How to Prepare for Consulting Recruiting?
Hi All -
Up until recently, I was set on Investment Banking, but more recently I have been interested in entering management consulting. This summer I will be interning at a large A&D firm in the strategic planning group and have some other internships under the belt at a very small IB (no financial analysis) and Corporate Development (M&A).
Currently the Big 4 do recruit at my school, but mainly for BTA (Business Technology Analysts) and Audit/Accounting positions and not Management Consulting/Strategy & Operations groups. As I am not familiar with Consulting recruiting (due to focusing my entire time on IB), does anyone have any advice on how I can best position myself for next year's summer internships with MBB or Boutiques? I just finished my sophomore year and have a cumulative GPA of 3.8 if that's of any relevance..
Thanks in advance!
Having gone through both IB recruiting and consulting recruiting, I haven't found the two processes to be exceedingly different. For both industries, internship recruiting begins in the very early fall of junior year. If you go to a target school, just submit a decent resume (yours sounds fine), and you're probably set to receive interviews. If you go to a semi-target or non-target, additional networking may be necessary.
As far as I can think of, there are two main differences between IB and consulting recruiting:
I completely agree with Fantastic. Your basic creds sound good enough, so I highly recommend getting very good at case interviews with lots of live prep, whether it is with a classmate or you hire a tutor. Practicing 50+ live cases is highly recommended. Also, dig in to your alumni network. Start making connections now.
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