Hi Daniel,

You still have an opportunity to secure a consulting internship. Dont get bogged down with where you are at right now. Keep your eye on the prize and remember: to be relevanted to consulting you especially at undergrad, you need to have relevant experience and preferably from a target school.

Focus on doing consulting pro-bono locally, see what opportunities are available for you to pick up skills that are relevant to your career as a consultant. You need to show your interest in business, especially since you have done education related work previously to make your profile attractive.

Feel free to message me if you need to think this through more!

Yousef

Hi Daniel, 

Q: Could either of these things help me in recruiting?

If the alternative is between the internships and the research paper, I would recommend picking one of the two job internships. Although none is directly linked to consulting, I believe having a proper internship could help to improve your CV more, and you might develop more useful skills.

Between the two, the experience abroad seems the most interesting and the one you would prefer, so I would probably go for it.

Good luck!

Francesco

Hi Daniel,

Don't worry. Sometimes it's not the most direct road that leads to your planned outcome.

I'd go for volunteering experience abroad as this is a. meaningful, b. exciting and c. can positively impact your consulting applications later on (in that order - don't optimize for consulting firms but experience and joy).

Meanwhile, keep your eyes open for other opportunities in the corporate/consulting space and start engaging with consultants and employees for referrals down the line.

All the best,

Florian

Volunteer work is actually a plus point in consulting applications in my opinion. The more serious the impact, the better your creds from that opportunity.

Volunteer work helps build your interpersonal capabilities and indicates a sense of responsibility, accountability, coachability, and not to mention a drive for doing impact-oriented work.

Consulting firms also actively engage in pro-bono consulting work and sustainability-focused work - and hence the connection.

Definitely a better choice v/s the research paper.

Consulting Internship > Business Internship > Non business internship > volunteering work > academic research > nothing.

If you want to land in consulting, securing the internship this summer is probably the best move.

Best,

Alberto