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The Consulting Bible – Dominate Your McKinsey, Bain and BCG Fit and Consulting Case Interviews

Management Consulted

We’ve helped 1600+ people land interviews and offers in the consulting world (including such esteemed firms as McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte and Mercer). It’s harder to get an offer at a consulting firm once you’ve passed the resume screen than it is to get into MIT. You’ll need every edge that you can get.

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Dinged From MBB Consulting Firms – Now What?

Management Consulted

If you are an undergrad who has been turned down for a summer internship at MBB, going in to finance is your next best bet. In addition, having a finance internship under your belt shows that you’ve got the necessary quant skills to succeed in consulting. For the Pre-MBA level, finance should be your last option.

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Bridgespan Non-Profit Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Founded in Boston, MA , and containing the heart and DNA of consulting industry giant Bain & Company, Bridgespan is the key non-profit consulting firm in today’s consulting industry. Bridgespan is the offspring of none other than consulting industry giant Bain & Company. KEY STATS FOR BRIDGESPAN.

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You’ve been rejected from all consulting jobs. What’s next?

Management Consulted

What’s next – when your resume doesn’t receive an interview; your first round doesn’t lead to a call-back; your final round receives a polite rejection? The advice applies equally to industries like investment banking. If you don’t make it past the resume stage, don’t ask.

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Networking 102: It’s Never Been More Important – And It Truly. Does. Work.

Management Consulted

” “For organized networking events, is it appropriate to carry a resume on you? How about meeting industry professionals at events? Finance-Specific Networking. What do you think about non-finance work graduate school, then transitioning through an MBA? What about PhD to MBA to finance?”.

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What are interviewers from consulting firms really looking for?

Tom Spencer

Some firms, like the MBB (McKinsey, BCG and Bain) will go as far as requesting your GPA, test scores and the names of your undergraduate institutions. Are you able to synthesize the information the interviewer gave you, probably on an industry you’re unfamiliar with, and understand the case you need to crack? Intellectual Capability.

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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

Engineering majors are known as beasts at Excel, which is fundamentally the most important hard skill you will need for consulting (on day one, the best analysts at Bain were absolutely the engineers – until the rest of us could catch up). However, Finance is mostly a pipeline in to investment banking. P&G, Coca Cola etc.).