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ARCHER ASCENT
Consulting Job Search Accelerator

Led by expert + Chicago Booth MBA. 1000s received offers for top tier firms through this exclusive career growth program. Accelerate your job search and land that coveted position.

Designed for ambitious, highly-educated graduate students like you, Ascent provides the skills and strategies needed to break into the consulting industry and beyond, aiming for top-tier firms.
Over 6 weeks, we will plan, prepare, and launch your job search to get hired.

Learn more below.

Impact of Archer Ascent

  • CONFIDENCE: Boost and elevate your confidence.

  • GOALS: Define clear goals and specific next steps

  • CONNECTIONS: Build connections and valuable network

What’s
Included

  • Self-paced, online tutorials for each program step

  • 6 meetings to dive deeper, get feedback, and engage with a supportive cohort. See weekly agenda below.

  • 1 hour of individual coaching, schedule at your convenience

  • Personal introductions by Team Archer to advance your networking

  • Celebrate accomplishments, rewards after completing each of 6 Quests

  • Micro-credential and badge to add to your resume and LinkedIn

Spring 2025 Logistics

Hosted by University of Chicago’s Gargoyle Consulting Club

Dates: March 25, April 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th, May 6th

Time: 5-8pm each session, live (no virtual option)

Location: Hyde Park, location sent after registration and payment.

Student focus: Advanced Degrees (Masters, MBA, PhD), open to postdocs and undergraduates

Individual coaching session: Scheduled and available in-person (Chicago downtown) or virtual.

Get Offers

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McKinsey

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BCG

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Bain

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LEK

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ZS

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Oliver Wyman

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Clearview

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Get Offers 〰️ McKinsey 〰️ BCG 〰️ Bain 〰️ LEK 〰️ ZS 〰️ Oliver Wyman 〰️ Clearview 〰️

Why join
ARCHER ASCENT?

Boost confidence. More interviews. More offers.
Our method works.

Archer’s method landed interviews for early career talent at 40 of the top 50 companies
that hire Advanced degree holders (Masters, MBA, and PhD).

Where?

3M - AbbVie - Accenture - Alix Partners - Amazon - Apple - Bain - BCG - Blend -
Booz Allen Hamilton - Caterpillar - Cisco - Clearview - Dell - Deloitte - Eastman EY - EY Parthenon - Family Office - Goldman Sachs - Google - Honeywell - Huron - IBM - Kaufman Fellows - Kearny - KPMG - McKinsey - Nike - Oliver Wyman - Oracle - PayPal - PwC - Regal Rexford - Roland Berger - Siemens - Strategy& - Vizit - West Monroe Partners - ZS - and more.

How Do You Benefit?

  • Consulting curriculum

  • AI Tips

  • Access to experts

  • Resume that wins

  • Introduction to contacts

  • Breakdown the process

  • Interview mastery

  • Case know-how

  • Feedback

  • Confidence

ASCENT Topics

    • Complete “Launch Your Job Search.”

    • Each week, you work ONE specific topic, using microlearning.

    • Take 15 minutes a day.

    • The benefit of this pre-work is more focus on consulting insights and feedback when we met face-to-face.

  • 5-8PM.

    Weekly Agenda:

    • Q&A

    • Networking / Outreach

    • Consulting Deep Dive

    • Practice / Feedback

    • Open discussion

  • Focus:

    • Align your skills and career goals to consulting. Research and target firms. 

    • Identify keywords, and build AI skills for recruiting and your job search.

  • Focus:

    • Develop recruiting strategy, elevator pitch, and key messages. 

    • Practice your elevator pitch and prepare networking outreach messages.

  • Focus:

    • Tailor resume, LinkedIn, and cover letter to consulting. 

    • Get individual resume feedback.

  • Focus:

    • Prepare stories and structure with SOAR. 

    • Practice stories

    • Create McKinsey PEI (Personal Experience Interview) stories and practice.

  • Focus:

    • Review consulting frameworks and build business acumen. 

    • Apply Archer’s Diamond Case Solving Framework. 

    • Practice a case.

    • Build a case interview practice plan.

  • Focus:

    • Evaluate + continue networking

    • Create a weekly plan to prepare and practice

    • Final insights on consulting and applying to other roles

    • Graduation, certificate, and celebration