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How to get consulting jobs from a liberal arts and humanities background

*courtesy of toothpaste for dinner*
Liberal arts and humanities majors are often criticized for being “soft majors” – with unchallenging classes and lack of “real world” skill development leaving them unable to land competitive business jobs. Fortunately for all the budding English and Philosophy majors out there, that’s simply not true.
This is the second of my [...]

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How to get consulting jobs from an engineering and/or technical background

Happy 2009, readers! Thanks for being patient during the previous few days. I’m back and ready to continue helping people get a job in management consulting.
This is the first of my series on entering consulting from “non-business” backgrounds – future posts include entering from liberal arts/humanities degrees and non-MBA grad schools
It’s very common for engineers [...]

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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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