Applications all submitted. 1st Round interview with McKinsey on Friday. Haven't heard back from the other firms yet.
"He describes for example, walking up a set of stark concrete stairs to a squat brick building in the suburbs - the headquarters of a businessman worth more than $100 million. He was invited in by a collarless man wearing jeans who was soon revealing a few recipes for his success; that he doesn't use a computer, doesn't read and that his best asset "by far" is not being educated. "But the more they talked, the more I realised that their stories, circumstances and their dilemmas were extraordinary," he says."
Looks like it might be an interesting read.
Applications all submitted. Now playing the waiting game.
Libya would place a total of $US2.7 billion ($4.8 billion) in escrow and compensation would be conditional. Each of three payments would be linked to decisions by the United Nations and the US Government to lift longstanding economic sanctions and to remove Libya from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. | source
All my applications will be in by Monday. Then first, second, and third round interviews all take place over a two week timeframe. I'm not sure whether I'm capable of getting an offer at this stage. I'm up against some pretty tough competition, and the industry's still fairly shakey, so it's possible they won't be taking on that many people here in Melbourne. I've decided to apply to five of the six firms that presented on campus last week: L.E.K. Consulting, Boston Consulting Group, Booz Allen Hamilton, McKinsey & Company, and Bain International. All of them are in the general field of management consulting, but they do tend to vary in terms of size, types of works, and methods of billing.
