Back to blogging - Post 2

So, to pick up from the previous post, I will write about what I do and some other things.

I now work in Pre-sales in a Tier-1 firm, where my works revolves around responding to RFPs (Request for proposals) which in itself involved highly technical activities such as effort estimation, designing technical architectures and the like. Apart from this, I also support the frontline sales teams in their sales efforts through building collateral, decks etc. etc.Many of my XL' classmates are in similar pre-sales positions in other Tier-1/2 firms.

I used to work in this same firm before my MBA in a Service Delivery Role, and have now moved to pre-sales. Personally, I dont find any differentiation that the MBA has done, except for a grade promotion, which I would have got anyways had I continued in my job. My own team consists mostly of people coming from delivery roles. There are some times when my MBA skills are helpful (e.g. building financial models, understanding the business domain aspects in the deal) but such situations are few.

Neverthless, any learning experience is valuable in its own right, and XL definitely gave me a good grounding in many fields.

But I feel the 1 Year MBA concept is still in early stages of being accepted in India, and very few of them have a clear plan of how best to utilize 1-Yr MBA grads and defining a unique career path for them in recognition of their skills. I have heard similar sentiments echoed by 1-Yr MBA grads, that there is not much clarity in their career path.

Maybe there is some merit in foreign MBAs after all, despite the high tuition fee and the risks one has to take.