It has been extremely hectic two weeks. Work is crazy, been in and out of meetings. Mom is visitng and I feel bad to not find time to spend with her, even when I'm there I usually am on my laptop for work or my apps. Apps which did not make much progress till last night.
I couldn't think of what to write for a long time, the words were crude nothing made sense and then I started reading through blogs mostly from INSEAD. I called up a friend and whined about no progress. He asked me to start writing things I have to tell adcom, I had already done this before but I started fresh with not much result. Over the last 3 days I kept thinking if I have to give bulleted points what would they be and it helped me
- I have done all aspects of training management, explored LnD function
- I want to move into Talent Mgmt and all aspects of HR
- I want to handle global audience
This helped me put some of my thoughts together and I managed to write first draft of 3 essays yesterday. I had read this blog sometime back and used it yesterday in my essays - http://rusgirl.blogspot.com/2005/09/writing-essays-to-insead.html
I wrote everything I wanted to cut it short and then discarded it and re-wrote, discarded not deleted.
Today I had my one on one with my manager. I'm lucky to have a manager who earlier was my mentor. He has seen me learn, mature, knows my challenges, feelings, aspirations etc etc. He is also happy to write all my references with a quick turn around. I discussed some of my career aspirations and options with him. Work eats up most of our time to discuss much on my apps but I'm trying to find 5-10 mins on our one on ones whenever I can.
Hoping to complete most of my INSEAD essays today and then send it to 5 people for review. Something I did not do with my IMD essays. I'll also add some posts on how I approached various essays in the next post.
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