How to get a JOB AT Big 4 CONSULTING with a LOW GPA (Straight out of college) | Deloitte Consulting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video I talk about how I got a job as a consultant at a big 4 consulting firm (Deloitte) straight out of college with a low GPA. Throughout university I had pretty bad grades and despite wanting to purse a career in consulting I didn't even bother applying because I thought my GPA would be an auto reject. To my surprise, I ended up cold applying, got an interview and even got offered a full time role as a consultant at Deloitte and was able to start my career in consulting as a new grad.
I analyzed how I was able to get an offer and shared it with you in this video!
Also please watch till the end if you want to learn about other ways to get into consulting other than the conventional method of cold applying via the career website.
As always please leave a comment if you have any questions!
Here is the video where I reveal the real copy of the resume & cover letter that I used to apply to consulting! : th-cam.com/video/_S9UdFkXwdQ/w-d-xo.html
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Sounds like your quantitative background helped a lot, and the people at Deloitte had the sense to realize the it's kind of hard to get a higher GPA in STEM majors. Great job nonetheless.
Good info, but the best Golden Ticket for Big 4 is to have an "in" at a potential client, the partner you're interviewing will love it. In fact, your GPA may not even come up when the interviewing partner finds out they might be able to expand their book of business into that client if they hire you. Maybe your parents have a close friend that's a tax director at large company, or your cousin is a controller at wherever. When I was a Sr Mgr at Big4, we had a kid that literally did nothing all day because his dad was a partial owner of a sports team and the firm wanted in.
lmao connections and privilege at its finest
@@soyful7244 Yep, no doubt. He was a staff and literally dictated his schedule to management.
I've traveled around the world, mainly in the Middle East, i have many clients in that region and Africa that needs consulting, i have started an International Consulting firm LLC and need advice on the way to achieve my goals, can you assist me in this process ?
Yes you may have had a low GPA and you did get the job but what you fail to realize is what your undergrad was. You majored in math and comp sci, arguably one of the hardest degrees to get, and so a low GPA is understandable and not reflective of your intelligence.
They probably thought to themselves that this candidate may have a low gpa, but they are a math major and thats impressive, had she been a business undergrad she would have had a better gpa and therefore hired you.
So someone with a low GPA with a business degree may not have the chance you had
Thanks for sharing🥰
Business degree still has math, accounting, finance and economics. Which are pretty technical. But with business you get more easier subjects where you read something and memorize.
@@koma7778 most business majors dont go higher than calc 1/stats 1
A cover letter and resume layout and example would be super helpful.
Sounds good! I am currently working on a video to go over my cover letter & resume that I used to apply to this role!
Your videos are definitely top notch! I've been watching four in a row and can't stop xddd
thanks so much Mika! This is very helpful!
Thanks for this! Been loving your videos (:
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Hey Mika, loving ur story and ur honesty. Tbh my experience coming out of college is about 90% similar to yours - tech background, consulting BA (thought was BA solely), then till where I am in position now. Look forward to staying touch and more of ur stories!
Supeeeer helpful. Thanks for doing this
Thank you for being relatable and humble. When I talk to other consultants, they love talking about how they're a team player and so entrepreneurial in real conversation. Wtf?
You give me hope, thank you :')
Hi, thank you for creating these really amazing videos about how to get a consultant job. Can you please share a bit more about how the candidate projected him/herself during the conversation with you that you feel like this person is worth to be introduced to the partner you were working for? I have tried this and talked to them but all the answers i got was "please send us a resume". Thank you!
You may have very low grade, but your beautiful smiles outweighs it 😀
Thanks, for sharing
I get your BAD grades, sister; I did a bachelor's in Math as well :)
Thanks for your videos! I'm applying for a few roles at Deloitte within a week. Wish me luck!
where did you go for uni? Thank you for the vid, It encourages me to go for consulting hahaha.
Hey 🥰 thank you for this video. Have you met a lot of people that did not go to university and instead self studied the AAT and then tried to join. I have a lot of work experience (office and health insurance) but I did not go to university. 💓
Hi! What do you use to record and edit? Your audio is so clear!
Hey! I actually just use my iphone 11 to film both audio and video & use final cut pro to edit! :)
Having been rejected a couple of times and never received such an email,looking at that recruitment email gave me chills
this is so valuable
I was not a good student and now i'm starting at Deloitte like you did ahahah the exactly same way . That's funny. Thank God i am not alone
Thanks for sharing
Can you do a video speaking about journey to partner and what you think about it?
Hi, Mika! I have been binge watching your videos and I really want to get into consulting. I'm about to start a master degree and I'm torn between a MSc in sustainable development in St. Andrews and a Environmental management one at the University of York. The first is obviously a more prestigious school but the second degree offers better technical skills. I would really appreciate to know your opinion on which would be better, since I don't really know anyone who is knowledgeable in this area. Thanks! Hope you can reply to this
Which did you end up picking?!
Yes providing examples would be amazing. Is there a timeframe to apply?
A new video is coming up with my resume/cover letter! Most big consulting firmes (MBB, Big4) hire new grads in batches which I remember to be almost an year advance from the hire date! So for instance if you are graduating and looking to work in Sept 2022, the new grad hires for 2022 will start in Sept. 2021!
I a low GPA too. I got 0.75 in maths in a gateway exam in Morocco. And I am now the best in the world in my field. Please don’t underestimate yourself
Consultancy is about saleability of you resume... Normally people do not last too long in consultancy though
Omg are you me? I applied for a Big 4 consulting role without realising it was actually a consulting role (it was categorised separately from the "Consulting" umbrella on their website so I just assumed) and now I'm too deep in the application process to quit. And yes I also should have researched more into what the role entailed before applying haha
How do you find networking events?
Hi Mika! loved watching your videos on consulting. Can you please make a video or reply on this comment about how you made a transition from consulting to software engineer? I am currently working at Microsoft and have been software developer since last 9 years. My wife is working in consulting (big4) since last 6 years. I am trying to motivate her to enter into software engineer world since this field pays a lot compared to consulting. Since last year, we are preparing for software engineer role. She has finished 2 certifications on freecodecamp. Also, she is learning about data structures and algorithms for SDE interview. Its hard for her to do this parallelly since consulting job is very demanding. I would love to know your thoughts, your journey, your struggle when you decided to make the transition.
Just curious for myself making a change...did your wife ever make the switch? What insight/tips can you provide on becoming a software engineer?
@@Osprey1 No dude. We hit roadblock and could not persist with our plan. She might restart her preparation at some point later during this year.
@Amit Zala Roadblocks come with life, I'm learning. I hope you both remain positive. I believe things will work out.
Resume and cover letter pleaseeeee
I was contacted by a large consulting firm but i think i’ll turn their offer down, it looks like a pretty toxic work environment to be so competitive amongst coworkers
(Civil engineer, will graduate soon, its a highly desired degree here in Belgium so companies regularly call to make offers/introduce themselves)
I hope I didn't scare you away! 😕 Consulting does have lots of pros too but it's definitely hit or miss!
An important thing to remember here is that Deloitte recruited at the University of Waterloo. If one of the big consulting firms does not recruit at your university then you probably will not be working in consulting.
I’m at the other end of my career, with 25 yrs experience. Are they not calling me because of age? Maybe they prefer new grads because they think they’ll work harder (“no families yet”)
they're also more malleable and will hustle to prove themselves and it's much easier to low ball them since they're eager for a job
they probably think if you worked for 25 years and still have to compete with millenials you lack ambition. and boy o boy, employers love ambitious people. that being said, make up some website for a fake start up and send out your CVs shooting for a far higher position that you have had so far. make up that you sold your start up and want to be a high level partner in the company at some point soon.
How did you make the switch from consulting to software engineering? Did you study accounting at university?
She already done internships and hackathon participations and she already had degree minor in CS than it's enough to show on resume and some months of prep after leaving consulting is enough to crack SDE role .
Yeah but should consider the school you graduated is top 10 in your country and that would be accounted in the factors also.
basically, if you can sell a shitty cv to hr, hr concludes you can sell the company's shitty product (consulting) to customers as well.
kekw
What is your qualifcation
I worked with consultants from Debiloitte once
Do you have to have excellent grades during your undergraduate to be able to apply to Consulting firms?
Not for big four firms, you only need high grades for MBB and top T2 firms
no, just need to be average.
Bravo
i’d love to see a cover letter/resume please🥺
I'm working on creating a video that goes over my cover letter/resume so stay tuned! :D
What gpa was that
Don't you say "university" in Canada?
what was your GPA exactly?
Whats your linkedin
What's a low gpa
i am just curious but why was your GPA low?
Its the internships and COOPs folks. If the University you are looking at your senior of high school does not have a record of placing students in internships or COOPs then DON't go there. Your ability to transition in to industry after graduating university and starting a career is incumbent upon your ability to attain internships WHILE at university. There is TOO much on the line to attend a university because it has good, "greek culture," "nice campus," "climbing wall" etc. You don't want to wake up one day and be broke with a lot of student loan debt.
Omg I'm at Deloitte. Would love you to come onto my channel and chat through your journey!
Oh no way! Yea that would be cool! Hit me up via my ig: mikakimstagram and let’s figure something out 🙌
Please share linkedin profile
RIP my GPA
RIP my GPA too lool
What's consider really lower GPA? lol 2.5 GPA?
Big 4 has no real entree barrier whatsoever lmao
Thanks for you insight of consulting firm. It is super helpful. Do you have LinkedIn that I can connected with?