Time for the interview invites...

In my last entry, I mentioned that the summer internship recruiting process was gaining momentum. Well it's almost in full swing now because the interview invitations started going out yesterday and today for the companies for whom we dropped our resumes. The invites will continue to go out for the next week or so with their arrivals depending on the original submission deadlines for the resumes. So far, I haven't done too badly (2 invites and 1 waitlist), but I've still got 12 more companies to hear from, so i'm getting nervous.

Getting invited to interview is a good feeling, but that's only a small part of the battle. For those of us looking at internships in Consulting and Corporate Strategy, it's all about cracking the case, which is something I haven't mastered yet. I've gone to case cracking workshops (including one today given by McKinsey), but I'm still far from being a master at breaking down these business cases. I've been told that I'm putting too much pressure on myself to get the process perfect, but I don't want to end up not getting an internship, so I'm grindin' like crazy to get the techniques down. Too bad we've got a steady stream of classwork to do along with all of this interview prep. It's going to be a long month...