The Best Internships Before Consulting: A LinkedIn Analysis of What Consultants Did
Experience is of the utmost importance for consulting professionals. And while internships are not the only way to gain work experience, they tend to be the most accessible option for undergraduate students who want the hands-on training firms are seeking in applicants.
However, not all internships are created equal. Students must choose a position that aligns with their interests, academics, and, most importantly, professional goals. But which one is best? You may be inclined to commit to any position in a large firm, but what if you receive multiple offers? Is it possible to get a top consulting job after graduation without having completed an internship?
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The Best Extracurriculars for Consulting: An Analysis of LinkedIn Profiles
Setting the foundation for a career in consulting begins long before your first position at a firm.
But not every extracurricular makes sense for a future consultant. While there are many activities to choose from, you want to dedicate your time to the one or two that resonate the most with admissions offices and recruiters. Which ones? It’s easy to say “the one you feel like doing,” but what if you are open to many things? Are some activities objectively better than others?
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What Do Elite Colleges Advise Their Undergrads To Get Into Consulting
Consultants are in high demand. If you’re considering starting your career in consulting, now’s the time to begin making a strategy and outlining your goals. After all, as you know, the supply of talented individuals in this field is resulting in a highly competitive application process.
But where should you begin? There’s lots of information online, but one has to constantly wonder about who is right. One unique approach that we think is possibly the best is to look at what career advisors tell their students — specifically the advisors and other administrators at elite institutions.
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Getting a Consulting Internship or Job: What the Top 3 Firms Officially Say They Want
One of the most intimidating steps in your consulting career can simply be getting your foot in the door. This can be especially true when applying for a position at the top three management consulting firms: BCG, Bain & Company, and McKinsey & Company. The demand for talented, driven individuals results in a highly competitive application process, where proper preparation and quick thinking can give you an edge over other candidates vying for the same position.
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Finding Aerospace and Aviation Internships in a Post-pandemic World
For university students and undergraduates who are jumping into the world of aviation and aerospace, an internship is often a big part of being ready to start a career in the field. The good thing about aerospace and aviation is that they’re so vast and long-term oriented that the career opportunities in them will be there for those determined to find them. This is regardless of subfield within aviation, be it engineering, manufacturing, planning, and expansion, or another area.
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What It's Like To Work As An Intern On Management Consulting Projects
The world of a top-tier consulting firm can sometimes seem like a strange and challenging place. It’s a world populated almost entirely by those who are exceptionally talented, analytically capable, and determined to produce an excellent product for their team and clients. Being surrounded by people with such determination, discipline, and talent can certainly have a positive effect on you, but sometimes it can feel overwhelming, and the challenges seem insurmountable.
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The 3 Pillars for Landing Consulting Internships
A critical element of looking ahead into the world of consulting internships in 2021 and 2022 is seeing how the firms will be looking at you. In the world of education, it might be easy to simply look at grades, assignments, and other convenient measurements of success and think that you’re a shoo-in. However, firms are going to look at accomplishments and skillsets with much more nuance than a typical classroom, even though grades do matter.
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Top 25 Schools for Beacon Fellows as ranked by MBB Project Leads
Texas, Harvard, Vanderbilt, Santa Clara, UPenn & Cornell top the rankings, with schools like Washington St. Louis, Williams, Princeton & Tulane rounding out the top 10.
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"The Beacon Fellowship Changed My Life"
Before I started Beacon, I was basically lost and confused. Then, after the accident I didn't even want to come because I felt I couldn’t put myself out there. But Beacon taught me so much; I’ve figured out at least where to start…
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Real Consulting with Beacon: Article in the Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson reported in 2014 that almost 15% of the graduating Harvard class worked in consulting immediately following graduation – fairly large numbers for an industry that eludes definition for most students.
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Management Consulting: Your Chance to Succeed
Last week, The Beacon Fellowship hosted a webinar with a Stanford MBA and BCG alumnus who walked viewers through the basics of consulting and shared his insights on consulting as a career.
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Meaningful Impact: Consulting with Beacon for The Salvation Army
I’ve worked with Beacon for one year. I’ve spoken with thousands of students, parents, faculty members, and consulting firms during this time. I participated in our 4-week program in Madrid, learning consulting under a Bain alumnus, which also happened to be my first time out of the United States.
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Learning from a McKinsey alum in the heart of Spain
Tess, one of Beacon’s Admissions Coordinators, went to Spain for the first time on our Madrid Winter Beacon Fellowship at Airbus. Here she chronicles her experience!
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Trine University student succeeds as Beacon Fellow in Rome and encourages others to embrace new challenges
Is imposter syndrome holding you back from an exciting opportunity? Take the advice of Kendra Perkins, a senior management major at Trine University. Trine recently featured her, spotlighting her experience on The Beacon Fellowship in Rome last winter. Maybe now is the time to overcome your fears and tackle a new adventure.
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A Brief History of MBB Consulting
150 years ago, the phrase “management consulting” had little to no meaning. Yet today, McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are famed far and wide for their expertise in business transformation of all kinds. Where did they start? We’ve put together a short history of the Big Three (and their predecessors).
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The Beacon Fellowship Joins the AACSB Business Education Alliance
The world’s leading business school accreditation organization, the AACSB, has approved The Beacon Fellowship to join its Business Education Alliance. The Beacon Fellowship will work closely with prominent business educators to strengthen their training and development programs while helping to ensure that the world’s highest-quality institutions continue to equip high-potential leaders with the skills needed to build a more prosperous future.
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From English to Engineering: Consulting for Non-Business Majors
While management consulting is often the go-to career for business majors, your suitability in consulting is more a function of your skills than the major on your diploma, and there are many ways to learn key consulting skills outside of a business major. Sure, the business jargon associated with consulting may intimidate those unfamiliar with it, but many habits and skills developed outside of a business major have surprising applications in consulting.
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Three Skills to Take Away from a Career in Consulting
Consulting has many benefits that are widely recognized: exposure to elite clients across a wide breadth of industries, a steep learning curve, and a hefty salary. Isn’t it just prowess in Excel and PowerPoint and stellar networking abilities that allow one to succeed in consulting and receive these benefits? Far from it! Here are 3 valuable skills which entry-level consultants develop and which make consulting so sought-after.
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Ten famous CEOs who started in consulting
Some of the greatest entrepreneurs and business leaders started in management consulting, which is a testament to the great preparation consulting provides for business leadership broadly.
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Beacon Fellows Report Progess on Consulting Core Competencies
Students who completed a Beacon Fellowship abroad in Summer, 2019 report advancing significantly in the development of the knowledge, skills and behaviors required of successful management consultants.
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