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5 Tips for Freshmen to Tackle the Recruiting Process

Tom Spencer

Here are 5 tips that will put you on the right track to navigating the recruiting process: 1. Find firms and alumni in industries you are interested in through on-campus recruiting events, firm websites, and LinkedIn. The most important tool at your disposal in the recruitment process is your resume.

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Breaking into Consulting as a Non-Business Student

Tom Spencer

Breaking into the consulting industry with a non-business degree can be challenging as a sizeable portion of hires are from top business schools, but non-business hires are on the rise. If your degree leans more heavily towards the qualitative humanities — as mine does — be sure to make special provisions to develop key quantitative skills.

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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. For example, my LinkedIn profile highlights my two primary experiences: strategy consulting and international development.

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How to Succeed in the New Age of Interviews

Tom Spencer

Provide your grade transcript, CV, and cover letter. The cover letter is the most important of these initial documents. A desired response from a recruitment manager would be “most cover letters I’m falling asleep. Reading your cover letter, I felt like I knew you.”

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Boutique vs Large Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

For me, I was fortunate to study at a Canadian business school and interacted with numerous small and large companies from a variety of industries. Since graduation, I have had the pleasure of working for both a boutique and a large strategy consulting firm and wanted to share my insights on the differences in: Undergraduate recruiting.

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Applying for consulting opportunities

Tom Spencer

This post shares four insights from my journey into the management consulting industry: 1. Should you join a new and developing student organisation or one that is well established? Talking with people involved in recruitment or who work as consultants at the firm will greatly aid your application.

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Consulting Applications

Tom Spencer

ARE you an aspiring consultant with an interest in pursuing a career in the management consulting industry? Breaking into the management consulting industry is extremely difficult, and so with this in mind we have produced a number of free consulting resources to improve your chances of success. How to Create a Killer Cover Letter.