management consultants

Welcome All Future Management Consultants – Favorite Posts, Link Roundup, and Reader Questions

We hit 900 subscribers today – thanks everyone! I wanted to take this time to welcome new readers, share a few of my favorite consulting-specific reads from around the web, and answer a few reader questions. The second part of the live networking podcast with Brian from Mergers and Inqusitions will be coming shortly. While we didn’t [...]

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Interview with Marquis of McKinsey and Marquis’ Weblog – Life as a Consultant series

The Life of a Consultant series continues. The guest today is Marquis – former McKinsey consultant, Stanford GSB graduate, and author of the popular consulting blog Marquis’ Weblog. Previous interviews covered consultants from Booz Allen, AT Kearney, and Nortel. Some background: I’ve been reading Marquis’ blog for several years. He is a prolific and insightful [...]

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

*This post will be available as a tab in the navigation menu above* “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 [...]

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The truth behind management consulting salaries: from analyst thru partner

Consultant salaries is a topic many readers are dying to learn more about. I’ve gathered the data from my own experience, consulting colleagues, and public sources. They won’t be 100% accurate but should be pretty close. One resource I’ve found valuable is the Consulting forums at WallStreetOasis. First year out of undergraduate: Base salaries: $50-65K [...]

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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 [...]

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