FT Recruiting Specifics

Struck out with IB recruiting for the most part and while I still have a few leads I've been increasingly looking at consulting. I've heard that FT recruiting for consulting is often easier than SA recruiting, is this true? What are some things I should if I do go down the consulting route? I'm used to needing to heavily network in IB, is networking as prevalent in consulting?

 

Traditionally, firms have more FT spots than they do SA spots - but not sure if that's changed/changing due to COVID. Still a very competitive process, nonetheless.

The main thing you should concentrate on is case prep. I'm assuming you're a junior, so you have more than enough time to prepare - you could get pretty good at casing in a few weeks if you concentrate. In saying that, it's not like investment banking where you're generally good to go on the technicals providing you can parrot back the basics of a DCF + some basic accounting questions. Every case you'll face in an interview will be unique, and your performance is to some extent subjective - there's no 'right' answer, although of course some answers are much better than others.

If you don't go to a semi-target/target, I would be prepared to do a fair bit of networking.

 

Current junior so I do have quite a bit of time to prep for cases and network. Been trying to find people to network with and the vast majority seem to be from top targets as opposed to in banking where I always managed to find some non targets, even at top banks. 

 

Solid T50 non target but afaik only one of MBB recruits here and that's for like 1-2 spots max I think. The closest office to my school is a major office, should I solely focus on that office or also branch out?

 

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