by Consultant's Mind | Consulting
Graduates from 2018-2021 I asked some previous students for their recruiting advice. They all went through grueling recruiting rounds and superdays. After a few years of work experience and reflection, here is their advice. You will see their responses in blue...
by Consultant's Mind | Consulting
Yes, Linkedin, GitHub, and Indeed make it easier to find and apply for jobs. But after your first, second, third job out of college – it’s all about relationships. Even with record unemployment, recruiters still find it difficult to find the...
by Consultant's Mind | Consulting
It’s September/October, so case interviews will be in full swing for undergraduates and MBAs. More than 14% of Harvard’s undergraduate class goes into consulting, and it’s a great career that gives you life-long learning, good compensation, and many...
by Consultant's Mind | Consulting
I work at a business school. So we teach (yes), stay curious about business (yes), and also cheer students on to get great jobs (definitely yes). Set them on the way to career satisfaction and success. Many business students (undergraduate and 2 year MBA) are aiming...
by Consultant's Mind | Learning
At the Goizueta Business School we offer a 3 week business boot camp for non-business majors here. The idea goes that there are a few dozen core business concepts that any graduate should know (e.g., Assets = Liabilities + Equity). In the spirit of putting together a...
by Consultant's Mind | Consulting
It’s case interview season Seems like students just got to school. Moving in, meeting a few people, and getting into an academic groove. Then, BBAM it’s late September and time for case interviews. There is one huge upside. You may have a job offer before...
by Consultant's Mind | Team
Informational interview Of the many things I learned in MBA, the “informational interview” is one of those gems that remains relevant a decade later. Information interviews. They are simply low-expectation, business meetings with (relative) strangers to...
by Consultant's Mind | Consulting
It’s consulting interview season This means well-groomed MBAs are sitting across small tables with consulting firm partners and senior managers in something called a case interview. For those readers from consulting firms – you know this fire drill...
by Consultant's Mind | Fun
Was recruiting on Friday. This was on the wall of the business school’s career management center. All good advice I believe. Related Posts: Case interviews: Time to start practicing Why culture trumps strategy...
by Consultant's Mind | Learning
I am not in HR, a recruiter, or even a super linkedin.com user. That said, I was on the recruiting team at a Big 4 consulting, and we looked through hundreds of resumes every year and 90% of them went into the trash. We probably spent less than 15 seconds on a cover...
by Consultant's Mind | Consulting
Case interview If you are an undergraduate or MBA student who wants to get a consulting offer, you better do well on the case interview. If you ran a regression on consulting offers and good case interviews, the correlation would be 0.7 or higher. In non-geek terms,...
