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Mysterio24
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03 Dec 2009, 12:07
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Hey guys, not sure if this is the right place, but I have been having issues getting full time employment as of now.
So like most college students, I applied like crazy to a wide variety of firms, and ultimately had final rounds with Deloitte, Accenture, and GE. I felt pretty good about all of my interviews, but unfortunately I did not receive an offer from either of the three I had final rounds with.
I have had my resume critiqued many many times, and I feel like it is pretty strong. My question is, where do I go from here? Many of the consulting/finance firms lock up their positions in the fall.
A little about me: Currently I am senior finance major at University of Maryland- College Park (Smith School of Business), pretty good GPA, and work experience at Sony, Thomson Reuters, and SAIC (did two projects with them). I also founded a club here and was president of my fraternity (as well as other things). So I feel as if I had a pretty good resume to work with.
Basically, my guess is should I start to network with people on LinkedIn, apply to websites, etc? Any advice on how to get my foot in the door on these top companies? I'm looking to get into consulting.
Thanks!
So like most college students, I applied like crazy to a wide variety of firms, and ultimately had final rounds with Deloitte, Accenture, and GE. I felt pretty good about all of my interviews, but unfortunately I did not receive an offer from either of the three I had final rounds with.
I have had my resume critiqued many many times, and I feel like it is pretty strong. My question is, where do I go from here? Many of the consulting/finance firms lock up their positions in the fall.
A little about me: Currently I am senior finance major at University of Maryland- College Park (Smith School of Business), pretty good GPA, and work experience at Sony, Thomson Reuters, and SAIC (did two projects with them). I also founded a club here and was president of my fraternity (as well as other things). So I feel as if I had a pretty good resume to work with.
Basically, my guess is should I start to network with people on LinkedIn, apply to websites, etc? Any advice on how to get my foot in the door on these top companies? I'm looking to get into consulting.
Thanks!
03 Dec 2009, 16:05
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Your strongest network will be the alumni from your school. If the school has an alumni database, I would start there and do some searches for people working in the consulting industry. You could then contact them with a friendly networking request. You should ask them if they would be willing to tell you about the industry and how to enter it. Do not approach them with a flat out request for a job. I'm sure there are some sample dialogs on the internet if you do a search.
Most alumni should be willing to talk to you if you approach them the right way. Good luck and don't get discouraged. You might need to pound the streets a little, but the job searching skills you learn in the process will be with you your entire career.
Most alumni should be willing to talk to you if you approach them the right way. Good luck and don't get discouraged. You might need to pound the streets a little, but the job searching skills you learn in the process will be with you your entire career.
03 Dec 2009, 19:54
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Hey Mysterio24
I may not be in a position to provide advice on opportunities in your specific location since I'm in Australia but out of my undergrad, many years ago, I secured offers from both Accenture and Deloitte. While I was working at one, I noticed that while they hire graduates every year straight out of college they also hire from a lot of other consulting firms and from industry. For example, my gf at the time was working in small 10 person accounting firm and she was offered a role in Deloitte after 2 years.
My advice if you are serious about getting into consulting would be:
- you mentioned you got to the final rounds - this means you probably have the contact of someone in HR that takes care of graduate recruitment. Unlike B-school apps most of these people are happy to provide you with feedback. I would find out why you were not offered and use it as constructive feedback. Also keep in touch with this person, every person in HR that I've known from a Big4 has gone on to work in HR in other big 4s or other prestigous firms.
- look at what you want to do - are you going for people, process or technology? are you trying to be aligned to fin services, media, telco, pharma etc? If you know where you want to be, I would consider jobs in those industries in functions that will allow you to transition to consulting. Also, do not discount smaller consulting firms, if you get into one of these firms you may not have the prestige of a big 4, but in msot cases your hands on experience will equal or be better than a big 4 where there are a LOT of other graduates out there. Your climb career in consulting may even be faster than if you were at a big 4.
- I really wouldn't be too upset about it. In hindsight, my friends and I all competed for the same roles, obviously we did not all get into the roles we wanted, some have gone on to do great things, others have also left consulting etc. So graduate recruitment is really only the first step.
good luck.
I may not be in a position to provide advice on opportunities in your specific location since I'm in Australia but out of my undergrad, many years ago, I secured offers from both Accenture and Deloitte. While I was working at one, I noticed that while they hire graduates every year straight out of college they also hire from a lot of other consulting firms and from industry. For example, my gf at the time was working in small 10 person accounting firm and she was offered a role in Deloitte after 2 years.
My advice if you are serious about getting into consulting would be:
- you mentioned you got to the final rounds - this means you probably have the contact of someone in HR that takes care of graduate recruitment. Unlike B-school apps most of these people are happy to provide you with feedback. I would find out why you were not offered and use it as constructive feedback. Also keep in touch with this person, every person in HR that I've known from a Big4 has gone on to work in HR in other big 4s or other prestigous firms.
- look at what you want to do - are you going for people, process or technology? are you trying to be aligned to fin services, media, telco, pharma etc? If you know where you want to be, I would consider jobs in those industries in functions that will allow you to transition to consulting. Also, do not discount smaller consulting firms, if you get into one of these firms you may not have the prestige of a big 4, but in msot cases your hands on experience will equal or be better than a big 4 where there are a LOT of other graduates out there. Your climb career in consulting may even be faster than if you were at a big 4.
- I really wouldn't be too upset about it. In hindsight, my friends and I all competed for the same roles, obviously we did not all get into the roles we wanted, some have gone on to do great things, others have also left consulting etc. So graduate recruitment is really only the first step.
good luck.
