Consulting exit opportunities

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 [...]

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Interview with senior consultant from Celerant Consulting – Life as a Consultant series

The Life as a Consultant series continues. The guest today is a senior consultant from Celerant Consulting – an operations-focused consulting firm. Previous interviews featured consultants from Booz Allen, AT Kearney, Nortel, and McKinsey. Disclaimer: I did not personally conduct this interview. Both the questions and answers were sent to me by a kind reader. [...]

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

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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