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The Consulting Career Goal, Written by Someone Who Hired For It

The Consulting Career Goal, Written by Someone Who Hired For It

Offered by Ashwin | MBB Prep Coach S.

4.96

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I did my MBA at INSEAD and I interviewed candidates for INSEAD.

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Studied at INSEAD

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Description

Admissions teams have read thousands of essays from candidates who want to move into consulting. The weak ones name the industry. The strong ones show that the candidate understands the job and has a credible path into it. I spent years making consulting hiring decisions at Bain. In two sessions, we build your goal backwards from the real role: firm, office, practice, recruiting path, and the gap the MBA must close. Then I challenge the goal the way an alumni interviewer will. You leave with a consulting goal that is specific enough to believe and strong enough to defend.


What you'll get from this package

A consulting goal built backwards from the real role, not from the brochure

A defensible answer to "why that firm and not the other two"

A fallback position that reads as maturity rather than doubt

Stress-testing under the follow-up chain an interviewer will actually use


Ashwin | MBB Prep Coach S.

Offered by Ashwin | MBB Prep Coach S.

Joined June 2024

4.96

I did my MBA at INSEAD and I interviewed candidates for INSEAD.

Many candidates applying to INSEAD, London Business School, Oxford and Cambridge are doing so with one clear goal: to move into consulting. Yet that is also where many applications quietly become generic. Admissions committees have read thousands of versions of: “I want to transition into strategy consulting.” They can tell very quickly whether you genuinely understand the career you are describing, whether the goal makes sense given your background, and whether your story is credible. I bring a perspective that most admissions coaches cannot. As a Bain manager and interviewer, I spent years evaluating candidates and deciding who was ready to join the firm. Today, as an INSEAD alumni interviewer, I sit on the admissions side of that same journey. That means I can help you with two things in particular. First, I can tell you how your career goal sounds to someone who has actually hired for that role — and help you make it specific, credible and commercially grounded. Second, I can prepare you for the school interview from the perspective of someone who actually conducts these interviews. Around that, we do the core admissions work properly: building the right school shortlist, sharpening your CV, developing essays that tell one coherent story rather than five disconnected ones, and giving you an honest assessment of where you stand before you spend weeks writing applications.

Coaches professionally

$399

2h of coaching

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