Corporate Strategy to Consulting? Help!!
Hi all,
This is my first time ever posting on a forum, but i'm pretty anxious and desperate (its also exam season) so appreciate any help I can get.
I'm currently trying deciding between two internships, one at corporate strategy/in-house consulting unit at a big five Canadian bank (CIBC) and the other as a project management intern for a standards agency.
Now, inherently, I believe i'm more interested in the banking job, as I think i can leverage it towards both consulting and IB in the future. The only reason why i'm interested in the PM position is because there are some ex-consulting big shots at the organization that I will be working with, all from a specific tier 2 consulting firm. My interests are in mostly consulting and less in IB (but its still my second choice).
Do you guys have any advice between the two? How valuable is the networking with an ex-consultant that left the firm 2 or 3 years ago? Is working at a banking corporate strat even a valuable experience for MBB or other management consulting?
Best Regards, moza
I would like to add that the PM position is for the operations improvement department, so sorta similar to a corporate strat unit
Strategy work has skills directly related to the interesting aspects of consulting, what MBB focuses on and what the 2nd tier want to focus on. I would take that.
Project Mgmt is not a hard skill set to have, and thus is not valued as much imo. I don't think former "consulting big shots" have much pull in the recruiting process anyways; even if they do its a big effort for them to call up an ex partner to recruit a junior employee. It's hard to pull that off; you are better acquiring the sexy skill-sets in strategy and applying to consulting.
I'd do the first one as well, it's more directly relevant and a better key topic to network with current people, rather than alums from however many years ago, with
Resume Critique: Corporate Strategy -> Consulting (Originally Posted: 03/01/2014)
Hi all,
I'm looking to refine my resume as I approach a possible switch to consulting. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on the resume below.
Thank you in advance!
An intimidating resume since it looks almost like a block of text. You need some more white space. Remove some of the leadership & activities like your undergraduate finance association and combine your points for your fraternity.
For your professional experience consider shortening those dotpoints to a single line to again free up some more free space and to be more succinct in describing your achievements.
I (correct me if I am wrong) won't really care about your skills and systems - so take them out too.
Focus on getting white space - your margins are already tiny - the thing looks like a maze at the moment.
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