The PGP application has a separate section to showcase one’s awards and activities in different facets of his or her life. These help us understand how your passion has influenced you in taking up pursuits that really matter to you, what role you played in pursuing these meaningful opportunities, and how your contribution created a positive impact. Awards and achievements are an independent recognition of your ability to excel and rise above your peers, while activities show commitment and initiative, which are characteristics of a well-rounded personality.
In your application, you will see the below sections in the “Awards and Activities” page. The details you provide for any of these could be drawn from your experiences in Academia, Profession, Sports, Fine Arts, Social Service, or any other areas. Here are some ideas on what you can showcase in each of them:
Awards
You can talk about any significant activities for which you have received formal awards or recognition, along with details and the year in which you received them. Patents are also recognised as important awards. The details you provide here will help us understand your achievements and gives us some idea of what you can bring to the school as well as your peer group.
Extracurricular Participation
Here, you could share details of any other significant extracurricular activities that you participated in, even those that you did not receive any awards or recognition for. The nature of the activity, the level of the event (school level, state level, international, etc) and the duration of your involvement will help us learn about your commitment to things apart from daily tasks in school or work.
Activities
Here, you can talk about activities where you held a position/office of responsibility, such as Secretary of an association, Director of a council, Volunteer, etc. These will help us assess your leadership abilities and potential, teamwork skills and how you can add value to the class. Once again, the duration of your involvement will be of interest to us.
Current Hobbies
There may be some activities you participate in purely out of interest or passion. These could be sports, theatre, arts, adventure, lifestyle, other intellectual pursuits like special interest groups, specific reading habits, etc, or anything else in general. These help us to learn more about you as an individual.
ISB PGP students are expected to have well-rounded personalities and not be limited to excelling in only one dimension, like studies or work. Your awards and activities show us your track record of investing in your self-development. They also give us confidence that you will fit in well with your peers, along with whom you will be participating in myriad activities as part of the PGP. If you are wondering what these activities are and why they are absolutely central to your one-year transformation, read my previous post, The Emphasis on Extracurricular Activities at ISB.
All the best!
Sir,
This is regarding the placement report. Currently, in the placement reports the recruiters/offers/pay packages are classified by industry and by function separately. It is difficult to understand what kind of roles are offered by each industry in this way.
It would be more informative if ISB could also report all the functions offered under each industry and their details (like number of offers, recruiters, pay packages etc.)
I sincerely request ISB to provide such information through the placement reports or through one of these blogs.
The purpose of the report is to give as much information as possible. We will try and have your suggestion incorporated, but please note that we will not be able to disclose individual recruiter details like no of offers, salary, etc as these may be confidential to the recruiter and/or the students receiving the offers. Aggregate information is already available in our report. Information on the kinds of positions our students are offered are already in the public domain (for e.g., you can check LinkedIn profiles of ISB PGP alumni).
Dear sir,
I have already submitted my application around mid of July 2013 and for some project work i would be required to travel abroad around first or second week of October for around 2 months. I want to avoid skype interviews if shorlisted and prefer to have a face to face interview.
When I called up the admissions team to schedule my interview before first week of October, if shorlisted, then I was told to contact once I receive an Intreview shortlist mail from ISB. Just consider that if I receive the shorlist mail for the Interview onj or after first week of October then how will I be able to prepone it.
Can’t it be possible that the admissions team can accept the time period even before I am shorlisted and if shorlisted then they can schedule my Interview accordingly. Since I had already submitted my application in Mid of July so I feel that the application might have already got reviewed or may be reviewed by September 15th. Please suggest as to what shoudl I do
Dear sir,
May I please request you to kindly resolve my above query and provide me with some alternative.
Regards,
Priya
Please write to apphelp@isb.edu and we will take care of it. Note that in this case the interview will be in Hyderabad only if shortlisted.
Thank you Sir
Dear Sir,
I am an R2 applicant. In our college, there is no particular certificate given to Society Heads etc. What should I do in order for proof of such a responsibility. During our placement process, our resume is verified and cross-checked by the placement committee by checking with the various society heads for a list of various current members. Hence we never needed a formal certificate. Would a signed letter from a senior member of the society do as proof?
Thanks for your assistance!
That will do.
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