![]() My advice would be that they take some time to figure out if the work is something they'd like to do. What advice do you have for students who are thinking that maybe consulting is for them? It's a culture that was always collaborative and open to questions about anything. So it really helps you in your first three months. If you have a question about something small, you have a specific person to reach out to. Everyone was super friendly on my first day, and you get an onboarding buddy. What is your favorite part of being at Charles River Associates? We did a mini case as a group just to practice before we were thrown into an actual case. They tell you the specifics of what we do and who we work for, and you get information about different practices that you're not necessarily in, as well as more the specific technical skills of using Stata and VBA. ![]() Then I had an additional three days or so for my specific practice. So in my first three months, we had the opportunity to go to Boston for an orientation, which was about four days long. We definitely had a lot of training. They give you a strong base, because people come in from different majors and schools and knowledge sets and they really want to make sure everyone has a solid foundation. I was able to work with people who are in our anti-trust and competition practice, and see a little bit about what they do, which was really interesting.Ĭan you tell us what it's like in the first three months at a consulting firm? I worked on a pharmaceutical case that was about anti-competitive behavior. I've worked on life science cases, but sometimes they're cross listed in another practice. It depends on the firm. In econ consulting you generally stay in one practice area. You can find something that fits your interests, as well as work with data.ĭo you normally focus on one practice area or do have projects that cross over? So it's really largely a database, and it was definitely interesting to learn that you can work in a lot of different practice areas. However, as a student, I didn't know that econ consulting worked with this area. For example, I work in the life sciences practice, but we have a forensic accounting practice and an energy practice. There are lots of different topics within economic consulting. There are so many different areas you can work in, that it was hard to grasp what exactly it was. Going into my senior year, I didn't know that much about economic consulting. Also, CRA as a company sounded like they really invested in their people and gave them many opportunities to learn new skills.Ĭan you share something you've learned that you didn't know as a student? ![]() I then went to a CRA info session, and was able to learn more about the day-to-day and the specifics of the job, which got me more interested in economic consulting in general. Someone at the booth that I was able to talk with was either an analyst or an associate. He said that he really liked the company and that employees have the opportunity to work on a lot of different projects and learn new skills. My senior year, I went to the consulting and finance career fair. How did you learn about consulting and Charles River Associates? And so economic consulting felt like a good fit, because a lot of the work that we do is with data, both quantitative and qualitative. I really liked classes that dealt a lot with data, particularly econometrics. I was an economics major, and took a lot of math classes, and also did a couple of different research projects at MIT that really got me interested in research and data work. Tell us a little bit about your time at Wellesley: what did you major in, what classes did you take and how did you learn about economic consulting?
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