what is consulting

6 reasons why companies spend $2 million to hire management consultants

Today’s post departs from its usual focus on recruiting to take a 5,000 mile view of the consulting industry and its purpose. Consultants can have a negative reputation – charging $2 million for 12 week’s work that results in stacks of PowerPoint slides, all of which are archived into a dusty closet (digital or otherwise) [...]

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Top 10 tips for management consulting cover letters that will land an interview

The cover letter is a required component of any job application – but often the biggest headache for applicants. In this post, I discuss the top 10 tips for consulting cover letters (from content to structure to syntax) that will avoid embarrassing mistakes and strengthen your candidacy. For the complete guide to consulting cover letters, [...]

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Case Studies 101 – the most important case questions for future consultants

In previous posts, I’ve discussed interviews, resumes, and the general recruiting process. Today, I want to touch upon one of the most important but often overlooked aspects of the interview process – the case study. What are case studies? A critical component of the interview process. Case studies are descriptions of real or hypothetical business [...]

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

This is an important question for prospective applicants (in particular, undergrad/MBA students) looking for summer internships and fulltime jobs alike. The decision was easier for me than for most people. The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered [...]

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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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