Recruiting Strategy
Networking, OCI, MBA timelines, lateral moves, and how to position yourself when you don't go to a target school.
The Week Before Your First-Round Interviews: A 7-Day Checklist
The last week before a first round is for consolidating, not cramming. A day-by-day plan covering your final mock, logistics, firm refresh, interview-day routine and the notes to take afterwards.
Asking for a Consulting Referral (and What to Do If You Already Have One)
A referral is a favor from someone who puts a little of their reputation behind you. Here is when to ask, how to make the request easy to forward, two short email templates, and what to do if you already have one.
The Two Weeks Before Fall Recruiting: What to Lock In Now (14-Day Checklist)
Two weeks is enough to lock in the things that fail on the day and fix one or two weaknesses, but not enough to rebuild your case skills. A 14-day checklist: documents, stories, mocks with unfamiliar partners, logistics, and a deliberate taper.
A Semester Playbook for Consulting Clubs and Career Centers
Most club case practice stalls because it is a calendar of events with no feedback loop. A fall-semester playbook for officers and career-center staff: baseline, level-matched pairs, one shared rubric, alumni mock days, and a way to see progress.
The Summer Before Recruiting: A Week-by-Week Consulting Prep Plan
Eight weeks, one finished deliverable per week: audit, resume, networking, frameworks and math, mock cases, fit stories, logistics, and a dress rehearsal. A plan for the summer before consulting recruiting opens.
Case Prep With a Full-Time Job: A Realistic 6-Week Plan
You have six to eight hours a week, not six to eight hours a day. A six-week plan built on short weekday drills and one long weekend session, with a theme for each week, a progress log, and a fallback for work travel.
The Consulting Cover Letter That Actually Gets Read
Most consulting cover letters are skim-read in under 20 seconds by a screener who has read a hundred this week. The ones that move past that filter are not the longest or the most polished. They are the most specific.
Networking for Consulting: 5 Cold-Outreach Patterns That Work
Cold outreach to consultants is mostly ignored — but with the right structure, response rates north of 30% are normal. Five templates and the structural rules that drive them.
International Consulting Recruiting: Europe, Asia, and the Reality of Cross-Border Moves
Each region runs its own recruiting clock with different language requirements, comp tiers, and cultural fit dimensions. A region-by-region breakdown for candidates considering offices outside the US.
The Lateral Path to Consulting: How Experienced Hires Actually Get In
Lateral hires now represent up to 25% of MBB intake. The application process looks similar but the bar is different — your industry expertise is the asset, not your case practice. A practical guide for the 3-to-15-years-experience candidate.
The Undergrad Consulting Recruiting Calendar: Sophomore Year to Senior Offer
Undergrad consulting recruiting is now decided 18 months before graduation. A month-by-month playbook from sophomore-year networking to senior-year offer signing — sized to the timeline that actually exists, not the one career services tells you about.
The Consulting Resume: What Actually Makes It Through the Filter
MBB recruiters spend 30 seconds per resume in peak season. What they look for is narrower than candidates think. The signals that move you to the interview pile, and the formatting choices that quietly kill applications.
The MBA Consulting Recruiting Calendar: Month-by-Month
Internship recruiting starts in August. Most candidates do not realize until October. A month-by-month playbook for what you should be doing — and what you should not be doing — from matriculation to offer.
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