This past Thursday, I had the pleasure to join the FES (Finance and Economics Society) for their event with Capco. This event was hosted to help prospective consultants learn the basics of management consulting and was basically a session to learn more about this career and ask questions pertaining to it.
The first thing I noticed when I stepped in to the room was the unspoken dress code. I felt a little bit embarrassed walking into the room wearing what was essentially a lab coat. As you can see in the shaky selfie, every single person attending this event was wearing either a suit or dress. To make everyone else think that I was a professional, I faked a phone call to a fake pharmacy and asked them for more pills for patient X. With my credentials out of the way, I was ready to learn about consulting.
The presentations were really great, with each presenter giving a thorough lecture about the different aspects of consulting and helping one’s potential customer. They gave lots of helpful tips, such as learning to cater to the customer’s ideas and be a little flexible when giving advice to others. I think I learned a lot from this experience and even though I was wearing a lab coat, I felt the same amount of knowledge being delivered to me as it was delivered to the people wearing suits.
P.S: I was wearing dress pants and loafers also. My socks had little penguins on it but I thought it was cool.
