McK resume screening

Why would that information be publicly available?

There are lots of useful resume tips online, such as here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/consulting/wiki/index/mcresume

If you want to improve the resume further, people here have offered to help before or you could send your resume to anyone you know that's working in consulting. I'm happy to provide my resume that was successful at McK via pm.

Hey there,

Never heard of this before tbh. Focus on what you can influence, which means focus on maximizing the impact of your resume by optimizing these themes:

• Academic achievements (e.g., top-degree, top university, top of class achievements,...)
• Experience abroad (career or university)
• Job experience (internships, working student, project assistant, all with reputable firms...)
• Extracurriculars (leadership experience, NGOs, student clubs,....)

Cheers,

Florian

Hello!

To my knowledge, this is not a universal truth, perhaps valid for some offices, but for sure not all. 

I would try to focus on what is in your hands in order to pass that filter: 

• Attention to detail
• Good template -PrepL has plenty-
• Good quantification of scopes and impacts

Hope it helps!

Cheers, 

Clara

Hi there,

Honestly, my understanding is it varies office to office.

Furthermore, while I understand your desire to understand this, I'd ask you: why does it matter? This changes nothing about what you do next. I highly advise you to focus your energy, thinking, and efforts on things you can control! It will serve you much better in the long run :)

Just like in a case, if you're asking a question that changes nothing about how you get to an answer or solve the objective, it's a question that wastes time and mental energy!

Hi,

It's not true for most of the offices, however, I can imagine a situation when the particular office implemented such a solution.

I can bet the most critical will be:

• School brand
• GPA (for fresh grads)
• Job brands

Best

Hi, what really matters is presenting with impact:
- international experiences
- working experiences
- academical achievements
- any professional sport experiences

Best,
Antonello

Two consultants screening every CV might be true in certain offices but that's definitely not true universally. There is a criteria but I would be greatly concerned if that was available publicly. A more pragmatic approach would be to get a a group of current/existing McKinsey consultants who have done the CV screening before to give you feedback.