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How many hours do you work per day at the Middle East office? I know it depends on the project but I just want to have an idea and compare it with where I am from

Hello everybody,

While networking, a partner looped in the recruiter, and the recruiter told me to apply on the website and gave me all the details and explained the whole procedure, and told me that she looks forward to my application.

Should I consider this as a referral or is this just a generic email and will not have much impact on my application.

Looking forward to your thoughts.

Hello,

Yesterday I had my final round of interviews, one went great no mistakes (9/10) there was empathy and the interview even lasted 20 mins more than scheduled because we kept talking. However the other one was not great, the guy was not responsive, texting the whole time and I had a couple of mistakes (6/10).

I would like to know, what are the odds now and when should I be expecting a reply.

Thanks

Hi, has anyone heard back from the Partner Interview of the Graduate Program at PwC Middle East? What is the usual waiting time?

Thank you

Hi guys,

I recently got two offers from Accenture Strategy and LEK in Munich. I am a bit torn between the two options.

I know that LEK is very good in LS projects, they cover a wide range of projects (M&A, PE, Corporate Strategy, Portfolio Mgmt, Market Access, Organisation etc.) and they have mainly international projects. On the other hand, Accenture Strategy has developed a lot in the last few years and they are also quite strong in LS.

Do you have any specific recommendations/ insights you can share on this? What would you guys choose?

Thanks a lot in advance!

If someone submits a referral for me after I've submitted the application, will it not be counted at all towards my application?

XX January 2021

Dear Hiring Manager,

I am excited to apply for the Junior Business Analyst at XX office.

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I am a bilingual MBA Graduate from Tel Aviv University, where I completed an exchange semester with ESCP Europe Business School, leading a consultancy project to define financial services industry intellectual property trends. In addition as someone who has lived and studied in multiple countries (studying in Cyprus, Tel Aviv and London) I understand the commitment required to live and work away from home.

Throughout my academic studies and professional experience, I have developed key skills in these areas:

• Achieving results - I led a team of five for a consultancy project where we developed a go-to-market strategy for a US-based global patent database provider seeking to penetrate the financial industry. Our recommendations were well-received by the client, having conducted extensive market research, analysed and identified intellectual property trends and gained stakeholder validation.

• Problem-Solving - While working at Pishiris Farm, we wanted to establish a brand and create a direct point of sales just outside the operations. To understand if this was a good idea I first did a focus group to identify if there is a market gap and what the market value and the challenges were. Secondly, I did on the ground research and I was analysing the traffic flow to estimate the demand/potential buyers. My last initiative was to create a financial model in excel to understand if it was financially feasible. Having identified the market gap and by providing the financial model, we were able to disrupt the market with a farm to fork shop and increase the sales of the business by 100%.

• Leadership and teamwork - The time I spent as a Special Forces Sergeant in the Cypriot National Guard enabled me to develop both leadership and team working qualities to succeed in challenging environments and respond well under pressure. The experience taught me that collaboration, deliberate communication and leveraging peoples’ potential can lead to positive and effective results. Having lived and studied in multiple countries, I have also developed an ability to quickly adapt to environmental and cultural differences.

I look forward to hearing from you and appreciate your consideration.

Yours faithfully,

I'm interviewing with a Tier2 consulting firm. The first and second round were two interviews each (every interview was 1 h fit+case) with junior level consultants of 2-3 years tenure. I passed both of them.

The second round went so well that I expected to receive either an offer or one final interview with a partner. Though, HR informed me that I passed the second round, and the final round would be 4(!) interviews with principals and partners, plus an analytical test.

I'm by no means lazy, I really enjoy solving cases and look forward to get to know the leadership team of my potential future employer, but I've never heard of a consulting interview process consisting of 8 interviews + analytical test in total.

Should I perceive this as a rather bad sign? My suspicion is that either I got a borderline pass in both rounds and they want to second-check several aspects, or they want to dig deeper on my motivation to join their office (particularly because it is a small office in a geographical region I have no ties to).

Hello everybody,

I can see hiring going on in the US but not sure if they sponsor visas for international candidates at the moment.

I have seen coaches who have mentioned on this platform that it would be extremely difficult to get visa sponsorship and to apply to a country where a candidate has strong ties. While networking a partner told me that it would be difficult if I do not have a US visa. However, on the other side, another partner from a different office has looped in HR and he told me that the visa thing will not impact my application.

Not sure what is true here?

Has anybody got into US offices of any consulting firm got visa sponsorship or has any coaches who have coached a particular candidate who got the US visa sponsored by the office recently?

Hello all,

I recently applied to Bridge to BCG -- I got rejected from the program but BCG still offered me a first-round interview! I was hoping to use Bridge to narrow down my choice of offices, but now I have to quickly decide (over the next couple of days) which offices to apply to.

My broad question: can people give me an overview of the North American BCG offices in terms of quality/size/difficulty of being selected/concentration of projects?

Any information is very much appreciated!

Best,

Lucio