Recruiting Strategy
How should I allocate consulting office-preference points?
An application lets me choose three offices and split 100 preference points between them. I was considering 60 for London, 30 for the Middle East and 10 for my home country. I haven't worked in Europe before. How should I think about the split rather than just trying to guess which combination gives me better odds?
Ian’s Answer
There's no concrete answer here on how to optimize this!
However, what I can recommend is picking the 1-2 offices where you legitimatelly have a connection and apply to those.
If you have never worked in London, never been there, and don't have the right to work in the UK, I would focus on Middle East and Home country. Same goes for Middle East if the situation is the reverse.
You need to 1) Have evidence on your resume that you know/understand/can work in the target office country and (ideally) 2) have networked with people in that office. Otherwise you're just another name on the table!
Think about it, if you were a recruite rin London and you looked at your resume (amongst all the other thousands), would you interview you?