Hi everyone. My name is Elaine Lu. I am a career readiness coach at Cornell Career Services. Thank you for joining me today as I go over a demo of understanding different resources available to Cornell students when it comes to navigating those consulting careers. My office is located at Barnes Hall. You can always schedule appointment with me whether it is in person or virtual. The first resource that I want to talk about is the career development toolkit. This is available on Canvas as a student, alumni, faculty or staff member. As long as you have a Cornell net ID, you can access the career development tool kit. Essentially, this is a one stop shop for anything related to career development or career readiness. You can self enroll by utilizing our link, which is Cornell- I'm sorry, which is career.cornell.edu/toolkit, or you can scan this QR code. We have modules related to resume, cover letter, job search. Understanding that application process as well. All these modules are go at your own pace. There's no deadline or due date. We do have some industry specific module, and to be more specific, we do have a consulting module that talks more about what is consulting, how to prepare for that role or industry and additional resources. Some of those resources that I'm going over today is from the consulting module that you can find, and I highlighted a few of my favorites when it comes to advising students. Within this slide, I took a screenshot of the consulting module table of content, so you can really see what is discussed on this specific module. So what is consulting? What is it like to be a consultant? What's the day like? What is the recruiting timeline? How do you find opportunities? How do you prepare for recruitment? What is expected during the interview process, and some frequently asked questions. As mentioned, there's a lot of tips and tools related to consulting available to you as a student, and I took a screenshot on the right side of the PowerPoint slide. So you have the idea of what are the available links or resources accessible to you. The first resource that I want to introduce is Case Coach. This tool provides comprehensive support to students throughout their consulting internship and full time job application process. From resume, cover letter, fit, and case interviews, to log into Case Coach, you want to utilize the Cornell link, which is casecoach.com/cornell or you can scan this QR code. When logging in, you really want to click on the log in with single sign on button. And utilize your Cornell net ID. Once you click on the single sign in button with your net ID, you can access all the available resources to you. Once you log in Case Coach, the first thing you'll see is the home page. This feature on the home page is to allow you to generate a personal preparation plan. This is optional, but recommended. So once you click on the generate rate plan button, you will be- they'll asked you to complete a form to indicate your learning and career goals, what is your timeline, what is your experience, and what is your time commitment and additional information? Once you complete that form, they will generate a personal preparation plan based on your timeline and experiences. So as you can see in this example, I generated a plan and it gave me or it recommended me to complete this plan within 69 days to reach my goals. And I expressed that I only have about 45 minutes to 1 hour each day to study or to prepare for casing. So as you can see, they broke it down to 43 minutes for July 24, and they listed out certain tasks for me to complete, whether it's watching some videos, doing some sample problems. And everything here once you generated, it's based on your timeline of what you indicated. Once you go on Case Coach, you'll see the menu bar So within the my courses menu tab Once you click on it, or once you hover over it, you'll see different topics ranging from recruitment essentials, application materials, case interview prep, behavior or fit interview prep, to case math The case math is a really good course to visit if you're coming from a liberal arts background, or if you just wanted to practice more on those business map skills. All these courses are go at your own pace, and within each course, there's video lectures and slide decks. This next slide is the interview prep course. I wanted to enter one of those courses, so you all have a visual of what it looks like. As you can see, there's a video of introducing the interviewing process with strategy firms. And on the left side menu bar, you can see a overview, and they also break it down to what are the specific skills the interviewer looks for in a candidate. So we see structuring, numeracy, judgment, insight, and creativity, case leadership, and synthesis. So they really break down each process and each step for you. Within the practice tab on the menu bar, you'll see a case library button. Within the case library button, there are hundreds of different practice cases that you can utilize to practice by yourself or with a partner. Essentially, for each of these cases, within the library, they go over prompt. They have some solutions or definitions as you go over that practice interview session. You can filter it by different types of cases, difficulty levels, functional areas, sectors, and if you want to see if there's any videos that you can watch as you practice or if you want to see how interviewer and a candidate interact with each other during that case. The second thing on the practice menu bar tab is the practice room. The Practice room is a opportunity for you to schedule a virtual session with a interview partner. This interview partner will be another Cornell student or another student from another partnering university that utilizes Case Coach. You can find a date and a time that works best for both of you and you can connect with another candidate to learn about them or and also receive any feedback or provide feedback with one another. This is a really good opportunity to practice. The last thing on the practice tab is drill. So let's just say there are some areas that you want to improve on within the case interview process. So there's specific drills that you can practice with. So there is structure and communication, calculation, case map, charts and tables. These drills provide texts and audio options. So each drill checks on your speed and provides you the correct answer with explanations. Lastly, Case Coach has a resources tab, and within the resources tab, you can keep up with different articles and trends related to consulting I do want to note that Case Coach does offer coaching services on the coaching tab, but Cornell does not cover the expenses. Within the coaching services, you are allowed to prepare with a case coach coach for them to provide you any interview tips or guidance within the application process, but it does come with a fee that Cornell does not cover. If you want any support related to coaching, you can always schedule an appointment with a career advisor at Cornell. Next is management consulted and Management consulted is very similar to Case Coach, where it supports students through their consulting application process by including case interview prep, articles of trends, application deadlines, formula sheets, firm directory, and more. I do want to note that you want to log in with the Cornell Unique link, and you want to utilize your net ID. You can either utilize this link or you can scan the QR code. Once you log in to management consulted, you want to go to the menu button. And within the menu button of my accounts, once you click on my accounts, you see a page where you can visit different case interview preps. So there's guides, drills. There's also Fit interview prep, as well as PowerPoint and Excel guides. There's a lot of different content that support you through this journey, so I highly recommend checking those out. I do want to note that management consulted does offer coaching services as well, if you click on the schedule coaching tap. But Cornell University does not cover that expense. Once again, if you want to have some coaching related to consulting, you can always schedule appointment with a career advisor. Management consulted also has a case library with over 600 case studies with prompts and answers. You can filter out by different firm styles, case types, industry, and functions. Some of these cases also have pre recorded workshops or case walk throughs, so you can always watch how an interviewer and a candidate interacts with each other during a case. Some free resources that management consulted offers is that they do have a consulting application deadline tracker where they document and list out and update upcoming deadlines of from different consulting firms from tier one, tier two and tier three, boutique firms, and so on. So I have always recommend students to check that out or bookmark that page. They also have a salary guide of indicating the salary range of different firms and positions. They have free events and workshops that you can always attend. From this specific screenshot, I took a picture of a free panel where there were different consultants from different firms, so you learn about their experiences. They also have different blog posts and articles that you can read to stay up to the trend. Lastly, they also have a case interview prep course available to everyone. They have pre recorded videos of what to expect during the case interview process and they break it down for you. This slide also indicates management consulted's guides. So they have a case interview framework, ultimate guide. And within this ultimate guide, they have frameworks that can be utilized to provide a structure way to analyze business problems for interviews and for the job. So within these frameworks, they have market sizing, profitability, market study, and entry, merger and acquisition, and they have many more. For this specific slide, I took a screenshot of the profitability framework, so everyone has an idea how that looks like. And they really explain the whole process to you as you prepare for the consulting journey. The next resource is Vault. It was formerly called firsthand and within Vault there are resources for researching different industries and future careers. After creating a login, check out the guides by clicking library, then guides, you can scan the QR code or use the Cornell link to access these resources. Within Vault, I filtered out the guides by consultants. As you can see, we can have access to the top 50 management and strategy consulting firm guides, just to learn more about the different firms. There's information, technology consulting job, healthcare and pharmaceutical consulting job, just to learn more about that specific industry as well. For this PowerPoint, I was only able to screenshot about seven of them, but they have many different guides for you to be exposed through different firms, different industry, what is the interview process like, what to expect and how to prepare. On the second half of the slide, I indicated more of the company guide. So we see McKinsey, Bain, BCG, different industry types and different consulting internships. So you can click on those to read and learn a little bit more about that process or that employer. Next, I'm going to go over the Forage. So the Forage is a website where you can learn directly from leading companies and gain valuable career readiness skills by completing virtual work experiences. So this is an opportunity to explore your career interests and companies. Within this screenshot, I filtered it out by consulting job simulations. So Forage collaborates with these companies to create these job simulations, so students have real experience of what to expect in that organization or employer or what to expect in that career field. As you can see, there's BCG, Oliver Wyman, PWC, Accenture, KPMG, all these job simulations ranges 1-2 hours, some are four to five. It really depends which project you select. All these projects are go at your own pace so you can start it and complete it the next day. But in this slide, I entered the BCG introduction to Strategy Consultant. We see that it takes about one to 2 hours to complete this job simulation. And once you complete it, you will get a certificate, so you can put that on your resume document. You can talk about that during your interviews. You can highlight that certificate on your Linkedin profile. And when you complete these projects, you definitely gain some skills, and those are some skills that you can showcase and talk about. So we always highly recommend students to check out some forage projects. If you have any questions about consulting resources or resources available to you as a Cornell student. You can always connect with Cornell Career Services. My office is located at Barnes Hall. We're available Monday through Friday, from 8:00 A.M. To 4:30 P.M. You can schedule appointment either in person or virtual. Some services that we provide is resume. cover letter, LinkedIn reviews. We do behavioral and practice interviews. 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