This is post #1 of our series to give you a consulting recruiting overview. Below, we’ll touch upon the main components of the consulting job search and what we believe are the key do’s and key don’ts. After this consulting…
Travel is a defining characteristic of management consulting regardless of your company. From Bain to Accenture, from McKinsey to Alvarez & Marsal. If you’re a consultant, you can expect to become familiar with acronyms like LGA, LAX, and ORD. You…
Management Consulting or Investment Banking? This is an important question for prospective applicants (in particular, undergrad/MBA students) looking for summer internships and full-time jobs alike. The decision was easier for Kevin (our founder) than for most people. The cons of…
Following is a quick excerpt of a “typical” day in the life of 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…
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…
It seems like everyone these days is in management consulting – strategy consultants, business consultants, technology consultants, IT consultants, marketing consultants, and the list goes on and on. It’s a catch-all title for someone who gets paid to give their advice…