Name: Ivan

Year: Senior

Major: Economics

Minor: Political Science, BIP

CFS Program: Business Field Studies

My job search experience has been an interesting one to say the least. While I started out studying music at Northwestern, I slowly realized that pursuing the major ultimately cut into the time I wanted to use to also pursue business networks and learn more about consulting. Entering my Junior year summer internship search, I was very nervous about being unable to find a job because I didn’t have the same business acumen that many of my peers had, and my grades weren’t exactly the best. However, CFS gave me the opportunity to bypass the traditional and sometimes stifling internship search of Junior year with a summer internship at HBR. At this job, I learned much about operational consulting and how to analyze financial statements in order to minimize company costs. Overall, I thought it was a great experience, and I recommend anyone who has qualms about being able to enter consulting to try recruitment through CFS.