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Day in the life of a management consultant (client version)

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*following is a quick excerpt of a “typical” day as a management/strategy consultant on a project with heavy client interaction* From a recruiting perspective, you should take away the following: The days are shorter than in investment banking (12-14 hr days average, with spikes up to 16 hrs for particularly busy periods) While they’re shorter, [...]

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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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