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The Importance of a Consulting Cover Letter

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As a former consulting resume and cover letter reader for McKinsey, and someone who has reviewed thousands of applications, I have noticed an interesting trend. Most cover letters stink, and many resumes emphasize the wrong things. Most people obsess over resume format -- what font size, margins, etc.

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Writing the Perfect Consulting Resume: 4Tips toWriting Your Resume with an Example.

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For almost any professional job, applicants are required to provide a resume and cover letter to demonstrate their qualifications. Your resume is one of the most important documents during the application process, as it acts as a summary of your education, experience, and skillset. Academic Performance.

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How to get a case interview

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What you will learn: Learn how to market yourself through your resume and cover letter so that you will get the interview. Topics Covered: How to Write a Resume That Will Get You the Interview. How to Write a Cover Letter That Will Get You the Interview. Your resume needs to show all of these skills.

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Case Interview Success Rates by Round

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The first step in the application process where cuts are made would be the Consulting Resume and Cover Letter Screen. get an awful lot of resumes out of the blue -- but historically they. When I was at McKinsey , the preference was to have alumni of a particular institution screen resumes and CV's from those institutions.

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Projecting Situational Gravitas

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For those of you that have my course on how to write an effective cover letter or resume, you’ll recognize the importance of highlighting “Big Brand Names” in your communications. Notice the video clips of me appearing on live national television. I mention every big brand name organization that I’ve worked with.

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Personal Experience Interview - McKinsey PEI

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Despite the emphasis I and others places on the case interview, it is important that you be prepared for the more general interview questions that are based on your consulting resume. The important thing to realize is that consulting firm interviewers ask resume-based questions differently than employers from other industries.

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More on Networking to Get a Consulting Interview

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I suggest you network with anyone within a management consulting firm regardless of whether they are involved in recruiting or consulting resume screening. Then in your cover letter, you tell the reader how much networking you've done, who you have met, what you have discovered and why you like the firm (be specific).