What does the recruiting process look like for undergrads?
It depends on if you’re going to be consulting in a commercial group or a public-sector practice. In our commercial group, we have just a few schools that we target, and the schools align to our office footprint: for example, Columbia for New York, SMU for Dallas, Northwestern for Chicago, and Howard University, for our McLean (Va.) office. We also get unsolicited résumés that we consider, and we’ve hired undergrads from Wharton, as well, and had good success there. For the government sector, we typically focus on schools generally in and around Washington, D.C.—Maryland, Virginia, George Washington, Georgetown, Penn State. What are things that you’re looking for in applicants? Basically, we’re looking for a great school, and we’re looking for a good performance at that school in the form of GPA. We’re looking for someone who wasn’t just a student, someone who dabbled in leadership—student government or athletics. Someone who appears to be pretty well-rounded. We’d also love to have a
