What is consulting recruiting?

Consulting recruiting is how consulting firms hire analysts, associates and experienced consultants. Entry-level hiring follows the campus calendar, with a first round of case interviews and a final round with partners. The scheduling challenge is fitting many case interviews into short windows with interviewers who are also serving clients.

How is banking recruiting different from consulting recruiting?

Banking recruiting leans on superdays: a group of candidates moves through back-to-back final-round interviews on the same day. Consulting recruiting runs case interviews in rounds, usually a first round with consultants and managers and a final round with partners. Both pack a lot of interviews into short campus windows.

How do you schedule a superday?

Start with the interviewer pool and the day’s slots: how many interviews each candidate needs, who can run each one and where the breaks go. Then match candidates to interviewers, balance load across the day and line up backups. ModernLoop’s scheduling algorithm proposes schedules from availability and load, and helps find a replacement when someone drops out.

Can ModernLoop schedule panels across offices and time zones?

Yes. ModernLoop syncs Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook, keeps each interviewer’s time zone and work hours in their profile, and juggles time zones when it proposes schedules. Panels can mix onsite and virtual interviews, with one consistent Zoom or Google Meet link for the candidate.

How does ModernLoop keep senior interviewers from burning out?

ModernLoop balances interviewer load as it schedules, so interviews spread across your pool instead of landing on the same few people. Interviewer profiles hold seniority and training level, and Interviewer Training brings new interviewers in as shadows and reverse shadows, which grows the pool over time.

Interview scheduling for consulting recruiting and financial services

Consulting recruiting and banking recruiting run on packed interview days: superdays, case rounds and partner panels across offices. ModernLoop builds those schedules from real availability and keeps interview load fair across your bankers, consultants and partners.

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Why interview scheduling is different in financial services and consulting

Superdays

A superday stacks back-to-back interviews for a group of candidates on one day. One interviewer dropping out ripples through the whole grid.

Case interview rounds

Consulting runs case interviews in rounds: consultants and managers first, partners in the final round. Each round draws on its own pool of interviewers.

Senior interviewer time

Managing directors and partners travel, sit with clients and change plans often. Their interview hours are scarce and keep moving.

Multi-office panels

A candidate for the New York office might meet interviewers in Chicago and London. Panels span offices and time zones, in person and on video.

Campus cycles

Analyst and associate hiring follows the campus calendar, with first rounds and superdays packed into a few weeks each year.

Hiring-manager load

The same senior people interview all season. Without load balancing, a handful of them end up carrying most of the interviews.

The loops we schedule for financial services and consulting teams

Financial services recruiting runs from analyst classes to risk, technology and client-facing teams. Set each loop up once as an interview plan, with the interviewers suited to each round.

Analyst and associate superdays. Back-to-back final-round interviews for a group of candidates on one day. ModernLoop schedules each candidate from the shared interviewer pool and balances load, so the same banker doesn’t take every slot.

Consulting case rounds. A first round of case interviews with consultants and managers, then a final round with partners. Each round gets its own interview plan and its own pool of suitable interviewers.

Campus first rounds. Many first-round interviews in a short window. Zero Click Scheduling sends scheduling links as candidates move stages in your ATS, and candidates pick from the interviewers’ availability.

Experienced hires. Interviews with the team, the group head and a senior leader in another office. ModernLoop handles the time zones and proposes several schedules to choose from.

High-volume client-facing roles. Hiring-manager interviews for sales, customer service and account management roles. Build availability for every hiring manager, and ModernLoop balances interviews so no one manager takes more than another.

Corporate functions. Risk, compliance, technology and operations loops with hiring managers across lines of business. Recruiters request schedules from inside the ATS, and coordinators work them from one queue.

Financial services and consulting hiring by the numbers

Finance and insurance employers made 110,000 hires in August 2026. Consulting sits inside professional and business services, a broad BLS sector that also includes legal, accounting, engineering and staffing services, so those figures cover far more than consulting.

110K

hires in finance and insurance in August 2026

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, August 2026 (preliminary)

353K

job openings in finance and insurance at the end of August 2026

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, August 2026 (preliminary)

935K

hires in professional and business services, the broad sector that includes consulting

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, August 2026 (preliminary)

1.19M

job openings in professional and business services at the end of August 2026

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, August 2026 (preliminary)

How ModernLoop fits consulting recruiting

Set up each round once. ModernLoop finds times that work for the candidate and every interviewer, then proposes several schedules to choose from, for a case round or a full superday.

Interview plans for each round, with suitable interviewers for each slot
Schedules built from candidate availability, interviewer availability and interviewer load
A side-by-side calendar view with drag-and-drop editing
A suggested replacement when an interviewer drops out
Slack notifications, calendar invitations and email reminders for every interviewer

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Senior interviewers, fairly shared

The people candidates most want to meet have the least time. ModernLoop spreads interviews across them and trains the next group of interviewers.

Load balancing across bankers, consultants and partners
Interviewer profiles with seniority, department, time zone and training level
Trainees added as shadows and reverse shadows automatically
Trainee assessments and next steps handled in Slack
Dashboards of scheduled and completed interviews against goals

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“From a Hiring Manager perspective, we would not be able to operate as efficiently as we do without ModernLoop. We utilize the availability option and build out availability for all of the hiring managers. We also set parameters so that no one manager has more interviews than another. Prior to ModernLoop, we were manually tracking interview loads and balancing using a spreadsheet, which was extremely inefficient.”

Elizabeth Whitaker, Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition, Beyond Finance

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Beyond Finance hires at volume for sales, customer service and account management roles.