You’re already over halfway through college and just found out management consulting is your dream career. You think of all the people you know who have been planning their path for breaking into consulting since they were 12 years old,…
You’re no longer the tiny freshman on campus you were one short year ago – you’ve moved up in the world! As a sophomore, you actually know where you are on campus and perhaps even what you’d like to do…
Networking. For many people, it’s the most dreaded part of applying for consulting internships (or really just any role inside of a consulting firm). But if you think networking is a sleazy, exaggerated sales job pulled off only by the…
So you’re an undergrad (maybe even a freshman, or God forbid a pre-freshman). And you have your heart set on landing a management consulting internship. What can you do now to set yourself up for success? Surely we didn’t have…
Pierre was a junior at Harvard University who was offered 2 very exciting internships – one for BCG in management consulting (plus, after this call he got an offer for Bain as well) and the other for a VC firm in New York.…
Since we’ve been back from hibernation, we’re getting flooded by emails – thanks for letting us in on your thought process as you ponder your futures! We’ve brought some of the best questions to you here…with our (hopefully insightful) responses.…
Today we continue our discussion on consulting summer internships. Part one on preparing for the internship here. Today is all about giving yourself the best change at getting a return offer after your summer consulting internship. As a summer intern,…
Last week, we thoroughly discussed consulting interviews. This week, the focus will be on the consulting summer internship – best practices before, during, and after your 3 months as a newbie consultant. The ultimate goal of any summer intern is…
Going from engineering to consulting is a great move. That’s why we’ve created a series on entering consulting from “non-business” backgrounds – other posts include entering from liberal arts/humanities degrees and non-MBA grad schools. It’s very common for engineers to…
Summer internships in management consulting are tough to find because there are so few. Some companies have just begun to expand their internship programs (eg, McKinsey) and some don’t hire summer undergraduate interns (eg, smaller boutiques). However, landing one is…