off campus hire? from finance to consulting after graduation
I graduated this may and am working at a hedgefund. During recruiting I felt my temperament was suited for finance but I find the work to be unfulfilling and I would like to be in a position where i can develop business vision/intuition. I think consulting is a better fit for me and ultimately better for my career development.
I will apply as an entry level, not experienced hire position, but since I'm no longer on campus I have to apply online at the company websites. Im wondering whether those resumes are actually read by anyone? And whether the fact I'm out of school make me ineligible for entry level/non experienced positions? if not then is emailing alumni the only ways to get ur resume considered.
Should I leave my hedgefund experience off my resume? since it's so short and I had been able to get MBB interview with my resume while doing full time recruiting so i'm not sure if including the hedgefund experience is a plus or minus.
thanks in advance for your 2cents






you can most certainly enter
you can most certainly enter as a entry level consultant. 1 month of work is not going to qualify you as an experienced hire lol.
As for the resume, it would be better to network your way in, as your online submitted resume will be on the back-burner
I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
haha yea I guess I'm more
haha yea I guess I'm more concerned with how I can get my resume read and considered.
didn't really network too much consulting wise while in school, I can't think of close contacts in the consulting world.
I think I will cold email. For current consultants, do you think there's time of the week/day when consultants are more amenable to responding to unsolicited emails?
People are far more likely to
People are far more likely to have time to talk on Fridays
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make sure you really want to
make sure you really want to do the switch...talk to more friends in consulting to understand what they do
this is from someone who went from mbb to pe
I have some friends in
I have some friends in healthcare, IT consulting so the relevant stories I have heard are more about the lifestyle and not the work.The lifestyle I can put up with because I don't have much connection to the city I'm living in now so it wouldn't upset me.
I don't know the exact work that management consultants do but the cases have been interesting to me. I'm fascinated by business strategy/growth and taking part in providing solutions as opposed to being a surveyor of companies/financials.
7S if you can expand more on the work of consulting that would be great. I don't want to be a career hyphenate so I hope to get it right this time :)
advice about networking with consultants would also be great. I'm interested in overseas offices too especially china, hongkong, singapore, but would the ability to write chinese be a requisite for those offices?