Cambridge Judge Business School

MBA TELEPHONE OR SKYPE INTERVIEW CANDIDATES

September 2016 entry

Your telephone or Skype interview

Congratulations on your invitation to telephone interview, we are really looking forward tofinding out more about you and your MBA aspirations.

Key information:

• Your interview will be a member of faculty at Cambridge Judge Business School. You do not need research your interviewer in advance.

• Your interview will last approximately 30 minutes.

• Your interview may cover a variety of topics, including, but not limited to:

• Your academic & intellectual ability

• Collaborative leadership

• Your potential contribution to the class

• Your reasons for applying to the MBA

• Prepare written prompts if you feel these will help you during the interview, but remember the interview should be a two-way discussion.

Message from the Director of the MBA

“We are delighted you have reached the next stage of the Cambridge MBA application: the interview.

Already your decision to select the Cambridge MBA speaks volumes. By applying to a top ranked business school embedded within a world-class university, the impact and opportunities of your MBA education are multiplied. You have also chosen a school which is unique in ethos – a collaborative and innovative environment designed so that every individual thrives and accelerates.

So be yourself at interview, and be prepared to demonstrate how you could meet the challenges and leverage the opportunities of a Cambridge MBA.”

Profile:

• Senior Faculty in Management

Practice

• Director of the MBA Programme

• Deputy Director of the Centre for

Process Excellence & Innovation

(CPEI)

• Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College

Jane Davies, is the appointed Director of the

Cambridge MBA, as of 2015.

The University of Cambridge campus

We’re sorry you couldn’t join us for an on-campus Interview Day. The University of Cambridge campus is spread across the city, and made up of six Schools, 31 colleges and nine museums and collections.

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Cambridge Judge Business School

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designed to foster contact outside class - with large, welcoming social areas, and intimate

spaces for group work.

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Core Modules

MBA curriculum overview

Foundation

Analytical tools and problem

framing

Business Models

Decision-making

Global application

Vision in macro context

Individual transition to post-MBA

career

Term 1 Michaelmas Term 2 Lent Term 3 Easter Term 4 Summer

Cambridge

Venture

Project

Career Accelerator Programme: Personal and Professional

Development

Leadership in Action: speaker series hosting senior

company members

Concentrations & Electives

Global

Consulting

Project

Summer

Activity:

• Internship or

Individual Project

• Intensive course

• DissertationCapstone

Project

Career Accelerator Programme

A fundamental part of your MBA development will be the activities of the Career Accelerator Programme.You will receive one-to-one coaching throughout this scheme, both with your in-house Careers Coach and external industry-expert Career Consultants.

Understanding yourself and career

goals

Including:

• CareerLeader

• Skills self assessment

• Skills development planner

• Personal branding

• Skills audit

• 1:1 advisory

• Structuring your job search

• MBTI

Job search and planning

Including:

• Sector specific career panels

• Career goals planner

• 1:1 advisory

• Sector workshops

• Business information resources and

1:1s

• Company treks

• Recruitment presentations

• Piloting your job search

• Networking

Applications and interviews

Including:

• Competency interview workshops

• 3:1 competency interview practice

• Intro to case interviews

• Assessment centre group exercise

• Critical thinking

• Crack the Case

• 3:1 case interview practice

• Small group cases

• Marketing your personal brand

• Personal impact small group sessions

• 1:1 advisory

• 3:1 pitch practice

• Marketing case workshop

• Presentation skills

• Mock interviews

• Employer led workshops

• Consulting CV/CL surgeries

• Application reviews

@CJBSMBACareers

MBA recruitment & career outcomes

95% job offers 3 months out

89% offer accepts

Switched industry sector

66%

Switched job function 65%

Employed across 23 countries

Switched country 47%

Companies that have visited campus recently: Accenture, Amazon, A.T. Kearney,

BCG, Fung Group, Gallup, J&J Japan, McKinsey Recruitment Presentation, Newton

Investment Management, Novartis, L’Oreal, PayPal Recruitment Presentation, Sanford

Bernstein Recruitment Presentation, Societe Generale Case Study Presentation,

Tencent Recruitment Presentation, WPP.

Explore the Cambridge MBA network

• Join the Cambridge MBA 2016 group to meet your prospective classmates and ask current Cambridge MBAs your questions.

• Research Cambridge alumni and their career

pathways via Linkedin

After the interview

• You will hear the outcome of you interview after one - two weeks via an email alert. This will prompt you to check your Hobson’s account.

• There will be 3 possible outcomes:

• Offer. You will have 3 weeks to accept)

• Reject. You application process will be at an end.

• Short-waitlist. If waitlist, you’ll be reviewed in the next application round. You will be hear when your status changes via an email alert. This will prompt you to check your Hobson’s account.

Good luck

We wish you all the best with your interview on behalf on the Cambridge MBA Admissions team.

Charlotte Russell, MBA Admissions Manager

Conrad Chua, Head of MBA Admissions & Careers

Cambridge MBA Admissions Helpdesk:

mba-admissions@jbs.cam.ac.uk