MBA Consulting Recruit - Need Help! Office Location Disaster!
This is a throwaway account, I'm an active member on these forums. I was recruiting in a particular region for MBA summer internships but was in a serious LTR. The friends in that region are all more tied to my ex, and it was her family in the region. In many cases (MBB in particular) I haven't talked to any other offices to show my intent on that region.
Applications are in with location preferences. My options are to let the firms know now that my preference has changed, wait and see if I get an internship offer and then tell them, or ride the internship out and try to negotiate a shift for full time. I'm leaning towards the last option; I can survive a summer there but it would suck to be stuck there full time. Or should I take the internship if I get it and then let them know at some point over the summer what is going on? Finally, who is the appropriate person to start with when that conversation needs to be had?
Any thoughts or anybody been in a similar situation? I'd be especially interested in hearing from former campus recruiters.
Have interview offers been released for your school? If they have, you should stay the course for summer interviews.
If the invites have not been released, AND your new preferences are for lower subscribed offices, you COULD consider letting your school's recruiters know that your preferences have changed. If your new preferences are for higher subscribed offices, it would probably be unwise to switch. (But, keep in mind, all offices have low offer yields -- switching to a lower subscribed office would only be marginally beneficial, if at all...so probably not worth it). I agree with you though, it would be good to get a recruiter's perspective on this.
Your choices are really only two: tell them now or tell them after you get a full-time offer. Telling them after you have a summer offer is a bad idea -- rather than just transfer you, there is a very high chance you would need to do another interview round at the new office, which is very risky.
At least at my MBB, summers can request a transfer to a new office after they have the full-time offer. In the two instances I know of where friends have done this, they were both successful (and both were from lower subscribed offices to higher-subscribed ones).
If I were in your shoes, I would do nothing right now, hope to get the summer & full-time offers, and then request a transfer.
Good luck. PS -- sorry to hear about the breakup. This must be a difficult time to have to deal with that.
Thank you for the response. I think you're probably right. I have done almost no recruiting in other offices so it would be awkward to have the conversation now too.
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