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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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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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5 Tips for Freshmen to Tackle the Recruiting Process

Tom Spencer

Find firms and alumni in industries you are interested in through on-campus recruiting events, firm websites, and LinkedIn. Build out your resume. The most important tool at your disposal in the recruitment process is your resume. Additionally, make sure you update your resume regularly, as you gain new experiences and new GPAs.

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Once You Get the Job, Does Networking End?

Tom Spencer

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. Networking to Meet Future Employers. Networking to Meet Future Employees.

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How to Get a McKinsey Interview Through Networking

CaseInterview.com

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. In the summer months, I was busy using principle #2 above -- trying to meet as many people as I could in the industries and employers I was targeting. The story above is an example of #2.

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Consulting’s Unofficial Interview Hurdle – The Airplane Test

Tom Spencer

If you are just starting out, you will find yourself editing your resume, preparing answers for experiential questions, and practicing business frameworks to use in the case interview. Attending a virtual office hour or recruiting event will net you some one-on-one time with a consultant or recruiter – another airplane test.

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Investigating Career Journeys

Tom Spencer

There are a common set of events and actions that are universal to career journeys which can be categorized in the following order: Characterizing your journey. Embracing catalyzing events. Actualizing commitment events. Embracing catalyzing events. These events are situational and can be transformative.

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