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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. Banking salaries average 50-100% higher than consulting salaries , with the difference increasingly significant as your seniority increases.

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Big Banks move internship recruiting back – what it means for consulting internship recruiting

Management Consulted

The potential for spring internship recruiting madness is over – at least temporarily. Earlier this week, Wall Street titans Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan announced (mercifully) that undergrad internship recruiting would move back from Sophomore spring to the fall of … Continue Reading.

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2 Years of Networking Results in Consulting Job at PwC

Management Consulted

He has a really cool history – international i-banking, college football, and more – and THEN he spent 2 years networking his way into a job at PwC. I also explored other areas of finance and ultimately decided that I wanted to give investment banking a shot. Talk about tenacity! I also worked very long hours.

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Experienced Hire Recruiting in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Experienced hire recruitment can be a puzzling, confusing environment. Compared to on-campus recruits (undergraduates and MBA students), experienced hires confront much more irregular processes, prolonged timelines, and unclear standards. Experienced hires are anyone in the recruitment pipeline that are already in the workforce.

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You’ve been rejected from all consulting jobs. What’s next?

Management Consulted

The advice applies equally to industries like investment banking. Practice will only help for future interviews or next year’s recruiting cycle. There simply isn’t a consulting firms database comparable to what exists in investment banking. In this post, I’ll highlight the key steps to take when this happens.

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Fireside Chat – Consulting Recruiting at Target and Non-Target Universities

Tom Spencer

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with another blog contributor to the SpencerTom community, Jason Oh, to share our experiences about the consulting recruiting process. How is recruiting done at your school? Jeff : There are many advantages of campus recruiting at a target school.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Corporate and Institutional Banking. Retail and Business Banking. Oliver Wyman actively recruits for internships at target schools, and interns are typically in their junior/penultimate year of university studies. For Consulting roles, Oliver Wyman recruits in 60 top schools all over the world. Surface Transportation.