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How Picky Are Consulting Firms With Candidate CVs & How Can You Sneak In?

How Picky Are Consulting Firms With Candidate CVs & How Can You Sneak In?

We're not here to tell you that a CV is crucial for Consulting roles as it is a known fact. However, the aim here is to emphasize its importance. Over 60% of applicants are estimated to be rejected during the initial screening stage and the top 3 consulting firms - McKinsey, Bain & BCG have less than a 5% of acceptance rate. That means your chances of getting into top Consulting firms are at stake with the quality of your resumes.

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10 Most Frequently Asked Corporate Finance Job Interview Questions & Their Best Answers!

10 Most Frequently Asked Corporate Finance Job Interview Questions & Their Best Answers!

A career in corporate finance allows you to be at the heart of how a corporation runs and grows. It is the function that helps the organizations arrange funds for the expansion, acquisition, and sales of businesses. If you enjoy working with numbers and possess good analytical skills, this field is for you. Now, you’ll most probably be clueless about what are the questions that are asked in Corporate Finance job interviews and how you should prepare for such interviews! In this article, there are 10 frequently asked Corporate Finance interview questions (both basic & advanced) and their answers that you should prepare for before your interviews.

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You Can Change How B-School Recruitment Takes Place

You Can Change How B-School Recruitment Takes Place

As a B-school student, how do you figure out a company's culture, the number of people they are hiring, what scope you can have when you join and how the job landscape is shifting? An easy answer could be LinkedIn or the quintessential ‘I ask my seniors and I network’. Some of you might also say you read us and watch our videos ;)

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Questions Asked During Placements By Top Recruiters - InsideIIM's Placement Prep Series

Questions Asked During Placements By Top Recruiters - InsideIIM's Placement Prep Series

Now that you have entered your dream B-School, the first major professional milestone that you should look forward to is your Summer Placement. You will now be competing with some of the best talents in the country to get an internship in your Dream Company. With Summer Placements, unlike popular opinion, companies are not looking to just hire interns but potential future hires. It reduces efforts for them, summer interns who become full-time employees have acquired the culture fitment and their induction can be shorter. Hence, Summer Placements become your shorter, smarter, and easier fork in the professional road. But how do you prepare for it? Don’t worry we are here to help you.

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Questions Asked By Sales & Marketing Companies During Placements

Questions Asked By Sales & Marketing Companies During Placements

One of the most popular domains B-school students want to get into is Sales and Marketing. Marketing summer internship interviews are typically focused on questions around the individual’s profile, projects undertaken, questions around GTM strategies for a particular brand and general HR questions to ascertain the culture fit.

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How To Frame CV Points For Summer Placements | Varnika Chaturvedi, IIM K Co'23

How To Frame CV Points For Summer Placements | Varnika Chaturvedi, IIM K Co'23

Congratulations to everyone who’ve just begun their journey in a B-school.  The last few months must have been a whirlwind of studying for competitive entrance exams, and practising for so many interviews that now that you've arrived at your ideal B-school, you’d think it’s finally time to relax. Voila! Here is your first lesson in the MBA lifestyle: a crazy, demanding, and gratifying experience that puts you on the frontlines from day one. But have no fear, as you move through Term I, I will offer my personal tips and tactics in this post series and be available to answer any questions you may have.

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