want to
go in like a particular direction uh are
maybe more interested in consulting or
investment banking uh there are also uh
the the career center encourages you to
uh
to to gravitate towards your passion and
uh
provides you with resources to do that
so uh yeah you don't necessarily get
swept up in the crowd and uh you're able
to actually uh
actually apply to uh what you're
what you're truly interested in
and they provide you with all the
resources to do so
brilliant and did you find that to be a
good move are you enjoying kind of work
in the energy sector i know
do you think that maybe you have a skill
set now in case you wanted to to leave
the energy sector have you considered
maybe moving into
any other industries as well
uh yeah not for now so i definitely want
to work uh something to do with
sustainability uh
but as a data scientist uh i think i
have a
tool set that can be applied to uh any
any industry that collects a lot of data
and
has has a problem that can be solved uh
by by leveraging data correctly
uh so yeah i think that that's
definitely something the mam will
prepare you for
uh it gives you a very uh very diverse
toolkit
absolutely and just a note on the kind
of the career center and our alumni are
offering as well david alessandra i'm
not sure if you were but you have access
as an alumnus as well as the school so
save a good uh employment opportunity
came along you had an interview and you
were a bit unsure about the sector or
you were lacking in knowledge or or
knowledge gaps anyway you could come
back to the school and speak to one of
the career coaches one of the sector
leads about this as well
organize some coaching and really kind
of put your best foot forward when when
other opportunities do arise as well
and you've always got a network
essentially to fall back on as well i
mean i'm sure your classmates went into
a variety of different sectors a variety
of different industries as well so
having that network and just maybe
reaching out to them as well and saying
is anybody working in this sector would
they be willing to meet me for a coffee
chat and that just really helps you
build up your knowledge and
understanding i suppose
um and alessandro how about you um how
was your kind of experience journey with
the with the career center
i would say that the curious support is
probably one of the best pieces of
obs really um it's
really reassuring to know that you know
you join a program
uh that you're you're there to learn
soft and hard skills but ultimately also
there for for some help on planning your
first job or going back into machine
just kind of getting a job ultimately
that's you know your trajectory outside
of this course it's very ashamed to have
a team that can help you do that and not
just a team but also a fantastic team a
very big team one that does a truly
excellent job of preparing you for
anything and any everything and anything
you may need uh so i i made abundant use
of the of the career center and kind of
as david was saying they also do a
really good job of pushing you towards
finding your passion
so one of the things that
i was also advised was you know you're
i'm interested in this cross-section of
of data tech and finance and consulting
is not the only thing you can do you can
also do things such as product
management and it was something that i
just hadn't considered for example they
spent also a lot of time
uh trying to do this and thanks to the
to them also connected with the wider
lbs network so again you're it's not
just a class of 60 uh
or 60 from the mom it's also going to go
from here the curious program from the
mba from the executive mba and their
alumni so it's a very very large
community and kind of tapping into the
community allowed me to have an
internship towards the end of the lbs
experience as actually as an associate
product manager and therefore i was all
not only was i ready to
start occurring consulting i was also
ready to set my career in product
managing it that is what i chose to do
so um so i think they do a fantastic job
standalone to kind of prepare you with
any interviews understand what you want
to do
and where you want to go but they're
also very good at tapping into kind of
the
parallel resources that lbs has to offer
to kind of give you a
one-stop shop neatly packaged everything
really
brilliant thanks alessandra i'm also
going to share with everybody just the
the latest uh careers report as well
from the masters in analytics and
management so i've just shared it in the
chat there and you can download the the
full employment report there and just
have a look in more detail uh in regards
to that as well
um and how are you guys kind of looking
to the future i mean what's the future
of analytics what's the future for you
guys
uh in terms of going forward and
accelerating your career i suppose i
mean to some extent was that anybody
when you started your your employment
and you've kind of have you hit the
ground running is the kind of skill gaps
that you currently have or do you think
that you're you're well prepared now for
a career in data science or um or
programming
um
so the mvm i think it gives you very
good foundational skills uh in data
science um
but i i definitely found when i joined
the data science job that i had
there was quite a big skill gap
even though i'd learned a lot so um
although although you work on a lot of
programming assignments um we use rn
python the way it's actually uh
it's actually implemented in production
in the industry is a little different so
you need to know a lot about the
infrastructure uh to deploy data science
projects
um
um yeah but that kind of stuff can be
picked up
the mem gives you all the foundational
skills you need
teaches you
teaches you more how to learn about data
science rather than teaching you
everything there is to know about
using data science in the industry
uh so yeah definitely a lot more to
learn uh after afterwards
but i think you have uh it gives you the
um
the ability to learn things very quickly
uh which is which is something that has
been very valuable uh in in the past
eight to nine months for me yeah
fantastic and for you alessandro
i wouldn't agree more uh i mean i think
the truth is you never stop learning
uh you know you you're gonna leave lbs
and you're gonna think that's it never
again will i have to open a textbook
never again am i gonna have to do
another course or another something and
that's that's just completely the wrong
attitude uh or at least at least i can
speak for data it's the wrong idea and
then it's this continuous upskilling
that you're always doing you're always
doing more courses you're always
learning more
um but the good thing is it's
you do it because you like it you're not
doing it because you have to you're
doing it because you genuinely enjoy it
and data sciences
or just data in general is such a
large field that
within this field you can find what you
like and you love and you can spend time
focusing on
what you enjoy the most
so while there's continuous work to be
put in something that you have to enjoy
and because there's so much learning you
know there's there's no way
the lbs mam or any course can really
prepare you to get there and be a
complete expert
but what it does extremely well is david
said giving you the
elemental building blocks which allow
you to get there and at least understand
the conversation understand what's going
on and what is the direction that needs
to be taken
and then as kind of david said you
are taught how to think how to approach
a problem and
how to perhaps learn more effectively so
when you understand the conversation you
can very quickly start adding value
to this conversation so
uh you know you're you're never ready
but let's say there's a really good
drawbacks at getting you ready
thank you very much alessandra and am i
right in thinking that i mean
some of this is like the continuous
learning element is because there's just
kind of so much technologies new
technologies being implemented you've
got to stay up to speed with what's
happening in that space or am i just
maybe showing ahead a little bit there
yes absolutely
so not only are new things constantly
emerging but
it is a very new field and we at least i
see a lot of cross-sectoral applications
so i see that
some algorithms that were applied in
research papers in one field are now
being applied in a completely different
field and you would have never seen the
application or the link um and some
people can explore links so it's not
only
kind of growing
the knowledge but it's also the rate at
which
this information kind of not just being
shared across different domains of data
is also you know completely
accelerating uh so there's this
continuous knowledge on on both fronts
brilliant um and you're am i right i'm
thinking you're both working in london
at the moment uh david and alessandro
how is it working within data science in
london i mean you you've studied here in
the the masters in analytics and
management but how do you find working
here in terms of kind of the culture and
and everything else that goes with that
um so yeah although i'm actually based
in london my team is based all over the
uk so we work mostly remotely uh and
occasionally come come into the office
uh but i think um yeah
london london's a very multicultural
city and uh i find i find that
translates even into my day-to-day team
that i work with
um so i think that's that's again
something that the mam gave me the
skills to
uh deal with
so i'm able to
quickly understand um
quickly put myself in someone else's
shoes and try to understand where
they're coming from
and work together
to solve a problem
uh so yeah
but yeah in general i think working in
london is uh
it's a very multicultural city so you
definitely learn a lot in your
day-to-day job from from from your
diverse
peers the work-life balance is okay
david do you um
busy during the week i suppose but you
have your weekends you get to explore
the city and everything
uh yeah
yeah very free on weekends
we i work in a very agile team so we try
not to uh work after hours we try not to
work at all during the weekends uh we
try to structure and plan our work very
well
uh so that's been good yeah and london
has a lot of
a lot of interesting things to do as
well
and did sorry just on that kind of
work-life balance as well are you are
you partly remoting in do you go into
the office as well is that kind of a
blend now
uh yeah our team is very flexible so um
we go in whenever we feel
we we need to like brainstorm uh on a
particular project or get the group
together
but
otherwise we work remotely because most
of our work is
is on a computer
so
um we feel we feel we can all benefit
from working remotely uh rather than
commuting every day
thank you david we had another question
um from the chat box from
srinivas
he's saying is it is difficult to get
good and large data to solve real world
problems i was wondering what kinds of
projects do you have to address do you
have any do you have industrial tie-ups
so i think it's just kind of maybe the
the
is i think maybe a particular case study
that you've worked on or maybe you could
maybe discuss the the london lab as well
that that kind of
big data projects as well i don't know
but did any of you um complete the
london lab
well i hope so it's a mandatory part of
the program as well it's obviously a
great way to learn more about the the
the program and build up your industry
knowledge as well and essentially um as
part of the mem program our students
undertake the london lab it's a four
week project and they'll work with
businesses within london on
a business solution for them essentially
but um alessandra would you like to
maybe highlight your london lab
experience and maybe what you you learn
from it as well
sure absolutely
so
my london lab project was
an anomaly event detection
project so what that means is whenever
something that is
you know harmful bad or just doesn't
really tend to happen happen
uh can we alert the end user about the
occurrence of this event
um
apologies for the kind of lack of
details or context um
but this this course kind of
holistically what my my project was
about and to kind of address your
question of you know
the difficulty of getting data it's
it's something very real it's something
very true it's always hard to get data
and even when you have data it's very
hard to have high quality clean data
that you can use to you know solving
anything really and in fact part of the
london lab project was a kind of very
big wake-up call in the sense because
step one of our learning lab project was
go get data um so we had to do a lot of
data mining on on twitter on bloomberg
terminals on on other news websites to
kind of obtain some of the snippets of
information that we that we required and
only once we had actually amassed the
the kind of data that we that we needed
we then kick off solving the the problem
that that we had
and
unfortunately uh or or virtually it's
also it depends on the way you want to
see it uh that's also what it translates
to in real life uh you know working
consulting and i haven't seen the state
of the clients that we that we work with
i you know
everyone suffers from this issue almost
nobody has you know a very highly
polished clean data set that they that
they work off with and certainly not to
begin with uh over time you obviously
refine them and you make them polishing
clean but you never start with a a
perfectly clean state and i think that's
why you spend a lot of time
kind of kind of working on this data
this data collection and kind of high
data quality uh data asset that you can
leverage
thanks alessandro and then david would
you be able to maybe share your kind of
london lab experience as well
uh yep happy too uh so my my project was
around
forecasting the uh the carbon intensity
of the
european electricity market
in the short term uh
so we worked on this project with with
national grid um
and again though though data quality
wasn't an issue we had a lot of high
quality data um
available through a public api um the
the main issue was uh that the data
wasn't enough to solve the problem that
we were asked to solve so the the first
first
four or five weeks of the project was uh
was spent collecting the right data for
the project um so that's that's another
key uh
uh key feature of any data science
project sometimes you might have a lot
of clean data but it the data or the
features which you have just won't be
rich enough to uh or won't be relevant
to solving the problem some of them
might be some of them might not be so
then you'll need to go out
and collect more data and usually that
data is not clean so you'd have to
then spend some time actually cleaning
and preparing it so that's what we faced
and i think it gave me uh
gave me a real world experience because
in the in the six months that i've
worked in the current data science team
uh a lot of time goes into actually
preparing uh your data sets before you
can
start to do any data science work on it
so
uh yeah
i think that that was one experience uh
which which which prepared me for the
real world
absolutely david and again it's in line
with kind of your your
your goals as well wanting to join the
the energy uh industry as well so it
ties it nicely i suppose and and i
suppose that was a good example for you
to use uh when going for interviews and
speaking with employers as well
um
while we're on that topic of kind of
employment and and kind of
post-graduation as well uh ricardo's
asked uh did you encounter any problems
or anything in the way of finding a job
in england um he's putting back uh
brackets because of brexit well um since
the uk left brexit our students don't
actually qualify for a two-year working
visa as well so they are free to work in
the uk for two years uh without visa
requirements if they've graduated from a
uk institution but
maybe we could just touch on his main
bulk of the question which is
the um did you encounter any problems
with with your job search or any
setbacks
uh government was was definitely a
a tough one uh or i i at least i felt it
was it heavily impacted me as a student
with no prior work experience with
having really having had a full job
before and with a master's degree it was
a time where a lot of companies were
scaling down recruitment and wanted to
since they could try to pick they
preferred graduates which had work
experience so it was very hard to kind
of break in
um but you know perseverance persistence
gets you wherever you want to get you so
i eventually on
closing day of the maa program got uh my
my offer and science so it's a very nice
way to kind of end the program
brilliant and
for you david
um yeah i wouldn't say i was very much
affected because i had as alice
understand i had the prior work
experience
uh so i was able to at least use that
during my interviews
but there were definitely a lot less uh
positions out there like a lot of a lot
less job offers
um
so yeah in an ideal world uh you'd have
a lot more uh companies looking for data
scientists
but uh there were there were very few uh
job offers out there especially during
the initial part of the program and then
they started to pick up uh but yeah code
was the only thing that affected us i
don't think uh we were affected by
brexit at all
brilliant thank you both um we're
winding down a little bit in terms of uh
how much time we've got left but um
maybe for for the audience as well uh
just understanding um
was this a worthwhile investment for for
you studying the masters in analytics
and management it is a it is a big
investment i mean it's a it's a it's a
premium product right it's a top
business school and it's an investment
an investment in yourself and careers as
well but are you both satisfied with the
the investment looking back any any um
any regrets
i
100
highly satisfied definitely recommend
to anyone
who
fits their needs at once i wouldn't
recommend openly to anybody and everyone
to apply but i definitely think that
if
what you're looking for and if your
objectives align with what lbs has to
offer
i would highly recommend they do a
spectacular job
they deliver very you know high quality
premium products so
if that is what you're looking for
i would definitely recommend this
and and
exactly right alessandra this might be
the last opportunity for them to
undertake a master's degree at least a
full-time immersive study as well that
really kind of
adds to your network it really puts you
in
um in a good position for employment for
the rest of your career as well right so
i david anything else to to add from
alessandro though
um yep no not too much but yeah i think
it is it is very worth it mainly because
um you not only have that experience but
you also have the community and network
going forward uh to use for for the rest
of your life uh rest of your career uh
so i think uh if even
i got a lot of value out of the program
but i think i can still get a lot more
value out of the lbs community and
network uh
yeah in terms of uh meeting and talking
to uh lbs alumni when i if i'm thinking
of switching a career or
moving into a position that i haven't uh
that i'm not familiar with uh yeah so
definitely i think it it holds value for
life so uh if you if you have the means
to uh to pay for like a degree at lbs it
is a little expensive
uh but yeah definitely definitely think
of applying
fantastic
um and and one final question guys um
any tips or advice for for for our
audience today who who who do come and
attend london business school any advice
to kind of help them make the most out
of the experience here
yes
remember that
one of the reasons why you come is you
know you're here to learn but ultimately
if you're only here to develop hard
skills then
with a laptop and a library card you
probably have all the knowledge you want
in the world at your fingertips i
remember this is a course where you get
to meet other people you have a amazing
faculty your brilliant students you
would an abundance of experiences that
lbs and lbs od is able to offer so
episode advice is
go go learn and learn as much as you can
but remember that learning doesn't stop
what happens within the four walls of
the classroom
brilliant no really good advice
alessandro and david find anything
anything else to add
um yeah i think that was really good
advice from alexandre not too much but
i'd just say
also manage your time well
uh there'd be a lot of things to do uh
so
so definitely
um
definitely choose only the ones that
like truly mean something to you and
don't just
do something because everyone else is
is attending or doing doing that
there there are lots of things that you
can get involved with
uh but if you if you pick uh if you pick
uh too many responsibilities then you
won't be able to do any of them uh
well or you won't be able to do justice
to any of them so
um yeah pick wisely and and use your
time well it when you're at lps and
enjoy yourselves
absolutely well thank you so much david
and alessandro um pleasure speaking with
you today i've learned a lot about your
experiences and and um your time at
london business school as well and it's
always great to to welcome our alumni
back to to the community and yeah just a
big thank you again for your time um
obviously alessandra and david have
graduated and they're coming back to
obviously share their experiences and
insights so thank you guys so much
for coming here today as well i've
popped in the chat a couple of upcoming
events one tomorrow with the early
careers directors so the early careers
that the mam sits within the early
careers portfolio so there's some events
there that i've i've put into the the
chat as well if uh if you'd like to
learn more about the programs as well um
a final piece just if you will be sent
some uh event feedback as well if you
kindly
uh complete the event feedback that
would be fantastic
um i hope you've enjoyed today's events
as well um i definitely have and look
forward to seeing david and alessandra
on campus pretty soon uh but thank you
very much for attending and um look
forward to reviewing your applications
when you come to apply thank you
thanks thanks everyone
bye

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### In Conversation with London Business Schools Early Career Directors
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpA89wbbgg

Idioma: en

um hello and thank you for joining us
today i am delighted to be here to
welcome you to our community if you're
new around here um or just say hello
again if you have attended our events
before met us before um i hope you all
learned something new today
just to introduce myself my name is
sharya i'm one of the senior recruitment
and admissions managers who look after
early career programs i've been with the
school for
nearly four years now and i've enjoyed
every second working in this fantastic
team and also working with our brilliant
student groups and prospective student
groups as well i've made some of my best
friends of life from the lbs early
career alumni community as well so i
definitely feel very personally attached
to the programs so very happy to talk
more about these programs today um
so
if you want to know more about what lb
is about what early career programs
stand for you are at the right place
to whom would be better to ask these
questions than the people who have taken
a leadership role in designing
developing managing and recruiting for
these programs
so here i am thrilled to introduce you
to
all the panelists today so all of three
of our directors for early career
programs alex deborah and oliver so i'm
gonna hand over to alex just to
introduce herself and then one to one
after that
thanks so much shelia yeah my name is
alex i am the recruitment and admissions
director for the early career programs
i've been at london business school and
just over 10 years it's a place i
absolutely love and it's great to be
here today looking forward to answering
questions about your student journey and
whether you're at the beginning stages
of just finding out what business school
is or whether you are ready to apply as
we do have our stage four deadline today
so maybe some of you are listening in uh
to get some tips but i'll i'll hand over
to ali to introduce himself next
hi everyone good afternoon i'm
all depending on where you're based good
afternoon
i'm molly ashby i'm the program director
for the the nim the gmim and the mam
programs
i've been at lbs for about a year uh
just over a year and before that i
worked for the boston consulting group
in learning and development recruitment
i did some consulting as well
and then before that i uh i worked at a
london business school again
where i was here for about six seven
years worked in admissions
among other among other areas
um and i get my role as program
directors sort of divided into two main
areas one is is working with the
students and i'm helping manage the
student experience as you go through
your journey here and the other part is
working with the academic elements of
the program
um we continuously look and try and
improve our programs um as well as
working with the faculty to give you the
best possible
learning environment
so with that i will hand over to deborah
thanks ali
um so i've been at lbs for about two and
a half years in a couple of different
roles so i joined the school to
look after the finance open programs
executive open programs portfolio before
i transitioned into degree programs and
i currently
oversee both the masters in finance as
well as the mfa program
and prior to that my career background
has been mostly in corporate
uh in financial services in a variety of
different uh different hr related roles
and so very happy to be with you today
thank you all i'm sure you are sharing
and later on will be very very
insightful for all the audience in the
room so as you as i mentioned there will
be a q a at the end and so you can see
the q a function at the bottom of your
of the zoom screen so you can start
putting your questions in and upvote
questions that you think is most
relevant to you as well um so you can
start doing that now and we will go
through some conversations and in the
end we will pick up the questions that
you have
um so to everybody here today you might
be at different stages of your journey
with lbs
some of you might just started looking
about
graduate business education some of you
might have set your mind on lbs but not
decided yet on which easy programs
you're going for and some of you am i
just ready to go with your application
wherever you are you will find today's
session helpful as we will look at the
programs from a general point of view as
well as zooming in pun intended
to talk about the elements developments
and requirements of the programs
so why don't we start the session from a
general one which is a question i
personally got asked frequently so um a
question to all of our panelists what do
you think is the main value of our early
career programs at lbs what makes us
unique and wonderful
who wants to pick that out first
um i can pick up a couple of points i
think we could talk about that for quite
some time but maybe
um
sort of more generically i think
there's a couple of things that really
make us stand out as an early careers
program offering
one is is obviously that fact that as a
school we are very much
a community um we offer not just a
community within the lbs school
community but a community within early
careers so
if you come and join us on one of our
early careers programs you really will
be part of not only a very rich and
diverse global um lbs community but also
a a a a large and diverse
and exciting early careers community
because we have a number of early
careers programs mfa which i oversee and
then mam and the mim and the gmam which
ollie oversees
um i think another thing that makes us
really stand out with my mfa hat on is
our very strong main finance community
that we have at lbs um so we're known um
we really do have
a very strong finance ecosystem at the
school
and
traditionally we have um we are known in
the market as a strong finance school we
have outstanding expertise in the
finance subject area so we have faculty
who are world class
and bring a real depth of finance
expertise um and as an early career
student uh
proceeding with particularly the mfa but
even in the mim where you have some
finance over overlaps and in the mm
you really are in a great position to be
able to leverage off the expertise of
our faculty
and maybe i'll let the others share some
points as well um there's plenty to
share that helps set us apart
i think what deborah said was really um
really quite uh
rich that um all i'd add is i guess for
me there's a question that you know i
can imagine
you asking yourselves which is why would
i invest the money and the time
um both things which are precious to to
do this when maybe i could get a job and
i you know i could go and work or i
could do another master's program so i
think
when you get at lbs specifically
is is i think a very comprehensive
grounding whichever one of these early
career programs you take and i think
what happens is when you're accelerating
your career particularly in the early
stages many people would say whether you
choose a current finance consulting
industry or any business really even if
it's a startup the the learning curve is
very steep and i think what you get from
these programs such a wide toolkit of
skills both you know technical abilities
understanding of things like finance
accounting strategy you know
i think you know finance we're talking
about all of these courses but but also
the opportunity of doing electives as
well
and gives you a broad range of
understanding of business and i think
it's the intangible pieces as well that
we do at both inside and outside the
classroom with skills
understanding how to how to work with
work effectively within an organization
which really helps you accelerate that
career and i think those learnings what
we hear from our alumni these programs
continue quite long into the future so
it really is
it really is a long time investment for
your for your career
yeah i think these guys have both
covered a wealth of information so i
won't labor the point uh too much longer
but i really think it's the support that
you get at london business school as
well being a postgraduate only focused
institution our resources aren't perhaps
spread as thinly as maybe the you're out
at the moment or maybe some of the other
options you could be considering and
that support happens quite early in your
journey with us we have um already an
admitted student community that our
our admits are already a part of we're
already running events for them and each
other
their careers workshops will start
shortly even though they don't become
students with us until the august time
and i think that thread of support runs
all the way through your program both
deborah and ollie head up you know teams
with a lot of people there available to
help you we have the well-being support
also our community and alumni um network
are going to be there across your whole
journey so not just for this first stage
but as you progress um as well so yeah i
think all those things that both deborah
and ali touched on are true but i think
one of the things that maybe underpins
the community is the fact that it's it's
so supportive and we are very purposeful
in the community that we
strive to create which is a very
collaborative one
thank you so much and to all of our
panelists i think that what i agree with
all of these points whether it's a
professional network whether it's a
long-lasting alumni support group or
animist community before your journey
even started here community it really
and people is the word that stands out
every time when we talk about lbs and
your early career experiences
um
so maybe the next question is can we
break down into a bit more details and
stats probably um on what our peer group
is like what kind of um community our
early career students are expected to
study alongside
um yeah who whoever wants to come
forward well i'm happy to share what our
current community looks like our mfa
2022s
and so
in terms of the class the profile of the
current class
we
admitted 207 students
and we were thrilled that we had 42
female student representation
uh the average age of this year's cohort
is 22
and
we have 75 different nationalities
amongst that cohort so as you can see an
incredibly diverse
um
set of nationalities and the way the
programs work are
students are put in different streams
and also different study groups
throughout the the terms of the program
so you will get to not just organically
mix with your peers within the classroom
but also to in quite a structured
fashion work in different study groups
throughout your time at lbs where you'll
really forge some
very deep relationships with those
particular students who work within your
study groups i mean the community
within each of the
early career programs is obviously
really strong but as we mentioned
earlier as well
even across the early careers programs
there's a strong community and i'm sure
ollie will
share his stats in a minute um but we do
work very closely together so when you
attend for example electives um in your
second and third terms you will be in
the classroom with students actually not
just from other early careers programs
but from our mid-career programs and our
leadership programs so you'll be in the
room with students from all different
levels and be able to to learn from
those peers and they too will learn from
you and so that's just a bit of a
snapshot of mfa in particular and i'll
let ollie share some of his his stats
excuse me i was muting myself um yeah so
uh start ones i think uh deborah made
some great points there uh the current
uh nim class is
282 and that includes
um around 40
qmin students
and the genome is where
um this
unique program where the student's doing
a year at lbs and then a year um at
fudan getting uh getting a dual degree
and then on the masters in analytics and
management we currently have
68 students across all of our programs
we have
great uh female representation um
notable highlight and i believe that
school record 57
and we have a very broad range of
nationalities across all of our programs
and you know we're 92 non-uk across the
school um and
as deborah mentioned what you can expect
is a very diverse study group
um and then
typically students have up to two years
work experience across all of our
programs
um and and i think one of the one of the
key features i noticed is that we do
have a real range of people who've done
a couple of different internships some
people have done jobs so
even before the electives although that
splits out and gives a lot more
opportunity to diversify
um with the with the different you're
going right up to our sloan program
where people have can have 30 years of
experience even within the groups you do
get a mix of a mix of experiences
yeah and i think i would just um add
from my perspective it's obviously a
real privilege yeah yeah and i kind of
work at the the cold face of seeing all
the applications come through and we
really do read every
detail so do spend time and effort um
reflecting kind of who you are in those
applications some of the things i would
say our students have in common
regardless of whether they come from an
engineering background or they're a stem
student or they want to go into
consultancy is i would say they're all
driven all very motivated and all
incredibly passionate people so it
doesn't matter what that passion is what
that drive has been for you know whether
it's been academically whether it's been
you know you're you have a sport or an
instrument and you're a great leader of
a club i think you just need to
understand what your strengths are and
put those um forward but i think those
are some of the traits that we find in
common with our students and that's what
really drives the community aspect of
what we do forward because we've got
people that are kind of willing to
to give as much energy into their
academics as they are into building the
london business school community which
ultimately helps you and and the brand
thrive
so yeah that's why i add to that
thank you so much yes um i absolutely
agree with everything has been said i
have just recently talked to some alumni
from some top london corporates as well
and they're saying oh it's easy to
support lvs graduates and won their peer
groups because they are very keen on
taking on leadership very humble very
communicative and very very open-minded
and um willing to help to support and
it's very receptive to all the different
ideas as well i think a lot um of that
quality are thanks to the amazing
diversity that our community had um just
listening to deborah ali sharing those
um wonderful stats and also how we um
kind of select our candidates to make
sure that we have a organic and dynamic
class in place so um
although diversity is probably on
inclusion on all schools agenda or
organizations gender now but diversity
really is a living and breathing
principle at lbs where we put into
practice every day so i want to focus on
that and probably just ask our panelists
to talk um to highlight some of the
diversity inclusive inclusion
initiatives at lbs probably from the rna
point of view also program office point
of view
actually we are in this rare and lucky
position to be
one of the most and particularly when
you become a student
um in a probably a a diverse environment
like which you have never been in and
will um well although they come close in
the future probably won't ever be quite
as diverse
and so our belief is that we need to
harness and make the most of that
experience while here
building connections going forward um
but also it is our belief
as a school that that diversity and
inclusion
is is really at the heart of what what
building
and
and helping future leaders grow is all
about
and we see that right the way through to
our corporate partners and those
employers who are recruiting our
graduates is that they know when they
come to london business school that
they're understanding that we're
embracing uh a strong diversity and
inclusion agenda among those those
graduates who go forward and
and
act
very much in the way
in their in their future careers and so
practically speaking
there's a number of different ways
you'll experience this at the business
school one is through the student
organized activities actually in which
there are many so shortly coming up
we'll be having tattoo on campus which
is a wonderful
festival of celebration of all of the
many different cultures that we have at
london business school where people
with pride
display that their cultural heritage is
and it really
brings brings campus to life it's really
nice to be able to do that live again
after the pandemic
and
as well as that
across
across um the clubs that we have there's
lots of different nationalities based
clubs celebrating different different
nationalities
um from a program perspective you'll
experience skill sessions um and
teaching that really uh it seeks to
emphasize the value of the diversity we
have so even the way that we build the
study groups are designed to
maximize the diversity because the
reality is that the future we know what
we see in business and what our faculty
research
tells us is that is that we're going to
be working in ever more diverse global
teams as we go forward and our
understanding to
our ability to understand the preach
appreciate cultural nuances is going to
be core to us being um being future
leaders and also
um
also
working effectively as part of teams to
get things done um and as a school we
continue to work on and have very uh
strict policies around diversity
inclusion to protect every member of our
community to make sure everyone is able
to belong and thrive um and everyone
feels that they're involved in the
school both socially but also
academically and everybody's voice can
be heard from whatever cultural
background you come from and whether
it's any of the many diversity pillars
that um we celebrate at london business
school and it's really very much at the
core of what we believe
yeah maybe from a recruitment and
admissions perspective i can just add uh
to ollie's answer
yeah it is an incredibly diverse
community and i think that's something
london business school has pretty much
in certainly in my tenure which is over
10 years now has certainly always
embraced in terms of its its global
diversity i do think that that is also
um being shaped in recruitment and
emissions by seeking different types of
diversity as well so it's not enough
just to make people culturally aware and
build these great nationalities we also
have to ensure that we are providing an
inclusive environment where people with
different sexual orientations can thrive
people from different socioeconomic
backgrounds can thrive and belong at lbs
i think that's something that is at the
forefront of the recruitment and
admissions um agenda and something that
we work with our colleagues in
advancement who secure funding to
support scholarships so maybe i'll just
highlight one scholarship and that we
have that kind of speaks to this so in
the masters in management program
we have a portfolio um of laid law
scholarships they also support our mba
and executive mba students but they are
scholarships exclusively for women and
from financial need backgrounds to give
to support them with a full fee and to
come to london business school because
that's something that's important to us
and resonates um with our values and the
laid law scholarship foundation values
as well and that we want to be able to
reflect a greater diversity and a more
inclusive
environment at london business school so
yeah that we're able to fund for
for females with financial need to come
through to the masters of management
program every year and it's a real
privilege to be able to share their
stories but also through our other
diversity scholarships such as out in
business and black in business i think
it's where we really
get to understand you know the true
diversity and inclusivity that we're
fostering here and those people in turn
you know just strengthen our community
and add to the richness and
understanding that there is at london
business school
thank you um
deborah is it all all covered okay cool
um
thank you for all the answers i can see
quite a few questions have already come
in and really good questions as well
we're definitely touched upon those um
later on in our session
um so we have look at the school the
community and from the more broader view
and now let's just take a closer look at
the programs itself i can see a couple
of questions that are actually asking
about the program um some about the
global immersion field trip oh one one
of them asked about london business
challenge week specifically to deborah
as well um
so much has have changed over the past
few years but now just moving as british
society and into a kind of post pandemic
world um can you probably deborah and
ollie can you share a bit more on the
program development some of these um
highlights of the program people are
most curious mostly curious about and
what's your
overview of the programs
sure thanks i will go first and talk a
little bit to mfa um again you know i
won't be able to cover everything and
i'll take a view that
most of you have some high level
understanding of the program um
so i'll just touch on some key elements
that i think
would be useful
i think one of the things that really
sets the mfa apart is that
not only does it of course give you a
really solid grounding in the latest
financial tools markets obviously you
know a very strong theoretical and
academic focus
um in all the sort of technical courses
and capabilities that you would expect
from a world-class financial
master's specialist finance master's
program
but what really sets our mfa apart is
the
fact that we very much balance the
theory of the program with practice and
real life business exposure
and how we do this so the practical
elements you will see come through
throughout the the euro that you would
be here with us
um and that would be from various
practitioners who will come and speak
with your faculty and your in your core
and elective courses and we have
seminars we have workshops uh we have
practical simulations and tutorials um
so you'll not only sort of dig deep into
the theoretical pieces but you'll
actually get a chance to apply these
because we know that you know you're all
really smart and all our mfa students
are super smart but what we really want
to prepare you for is we really want you
to be ready for this world-class career
in finance we want you to be able to
step off the program and into the
workplace so we need to make sure when
we do make sure that we combine sort of
traditional theory
and traditional classroom time with
applied learning and practical learning
um and we believe in our alumni i
believe and employers believe that we do
that very successfully um here at lbs
and um that's not just the case for the
mfa program i know it's the case with
with ali's um
with the other early careers programs as
well
so that's a really important piece um
for us and something we pride ourselves
on
the other way that we help um students
to become uh
you know more ready for the world of
work is through some real world business
exposure and across both the uh
all the early careers programs we do as
i'm sure most of you know we have our
global immersion field trip so our gifts
and these are combined so it's another
area where you'll collaborate and
network with your other early careers
peers um and
they're week-long trips to various
destinations with a particular focus or
theme depending on the destination and
we had three gifts take place last week
and the students came back and we saw
some of them today all incredibly
excited uh yes they are they are a lot
of fun and a great opportunity to travel
but they are grounded in in learning
and so you'll attend with a faculty
member or sometimes two
and it is an experiential learning trip
um and you will get to choose which one
you go on um and you'll be able to elect
um from uh
you know your top three
uh that you'd like to go on and they go
in various different places every year
this year we've done
seven for our early career students so
dubai i hope i can get them all right
dubai texas san francisco um berlin
milan
uh stockholm and
uh i can't remember there is another one
um
so but it's you can see it all on on uh
our website i'm sure
and obviously we're thrilled because
we've been able to do those um in person
and now that you know the world has
sort of
come to a point where where travel is
allowed again and it has become easier
so the gifts are obviously a really big
highlight for many students
on the mfa in particular and i know
someone's asked a question about it we
have the london business challenge week
which is a week-long experiential
learning component of the mfa program
and what happens there is students will
work on a real-life business problem so
you work in groups actually different
groups to your normal study group so we
get another chance to diversify who
you're working with and you get to
choose which project and which company
you'll work with and you'll work on a
real life business project um and
challenge for a leading finance company
or a company who's
working in the finance industry and they
will be london based and you'll get to
apply the learnings from your core
courses from your skills courses and to
develop some solutions that will have a
real world impact and and students learn
a lot from this week uh not only the
hard technical skills that you'll apply
but also the software and self
leadership group management networking
client consulting uh skills that you'll
learn in that week and it's absolutely
the highlight as we've been told again
by this year's cohort who completed
the business challenge week last month
that this was a highlight for them it
was the highlight of the program
so
um we'll be excited to deliver that
again next year um and i guess the other
thing i would point out about the mfn
feel free to ask more specific questions
is
um our professional skills that we do
deliver on the program so as i mentioned
previously we really aim to equip you
well for the world of work we regularly
engage with employers and with the you
know the corporate and organizational
sector who we know are employers
of our graduates to understand what are
those key professional
skills that our students need um to
really set them apart
in the world of work and we do deliver
that
you'll have a number of things to choose
from so they as an example on mfa you'll
have a portfolio of digital skills
that you can choose from so um depending
on your background you may have done
python and therefore you don't want to
do more python you'll have a choice to
do something else say tableau
you know there'll be a choice of
different digital skills and that will
be able to be
relevant to to your needs
so i don't want to take all the time on
this question but i think those were the
key things that i thought um to really
to really highlight in the the mfa
thanks
so yeah i i'll pick up again i'm not um
the curriculums are both very busy so
i'm not going to go through absolutely
all of it and like deborah i'm going to
pick up a few pieces i think
starting with the the mim um which uh
has it has evolved over time but um what
i think is key with the mim is that
we're providing this very solid
grounding some of the key aspects of
business as well as developing your
skills
and and also working on your employment
prospects as you go through the course
without one
a couple of things that we do on the
program is
these two integrated modules and an
integrated module essentially between
one the first and one in the second term
and they're a group project whereby you
really try and consolidate the learning
that you've done
in those terms and bring on projects and
bring them together so the most recent
integrated module the second one was all
around um gender parity pay parity and
why
um that's such a challenge that's not
being very well achieved uh globally
currently um
whichever country it's it's not going
well it's some very interesting projects
and i was in the presentations for those
recently and they were uh some very
creative solutions and
and reports that were created by
students
we just kicked off the london lab
now london lab is essentially a
consulting project for a real
client
and we have a range of clients that's
facilitated by our faculty and actually
i i think this is so so valuable you're
coming from a consulting background
ultimately
it doesn't matter whether you want to
work in consulting or not but everyone
has some kind of client management
well
whether you whether you are entitled
whether that's your title or not
whatever industry you're in and some of
the the kickoff session with the faculty
yesterday was teaching
uh really interesting just basic but
very effective problem solving
techniques she had a background from
mckinsey as a partner there for 15 years
and i think that what she was saying is
such a valuable life skill and business
skill around how to break down a problem
structure upon them what to do about the
hurdles as you get there and how you
come into a solution so they take that
out and then work on teams of real
real client projects and that value
lasts i think long into the future
i think deborah really covered the gifts
which is to say i think that's a
highlight that students pick out and
gives that gives the opportunity to
really
get um get your hands dirty in another
culture which which i know our students
find
um and then all i would add on the man
program because i'm conscious of time is
is the real ethos of that program is to
combine
these technical analytical skills
with business in a way that i actually
think is quite unique in the marketplace
um
and and certainly i think is a huge gap
in terms of what organizations are
struggling with and and quite
interesting
what the program does is combine i think
some of the core coding techniques which
are used in business and i sort of used
in business as well as some of the more
modern cutting-edge techniques like
machine learning
and and neural networks and these kind
of concepts now it may be that in a year
you're not going to be a machine
learning expert but actually what i saw
is a huge value of the fact that there's
a lot of
a lot of the business world is somewhat
disconnected between people who are
technically
able to do certain things and people who
are not and and there's a gap in between
where people aren't able to
really communicate or understand
um how these projects are working so
even if
the goal of that machine learning is
just to really understand how machine
learning works how long it takes how how
these
how these pieces of um
of
computing are designed
there's a great value for how you take
that forward so
so the mam combines this bridge um
wonderfully but with this top leading
business school piece as well so
you you as well we've got for example
the faculty who are teaching
on the coding are top um
phd uh
researchers in some of these fields are
some of the top with backgrounds from
some of the top technical schools in the
world combined with your london business
school
you know world-class experience in
business and accounting finance strategy
and economics which i think makes it
quite a formidable
program
thank you ali yes definitely agree um
mam is a relatively
new program it has been out but our
cohort has received fantastic
career results this year and obviously
what the skills and content you get
taken away from the program will have a
long lasting impact on your future so if
you're interested definitely look for
more content on this as well as
for mim and mfa and gm program
and so i think my next question is to
alex
after hearing all these exciting
features and elements of the programs
i'm sure pretty much our audience
is amped up for applying as we can see
from the q a session as well and some of
them are at the stage where they're
applying for this year later rounds and
some of them are still looking to put
together their application for next year
so what would you say are your
advice for them um to how to put
together um how to do their research
better and put together a stronger
application to increase their rates of
success
thanks sharya yeah it's a really good
question and i think one people always
want to understand how they how can they
put their best uh foot forward i think
research is probably the absolute key
and number one thing i would put here
research on london business school of
course and but also other schools that
you're applying to really understand
where you fit and why it's okay we
understand you'll see other people and
we're fine with that we want you to go
to a school that is going to be a best
fit for you and i think the only way you
can really understand that is if you
come to sessions like this to really get
an understanding of what the program's
going to offer you but it is a highly
practical course if that's something
you're looking for we could be a great
match and there are other schools that
will offer you different things and
different durations um in program as
well and they'll have a different
community
aspect and feel to them so get an
understanding of where it is you want to
be it's a real big investment
of time of money and essentially you
know this future brand will stay with
you
for life really it's going to be on your
cv it will probably be you know your
headline of your education unless you go
on to go on to get an mba so you want
somewhere that you feel reflects you and
that you reflect uh where you've been as
well so yeah research your institutions
and and why you want to do the program i
would say reflection is probably the
second point i would say there reflect
on
why the program for you why are you
really motivated to do it at this point
in time does it make sense for your
goals if you're not sure what your goals
are how are you going to get there what
is this the right gap and to fill that
as well and self reflect on your profile
again use your own network
and you'll have people at your undergrad
that you've probably talked to if you've
done internships you know
what schools of people that you're
working for been to do you admire them
are they someone you want to to emulate
get their feedback and advice as well i
think a lot of uh the feedback we get
from candidates is that the
although our application process there's
quite a lot of depth to it it really
gave them time to reflect on why they
were really motivated to do the program
and it also helped them prepare for
professional interviews as well because
they had done that deep introspection
and it made them really map out their
goals and their next steps so
yeah research reflection i feel like i
should have a third one because things
should just come in in threes um
as well but yeah i think
those are probably my top two tips i
think also
being aware that it is a very holistic
process you know just because you have a
top grade it is not going to get you
into the program a great gmat will
complement a really strong profile but
it's not going gonna overwrite you know
elements of your
your history or what you've done today
so do take do you pay equal attention to
everything we're asking you and do
network with the community where
possible as well so you get an
understanding if these are the people
that you you want to join um and be
around but yeah don't don't feel like
there's one area of the application you
have to
emphasize and look at over another it's
all equally important and we really want
to understand your history so if you
feel like there's a bad grade or
something in your past that maybe it's
not your best moment and don't shy away
from talking about it don't try and
cover it up you know we will see that
and we want to understand why that's
made you who you are
today so
equal strength across different things
of course people then maybe get worried
that they have to have a great test
score or a first class degree and that's
certainly not the case we are looking
and said before for people that are
really motivated really driven and
really passionate and we want to see how
you you've channeled that energy and
it's not all about getting the number
one um output great if you have been
able to but if you haven't that's also
fine
as well so those would be my tips
thank you alex i definitely echo with
the holistic approach we're having here
what we got asked a lot which i can see
in a q a session is whether this element
of my application will boost or hinder
the whole um material the whole document
pack it's
absolutely
all always kind of as one part of the
application but not um not one element
can decide there um we always look at
every aspect we want to know you as you
and know your entire story as well so do
come across as a
interesting unique driven individual
rather than just um stats and um generic
research
um
okay so i think um we have quite a few
questions
lining up before we break into q a i
think my last question will be to um
ollie and deborah um just looking a bit
further down the line we always get the
feedback from our students once they
join the program or in the summer
they wonder what they should be doing to
prepare their life at lbs moving to a
new country as well as most of our
cohort is international and also just
when they started some of them might
find oh everything is a bit overwhelming
because so from loaded so i would like
to use this opportunity to to um refer
to you um
to give some advice on the incoming
class or the people who potentially can
get an offer from us what can they do to
better prepare their life what should
they be looking at and what support we
have at the program
um i think there's a couple of things so
we will start communicating with
students quite early on so from about i
think end of june
um
and i would strongly recommend that you
read the emails that start coming from
the program office they'll be in the
form of
initial bulletins they'll come on a
regular basis and that will give
students the
pre-programmed courses that we expect
them to do some of the reading that they
need to do it's not an enormous amount
of work um you know in total gosh i
wouldn't want to put a stake in the
ground but it shouldn't take you more
than a couple of days to work through
that before you come physically come
here for your orientation but it will
well prepare you for your time here some
will be compulsory so you'll need to
make sure you do do them um and some of
these are pre
tech pre courses for some of your
technical core courses that you'll do
here they'll be online um
obviously some of you are already on the
meat platform so you know keep engaged
there and you get to know each other and
but definitely look out for the program
communications from the program office
so that you feel quite well prepared um
and maybe to you know relax a little bit
because once you get here it's all
systems go and the first term in
particular the autumn term
is incredibly intense on all three
programs so yeah make sure you carve out
enough time to see your friends and
family before you move to to london and
and start your very exciting year with
us
ali i'm not sure if you have anything
else to add in terms of what they can do
i think you put it in you put it very
nicely i just say very simple that what
we love to see and what our job is to
create this
learning environment which we think is
special and and somewhat unique so
there'll be some as deborah except for
all of these programs there'll be some
prep and we would advise you to do it
because it'll make the landing a little
bit softer when you join but i think
mostly in my experience as a program
director all i would say is enjoy
enjoy the time you have before but then
when you do these programs when you get
on really make the most of the time you
have we live in this environment where
you can sit on a call or attend a class
and use your phone and use your laptop
now like it's very difficult for me to
stop people doing this whether it's in
any context but i'd say really think
about you you know take the time you
have before you join but then when you
join
or my advice to you is is is be prepared
to really engage with 100 of your
attention in your effort um because
you know if you're always looking to get
onto the next thing looking to get the
next job
you'll find you'll be successful
everyone that comes here is very
motivated and successful
it would be a shame that
you missed some opportunities along the
way
whilst looking for the next one so all i
would say is
um yeah as deborah said relax but um
just be prepared and and
in the mindset of really
making the most of the experience that
you have
yes um thank you so much i think just
one quick thing probably mentioned from
my side is um
if you do find the the course intense um
it's okay to ask for help ask for
support we have well-being service team
on campus and it's some something that
you can start preparing mentally um to
build their resilience also when you
come to the course you have a wonderful
peer support group as well as the
program office to be with you so if you
do find yourself struggle at any second
definitely reach out to us don't worry
that you think you're not at your
hundred percent all the time
um so
as i we we can see we have quite a few
questions lined up i think i'll just
direct that to our panelists to get to
them so i think the first question i'm
gonna pick up is um
there are several ques several people
asking about the timeline of their
application so i think i'll just ask
alex about this what what do you think
um they can do if they want to apply
now what they can do to give that last
push to their application and what about
the people who are still at early stage
looking to apply it next year what they
can do to prepare for that application
great thanks shalia i think if you're
looking to apply now i mean we have our
penultimate deadline today maybe this
moment is not the exact right one for
you we then do have a a deadline um on
at the end of may as well our final
deadline of the year if you do happen to
be applying today i've had a few
linkedin messages from people saying i
am what can i do i think have a you know
have a last read of your application
give it to someone else just get you
know a final set of eyes on it and be
happy that you're putting your best foot
forward i think applying in the the last
round is very tough and we have to be
honest about that by stage five we are
not talking about the same um volumes or
numbers of places available that were
available at the start of the year and
we don't necessarily reserve a certain
amount of places till the end so it does
get very competitive in the later stages
so you really do have to put in a quite
a competitive
application you will have to pay a lot
of attention
to detail um
and yeah we are looking to you know fill
gaps maybe of profiles that we don't
necessarily have in the class um
up till date that said you know we will
operate a um a wait list and a waiting
list as we get towards the commencement
of the program so it's not to say that
you have no chance at all we do make
offers
at a late stage but it is more
competitive and some people leave it to
the last round because they've exhausted
maybe their job opportunity
options as well so i'd say that's
something for those looking to apply
next year consider sort of simultaneous
applications if you are thinking of a
masters but you're still hedging your
bets on you know a job offer
look at pursuing the two different
avenues you may be able to defer your
master's offer maybe not here it's not
something we offer automatically and but
you may be able to defer your job offer
or it might just be a summer internship
that then doesn't convert so say um make
sure you've got your options open if you
are considering the different avenues
because the more options you have
available more choices the more you can
kind of drill down and make um
the best decision but i think if you've
got time ahead of you spend that time
from now on um you know engaging with
the community we've got our ambassador
profiles on the website a lot of people
use linkedin because they want to talk
to people you know who've tried on the
same path as them and so yeah reach out
engage look out for other events that
coming up like our student perspectives
if you're around in the uk as well we
have talk and tours that happen uh
monthly on campus or if it doesn't quite
fit in with your dates drop us an email
anyway and we'll we'll see what we can
do
thank you alex i think next question i'm
gonna ask
deborah as there are a few people
talking about applying to mfa um
thinking about having a finance career
in the uk um
from your point of view because you
worked in corporate you worked in talent
acquisition so you probably know um have
a lot of to to advise our candidates how
do they kind of um shape their cv you
have just mentioned that it's not only
important for their admissions interview
also for their graduate recruitment
process as well so just want to ask a
deborah what do you think advice what
kind of advice you can give for people
thinking about mfa how do they prepar
prepare their cv now what research what
job um what work they should start doing
yeah i mean that would more be our
career center giving that sort of advice
um sorry so i didn't haven't actually
worked in talent acquisition and
the talent development side of things
but um
yeah um i probably defer to them to
answer some of that um but yeah i mean
obviously we do look for for students
with some quantitative background that's
important so and up to two years of work
experience um what you could
do now and if you have taken some
internships obviously that's important
or being able to have some kind of broad
breadth of experience across um
some quantitative finance fields or
projects would be really helpful
thank you deborah um
and
there are also questions on how they can
um
regarding the community contribution
which i have emphasized so much uh
and then
emphasized so much in our previous
questions um
what probably i'll ask this question to
ollie what kind of um
contribution we look for when student
come to campus how would we want to see
them play an active
active role in engaging with the
community
yeah i think it's an important question
it sort of ties into what i was saying
before and and how you what we look for
you know what deborah and i and our
roles really care about is how you show
up
to both the classroom and the school and
and that's a combination of what you do
because you can't do everything right so
i think i think what's
what i would be mindful of is
is is important to contribute to the
community in a way that's both its
reciprocal so
um you're giving something and maybe
you're getting something out of it i
would always start at the first point
with anything reciprocal like that is
that you're you're you know getting off
getting on board and helping so with
clubs or extracurricular activities um
but then
in the
in the classroom
i think this is vital from what we see
which is
you could be at you could be a passive
passenger in the classroom whereby
you're sort of not fully engaged you're
not getting the most out of it and
therefore you're neither adding value
for your own experience but also others
in the classroom or you can be an active
contributor where you're
being a great team member a great study
group member you're helping your study
groups um
you're taking on work and you're
engaging with the professors and and i
cannot i can tell you now
that the students especially the ones at
the moment the students who are
who are
um the most engaged the most
connected
and doing the most you know not doing
everything because actually there's a
risk in that you know you over extend
yourself but who are really switched on
engaged are not only performing the best
academically
um but also getting the best career
opportunities are going to make get the
most value of their lasting experience
so i think
that element is kind of core for your
applications but really also called
thank you so much ollie i think those
are very important points for our
prospective students to take in um i
think there is we have probably time for
one last question which i'm gonna um
probably ask alex um someone has
mentioned about scholarship you have
talked about scholarship
previously so maybe can you tell um us a
bit more about mary scholarship and what
other kind of financial aid
opportunities we can get um to secure
their
their position as a postgraduate student
yeah absolutely thanks sharya yeah each
of the programs we're talking about
today has its own scholarship portfolio
and we're really lucky to be able to to
fund that through the school so that's
through alumni and donors that our teams
attract um so yeah we have different
scholarships and the majority of them
being merit-based scholarships and merit
isn't just your grade so please don't
think of it as just getting a first
class or just getting a 760 gmat it
really is about your you know your whole
application your motivation
for the school as well and the impact we
think you can have um at lbs generally
merit scholarships
are around a third
of the tuition fees so
some of the bigger scholarships i spoke
about earlier like laid law
who that do cover full fees are
that we do have them but they're not as
um we don't have as many of them as we
have our merit scholarships which are
around 15 000
pounds so quite a significant amount of
funding towards the program we do have
some application-based scholarships
where possible we try not to put
barriers um to you to the scholarships
but in some cases it's necessary
particularly around some of the
diversity-led
scholarships or ones where we want to
understand your financial need so it
isn't just scholarships based on merit
we have bursaries available that support
those that have more of a financial need
aspect
as well and as well as supporting
candidates from underrepresented
groups so the out in business
scholarship i think i mentioned earlier
which we award across all the early
careers programs there's more than one
so we always welcome applications from
candidates for those about supporting um
our club here as an lgbtq
plus
candidate and we also have a black and
business uh scholarship for those that
come from a black or um black ethnic uh
background because that's a very
underrepresented group at london
business school but it also ties in with
how you can support the black and
business club whose aims are to
obviously promote our candidates going
out into the wider world and their
careers and climbing the ladder but also
in attracting that talent into london
business school as well the things i
would say about scholarships is you know
they they don't come for free we do
expect our candidates to put the effort
in and to strengthen our scholars
community and you know the incoming
classes as well and really be part of
that
attraction process
thank you so much alex and that brings
an end to today's session thank you
everyone who's on the panel for your
wonderful invite and thank you for
everyone who attended the event and
hopefully you have taken something very
useful away and so you can put forward a
stronger application
um i have put down our recruitment um
contact details but you'll get a
follow-up email as well we will um
send you a questionnaire about today's
session so please do fill in that that
will help us so much on
providing better
content better format of the events
going forward so thank you panelists and
thank you for everyone who's standing in
today and
continue your research get in touch with
the team we're more than happy to answer
questions um there are some more
specific questions to personal profiles
we have upcoming q a with the admissions
team it's on the website event page so
definitely sign up for those if you have
more specific questions
so bye for now and um
see you in the future hopefully bye
thank you very much bye thank you

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