Week 17 at Ivey

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Get connected week ended up keeping me busy the entire week as opposed to my expectations of a long break from class work. Well deserved holiday: Civic holiday arrived on Monday but I ended up falling busy preparing for the Tuesday’s cases. I expect the next two months to dreadfully load us with regular casework, job search (major consulting and finance companies interview cycles fall during this period), new venture project/Ivey consulting project, club leadership and Ivey MBA association senator-ship activities. Three more weeks, and we should be done with our Module two. Time flies by and there has been zero time to relax. The September 2009 cohort is all set to graduate in two weeks and the incoming September folks have their pre-MBA program starting this Monday. There are also a whole lot of events planned by our cohort for the new comers during the next couple of weeks.

 

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Week 16 at Ivey: Get connected week

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Get connected week has been more than productive exposing us to a variety of networking events and mock interview sessions. Following below is an outline of my get connected week experience. Do note that there were sessions from other companies during the week and those mentioned below are just the ones that I took part.

Monday

04:30 AM: Alarm goes off

06:00 AM to 09:00 AM: In transit from London to Toronto

09:15 AM: Arrive at the Ivey ING Leadership centre, Toronto

09:15 AM to 10:00 AM: Breakfast and registration

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM: Keynote address by Mark Healey (partner at Torque strategy and incoming Chairof the Ivey Alumni Association Board of Directors)

01:00 PM to 03:00 PM: Consulting - Inside Edition, a panel discussion where representatives from different consulting companies provided insights on consulting careers. The panel consisted of members from BCG, AT Kearney, Surje and Monitor.

03:30 PM to 05:00 PM: Hotel Checkin

05:00 PM to 06:30 PM: AT Kearney Networking event

07:00 PM onwards: Networking night at C-lounge where 72 Ivey MBAs connected with over 125 recruiters and alumni

Tuesday

10:00 AM to 11:30 AM: Life beyond e-Zone, a session on hidden market Job search strategies outside the Ivey bubble

12:00 PM to 02:00 PM: Sales vs. Marketing the great debate

02:30 PM to 04:00 PM: Meeting with my first Alumni Partner who worked with Microsoft as a strategy consultant and currently partnering his own consulting firm

06:00 PM to 07:30 PM: Johnson and Johnson information session

Wednesday

08:00 AM to 10:00 AM: Monitor group networking event

12:00 PM to 04:00 PM: Trip to CN tower

06:00 PM to 07:30 PM: Deloitte Consulting information session

Thursday

08:00 AM to 10:00 AM: BCG information session

01:30 PM to 02:00 PM: Informational interview, CIBC’s Technology Leadership Associate Program

04:00 PM to 04:45 PM: Mock behavioral interview with Ivey alumni from Accenture

04:45 PM to 05:30 PM: Mock interview with Ivey Career management member

06:00 PM to 07:30 PM: McKinsey networking event

Friday

09:00 AM to 11:00 AM: Meeting with my second alumni partner who is the CEO and president of Scott Mission, a not for profit organization in Toronto.

01:00 PM to 02:00 PM: Visit to the Oracle’s office at Mississauga and meeting with old contacts

02:00 PM to 03:00 PM: Meeting with undergraduate alumni who works for Capgemini consulting

Saturday

Trip to Niagara Falls

Sunday

03:30 PM to 04:30 PM: Meeting with my third alumni partner who works with McKinsey

06:30 PM to 09:00 PM: In transit from Toronto to London

 

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Week 15 at Ivey

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The cases were getting tougher and tougher and all the students were in full swing preparing for the Get connected week, the following week. I was busy emailing and touching base my alumni partners, old Oracle contacts and a few recruiters to snatch informational interview opportunities during the week at Toronto. We also had mock-interview sessions from Career management and the Ivey consulting club. Personally, I found the feedbacks to be extremely useful.

 

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Week 14 at Ivey

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Week 14 was the toughest week at Ivey thus far. In addition to the regular case studies, we had a finance quiz, an individual report assignment on evaluating the strategy of an organization where I worked previously, Accounting mid-term 40 hour report, Electives information session, Finance Club’s sessions on investment banking, equity research, asset management, private equity, and hedge fund, MBAA Executive speech and elections, May cohort case competition information session, and consulting club’s market entry/pricing session and case interview preparation sessions. Whew!!! There arrived the well deserved weekend - not to take a deep breath and relax, but to catch up on missed notes and prepare for the following week’s cases.

 

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Week 13 at Ivey

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Week 13 has been quite a busy week with tough cases and all three courses (Strategy, Finance and Accounting) seemed to relate to each other one way or the other. Every class seemed to build on the previous classes’ concepts and a miss was more than costly. In addition to regular case load, we had a student led Q&A session for get connected week, Ivey consulting project session, career management individual appointments with career managers, information session on the Calgary Recruiting trip, finance club interview preparations, financial technical training (IBI) sessions and a session on professional dressing from Channer, London.

 

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Week 12 at Ivey

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Second week of module 2 started off with the e-Bay case building the foundational platform for strategic analysis. The consulting club has been conducting weekly case-interview clinics and on Monday, we had a workshop on Case Types. On Tuesday, we did a finance case that prepared us for the use of monthly cash budgets and pro forma (projected) financial statements using Excel spreadsheets. Personally, I find Prof. Hatch’s classes (finance) to be incredibly well rounded. Not only does he facilitate the cases expertly, but also expose us to a wide variety of miscellaneous topics and news items. Tuesday’s Classes ended with an accounting issue (case) where we analyzed the accounting practices for R&D projects. The second half of Tuesday had two exiting sessions: Ivey Career management’s technology industry overview clinic and a 2*10 idea generation session for new venture project where our ideas were critiqued and challenged by seasoned serial entrepreneurs from Tech-Alliance. It has been a tiring day and the well deserved break (Canada day) arrived on Wednesday. In addition to other cases, the week also had an advanced business analytics mini-course, and a case-interview preparation session.

 

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