Comments on: Overview of the management consulting summer internship – from recruiting to guaranteeing a return offer

By: Tatiana A.

Tatiana A. — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:57:00 +0000

Amazing!!! I am so delighted to have found this post. This was more informative than SIOP!!!

By: TryingToHelp

TryingToHelp — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:04:00 +0000

Column Technologies, a small IT Consulting firm based out of Chicago (they have offices all over, the one my friend applied to was in NYC) does actually use HireRight and they do drug test through LabCorp.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:53:00 +0000

Hi Kevin,

Absolutely great site! You and Brian are just killing it out there with all these valuable information.
I am here with a question I absolutely need your guide over. Through chatting with one of my alumnus the other day, I was told that McKinsey has not completely but shifted the majority of its business/focus onto IT/Technology. I didn’t straight up question the alumnus about the info because it was kind of a rushed situation and I had to get my answer on something else. It isn’t exactly the end of the world for me when I heard this, but definitely shocking. For long I know McKinsey has built up its reputation through its outstanding portfolio in Management Consulting and perhaps in something else (things that I might not know or have not heard of…), so to me it seems quite unreasonable that it would give up its expertise and focus on something else they have not been doing a lot of. Is it just another false alarm or perhaps there is a story behind its movement?

Thanks

By: IT consulting careers

IT consulting careers — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:06:17 +0000

[...] particularly applies to summer internship applicants. Driving factors for resume rejection include low GPA, lack of leadership experiences [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:59:00 +0000

Here’s what I got in terms of anecdotal evidence:

A friend of mine that started at an MBB firm this past fall (the same firm/office where I’ll be working) was never subjected to any type of drug test.

However, being the paranoid person I am, I don’t want to assume that this is the norm since its only one example. Am I being overly paranoid? Do any of you have other examples?