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Bain Offices |
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geography doesn't matter, except one thing |
| Date Posted: |
01/11/2006 |
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As discussed below, it is extremely hard to get a job at Bain (or any consulting firm for that matter). Even if you have a 4.0 from Stanford, 1600 SAT, and are student body president, you still might not get the job. Apply to the city you want to live in and go from there. Applying to an office that you think might be "easier" might increase your chances by a marginal amount (think 5% instead of 3%). If you are good and Bain likes you, the office won't matter much. Just my thoughts after reading hundreds of resumes and interviewing many ACs... |
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halleujah, jon. So many applicants get stuck on this thing of which office is easier, which is meaningless. Fact is that 0-5% of applicants are shoo-in candidates who could get a job anywhere. 95% of applicants are good people but probably not what the firm needs, regardless of geography. There is almost no chance that any particular applicant is in that last 0-5% who are very borderline.
The only exception is people with specific language skills--think Dutch in Benelux or a Scandinavian language or Suomi in Stockholm--where the language skills might tip one into getting an offer in that particular office where the language skill is highly valued.
One should work where he wants to work most. People forget that they have to tell a story of why they want to work in a certain office (in the COVER LETTER), and a person from a Boston school with a girlfriend in SF who has family in Singapore will not be able to tell a convincing story of why they really want to work in Dallas.
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