My new haircut....
Hmm.
Anyway. I ran another crystallisation experiment today, for 7 hours. Quite a lengthy run. The results preliminarily indicate a steady growth rate once a particular limit is reached, however more data analysis on the numbers tomorrow will show it more clearly.
A friend of mine asked me to go to a presentation made by Bain & Company. It is a rather successful business management company operating in 37 offices around the world with some rather big name clients. The presentation was quite good, and I was thinking of applying perhaps to become an associate consultant, until they gave us some numbers regarding the process.
They typically get 1300-1500 applicants per round in Australia, and they interview typically about 100 candidates, and hire about 10-15 a year. That is 1% of the applicants. In addition to this extremely low number, applications close March 14, and by the end of March you will know if you have a job or not. That isn't the issue. The start date if you are one of the lucky 0.1% is September. Now, to me, that is a problem. I kind of need work sooner than later, and far sooner than September.... The third part is their desire to scrutinise your academic transcript, with them looking for high credit average or better students. Now, as a near PhD, apparently it doesn't matter because they still want my undergraduate marks. Those points put together is truly a turn-off to apply. Since my undergraduate marks are pretty ordinary, and if they don't really put any thought into the postgraduate level then what is the point.
So far, on the other aspects I haven't heard back about anything else from the two spots I applied for yesterday either. Onwards to more looking and applying I guess.
Hmm.
Anyway. I ran another crystallisation experiment today, for 7 hours. Quite a lengthy run. The results preliminarily indicate a steady growth rate once a particular limit is reached, however more data analysis on the numbers tomorrow will show it more clearly.
A friend of mine asked me to go to a presentation made by Bain & Company. It is a rather successful business management company operating in 37 offices around the world with some rather big name clients. The presentation was quite good, and I was thinking of applying perhaps to become an associate consultant, until they gave us some numbers regarding the process.
They typically get 1300-1500 applicants per round in Australia, and they interview typically about 100 candidates, and hire about 10-15 a year. That is 1% of the applicants. In addition to this extremely low number, applications close March 14, and by the end of March you will know if you have a job or not. That isn't the issue. The start date if you are one of the lucky 0.1% is September. Now, to me, that is a problem. I kind of need work sooner than later, and far sooner than September.... The third part is their desire to scrutinise your academic transcript, with them looking for high credit average or better students. Now, as a near PhD, apparently it doesn't matter because they still want my undergraduate marks. Those points put together is truly a turn-off to apply. Since my undergraduate marks are pretty ordinary, and if they don't really put any thought into the postgraduate level then what is the point.
So far, on the other aspects I haven't heard back about anything else from the two spots I applied for yesterday either. Onwards to more looking and applying I guess.
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