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Is Strategy Consulting fun? |
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this is correct. |
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08/21/2001 |
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that depends on who you know.
in many firms, it's the partners / top level managers who have the final say in the hiring process, even for incoming analysts, so if you know a partner, you're golden.
But if your only connections are friends from school (who're only a year or two older than you), then they will at best be able to get you an interview, but probably not an offer. In fact, many firms don't even use 1st years to conduct interviews, preferring to have MBA's or other mid level consultants do the cases (mostly because 1st years rarely have cases to talk about)
At any rate, most people who get into MC firms do so without connections, other than friends from school among the lower ranks |
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you are 100% correct, esp. that it depends on whom you know--more precisely, how much pull they have with whoever makes the hiring decisions in each particular firm. most analysts do get hired straight from school without connections, but at least at my company, almost all successful "experienced hires" know someone at the company who advocates strongly for their being hired. ledzep's original post indicated that he already has a "good MBA", so he's an "experienced hire." what i have written may be different at oc99's company, and it's certainly not so much the case in hiring directly from schools... even though networking can still be beneficial.
the partners who make these decisions have told me--and i have observed--that potential experienced hires have a slim chance of even getting an interview unless they know someone at the company OR unless their MBA is from hbs, wharton, kellogg, or stanford. this may or may not be true everywhere, but i suspect that it is true as a *general* (not universal) rule among top strat consulting firms. otoh, a c.v., cover, envelope, and stamp costs under $1, so why not try your luck?
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