These forums really drill "finance" (especially banking at a BB) as the main pipeline into consulting. But it's mainly to show that you can handle the hours for consulting.
Well, i'm doing 40 hours a week at a research firm in New York as a sophomore...
Yes, a Marketing major but in the honors college with a 3.7gpa (top 10 B-school)
And apparently there's a lot of PowerPoint and graph/chart making in consulting...which is my area of expertise since that was all I did in a past internship.
...I also have a fair amount of knowledge with excel. Maybe not finance formulas like WACC, but Vlookups with Match and Hlookups as criteria advanced enough.
So, what I mean to say is...considering my past experiences with these skill sets...
...am I still going to get auto-shut down for being a Marketing major? It seems that the skillsets I have are aligned with Management Consulting, but it's just that I really, really disdain finance. Whachya guys think? Am I damned to HR consulting?
Did you start your internship?
It's this summer.
And the company that I did the graphs/charts for was a Fortune 100, but that internship was all the way back in high school (I eventually built trust with them and they let me do intense things).
all i can say that the skillsets they look for are not excel or powerpoint
but they do have charts/spreadsheet experts in back office in india
http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html
Seems like there's certainly heavy aspects from those two in the job though.
This is assuming I'm as competent as everyone else in answering case questions. I'm just wondering about getting an interview at all. Once I get to the interview round, I'll be less concerned about my chances.
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