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Consultant Marketing Trepidation To Elation

Jerry Fletcher

How do you take that resume out and convince someone to hire you as a consultant? Some that I’m aware of: New college graduate writes a laudatory one-page letter as his wife to personnel directors of ad agencies across the Midwestern USA touting his New York experience with no resume attached. State a problem and your solution.

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Fool Me Once Or Fool Me All The Time

Martinka Consulting

This goes back to before the stock market crash of 1929. There’s now a plethora of Ebitda clone terms including those showing “profit” before things like stock-based pay, marketing, business development, and administrative expenses. So let’s look at the above in the context of other areas, starting with advertising. Conclusion.

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From Creative Industry to McKinsey Offer - Experienced Hire

CaseInterview.com

Question: It was really fascinating to read your today's email about landing a McKinsey offer while coming from advertising. Strategic Planning in ad agency is the equivalent of marketing: we do consumer analysis, competitive analysis, define and estimate target audience, create strategies for new product launches and communication, etc.

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Deceit

Martinka Consulting

People I know in the job market find a lot of misleading job descriptions. And to be fair, we know there are a lot of embellished resumes out there. Using middle-market or public company price-earnings ratios when valuing a small business (or when trying to get a listing) is one.*

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Some Things Never Change

Martinka Consulting

Less than 20% of all hiring that takes place in today’s market occurs from submitting a resume or application to a published Internet opportunity. It’s a lot easier for an intermediary or seller to screen you out if they haven’t met you, built a relationship, and are relying only on a resume or application.

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PARADE Method

CaseInterview.com

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It can be used by candidates to prepare concise and powerful answers to commonly asked consulting resume questions. Four months later, the IPO was successful and the company had a market valuation of $250 million.

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From Ad Agency & Non-Target School to McKinsey Offer

CaseInterview.com

Second, after college, I got a job at [ ad agency ], a top advertising agency, but not exactly a common (though not unprecedented either) route to management consulting. First of all, I have a liberal arts degree from [ U.S. university ] (a US top 40 that is not on any firm's target school list). And maybe, 3.