Bain & Company My goal is to become a change management consultant. I finished my MBA in 2018. I have work experience - it's just not directly applicable. Yesterday I spoke with a former MBB recruiter who told me I had missed the hiring cycle for next year and would have to wait until they started hiring next summer for the following year. Is this a hard-and-fast rule? Does any hiring happen before then? Student Bain & Company McKinsey & Company Boston Consulting Group

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Not to be a dick, but just straight forward ,unless you have deep expertise in some special area, mbb uses the basic shortcut of mostly only recruiting from top 10 schools or so. I didn’t go to top 10, but maybe top 15-20 and mostly got in due to previous consulting experience.

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For campus recruiting….but you are done with that. We recruit constantly. People onboard every week. You have a bigger problem if what you have been doing is in no way relevant. Spin it.

So I actually am still working on my DBA but it won't be finished until 2024.
The experience I have is in business administration and management ie banking and as a director of a nonprofit. However, Covid and life changes have made it so that I can finally pursue consulting.

Hiring graduates is on a cycle, but hiring experienced professionals is not

I’ve never seen a dba at mck. Where you going to school at ?

I think only a few of the top MBA schools offer DBA.

I'm doing my DBA through Liberty, it's where I did my MBA as well.

I have recently seen people joining Bain with absolutely no consulting or Strategy background. Until you are connecting the dots with your passion, you’ll be fine

I’ve seen full time MBAs who did everything but consulting /strategy for a few years and then join Bain

You went to Liberty University and you want to work at MBB? 1) not a target school, not even close 2) MBB are by far the most liberal of the consulting firms. We are proud of our diversity, especially welcoming towards all sexualities and gender expressions. The first time you treat one of your colleagues differently because of your evangelical lunacy you will find yourself persona non grata. We do not put up with that bullshit.

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