Category: management consulting

MBA-Sponsorship-At-Consulting-Firms

MBA Sponsorship At Consulting Firms

Key Insights: One of the main considerations for those of you considering consulting is what you’ll do after you leave. Or put another way, many people enter consulting to leave…

How Consulting Firms Bill Clients

More and more, we've noticed an increasing fascination around the internal mechanics of consulting firms. Lately, we've received questions about how Partners sell projects, and how consulting firms bill clients.…

Tech Consulting vs Strategy Consulting

Tech Consulting vs Strategy Consulting

In the past, we've explored how Tech consulting experience can hurt you when it comes to applying for more strategy-focused roles, and how to mitigate this during the recruiting process.…

Law School To Consulting

Law School To Consulting

Key Insights: Why lawyers pivot to consulting: Many legal professionals seek broader, more proactive strategic work, exposure to diverse industries, and a faster-paced career path with better lifestyle options. How…

6 Ways You Can Prepare for Consulting Right Now

Have you missed your particular recruitment window? Didn't make the break you expected this year for careers? The consulting industry is one of the most competitive on the planet,…

Thinking Like a Consultant - Communicating Core Values

Thinking Like a Consultant – Communicating Core Values

Welcome to the next installment of our "Thinking Like a Consultant" series, where we are exploring thoughts, behaviors and mindsets of successful consultants. If you have't read Part 1 or Part 2…

3 Ways Financial Advisory Consulting Beats Strategy Consulting

In our last post, we discussed 5 major differences between 2 prominent types of consulting. From the variety of work and access to C-level executives to the wide array of…

5 Reasons to Choose Strategy Consulting Over Financial Advisory Consulting

5 Reasons to Choose Strategy Consulting Over Financial Advisory Consulting

Strategy consulting vs. financial advisory consulting - both are consulting. Can they really be that different? We get at least 5 questions a month from readers about this either-or, and…

Comparing McKinsey Bain BCG

McKinsey, Bain, & BCG Comparison

Key Insights McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the top three management consulting firms in the world, collectively known as MBB. While all three recruit from elite universities, offer world-class training,…

Consulting Jokes

Top 5 Consulting Jokes

We wanted to have some fun because - why not? We surveyed the web for the best consulting jokes out there. We found tons of good ones, and a few…

Reader FAQ – Switching gears: from intern to full-time, from IT to strategy, and from PwC and IBM to MBB

It's time for our final Reader FAQ for 2012, and we're going out with a bang. (Even Santa's reading MC now!) This month we feature questions from readers who want…

Reader FAQ – “Designer” Consulting Resumes, Late Applications, and Plan Bs

October was the peak of full-time recruiting, and it shows! You've bombarded us with insightful questions about resumes, interviews, applications, and how to pick up the pieces and consider alternatives…