Fake name

2402-210 Fake Street

Toronto, Ontario, Fake Postal Code
May 30th, 2016
Bain & Company
Boston, Massachusetts

I am very excited to apply for the job of management consultant at Bain &
Company. I have learned about this position from the Graduate Management
Consulting Association at my university. I am interested in the position of strategy
consultant because it offers me the opportunity to apply my keen problem solving
ability, which I have developed throughout my academic career, to important
business problems.
I am in the process of completing my PhD in department of Medical
Biophysics at the University of Toronto. My thesis is on the technical development of
in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy and I hope to complete my degree in
October 2016. I believe I would be an excellent consultant due to my problem
solving ability and my ability to work effectively both independently and within
groups. These qualities are demonstrated from both my academic history as well as
my personal life. My PhD has involved both independent work within a laboratory
developing new magnetic resonance techniques, as well as collaborating with a
team of scientists, radiation oncologists, neurosurgeons and technicians to
successfully implement my techniques in a clinical setting. The fundamental
question my projected aimed at tackling was: how can we shorten clinical scans, to
improve increase throughput and patient comfort, and how can we access new,
potentially important, information previously inaccessible? Throughout my degree I
successfully ran two clinical trials, where I was directly involved in every step from
lab bench to patient recruitment to implementation. I also believe that my strong
quantitative background in physics will make me excellent in the data-driven world
of consulting. Within my institute I have been the coordinator for the magnetic
resonance research group, which hosts more than 40 world-class researchers, for
the last year and a half. I organize monthly meetings between the different research
groups in order to improve scientific collaboration as well as education. I have
developed the reputation as an approachable problem solver within my department,
as several of the more junior students approach me in solving difficult problems, in
addition to mentoring three students.
Outside of the classroom I run a fitness club through the athletics centre
within the university. I help people interested in fitness who are often intimidated by
starting. I have grown the club to over 15 members throughout the last year, with
some of the members going on to compete in powerlifting.

The reason why I am interested in Bain & Company is because they are a
company which understands the nuances of earning a PhD, and that the
fundamental quality critical to being successful in a PhD is the ability to approach
previously unsolved problems and solve them in a way to obtain meaningful results.
I believe that working for Bain & Company will give me the opportunity to continue
to pursue my passion of learning, while solving real world important and impactful
problems.