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Overview of the management consulting recruiting process – from information sessions to interviews to negotiating the offer

This is post #1 of my series on recruiting. Below, I’ll touch upon the main components of the consulting job search and what I believe are the key do’s and key don’ts. Feel free to post comments below or email me with any questions and followups. I want to thank my readers for making these [...]

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Top 5 myths about travel as a management consultant

Travel is a defining characteristic of management consulting regardless of your company. From Bain to Accenture, from McKinsey to Towers Perrin. If you’re a consultant, you can expect to become familiar with acronyms like LGA, LAX, and ORD. You can expect to spend enough time in hotels that the staff will recognize and greet you [...]

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McKinsey versus Marakon: The Battle Between Global Management Consulting Firms and Boutiques

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This is an important issue when recruiting for a business consulting job. In finance, most people think you must work for the biggest – the Goldman-Sachs-or-bust mentality. And while the big management consulting firms (like McKinsey and Bain) get the lions share of media attention, there are many successful and well-respected boutique consulting firms (like [...]

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What is consulting? Management Consulting and the Consulting Industry, 101

It seems like everyone these days is a consultant – strategy consultants, business consultants, technology consultants, IT consultants, marketing consultants, the list goes on and on. It’s a catch-all title for someone who gets paid to give their advice on particular subjects to companies In this post, I’ll attempt to answer 3 big questions: -Who [...]

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