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Advice for an MBA summer intern worried about chances for a full-time offer

Categories: Business School, career, career path, consulting, internship, mba, professional advice, recruiting

Hey, folks. The email below came to me from a rising second-year MBA student from a top program, who is currently in the middle of a summer Management Consulting internship with one of the MBB firms. He has reached out to me because he recently had his mid-summer performance review and the feedback that he received was not positive. Now, he’s worried that he won’t get an offer st the end of his internship and he’s worried that it’ll impact his candidacy when going into the full-time recruiting process in the Fall.

This isn’t a situation that I’ve faced myself, … Read the rest

Questions from a college Freshman interested in Management Consulting

Categories: Business School, career, consulting, internship, professional advice, recruiting

The message below is from a reader who has just completed her first year in college and is interested in getting a job at a Big 3 Management Consulting firm when she graduates in a few years. She is seeking my advice on some options for college majors that would position her well to attract the attention of these firms in the recruiting process.

As I’ve mentioned before, I really like it when kids are thinking about career issues this early in the game. I hope my tips were helpful to her.

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KT wrote:

Hello!

I just wanted to

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Question from a college junior targeting a Management Consulting internship

Categories: Business, career, career path, consulting, internship, professional advice

Hi, everyone! For those of you in the United States, I hope you’ve all had a great Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

The email below is from a Junior at Stanford University who is seeking my advice on how to best position himself to get an summer internship offer from a top Management Consulting firm. He emailed me at the end of the summer, but I didn’t have a chance to respond to him until a couple of weeks ago. I’m pretty sure that I got my advice to him in time for it to be useful for the upcoming summer internship … Read the rest

MBA student targeting Big Three consulting with some challenges

Categories: Business School, career, career path, consulting, internship, mba, professional advice

The email below came from a first-year MBA student who is interested in pursuing a summer internship with a Big Three consulting firm (McKinsey, Bain, or BCG) as the start to a career in emerging market consulting. In his email, the student stated that a potential issue for him is his low undergrad grades, which he plans to address either verbally or with a cover letter.

This was a tough email to address because I actually noticed a different big issue than the one that he described in his email. It took me a while to figure out how to … Read the rest

Internship search tips for a soon-to-be MBA1 student

Categories: Business School, career, internship, mba, professional advice, recruiting

What’s good, folks. I hope you’re all doing well. The email below is from a soon-to-be first-year MBA student that I met randomly a couple of years ago. At the time, he was just considering applying to business school, so I was pleasantly surprised to see an email from him saying that he had been admitted to school and would be starting soon. He wrote to me seeking advice on how to find an internship and, asmy long-time readers know, I have a LOT to say on that topic.

After watching my video response, I realize that this is one … Read the rest

Useful article: “100 best job sites for B-school students”

Categories: Business School, career, interesting articles, internship, job search resources, mba, other blogs, other sites, recruiting, U.S. economic crisis

Given the tough job market, I’ve been posting quite a few job-related articles lately. This entry presents one more to the reader community. It comes to us from the team at OnlineCollege.com and lists the 100 best job sites for business school students. I know it’s a hard battle to find a full-time job or internship at business schools across the world, so this list is VERY useful and VERY timely. I hope this article is helpful to those of you in search of the right employment opportunity.

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“100 Best Job Sites for B-School Students”
Author: OnlineCollege.com Source: http://www.onlinecollege.org/2010/01/06/100-best-job-sites-for-b-school-students/… Read the rest

Some words of advice for an MBA1 student experiencing internship recruiting issues

Categories: career, case interview resources, consulting, internship

What’s good, y’all. You know, I just realized that I’ve been making blog postings at a decent rate so far in the month of March. Part of that is because I’ve been posting emails/comments from readers and haven’t had to think through responses for them, but it’s still good to be making regular updates. Plus, I’ve had much more time to just kick back and chill since starting my new job, which makes it a little easier to address reader emails…good thing too because my email backlog is ridiculous right now.

The message below is from a first-year MBA student… Read the rest

Request from a college freshman for advice on moving into Consulting

Categories: career, consulting, internship

Hey, people. I’m typing this entry from about 35,000 feet in the air on a flight to Chicago after spending the weekend visiting my family back in the great state of Virginia. It was a really quick trip, but it was nice because I’ve found myself wanting to get back there more as I get older. Plus, it’s nice to just sit around and be a bum for a few days. I did have to grind on stuff for work while I was there, but it’s a heck of a lot quieter doing it waaay out in the country in… Read the rest

Finding an internship with an "empty resume"…and an update

Categories: career, internship, professional advice, recruiting, U.S. economic crisis

Hello all, I hope you’re all getting ready to take a few days off for the Thanksgiving holiday and do some serious damage to your diets by overeating all weekend long

I’m always a big fan of Thanksgiving because it is a chance for all of us to gather with our families, friends, and loved ones to reflect on life and the things for which we should all be thankful. It may seem like there’s nothing to be thankful for with the current global economic crisis, but the fact that we’re living and breathing is always a reason to celebrate.… Read the rest

Question from an undergrad about choosing a management consulting specialty

Categories: Bschool admissions, career, consulting, internship

Wow, y’all know I really like getting emails from undergrad kids who are being thoughtful about their road to an MBA while in college. I wish I’d had such forethought back in the day, so I always get an extra kick out of responding to their emails. The reader below seems to be in the process of building a really strong background and is looking for some advice on how to further direct that effort.

One of these days, I’ve got to get a job in a business school’s admissions office because I truly wonder what they think and talk… Read the rest

Questions from a reader planning for 2009-10 application cycle

Categories: application process, Bschool admissions, career, consulting, internship, recruiting

Hello, all. The email below is from a business school aspirant with a background in manufacturing consulting who has questions about how he should approach the application process. In fact, he even typed up a 1.5 page description of his background to provide additional context to me. I won’t copy that into this post, but I was surprised to see the amount of detail in his description. Along with this profile description, he asked me a list of questions, each of which could be an entry within itself, that have led me to make a statement/request for the readers of… Read the rest

Making productive use of the summer before starting business school

Categories: Bschool experience, career, internship, pre-mba summer, transition

What’s good, y’all. The email below is from a reader who will be starting his MBA journey in the fall and is looking for advice on how to best use this summer. Unfortunately, he sent his email to me about a month and a half ago and I haven’t been able to get to it until now. I hope my response got to him early enough to help him…and I hope I’m posting it early enough to help anyone out there with the same sort of question.

As always, I what I’ve written is just the way I thought through… Read the rest

Tips for those starting internships

Categories: career, consulting, internship

What’s going on, y’all. It seems like forever since I’ve posted an entry, but it isn’t because I’ve been ignoring the reader emails in my Inbox. It just seems that many of the most recent messages have been asking very specific things, so I’ve been giving individualized responses without posting them on the site.

After being away from the posting game for so long, I figured I should add a post so you guys wouldn’t forget about me. Rather than using this space to post an email response, I thought I’d share some advice that I gave to a friend… Read the rest

Basics of a self-guided internship search

Categories: career, internship, mba, recruiting, transition

Hello all. The email below is from a young lady who didn’t give me a whole lot of info about herself but is looking for guidance on how to find an internship. Normally, I can come up with some good advice because the writer has given me a lot to go on, but, in this case, I had to keep it extra general to make sure it fit her needs. I hope this general advice is useful to her and possibly others who are in her situation.

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NP wrote:

“Hi ,

I am ‘NP’,I have come fro India currently… Read the rest