This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Jack Kim, a former Bain & Company consultant who co-founded Casebuddy, a consulting mentorship program. This story has been edited for length and clarity. It was really hard for me to break into consulting. I went to London School of Economics, where I did my bachelor's and master's, and then I started at a consulting firm called Parthenon, which is now part of EY. I worked there for about a year and a half and then interviewed with the