Is it easier to get into management consulting in Europe than it is in the US?
I've noticed on Linkedin that (relatively) many people from non-target schools work at consulting firms such as McKinsey, BCG or bain. Is it true that it's easier to get into consulting in Europe (or maybe Asia or the ME as well) than it is in the US? and if so, is it easy to work in Europe first and then transfer to an office in the US?
This might be total BS, I've only come to this conclusion based on my research on linked in.
Hi TheModernYuppie, the silence is deafening, sorry about that.... Any of the threads below helpful?
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I hope those threads give you a bit more insight.
It is actually just the opposite.
To illustrate this, here are the numbers of McK employees in and the populations of a few countries: UK: 2,492 (67.3m), GER: 3,137 (83.2m), FRA: 896 (67.8m), USA: 15,394 (331.9m). You can clearly see that the proportion of the population working for McK is much larger in the US than in the major European economies, suggesting that it is easier to get a job at McK in the US. (Greatly simplified, of course).
I don't know from which perspective you are speaking. If you are from the US, you obviously don't know anything about European target schools, which might explain the confusion. But in fact, MBB relies heavily on target schools in Europe as well. If you are not a diversity candidate (i.e. male and white), it is almost a requirement that you come from a Target School to pass the CV screening. The difference is that MBB focuses on local target schools (e.g. Essec in France, Warwick in the UK, TUM in Germany) - which again might explain your confusion.
Also, starting in Europe just to move to the US is not a good strategy either. You have to earn that level of mobility, and you usually have to stay for a few years before you are allowed to cross the ocean (this information is second-hand).
Hope this helps!
You have to consider that the population of France or the UK is small compared to that of the US. US population is almost 3.5 times bigger than that of France.
Yes, I don't claim to perfectly know how both systems operate, but I've found people from provincial lower ranked universities in France working in big consulting firms. Yes they're relatively rare but it just appears to be less restricted than in the US, though I might be wrong
I literally put the population sizes next to the # of employees and talked about the proportion...
Sorry, but that's not how it is.
In Europe, there are no real targets outside the UK and a few French universities (which are only attended by French people).
Especially for MBB it doesn't matter which uni you come from, in Germany (where I come from) there are still 4-5 good unis, but no real targets.
The best European uni outside of g5 is ETH Zurich, ever heard of it?
Especially for non-uk-citizens in IB, who apply in London, (where I am right now as an intern in IB), you can come from any univ. Since the univ don't cost anything either, and don't differ in budget, it doesn't make sense to introduce targets.
just take a look on linkedin.
good pp. got into mbb /bb from every univ. esp. in germany and NL.
so, I know a few people in some EU countries who broke into MBB consultancies without an MBA or a "top tier" degree. They do have degrees, of course, and they are pretty much all native SMEs in some areas that were harder to source. Some have PhDs, some have Masters.
I would say it is not impossible, but often done on a case by case basis. Multiple languages surely help as well.
rule of thumb: study in the country you would like to live and work in. while possible, it is a combination of a bunch of things to make the journey across the pond.
Yeah, ideally, that's it.
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