Advice for pursuing MBB role *after* business school

Hi Anonymous,

what is your goal in terms of career path? Unless you want to become an MBB partner, there may be ways to reach your goal even without an experience at MBB.

If you still want to land an MBB offer I would consider the following options:

• Apply to tier 2 companies – an offer there will probably help more than the Fortune 30 company to land an invitation in the future. Could also be a good backup plan if you want to stay in consulting if your MBB applications won’t work again
• Join the Fortune 30 company and reapply later with the referrals. The ban is usually 2 years, you may ask your contacts if they could consider a new application earlier

Obviously you can also apply for McKinsey if not done already.

Best,

Francesco

As far as I understood now in BCG Dubai are hiring many people with very high salary even though you did not get an offer from other BCG offices, of course if you are interested to move there.

Just an advice, before taking my MBA my only goal was enter one of the MBB. Unfortunately after some years in consulting I realized that consulting, in most of the cases, is a short experience (average 2-3 years) and then you have again to find a job. An expereince in a top 50 fortune company right after the MBA can be even more fruitful because you avoid finding an other job after 2 years and an MBA can help you to skip middle managment roles by entering a company in higher level (in most of the cases MBA program to train future C-level) without spending 2-3 years in consulting to get the same job.

Hi,

First of all - don't set it as an overarching goal - it may appear to be not worth it. The average tenure at MBB is 2 years for a reason

Secondly - you can reapply in a year, ideally with a referral. Spend this year on prep.

Finally - check the list of countries where you can legally work. There are some countries that have local recruiting and the global reject does not apply there.

You can also try second-tier consulting (e.g. Strategy& has comparable post MBA salaries)

Best