The first stage of the admission procedure is the pre-selection process.
Pre-selected candidates are chosen on an extensive and comprehensive reading and evaluation of their application file by more than 2 of our Admissions team members. Once pre-selected, candidates are invited to go through our interview process.
The interview phase is your opportunity to provide us with a clearer picture of who you are, why you have applied to our program and how you feel you will contribute to the HEC community.
You will have two separate one-on-one interviews with French Embassy representatives, MBA alumni, HEC professors or other representatives of the HEC network. It is your responsibility to contact the interviewers provided by the Admissions Office in order to arrange your interview by the stated deadline.
The interview starts with a 10-minute presentation made by the candidate on the subject of his/her choice. The main objective of this presentation is to judge the candidate's communication and presentation skills, the capability to synthesize a subject in 10 minutes while keeping the interest of the audience. The candidate may use any presentation method he or she wishes, such as transparencies, notes, slides, etc.
The presentation is then followed by 30 to 40 minutes of questions and answers, first on the presentation, then on the candidate's motivation and other elements mentioned in his/her application.
Thus, the candidate will make the same presentation twice. Questions, however, may vary from one interviewer to the next since there are no pre-defined rules or questions to be asked. In some way, one can say, that the interview defines its own direction based on the candidate's answers and reactions to various questions of the different interviewers.
Please remember that interviews are simply a better way to judge the candidate's personality, motivation, maturity, resistance to stress, etc., as opposed to only reading his/her file.
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