Consulting

In collaboration with PhD Plus, the Graduate Consulting Club is hosting a virtual seminar series featuring current advanced degree consultants or recently applying/accepted graduate students. These seminars will cover:

In this session we will discuss tips and strategies to best frame your experience as a PhD student to tell a compelling story for why consulting may be a good fit. We will review some answers to the question “walk me through your resume”, as well as practice some more advanced mock networking drills.

In this session, we will explore a McKinsey style “interviewer led” case. We will also discuss more about case frameworks and case starts. As part of this session, we will dig even deeper into how case interviews are evaluated by reviewing an actual evaluation form used by a top management consulting firm.

Case interviews are becoming an increasingly prevalent part of the interview process. Once strictly a practice of management consulting firms, in recent years, case interviews have been more broadly used at firms like 3M, Google, Chevron, Microsoft, T-Rowe Price, and Proctor & Gamble.

This session will build upon some of the core concepts discussed during the case interviewing 101 session from last semester. While previous attendance in the 101 session will be helpful, it is not required.

Part I: Consulting 101

What is management consulting and how are many of the skills developed as a PhD student relevant to jobs within this industry?  This session will provide an overview of the management consulting industry and different functional focuses within the industry (e.g.

 Graduate Consulting Club (GCC ) at UVA invites you to Roadmap to Management Consulting Oct 10th , 2018; Wednesday 5–6:00 pm; Thronton Hall D221 

This session will start with a lesson on communicating like a consultant using a technique known as the Pyramid Principle.  This session will also build upon the intro to the case interviewing session from the previous week.  We will link some of the core concepts from the pyramid principle to case interviewing and demonstrate the impo