Deloitte Externship

Surish:

You are in a pretty good position at the moment. Think of this externship as their sell weekend and all you need to do is make a positive impression. This means asking insightful questions, being involved (or even being the leader) during the group case study and showing Deloitte that you can talk to upper level management/clients without making a fool of yourself.

Consulting internships are generally harder to get than full time offers because its much harder for an intern to add value to the client project without formal training. Hence consulting firms take fewer interns because they are less of a burden. You might be asking yourself "Why take any interns at all then?", because internships are a great way to rope in high performing students early for full time.

Everyone else at this dinner is probably also a high potential student that probably did not get the offer based on intern class size restrictions. Just learn to act enthusiastic, show them Deloitte is your #1 pick and you'll probably walk away with the full time offer (or at worst, at strong amount of support for full time interviews if you network properly).

Thanks for the advice/support!

Just act how you would at any professional event. Also, I always try to make a point to actively engage with the professionals. A lot of times most of the recruits will kind of stick together but I will always just actively try to start up conversations with the people that work there. The more facetime you get and the more people that know you and can speak positively (at least in some capacity if at the least just nothing negative) then you have such a better chance at standing out more than candidates that when the name might come up a lot of people would wonder who they are.