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MBA Consulting Recruiting Kit

Consulting recruiting: recruiting plan, networking tracker, coffee chats, resume, case interviews, market sizing drills, practice log, fit stories, internship plan, final presentation and offer negotiation.

Step 1

Planning

  1. MBA Recruiting Plan Template

    Full

    MBA recruiting season plan: tracks by industry, relative timeline, employment report reading (CSEA), scored target list, computed hours budget, offers, AI rules

    CSEA Standards for Reporting Employment Statistics (2025 revisions)

  2. MBA Networking Tracker Template

    Standard

    MBA networking tracker: contact pipeline stages, touchpoint log, follow-up cadence date formulas, computed conversion metrics by employer, weekly review, privacy

  3. MBA Coffee Chat Notes Template

    Standard

    Coffee chat worksheet for MBA recruiting: goal, preparation, timed 20 and 30 minute agendas, question bank, structured notes, thank-you checklist, follow-up

  4. MBA Application Resume Template

    Full

    One-page MBA application resume: evidence bank, impact bullet worksheet, before and after rewrites, layout, fictional full example, bullet audit, AI rules

    School resume instructions (checked Oct 2026)
Step 2

Case method

  1. MBA Case Interview Preparation Template

    Full

    Case interview prep: formats, online and AI screening (dated), AI rules, issue trees and MECE, hypotheses, case math, exhibits, synthesis, practice case

    Minto pyramid principle; structured interview research

  2. Market Sizing Drills Template

    Full

    12 original market sizing drills: top-down and bottom-up, capacity with Little's law, triangulation, sanity checks, sensitivity, Excel formulas, drill log

    Fermi estimation; Little (1961)

  3. Case Interview Practice Log Template

    Standard

    Case practice log: six-criterion weighted rubric, case log, feedback notes, computed averages, moving average and SLOPE trend, weekly review

Step 3

Fit and stories

  1. Consulting Fit Interview Story Bank Template

    Full

    Consulting fit interviews: themes firms assess, depth-probing formats (reported), story bank, coverage check, probe grids, why consulting, practice plan

    Structured and behavioural interview research

  2. MBA Interview Preparation Workbook Template

    Full

    MBA interview formats, story bank with competency map, original practice questions, mock protocol, weighted rubric, questions to ask, logistics

    Structured and behavioural interview research (Janz 1982; Campion et al. 1997); school pages checked Oct 2026
Step 4

Internship and offers

  1. MBA Internship Plan Template

    Full

    10 to 12 week MBA summer internship plan: goals agreed with the manager, stakeholder power-interest map, Gantt project plan, time budget, Friday updates, weighted mid-point review, converting to a full-time offer

    Transition planning (Watkins 2003), goal setting (Locke and Latham 1990), stakeholder mapping (Mendelow 1981)

  2. MBA Internship Final Presentation Template

    Full

    End-of-internship presentation: answer-first storyline, ghost deck, executive summary, Corvane Robotics worked example with NPV, IRR, break-even price band, sensitivity, Vega-Lite NPV chart, implementation plan, risks with thresholds, Q&A preparation

    Pyramid principle (Minto 2009) and discounted cash flow (Fisher 1930)

  3. MBA Offer Negotiation Workbook Template

    Full

    MBA offer negotiation: offer components, school offer-deadline and reneging rules (general), three-offer total compensation with option expected value, 3-year PV and living-cost adjustment, BATNA, reservation point and target, exploding-offer expected utility

    Principled negotiation (Fisher and Ury 1981) and negotiation analysis (Raiffa 1982)