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Position 1 of 16 on the pathLevel 0: The Industry Explained
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The Industry Explained
What consulting firms and finance teams actually do all day, how the work is staffed, and how hiring decisions get made. Start here if the words strategy and coverage still feel vague.
- Firm profiles for McKinsey, BCG, and Bain, drawn from the firms' own published material
- How a consulting team is staffed and what an analyst does in a week
- The finance side in plain terms: banking, rotations, and corporate finance teams
- What recruiters screen for at each step, and what they ignore
11 briefings in this level
- How the firms are built and what they sell
- MBB profiles from their published material
- MBB interview process overview
- IB analyst interview process overview
- Shared screens versus track-specific skills
- MBB vs Big Four strategy, what actually differs
- Travel-heavy vs local staffing
- Generalist vs expert track
- Boutique vs global firm
- PE exposure, what it means for undergrads
- IB vs consulting, early tradeoffs
16 of 16 levels · 2 free
Free
The Industry Explained
What consulting firms and finance teams actually do all day, how the work is staffed, and how hiring decisions get made. Start here if the words strategy and coverage still feel vague.
Free
Timeline and Targeting
Two calendars run this process, one for consulting and one for finance, and they do not move together. This level puts your class year on both and sets a target list you can actually finish.
Paid
The Resume Screen
Your resume gets seconds before a person decides. This level rebuilds it line by line for the screen it will actually face, and covers the cover letter for the firms that still read one.
Paid
Networking That Gets Replies
Cold outreach fails when it asks for too much and says too little. This level gives you a working system: who to contact, what to write, and how to run the call once someone answers.
Paid
Case Math
Case math is arithmetic under pressure, done out loud, with no calculator. This level builds the speed and the narration habit together. The first briefing in this level is free.
Paid
Structuring Without Canned Frameworks
Interviewers can hear a memorized framework in ten seconds. This level teaches you to build a structure from the question itself, so it fits the case in front of you.
Paid
The Behavioral Interview
Fit questions decide more interviews than candidates expect. This level builds a story bank from your own experience and teaches you to deliver each story with its point intact.
Paid
The Final Round
The final round is a different test from the first. This level covers first rounds, second rounds, and final rounds separately, including partner level conversations and what changes when the interviewer stops leading.
Paid
The Clubs Playbook
Competitive consulting and finance clubs are a recruiting channel of their own, with their own applications and interviews. This playbook covers choosing clubs, applying, and interviewing for a seat.
Paid
The Finance Wing
Banking and finance interviews test technical knowledge directly. This wing covers accounting, valuation, and the market questions, at the depth an interview actually reaches.
Paid
Accounting, LBO, and Modeling
Banking interviews test accounting the way case interviews test structure: directly, and at working depth. This track inside the Finance Wing builds the three statements as one system, drills transaction effects until they are reflexes, and then builds free cash flow, LBO mechanics, and modeling on top of them. The first briefing in this track is free.
Paid
The Full Time Track
Full time recruiting runs on a faster clock and a thinner margin for error. This track covers MBB full time, Big Four full time, finance rotation programs, big tech finance, and investment banking full time.
Paid
Sales and Trading
Markets seats test a different candidate from banking: live market judgment, fast arithmetic, and composure when a price moves. This track covers the desks, the shared banking calendar, the recorded screen and the superday, and the pitch, with a market math drill in Practice.
Paid
Private Equity
Private equity hires mainly from banking and consulting analyst seats, through a process run by search firms that publishes almost nothing. This track covers the business, the on cycle and off cycle reality, the modeling test, the paper LBO, and investment judgment, labeled as general guidance wherever firms publish nothing.
Paid
Quantitative Trading and Research
Trading firms and quant funds screen on probability, expected value, games, and mental math, with no finance knowledge required and no case interview anywhere. This track covers the landscape, the assessment driven process, the core skills at working depth, an honest fit test for business majors, and a dedicated Green Book section that teaches Heard on the Street's question families through original questions.
Paid
The Data and AI Wing
The data skills analysts actually use: Excel, SQL, Python, charts, statistics, and AI tools, each taught on business examples and backed by graded problems.