Thank you for your interest in Eckhart Consulting. We look forward to reading your application!

This application is due by 5:00 PM on Saturday, February 10th 2024. Please reach out to Taerin Kim at taerin@uchicago.edu if you have any questions.

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Please note that this application is open to members of the following affinity groups: Latinx, FGLI, Black, Native American, Pacific Islander, and LGBTQ+. For all other applicants, please refer to our website (ec.uchicago.edu) for more information about our Winter Recruiting Cycle.

About Us:

What do we do?
Eckhart Consulting provides strategy and management consulting services to a diverse range of clients, including non-profit organizations, established corporations, and start-ups. Our projects last 10-12 weeks, and consultants have the chance to work on two projects per year. Each project team consists of 4-6 consultants, an engagement manager, and a professional advisor.

What is Try Consulting with EC?
Try Consulting is an EC recruitment program that provides students from all afinity groups with the opportunity to participate in additional consulting workshops and case interview preparation. Selected Try Consulting applicants from this written application are guaranteed final round interviews (forgoing first round interviews) and are provided with one-on-one mentorship support ahead of final rounds.

What’s the time commitment?
Project teams meet once per week and Eckhart Consulting generally meets as an organization once every two weeks. Members are expected to attend all meetings. Consultants should expect to spend an average of 5-10 hours per week in meetings and on assigned workflows.

Who should apply?
We are looking for intelligent, hard-working, and highly-motivated team players who want to gain exposure to a variety of projects and clients. We’re looking for people who bring a compelling excitement for solving real world challenges.

 

What's an interest, experience, or personal trait that you consider fundamental to you as a person?

Don’t worry if you think your answer doesn’t seem relatable to consulting. We aren’t looking for experiences that are necessarily connected to consulting, we want to learn about you as a person and what drives you. Examples could include: summer job scooping ice cream, love of hockey statistics, twitter venture capitalists, canoeing, etc.

Why are you a good fit for EC? What will you bring to the club?

Tell us about a time that you went above and beyond when it was not required. Why did you do it?

Case Response: 

Eckhart Land has long struggled with providing its population with enough clean water to satisfy their daily needs. As of today, around 40% of Eckhart Land’s 100,000 citizens do not have reliable access to clean water. Throughout the years, several alternatives to their current system, including (i) a new pipe system, (ii) local distribution markets, and (iii) a new water treatment center have been explored, but Eckhart Land’s government has struggled with finding the most cost-efficient and equitable solution to this issue. 

The government’s main goal is to increase water accessibility to 90% or above. In order to achieve this goal, the government is willing to eliminate funding from one of their three existing social programs: Healthcare, Education, or Unemployment relief. However, Eckhart Land’s government has also communicated to you that all three programs serve important social goals. 

Eckhart Land’s government has hired you to help them accomplish their 90% water accessibility goal with an initiative that is both cost efficient and equitable. Your job is to recommend which water accessibility program Eckhart Land’s government should implement as well as outline the best way to fund it.

 

Case exhibits (click on this hyperlink to see the case exhibits)

 

Note: This is purely fictional and is not associated with a real business problem in any way. All the information needed to solve this case will be provided to you. Please do not use any outside information or research. All numbers are fictitious, and any inclusion of outside information might not fit with the fictitious scenario. If you make any additional assumptions, please make note of them. Do not feel compelled to use every exhibit or all the information provided - a successful answer will demonstrate the ability to recognize and disregard irrelevant information.

 

What water accessibility initiative should Eckhart Land’s government implement and how should they fund it? Why?

Selected candidates will be invited for final round (business casual attire) with Eckhart Consulting on Sunday, February 18th. Note that on the Saturday before final round interviews (February 17th), EC will also be hosting a casual brunch for all of the final round candidates to meet other members of the club.

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