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How a Wisconsin undergrad landed 3 consulting job offers in this economy

While the Life as a Consultant series usually features current or former consultants, today we have a new guest. Ryan Wegner is a first-year senior at the University of Wisconson-Madison. Regardless of where you are in your consulting career – reading through the interview will be worth your time.
Ryan first contacted me in the [...]

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Role play in consulting interviews: roundup of reader questions

The site was down briefly on Thursday – minor database problems as I finally upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress.
Here’s a roundup of reader questions – covering topics including role play consulting interviews, consulting interview dress code, consulting lingo, and cover letters.
To start, I found an online copy of the Wetfeet Guide to the [...]

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6 reasons why companies spend $2 million to hire management consultants

Today’s post departs from its usual focus on recruiting to take a 5,000 mile view of the consulting industry and its purpose.
Consultants can have a negative reputation – charging $2 million for 12 week’s work
that results in stacks of PowerPoint slides, all of which are archived into a dusty closet (digital or otherwise) soon after [...]

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How to get a consulting job in a tough economy: notes from recruiting talks

Our Recruiting in a Down Market talks from last week covered a lot of useful material that I’d like to share with readers.
The key takeaways for lazy people are:

Networking is everything – focus on a few quality channels and be proactive

Spread your net wide – you can’t afford to be picky

Have a Plan B but [...]

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Top 10 tips for management consulting cover letters that will land an interview

The cover letter is a required component of any job application – but often the biggest headache for applicants. In this post, I discuss the top 10 tips for consulting cover letters (from content to structure to syntax) that will avoid embarrassing mistakes and strengthen your candidacy.
For the majority of business consulting firms, the cover [...]

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