Important Upcoming Consulting Events and Deadlines
I’ve tried to highlight for you some significant employer activity below. Always check Handshake for the most up to date info, but this should be a handy start. Good luck!
McKinsey, Business Analyst JOB due Sept 7: Apply here
McKinsey, Business Analyst INTERN for 2021 due Sept 13: Apply here
McKinsey, Sophomore Diversity INTERN, due Oct 4: Apply here
Brattle Group, Research Analyst JOB, due September 9. Apply here.
Kearney, Business Analyst JOB due Sept 10: Apply here
Kearney, Business Analyst INTERN for 2021, due Oct 4: Apply here
Seurat Group, Business Analyst JOB, due September 15. Apply here
Trinity, Life Sciences Associate Consultant JOB deadline is Sept 16. Apply here. Also plan to attend the info session on Sept 15. RSVP here
Kaiser Associates, Information session on September 22. RSVP here
Charles River Associates, Information Session on October 6. RSVP here
Stay tuned for more coming from Cadent Consutling Group, Compass Lexecon, Analysis Group and others.
Free, Virtual Consulting Bootcamp
Deloitte, Kalypso, and ModernGuild are teaming up to create a virtual Consulting Bootcamp Series for undergraduate students for FREE!
You will have the opportunity to learn critical industry skills while being able to connect with Deloitte and Kalypso virtually and gain insight into their business.
Consulting Bootcamp Series Outline:
- Candidate Enrollment – Present through September 3: Candidates enroll in the Consulting Bootcamp Series. If you have already completed your consulting profile, upon enrolling, await a notification on September 3 to RSVP for the individual bootcamp workshops.
- Attend Company Webinars – September 9 or September 10: Candidates attend webinars led by Deloitte & Kalypso practitioners. They will share insights on the business and give insights on the processes for being selected for available opportunities.
- Consulting Bootcamp – September 14 – September 26: Attend five, one-hour workshops taught by one of MG’s lead mentors to learn about key consulting topics including: case interviewing basics, market sizing, pricing and valuation, financial statement analysis. All bootcamp workshops include a Q&A session.
- Company Office Hours – Week of September 28: At the conclusion of the consulting bootcamp, select candidates will be invited to attend either 1:1 or small group office hours with Deloitte and/or Kalypso practitioners. Please note that office hours are invite-only with limited seats. To be eligible, you must update/complete your MG profile by September 3.
- Company Interviews: Depending on company needs, you may be selected to interview for an opportunity as early as November 3 stretching through late Fall. To be eligible, you must update/complete your MG profile by September 3.
McKinsey Info Session with 3 alumni on 8/27
Check out this McKinsey information Session with alumni talking about their work in consulting.
Thursday, August 27 at 4 pm EST.
This virtual event will be a conversation with several Midd grads to learn about the business analyst role and the journey they took after Midd. Both jobs and internships. Open to all students and all majors. Upcoming deadlines are in September so plan now to help yourself stand out in the application process. Check Handshake for the registration and Zoom link soon.
ClearPath Strategies – Fall consulting internship
ClearPath Strategies is a boutique research and consulting firm. Our mission is to promote game-changing leaders and progressive forces around the world who tirelessly strive to make life better for more people. We provide research-based strategic advice and campaign support to politicians, business leaders, and advocacy organizations around the world. We help good people do great things that impact people in a positive way, and we have fun doing it.
We are seeking mission-driven candidates with excellent communication and analytical skills; interest in politics, global affairs, and public opinion research; and a healthy intellectual curiosity. You will fit in and probably like this job if you like learning about new places and new issues; enjoy taking on different challenges and tasks each day; have a strong work ethic and can work with either limited or explicit instruction; can work in a non-traditional office environment (co-working space); can juggle multiple tasks of varying intensity and difficulty, simultaneously; share ClearPath’s mission; are able to perform at a quick pace and have flexible hours; have a sense of humor.
Apply now on Handshake here. This is an alumni sponsored opportunity.
Life Sciences Consulting Information Session
Monday, August 24th 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Artisan is hosting a virtual information session for students interested in pursuing a career in life sciences consulting. The session will include information on the day-to-day role of a life sciences consultant as well as the types of work that we do. During the session we will walk you through the general application and interview process for most consulting firms and give you some tips and tricks that can help you during these interviews. There will also be a Q&A session at the end of the presentation to make sure we answer all of your specific questions!
Organization: Artisan Healthcare Consulting is a management consulting firm that provides strategic insights to healthcare product companies. We bring expertise in some of the most complex healthcare markets and in quantitative techniques to evaluate our clients’ opportunities and performance. Artisan leadership has helped clients ranging from global pharmaceutical, biotechnology and device companies with billion-dollar brands to emerging, venture backed organizations that are just beginning to evaluate how to commercialize or partner their products. We are founded on the belief that a consulting company should exceed expectations – every time.
Check out this alum who works there: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriela-sanders/
Consulting job with summer 2021 start date
“Seurat Group is a boutique, data-driven management consulting and private equity firm with 20+ professionals specializing in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. Our name comes from Georges Seurat, the pointillist painter. As with pointillism, we integrate many points of cultural, behavioral and sales data, identifying insights to help our clients and portfolio companies see the “bigger picture.”
Seurat Group consists of two core branches, across which employees work fluidly (note, Business Analysts are being recruited to primarily support Consulting at this time):
Consulting: Our consulting work involves creatively integrating multiple lenses of insight to challenge conventional wisdom and provide guidance for future growth. Our clients include leading Fortune 500 companies in food, beverage, personal care/beauty, and other consumer products categories.
Capital: Our market expertise guides our private equity investments, and we provide our portfolio companies with the resources and strategic insight of our consulting firm to accelerate growth. We invest in and advise start-up “challenger brands” who are driving significant, exciting change in the industry.
In short, we create value for our clients through leading-edge creative thinking, providing the clarity to act and invest in the future.
Our Culture:
The Seurat Group is a young firm with a driven, yet informal, collaborative culture. We strive to provide hands-on training, room for career development, and opportunities to learn by working closely with senior members of the organization. The Managing Partners all come from strong CPG backgrounds and have 20+ combined years in the consulting arena working with large CPG firms such as General Mills, Kraft, Clorox, etc. Overall, we look for team members who embody our core values:
Drive for results
Can-do attitude
Collaboration
Entrepreneurial passion
If this sounds like you, we are currently looking for Business Analysts and Associates to join our team! Click here to apply in Handshake
Consulting Prep for the Fall
September is right around the corner and before you know it you’ll be back to school. Here are some ideas for you as you prepare for your job and internship search:
Network
This should not be a surprise to you, relationships matter. So either start or continue to reach out to alumni or other contacts. Not sure what to ask or how to reach out? Read this guide. Think about who you know, and consider asking for a referral to other people. Consider your affinity groups like maybe sports teams, music groups, clubs or other activities you are involved with. Midd2Midd is a good start (over 250 alums when you go to ‘industry’ of strategy/management consulting). And this LinkedIn alumni tool is very powerful with over 32,000 alumni in all industries.
Research and Target firms
Despite how great Middlebury is, we are not a target school where all firms recruit. This means you have to go to them directly and identify the career sites or Human Resource pages at firms that interest you. Some firms will post a job or internship on Handshake, but only a select few will actually come to campus to interview you. (or do so virtually this year). I just want your expectations to be clear.
Part of researching the consulting field is knowing the players beyond the big names like McKinsey, Deloitte, BCG and Bain. A huge resource to explore more and widen your perspective is the VAULT Guides. Click here to access in Handshake.
With all that said, here are 20+ firms that I suggest you keep on your radar now who have recruited at Midd in the past. Here at CCI we are working to get them to post a job or internship in Handshake or host a virtual event if possible:
- Oliver Wyman
- Kaiser Associates
- Analysis Group
- Cadent
- Kantar
- Compass Lexicon
- Charles River Associates
- Beacon Group
- Brattle Group
- Avascent
- Treacy & Company
- Clearview Healthcare Partners
- Clarion Healthcare
- Trinity
- Putnam
- AT Kearney
- Accenture
- Cornerstone Research
- Edgeworth Economics
- BTS
- Seurat Group
- Advisory Board
- GLG
- AlphaSights
- Third Bridge
- Bridgespan Group
Practice case interviews
These are a large part of the recruiting process for jobs, and internships too. Two resources to use to become more familiar with this style are ManagementConsulted and PrepLounge. Also those VAULT guides have case interview prep help as well. The consulting field is competitive, so making it to the first round past the resume review is a challenge, but where it really can make a difference is how you perform on these case interviews. Practice as much as possible. Click here to browse the resources.
Enjoy the rest of summer and I look forward to supporting your success in finding opportunities in consulting.
-Tim
McKinsey recruiting process details
Timeline/process:
- Application deadlines:
- Full-time Business Analyst (BA): September 7th
- BA Intern: September 13th
- Sophomore Diversity Leaders Internship: October 4
Feel free to check back here for any opportunities to connect virtually over the next few months.
1. Tips to Prepare
- Review the McKinsey Careers page here that reviews the qualities we are looking for in potential candidates. Make sure that your resume is reflective of the aspects of your background and experience that map onto these qualities.
- Focus on impact: When framing your previous roles and experiences, think about the impact as well as the tasks and responsibilities involved.
- Keep it to one page: Your resume should fit onto one page and highlight your most recent accomplishments and experiences. Everything that is on the page should be adding to your candidacy.
- Be yourself: The diversity of backgrounds and experiences in our people is what makes our firm unique. We are not specifically looking for certain majors or profiles, so we encourage all interested candidates to apply.
- Forgo the cover letter: Cover letters are not required. Unless you have a special circumstance (transfer, gap in education, etc), we recommend that you apply with only your resume and the online application.
2. How to Apply (for summer 2021 internships and start dates) – Our application process is very simple. All we require is a current copy of your resume and an unofficial copy your transcript. We will begin reviewing applications after each deadline and will reach out at that time.
- For graduation dates between December 2020 – August 2021; or students currently completing their final year in a non-business, 2-year master’s program with less than 3 years of work experience, please apply for the Business Analyst role here by September 7th at 11:59pm ET
- For graduation dates between December 2021 – August 2022, please apply for the Business Analyst Intern role here by September 13th at 11:59pm ET
- For graduation dates between December 2022 – August 2023, we do have a Sophomore Diversity Leaders Internship program (SDLI) that provides opportunities for Undergraduate candidates who identify as Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, and/or Native American. This internship provides students first-hand experience with consulting at McKinsey & Company. Please apply for the SDLI role here by October 4th at 11:59pm ET
3. Office Locations – All applications are screened on behalf of the Firm. However, we ask candidates to select up to three offices they are interested in. You can find more information on our offices here.
4. Connect – Be sure to visit our website to get to know a few of our colleagues and get the inside scoop on life at McKinsey.
5. McKinsey YouTube Channel & Recruiting Podcast
Here’s an overview of our newest releases:
Student Resources – resources for students who are interested in learning more about McKinsey’s recruiting process, the work we do, insights, and more.
What inspires McKinsey women? – personal stories from current and former colleagues about what brought them to McKinsey, why they’ve stayed, and how the firm has served as a springboard for their success
Leading a full life – a description of the tools and resources – from team learnings to Take Time – we provide to support our colleagues’ pursuit of full lives
The staffing process – examples of how our business analysts and associates work with their professional development manager, development group leader, and other mentors to join an engagement team
The benefits of becoming a business analyst. watch here
What do business analysts go on to achieve? watch here
Koby Altman ’04 – General Manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers
This futureforward segment features Koby Altman general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The 2016 NBA champions. Koby is a 2004 graduate of Middlebury College and an Alumni Trustee of the College. He is also on the National Board of Directors of the Posse Foundation, which identifies recruits and trains individuals with extraordinary leadership potential, providing full tuition leadership scholarship from Posse partner colleges and universities, including Middlebury. Koby is joining us to give us his vantage point on how the pandemic environment has affected his work, what the future outlook is for the sports entertainment field and what action steps current students may want to consider to position themselves to enter this field in the future.
Click here to access the interview and additional resources to gain insight about the sports entertainment field.
Impact Public Policy: Regional Economic Models is Hiring
Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI) is the leading provider of economic forecasting and policy analysis models. REMI’s analysis has guided public policy decisions on healthcare policy, national security issues and state tax legislation. Clients include government agencies, consulting firms and academic institutions. Established in 1980, we are a small firm based in Amherst, Massachusetts with extensive national and global networks.
REMI is excited to offer new remote positions for students interested in Economics, Marketing, Administration, and Software Development used to impact public policy.
REMI works with countless government agencies and consulting firms in their daily work and these positions expose employees to successful careers in public policy and software development through strong REMI leadership and focused guidance at all levels of the firm.
Deadlines are fast approaching – do not delay your application as candidates are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Deadline: August 6
Deadline: August 15
Deadline: August 17
Deadline: August 20
Deadline: September 6
Deadline: September 14
Deadline: September 20