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MC Coach Interview: My First Year at McKinsey

Management Consulted

Today we get a sneak peek into a former McKinsey consultant’s first year of life at the firm. and asked a few questions about her time at a non-core school, breaking into McKinsey, and her early career to find out what McKinsey life was like for her. How was settling in at McKinsey for you?

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The Smartest Person in the Room

CaseInterview.com

A really great CEO is the dumbest person in the room during an executive team meeting. You want your CFO to be infinitely more experienced in finance than you. When I first started working at McKinsey, wow, it was a humbling experience. That year, McKinsey rejected 98.5% I was the “dumb” one in those meetings too.

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Breaking into Consulting as a Non-Business Student

Tom Spencer

This will give you a chance to meet people in the consulting industry and learn more about what it takes to be successful in this field. For instance, McKinsey is known to place a particularly strong emphasis on personal impact and leadership. Plus, many consulting firms recruit MBA graduates directly from business schools.

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Force Multiplier Effect: 2 + 2 = 5

CaseInterview.com

Here are a few: Personal Reputation If people trust you before they ever meet you in person, you have an enormous advantage. This is what McKinsey is very good at. What the CEO is very good at is seeing how all the parts of a business — R&D, Marketing, Operations, Human Resources, and Finance — tie together into a cohesive whole.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. At the Big 3 (Bain, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey), you can expect travel 50-75% of the time. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT.

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Dinged From MBB Consulting Firms – Now What?

Management Consulted

If you are an undergrad who has been turned down for a summer internship at MBB, going in to finance is your next best bet. In addition, having a finance internship under your belt shows that you’ve got the necessary quant skills to succeed in consulting. For the Pre-MBA level, finance should be your last option.

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

The Class of 2015 had a full 35% of its graduates accept offers in the consulting field, and Kellogg has become a hot recruiting spot across top firms – but especially for McKinsey. In fact, McKinsey has hired over 215 Kellogg graduates over the last 5 years, including 34 from this most recent class. 2015 class size: 826.