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Management consulting interviews: 10 key preparation tips

This is my final post in the management consulting interview series. Previous topics included case studies, followup questions, and fit interviews.
Here, I’ll focus on 10 key steps to prepare for consulting interviews. As a general piece of advice, the best way to become a great interviewer is to interview in real situations often – thus [...]

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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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Booz Allen interviewee’s public sector consulting thoughts: Why Obama will be good for management consulting

If you’re not familiar with my interview with a consultant from Booz Allen, we briefly covered government consulting which generated great reader interest.
Booz guy thoughtfully followed up with some additional thoughts on the topic. My notes are in the gray boxes.
In no particular order, here they are:
1. Government and public sector consulting generally [...]

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The truth about GPA, SAT, GMAT, career changes, and office selection: a weekly roundup of reader questions

This site has been growing by leaps and bounds in the past weeks. I want to thank readers for making this happen.
Next week, you can look forward to:

Release of “The Consulting Bible” – an interview guide complete with the 60+ most common interview questions, sizing questions, and custom-written cases

Continuation of the “Life as a Consultant” [...]

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Announcing the management consultant’s dictionary – from “bandwidth” to “wordsmith”

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“A consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.”
It’s a common perception of management consultants. From “bucket” to “scope”, from “sniff test” to “circle back”, to excel in the industry is to master a new and often [...]

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