If you get denied at the application round for BCG, but have a good resume, whats the cool down period / recommended advice?

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Well if you got dinged why would you think you had a good resume? Sure it might be good for me and you but clearly BCG saw something lacking. So the real question is what do you think would have to change to make the outcome different?

Yup I absolutely understand that. But you’re making a big assumption here that you weren’t lucky. For all we know the computer screening was searching for something that’s missing in your resume or maybe it got past the screening but HR still for some reason said no.

I would seriously suggest calling on someone in your network currently at BCG and get them to take a look and potentially submit a referral (if you haven’t done that already) to rule out the luck component

Minimum 6 months.

Thank you! One more question: if I got dinged on application without a referral but then secured a referral later on, would this potentially circumvent the cooldown period?

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