Resources

Cawley Career Center

Appointments for industry guidance, career exploration, and practice interviews are available through Handshake.

Networking

Reach out to alumni through Hoya Gateway, Georgetown’s alumni page on LinkedIn, and Georgetown University’s Alumni Career Network.

Student Organizations

Georgetown offers a number of opportunities for Undergrad Hoyas to get involved in consulting. Check out Hilltop Consultants, Innovo Consulting, and DCivitas.

McDonough CareerView

Appointments for industry guidance, career exploration, and practice interviews are available through MCV.

Georgetown Graduate Consulting Club

The Georgetown Graduate Consulting Club (GGCC) is a graduate student organization welcoming graduate students and post-docs across disciplines at Georgetown University. GGCC brings Hoyas together to learn more about the consulting industry through career development and networking.

Networking

Reach out to alumni through Georgetown’s alumni page on LinkedIn and Georgetown University’s Alumni Career Network.

Student Organizations

In addition to the Graduate Consulting Club, join career-focused clubs that cover the functional areas that you are most interested in such as the Finance Club, Technology Club, the Healthcare Business Alliance (HBA) and the Human Capital Leadership Club (HCAL). 

McDonough Career Center 

Refer to Career Center Coach and Peer Advisor biographies in the Resource Library to familiarize yourself with the advisors and their areas of expertise.

McDonough CareerView

Appointments for industry guidance, career exploration, and practice interviews are available through MCV.

Networking

When beginning to conduct informational interviews, start with second-year, full-time MBA students who interned with the firm or students who have work experience at the firm, then first/second-year associates, then managers/senior managers, and finally partners and managing directors.  You will gradually build firm and industry knowledge and will be positioned to make the strongest impression on senior decision makers at the firm.

Student Organizations

The Georgetown Consulting Club (GCC) has an annual Case Interview Bootcamp which kicks off the club’s case interview training program which lasts the entire fall semester and culminates with the top 40 students having an opportunity to interview on-campus with Marc Cosentino for “Case Interview Certification.” The Case Interview Certification interviews are usually scheduled from Thursday – Sunday the week after Thanksgiving.

The GCC maintains a case book and has subscriptions to commercial websites as one of the club’s membership benefits.

Workshops

Attend David Ohrvall’s Crack the Case workshop and Marc Cosentino’s case interview workshop during the fall semester.  Register for these workshops is through MCV with David Ohrvall usually coming to campus in early October, and Marc Cosentino coming for his workshop in late October.

Career Days

Career Days are informational, “day-in-the-life” events with a specific industry or functional focus, including Marketing, Healthcare, Finance, Consulting, Entrepreneurship, Operations, and Energy. Students who participate in Career Days have the chance to discover new career paths and opportunities in their area of interest. Organized by the Student Organizations with oversight from the MBA Career Center’s Career Advisors, Career Days are normally scheduled on Fridays during the fall semester. Alumni and recruiters participate through panels, keynotes, roundtable discussions, and networking receptions. 

Career Treks

Student site visits to employer workplaces offer a unique supplement to the traditional on-campus information session, allowing the student to directly experience an employer’s workplace culture and interface with key executives. Treks have brought groups of 10 to 100 students to employer destinations including New York, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Boston, Hong Kong, Washington, D.C., and more. Advantages of participating in a trek include:

• Students observe the organization and culture first-hand.

• Treks allow students to position themselves as a select group of focused MBAs who have a demonstrated interested in the employer’s organization. 

• Treks are offered in a variety of locations throughout the year, allowing you to take advantage of multiple opportunities and experience a variety of business locales.   

The Consulting Trek takes place during Career Week in October and is geared towards first-year students who are interested in learning about consulting.  Employer locations are focused in Washington, D.C. and New York.  Past participating employers include Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG, IBM, Kaiser Associates, MorganFranklin and others. 

You can review generally publicized consulting industry information online.  Note that FirstHand resources require an @georgetown.edu login.

• Career Guide to Consulting – A must-read overview that discusses skills needed, types of consulting, the hiring process, and life on the job. 

• FirstHand overview of consulting industry:  A comprehensive summary of the Consulting industry, including industry structure and job market outlook. Within Vault, you may search for an overview of each practice area (e.g., Energy Consulting, Healthcare Consulting) for more tailored information. Login required. 

• ConsultingCase101.com: a repository of example cases sorted by case type, industry, and firm. 

• Consulting Bench

• Consulting Magazine

• The Economist

• Harvard Business Review

• Management Consulted

• PwC’s strategy+business

Building your Professional Image

• Business Wear 

These are just a few of the professional associations you may wish to explore or join.  Note that many have student memberships as well as publicly available resources about the profession.

• Academy of Management

• American Society for Public Administration

• Data & Marketing Association

• International Association of Registered Financial Consultants

• Institute of Management Consultants

• International Council of Management Consulting Institutes

• Professional and Technical Consultants Association

• Society for the Advancement of Consulting

• The Society of Professional Consultants