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How to Succeed in the New Age of Interviews

Tom Spencer

The process of securing an internship at an investment bank is both a daunting and strenuous endeavour. Provide your grade transcript, CV, and cover letter. The cover letter is the most important of these initial documents. Reading your cover letter, I felt like I knew you.” Vary your sentence length.

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Facing Rejection from Consulting Firms

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Either your academic credentials or work experiences were not impressive enough (by their standards) or your cover letter didn't stand out enough. The cover letter is very, very, very important. Did I mention the consulting cover letter is very important? Not a single 2nd round. And guess what?

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Networking to Get McKinsey, Bain & BCG Offers

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What you have to realize about this role of reading consulting resumes and cover letters is this. Out of 400 applications, I would say about 350 of them were clear and obvious mail merge cover letters. --. But the second time I saw a letter that sounded like it, I start to get suspicious. It is a judgment decision.

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LinkedIn Hacks for Management Consulting Applicants

Tom Spencer

A candidate might spend hours on their resume and cover letter but put little thought into their LinkedIn profile other than a profile picture and a cheesy blurb in the “about” section. LinkedIn is an often overlooked part of the management consulting application. Choose a background that works well with your profile photo.

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5 reasons to sign up for a Management Consulting Bootcamp (registration now open!)

Management Consulted

For the low price of $575, each participant receives a complete resume / cover letter edit ($350), the MC Book Bundle ($195) and 8 hours of group instruction (priceless). We also get you started on a resume and cover letter edit completed by the MC team before the date of the Bootcamp.

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Black Belt Supreme 2015 closes May 31 (or when capacity is reached)!

Management Consulted

Do I have to complete my resume/cover letter edit right away? Want some even better news? We don’t charge a penny more for the significantly upgraded support available to you on Black Belt Supreme! You can start the editing process at any time – our services never expire.

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From Bagging Groceries to $80k Consulting Offer

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I spent the last five months working in a grocery store after having turned down several job offers in finance and banking upon graduation last May. I knew early-on that I did not want my career to turn completely towards finance or banking and so I decided to wait and search for other options.