Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.

In this episode, Paul Millard explains how he went from a non-target school to a research associate

position at McKinsey. Listen how he managed to break in even after getting officially rejected

and how he ended up at BCG after getting

his MBA at MIT. Learn also how he has now left the formal strategy consulting positions behind

and started a new life where work isn joining the Wall Streetoises podcast.

Thank you, Patrick.

It'd be great if you could give the listeners just a short summary of your background.

Sure.

So I think the interesting part of the story starts where I first log on to Wall Street Oasis.

And this is the summer of my junior year of college, which was 2006.

And I think perhaps a lot of people listening now don't really understand how long ago that was in terms of how little technology or information we had about kind of investment banks or

consulting firms at the time.

But I was basically grasping for Storos. And Wall Street Oasis,

I think it was still named that at the time. Right a bit. At 06, it might have been I banking

oasis, way back in the day. If it was 06. I don't know what it was, but I was very much at the,

like, oh my gosh, all these prestigious firms, I wanted to work

for one of them. I think consulting was something that really intrigued me, and there were a couple

forums on consulting, and I basically started compiling information from all the firms, all the

banks, all the kind of interesting job opportunities.

I wanted to work in something that was not just like big corporate.

So that's kind of where my journey starts.

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