End of the second rigorous day of the Management Consultancy Bootcamp (MCB) with SBS in Oxford followed by a brilliant evening talk organized by the Oxford Business Alumni (OBA) in London. I am dead tired, but will summarize my take home for the day.
For MCB:
All the specifics, including the full video recording and presentation slides, will be made available to all students online via the careers portal. One thing is sure; the decision to pursue consulting is not to be taken lightly. Not only the process is hard, high travel times can potentially place very high demands on your personal life and health. Nevertheless, the bootcamp will enable the students to make a more sensible and well-informed choice. In fact, some students will be starting case interview practice (yes!) right from the coming Monday. Amazing speed.
For OBA event, I enjoyed the talk by an erstwhile Oxford alumnus. During drinks, I connected with four brilliant people, and not even one of them had done the MBA. And that is where I realized the reach of the University of Oxford. Anybody from Oxford with interest in business can be in your network, and I think that would really broaden the scope of networking and help all of us to leverage the Oxford brand more effectively.
Time to hit the bed. Tomorrow I am going for a Management Consultancy Career Fair in London, after which I shall finally shift to Oxford. Ciao!
For MCB:
- got a perspective about hiring from the people who actually do the recruiting (from LEK, Bain, IBM, Ernst & Young and PRTM)
- got a taster of written tests, fit interviews and case interviews. Received some pointers about handling case-based questions
- listened to the experience of the students from 2009-10 batch who got an offer from top consulting firms
All the specifics, including the full video recording and presentation slides, will be made available to all students online via the careers portal. One thing is sure; the decision to pursue consulting is not to be taken lightly. Not only the process is hard, high travel times can potentially place very high demands on your personal life and health. Nevertheless, the bootcamp will enable the students to make a more sensible and well-informed choice. In fact, some students will be starting case interview practice (yes!) right from the coming Monday. Amazing speed.
For OBA event, I enjoyed the talk by an erstwhile Oxford alumnus. During drinks, I connected with four brilliant people, and not even one of them had done the MBA. And that is where I realized the reach of the University of Oxford. Anybody from Oxford with interest in business can be in your network, and I think that would really broaden the scope of networking and help all of us to leverage the Oxford brand more effectively.
Time to hit the bed. Tomorrow I am going for a Management Consultancy Career Fair in London, after which I shall finally shift to Oxford. Ciao!
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