What chances do I have to become a MC in London as a Dutch graduate. Just finished bachelor and master in business administration with focus on strategy at best rated university with 7.5 out of 10 :(. Have done a recent internship abroad at a major bank.In the Netherlands this means tier 2; strategy at IT and Accountancy firms. It's not that I want a better firm; its a girl (isn't it always). Are their any possibilities for me over there? don't mind the smaller/less known ones.Can you guys please be specific i.e. company names, people, sites etc.Many thankscheers!

I know its only an interesting topic for a select group. But their must be other EU graduates with UK-plans who would like to get some advise. Maybe anyone who has moved recently? Was it easy to get interviews? Are their any good agencies that can assist? Please help me out here. Tony?

Happy to help. Firstly, it&apos;s almost unheard of for consulting firms to use recruitment agencies to make hires of new graduates (either Uni graduates or MBA graduates). The consultancies receive so many applications from suitable candidates that they don&apos;t need to pay recruitment firms to generate additional interest for them.So essentially you are looking at applying to firms direct. The key thing is that you would need to be available to attend interviews in the local market. A few of the biggest firms will interview you in an overseas office for a position in London; but in most firms the graduate recruitment for that office will be conducted in that office. So plan on a stay in London when you will cram in as many interviews as possible - and make it known in your application letters that you will be in London and available for interview on those days.It sounds like you don&apos;t have significant work experience - and in the UK you would not generally join at the MBA entry levels (senior consultant / project manager) unless you had spent several years working in professional positions prior to your MBA. So I would suggest that despite your MBA you will be looking to join the graduate entry programs and then try to achieve fast-track promotion so that your MBA benefits you in the end.Most graduate recruitment in the UK is done in a specific time window. Applications are received in November and December (following presentations at the universities); then interviews are conducted in January and February, with candidates receiving offers late February.If you act very fast and apply to firms on mass, you might find a few will interview you quickly if they have failed to hit their graduate recruitment targets for the year; otherwise you will need to target those firms that i) are so big that they operate graduate recruitment all year round (eg. Accenture and IBM) or that ii) are so small that they don&apos;t have a graduate recruitment program at all, but maybe would consider hiring the occasional graduate on a sporadic basis. For this type of firm I suggest you look at our "fastest growing firms" report as a potential source for such small firms (see: <a href=http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.asp?ID=3415>http://news.top-consultant.com/UK/news_story.asp?ID=3415</a>)Hope this proves helpful - and good luckTony Restell, Top-Consultant.com

First of all: Tony many thank! very usefull. especially in terms of deadlines! and the list of new companies.Second, I think i was a bit unclear in my first posting. I do not have an MBA. I have encountered confusion about thid before: in the netherlands you go to uni after highschool. first 3 years are you do a general bachelor in for instance economics or business admin. then you follow a 1 year master, for instance accounting. 90% of people choose to follow the master. So no prior working experience needed, and no big bill -> just uni, no mba. I must say though that the private MBA of my university (RSM:Rotterdam school of management) looks a lot like my education in terms of courses. How should I present myself in the UK in terms of education to prevent confusion?Another question: how can you compare 7.5 out of 10 to the UK system? And in your opinion, do you think companies r willing to take the risk of hiring a foreigner? Do you know a lot of examples?Thanks!

I would suggest you say you have a BA and an MA in Business, to avoid confusion with an MBA (which is what a UK recruiter would assume a Master in Business Administration is). In terms of your 7.5 out of 10, I would expand to say where this put you in your class (eg. putting me in the top 20% of my class) and then recruiters can draw their own conclusions about what this equates to in terms of a UK candidate.As regards nationality, the London offices of consulting firms are crammed full of different nationalities - when I was at Roland Berger in London we had 25 nationalities for example! - so I would really not see this as being the issue that you perhaps fear it is. The only issue is conveying that you are a top candidate and then making yourself available to be interviewed alongside other graduate-level candidates so that you are competing head-to-head with your UK peers.Good luck, Tony

thanks tony. you&apos;re a great help. cheers