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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. Build out your resume. Explore and ask questions. Use this to your advantage!

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Rescue from the trash…avoiding key resume errors that get your consulting application tossed aside

Management Consulted

Paper airplanes are fun, but you don’t want your resume to become the vehicle for a recruiter’s mid-afternoon horseplay because you’ve bored them to death. That’s why we’re giving you some guidelines on key resume errors to avoid and things you can do to make it past the first round of reviews.

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Once You Get the Job, Does Networking End?

Tom Spencer

You connect with company recruiters, university alumni, and your peers and classmates to build a vast community of connections. Networking to Meet Clients. Attending national or international conferences, large industry meetings, and other multidisciplinary events will allow access to companies and clients for you to talk to there.

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Networking Your Way into Consulting, Even in a Pandemic

Tom Spencer

You might have a picture-perfect resume. Your credentials might even get past the robotic sorters looking through thousands of resumes for specific “buzz words”. You might attend conferences for an organization, society, or research area to meet new people. The other type of event commonly seen is a coffee chat.

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Networking to Get McKinsey, Bain & BCG Offers

CaseInterview.com

I went through workshops offered by these firms and talked to numerous recruiters and consultants. I did the same for resume questions, i.e., I tried to structure my answers to questions like "Why our firm?" I hope we'll be able to meet one day. So thank you for sharing the full history of your recruiting process.

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Why Trying to Pivot to a Consulting Career through an Online MBA Might Not be the Best Idea

Tom Spencer

MBA consulting recruiting season starts every fall. I am commenting purely on recruiting for a post-MBA consulting position. Without having a grounded career understanding, online MBAs come to me unable to coherently decide if consulting is the right career opportunity to meet their professional and personal goals.

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How to Get a McKinsey Interview Through Networking

CaseInterview.com

1) On campus / Send in your Application - Recruiting. Here's the principle: Meet as many people who work in the management consulting firm you are trying to get into, and eventually good things happen. When I was at Stanford, McKinsey would come on campus to recruit in December or January each year (I forget the exact month).