Management Consulted

AUGUST 10, 2014

During an interview, it is common to be asked “Tell me about yourself.” The fit interview is where magic happens , where your true self comes out, and where the interview is ultimately decided. The fit interview is the tiebreaker, so you best be on your game. Au contraire, peeps. Why Consulting?

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Interviews Case Interview Consulting Industry 215

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

A few months ago, we had the pleasure of interviewing Marc Cosentino at his Santa Barbara home. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Marc, he’s pretty much the Godfather when it comes to case interviews. We had a blast getting to meet Marc, the guy who pretty much pioneered case interview prep material.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

What’s next – when your resume doesn’t receive an interview; your first round doesn’t lead to a call-back; your final round receives a polite rejection? The advice applies equally to industries like investment banking. You’ll typically receive a rejection call after the interview. No surprise here.

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Resumes Consulting Case Interview Interviews 147

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 30, 2008

The “ultimate” interview guide – complete with fit/behavioral questions, sizing/quantitative questions, and brain-teasers. Sample case studies that are as challenging (if not more so) as the toughest ones you’ll encounter at any McKinsey/Bain/BCG interview. Thanks for your readership!

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Case Interview Case Study Case Studies Consulting 100

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Have an upcoming Oliver Wyman interview? Since that time, it has become the fastest growing management consulting firm today. In 2007, Mercer Oliver Wyman joined with Mercer Management Consulting and Mercer Delta to become Oliver Wyman groups (also includes Lippincott and NERA Economic Consulting). Retail and Business Banking.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Interviews were fast approaching and I knew I wasn’t on track. These insights led to a 100% hit rate at my consulting and tech interviews, which included BCG, Strategy&, AT Kearney, Amazon, Cognizant, and several boutique consultancies. Entire books are written about mastering the 30 minute case! The Case is Real Life.

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Case Interview Interviews Consulting Banking 74

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you. As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Management Consulted

JULY 8, 2013

Management Consulted is taking consulting bootcamps on the road – live and delivered straight to you. What is a Management Consulting Bootcamp? Additionally, if you’d like to keep working with us on 1:1 interview prep, you receive a discount on one of our interview packages. Structuring the fit interview.

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Cover Letters Case Interview Consulting Resumes 113

Tom Spencer

JUNE 8, 2019

If you’re applying to a consulting firm, be ready to get acquainted with case interviews. Almost all consulting firms include the case interview as part of their recruitment process. Even non-consulting firms are utilizing case interviews as part of their process so you don’t want to be blindsided.

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Case Interview Interviews Recruitment Recruiting 60

Tom Spencer

MARCH 4, 2022

While almost everyone has heard about the prestigious careers in management consulting, there is a career that is quite similar and just as lucrative in economic consulting. The consulting industry in general is known for having very high paying jobs , and this is equally true for both management and economic consulting. Similarities.

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Consulting Management Oliver Wyman Case Interview 109

Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

What makes Bulger Partners even more unique among consulting firms is the fact that the firm houses Strategy Consulting and Investment Banking arms under the same roof, and even has a small PE fund. Bulger Partners really got off the ground in 2012, and was the brainchild of Founder and Managing Partner Chris Bulger.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

As the next installment in our popular Firm Profile series, we take a look at the evolution, reinvention, and current interview tactics of one of the world’s premier consulting firms – IBM. Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. Enjoy the ride!

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

GALLUP CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. SRI was founded in 1969 and its expertise in psychological research/interviews identified the “fit” of individuals is specific positions or roles in an organization. With a name that evokes the Wild Wild West, Gallup Consulting just sounds like a fun place to work. Gallup, Inc.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 181

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

At the time of its bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers was the fourth largest investment bank in the world. Lehman Brothers and other investment banks went down in part due to the huge amounts of money they lost in the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Case Interviews. Management Consulting. How could it run out of money?

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Consulting Case Interview Banking Financial 147

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. So you have a Booz & Company interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? Booz, who could very well possibly be considered the father of management consulting as a career. We want you to nail it. Thank you, Edwin Booz.

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 27, 2008

He regularly blogs about management consulting and MBA issues and has sensible, smart advice for just about everything career-related. For my new readers, here are some recommended and popular articles for you to browse: Management Consulting and the Consulting Industry 101. Day in the Life of a Management Consultant (client version).

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

The Advisory Board Company also offers technology, management, and consulting services. H*Works was the first of many steps the company took towards building its prestigious (in the healthcare consulting world) consulting and managing services. EMR and practice management IT selection and implementation. Supply chain.

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Interviews Culture Company Healthcare 147

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

And so in PPE, were you interested in business in general, before everything happened with Lehman Brothers did you think you are probably going to stick with the investment banking industry? Peter: When I was at Warwick, it was a massive feeder school into investment banking, and finance, but slightly less into consulting.

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Deloitte Case Interview Interviews Case Study 100

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Alvarez & Marsal have been making waves in recent years for the high profile, high quality work they did in the midst of the banking crisis. One of the things we really love to do here at Management Consulted is answer the questions you have for us. Regulatory and Risk Management. . ALVAREZ & MARSAL CONSULTING.

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Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Expect Another "Bad Bank" Bailout in Spain; Humorous Details of Sarebs Property Assets. Spains bad bank, Sareb, has plans to unload 45,000 distressed properties in five years, over 7,500 of them in 2013. Here are some excerpts (translated) from GurusBlog report Havoc in the Bad Bank (SAREB).

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Banking Analysis Trends Real Estate 75

Management Consulted

MAY 13, 2015

For the last 2 years, we’ve been running our popular Black Belt interview training courses – with tremendous success. On average, they do 30-50 cases with peer partners, 10 with us, and hours of personal reflection, preparation and planning for both fit and case interviews. I have lots of case practice.

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Case Interview Cover Letters Interviews Resumes 100

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Interviewing with NERA Economic Consulting? Let’s just quickly discuss the difference between a top management consulting firm and an economic consulting firm. Let’s just quickly discuss the difference between a top management consulting firm and an economic consulting firm. NERA ECONOMIC CONSULTING.

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NERA Economic Consulting Interviews Oliver Wyman Consulting 147

Management Consulted

JANUARY 10, 2016

Welcome to the New Year Management Consulted Subscribers ! In addition, as banking salaries have increased across the board (up to 25% at the MBA level), consulting firms needed to increase their compensation packages to remain competitive. Manager/Project Leader (2-3 years out of MBA): ~ $250-$350k.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Many management consultants hardly complete two or three years in their jobs before they realize that there’s more to life than consulting. Interviews. Helping the organization to identify and manage strategic uncertainty. In terms of the interview process it followed the following steps: HR interview (fit).

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Interviews Case Interview Strategy& Strategy 68

CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 21, 2019

In her success story she shares some case interview preparation tips and I am also including my response because I find this student’s background slightly unusual for management consulting and wanted to point out that even those with non-typical career and education backgrounds can succeed in management consulting.

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Case Interview Accenture Interviews Deloitte 40

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Austrian school: Sh*t happens because of the fractional reserve banking system. Case Interviews. Management Consulting. Neo-classical synthesis: Sh*t happens in the short run but not in the long run. Behavioural economics: This sh*t is irrational. Pareto Improvement: Taking my sh*t is okay when I don’t give a sh*t.

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Case Interview Banking Interviews Consulting 109

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 4, 2013

This is a transcribed phone interview between Rachel (name changed) and Jenny Rae – enjoy her insights about failing the first time around but coming back for consulting success and landing an offer with McKinsey in her senior year. What I look back on it, I think the way I did my cases just weren’t at the bar they had set.

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McKinsey Case Interview Interviews Oliver Wyman 125

Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Another was Geri Thomas, former Chief Diversity Officer at Bank of America, started at the bank when she was a sophomore at Georgia State (and the bank was still Citizens and Southern National). Both women came from educated parents (Drew Jarvis’s father was a physician and researcher who pioneered blood banks).

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Banking Talent Groups Case Interview 132

Management Consulted

JANUARY 8, 2017

The field of management consulting also continues to have its fair share of excitement. Those who manage to break into management consulting firms in 2017 will be recipients of steadily increasing consulting salaries. Also, the listed salary data is solely for those in management consulting roles within these firms.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

Sometimes, when struggling through yet another case interview practice , candidates might wonder: "Why consulting again?" Indeed, many other job opportunities have straightforward interviewing and hiring processes that don't require hours of practice and coaching. Consultants learn a lot--fast.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Resumes 91

Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

Because of this, we sat down with consulting veteran Lisa Bright (who is now part of the MC interview coaching team!) I majored in accounting, finance and supply chain management at a college in the state (Miami of Ohio). I was going down the route of finance, asset management, investment banking, or something like that.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything. As a result, they may achieve modest savings, but in many cases they will miss out on opportunities to dramatically improve process outcomes, quality, costs, and cycle times. Why RPA Needs Process Analysis.

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Company Process Improvement Case Interview Banking 137

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

You received an interview with a consulting firm! Management consulting interviews generally have two types of assessments, behavioral and casing. Behavioral interview questions help shed significant light on you as a candidate. HireVue is software that recruiting teams use during the interview process.

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Interviews Case Interview Recruitment Recruiting 88

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

After working on the management team at CSMG, a boutique global communications, technology and digital media consulting firm (now Cartesian) Rory Altman formed the company with Ed Vilandrie in 2002. Beneath them are the managers, who are considered part of the consulting team. INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Industries. Technology.

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Interviews Culture Case Interview Recruiting 100

Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

What makes Bulger Partners even more unique among consulting firms is the fact that the firm houses Strategy Consulting and Investment Banking arms under the same roof, and even has a small PE fund. Bulger Partners really got off the ground in 2012 and was the brainchild of Managing Partner Chris Bulger. – Revenue: $20M.

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Software Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment 100

Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

What makes Bulger Partners even more unique among consulting firms is the fact that the firm houses Strategy Consulting and Investment Banking arms under the same roof, and even has a small PE fund. Bulger Partners really got off the ground in 2012 and was the brainchild of Managing Partner Chris Bulger. – Revenue: $20M.

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Software Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment 100

Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

What makes Bulger Partners even more unique among consulting firms is the fact that the firm houses Strategy Consulting and Investment Banking arms under the same roof, and even has a small PE fund. Bulger Partners really got off the ground in 2012 and was the brainchild of Managing Partner Chris Bulger. – Revenue: $20M.

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