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Fireside Chat – Consulting Recruiting at Target and Non-Target Universities

Tom Spencer

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with another blog contributor to the SpencerTom community, Jason Oh, to share our experiences about the consulting recruiting process. How is recruiting done at your school? Jeff : There are many advantages of campus recruiting at a target school.

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Breaking into Consulting as a Non-Business Student

Tom Spencer

Develop Strong Quantitative Analysis Skills Consultants are often called upon to solve complex problems, so having strong quantitative analysis skills is essential. For example, you could take classes in statistics, data analysis, or programming, or join a student consulting group or business club. Keep on Trying!

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The Impact of AI on the Management Consulting Industry

Tom Spencer

These are powerful advances that will confer on computers key capabilities that were previously uniquely possessed by humans. Many Fortune 500 companies, like Amazon and Coca-Cola , are investing in this area in order to obtain increased data analysis and decision making ability.

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Beating the odds: How to stick out from the crowd

Tom Spencer

The overwhelming majority of aspirants went to a few distinctly selective middle-schools, participated at the same conferences and essay competitions, joined hardly distinguishable societies, and completed their internships in akin roles at think tanks or law firms. Do not hesitate to free up some space for this in your CV!

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Generalist vs Specialist Firm Interviews

Tom Spencer

You should read my article on how to approach experiential questions , and plan to practice with other applicants, consultants, and former recruiters to hone and sharpen your stories so that they are ready for your interview. The latter portion of the interview is a business case interview. Ricky Hollenbach is a third year Ph.D.

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Case Interview Prep Tips from BCG New Consultant

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I applied outside the main recruiting period (BCG takes applicants all year round) and so my process was dragged across 3 months. The last two rounds were via video conference. With video conference interviews, remember to look at the camera (rather than the screen) as far as possible.

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Conversation with Marakon

Tom Spencer

Alex Formstone is a Principal in Marakon ’s London office, and heads up recruiting in the UK for graduates and MBAs. I recently had the good fortune to talk briefly with Alex about his career, Marakon and its recruitment process. The conference normally runs over three days plus the weekend, last year this was held in Miami.