Hi everyone,
The MBA monkeys out there should be wrapping up their internships in the next few weeks and heading back to start their second year of school.
Any consulting interns out there want to share pieces of their experience? What surprised you (positives and negatives), what you thought about your fellow interns, thoughts about re-recruiting?
I'll go first: the kids in the BA / AC role (pre-MBA) are smart as hell. The consultants who have done well this summer are the ones that have listened to their younger, experienced colleagues; those who forged blindly ahead under their own egos have struggled.
Also, I think the thickness of a deck is inversely correlated to the quality of analysis in it.
Would love to see these responses.
When I was a summer, I recall being immediately stuck by my co-workers' ability to make the work seem effortless, while, at the same time, making sure to display that they were putting in a tremendous amount of effort. There's certainly some pressure to make it seem that working an 18-hour day is easy for you.
Learning how to be relentlessly positive about the state of your workload, even in the face of tremendous stress, is perhaps the most important baptism for a new consultant. For the best summers, this ability comes naturally. For most of us, the first half of the summer was all about building this type of endurance. And of course, a few people had a hard time with this...they had to think long and hard about whether they wanted to come back to consulting full-time.
Got Consulting Internship, terrified, now what? (Originally Posted: 07/19/2012)
This is funny, but I've worked through what was an extremely gruelling process to get into an internship and realised after one of the Managers interviews, I might not know everything I need to do my job.
I know a portion of this is just an extreme case of nerves. But I wonder if there's truth behind the nerves.
For instance, it sounds like one of the interns is essentially performing what we learnt in management accounting as part of their role. I haven't studied management accounting for like 6 years, so naturally that terrifies me just a tiny amount, as I don't want to bomb out and embarrass myself if I freeze up and can't remember how to calculate basic ratios or KPIs or WACC or something.
I start in about a week. What should I brush up on to make sure I hit the ground running? I realise there will be a steep learning curve, and they wouldn't have chosen me if they didn't know I could do the job, but if there's any advice someone can give me on how I can maximise my chance of success, I would love to hear it.
Thanks!
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