#6: Aidan Slack | Management Consultant @ The Boston Consulting Group

The Young Professionals Podcast (TYPP), proudly brought to you by ADAPT Careers (https://adaptcareers.com.au) and co-hosted by Luke Marriott and Nicholas Sargeant (Sarge).

In this episode Luke and Sarge chat to Aidan Slack, a Management Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (https://www.bcg.com/en-au/), where he's been working for nearly 2 years after completing an undergraduate degree at Monash University.

Aidan was a member of the first cohort to complete a Bachelor of Science Advanced - Global Challenges (Honours) at Monash University (https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/2021/science-advanced-global-challenges-s3001). Containing under 30 students, this degree featured a strong focus on networking and mentoring.  During his undergraduate degree Aidan completed multiple internships, both domestically and abroad, giving him invaluable exposure to different people and industries in the corporate world. 

Aidan was a member of 180 Degrees Consulting (https://180dc.org) and landed a vacation role at Deloitte (https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en.html) in his final year of study. Aidan turned a second vacation role in a boutique consultancy into a part-time work during his Honours year of University, taking a well-earned gap year to travel the world before starting at BCG.

We cover:

• Aidan talks about how management consultants are really doctors for businesses.
• Studying science involves learning to apply the scientific method, forming a hypothesis, testing that hypothesis and analysing the results, which is a way of thinking that can land students in any industry.
• How Aidan scored an interview by having a conversation with someone which involved no chat about the business itself.

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