There are three main components that make up the Consulting Focus:
You are free to take advantage of all or any combination of these three aspects of the Consulting Focus depending on your interests and goals
Coursework includes the basic functional topics like finance, marketing and strategy plus additional electives that provide the opportunity to take consulting specific classes and complete real world projects. For a suggested course map for those interested in consulting click here.
The Consulting Passport consists of a carefully planned and structured series of lectures, presentations, case interview preparation events and mock interviews that has been created to help club members first determine if they are interested in pursuing a career in consulting and after that to provide them with the case interview tips and practice they’ll need to impress perspective employers.
The Passport begins with an overview of the industry and the types of jobs available, and culminates with a capstone case interview event where industry practitioners travel to Johnson and a spend a day with students staging 1 on 1 ‘mock’ case interviews to ready 1st year students for their upcoming internship interviews.
Calendar of Events:
SeptemberClub Workshop- Consulting Passport Overview
Club Workshop- What is Consulting?
Corporate Event- American Express SPG Case Workshop
Club Workshop- Types of careers in Consulting
Club Workshop- Mark Cosentino Case Interview Seminar
Club Workshop- Using Consultants
October
Club Workshop- 2nd year Case Training w/ Outside Practitioner
Club Workshop- Company Research Resources
November
JanuaryLeadership Skills Practicum- Ace the Case Session
Club Event- Consulting Trek to NYC to visit Firms
Club Workshop- Case Analysis Session
Club Event- Case Boot Camp w/ 2nd years
Club Event- ‘Day with Practitioners’ Mock Interviews w/ practicing Consultants
The final component of the Consulting Focus is learning by doing – leading projects to solve real business problems for real companies.
This segment allows you to apply the tools and skills developed through academic studies while also enabling you to exercise leadership and project management skills– building on the abilities you had before coming to Johnson and readying you to excel in consulting after you graduate.
Projects can be sourced from multiple resources, whether it be things like the Consulting Projects class or through other student organizations like the Big Red Incubator Consulting or Community Consulting Group, the consulting arm of Community Impact, there are multiple avenues to gain this critical experience.
The diversity of project sources provides variety in types of projects and ensures you’re able to find a project in an area of interest to further your development.