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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. Interview process and preparation. In other words, they are not campus recruits.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Oliver Wyman’s strategy consulting practice has made waves specifically in the financial services sector , and beyond as well. Have an upcoming Oliver Wyman interview? At its start, Oliver Wyman capitalized on the deregulation of the financial services industry. KEY STATS FOR OLIVER WYMAN. Website: [link].

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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

Consulting-style case interviews are highly effective, and the same format is being adopted more and more widely. The major consultancies have converged on a largely identical interview style, precisely because it excels in picking out the most genuinely capable candidates from the huge pools of applications received.

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How to Interpret Charts During Case Interviews

Tom Spencer

So, a few minutes into your case interview, the recruiter slides a chart across the table and asks what you can tell from that particular exhibit. The objective of the chart is to help you drive the case forward by approving or disapproving your hypothesis of the business problem. Knowing the exhibit. Common mistakes.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

In my time at McKinsey, easily half the people who left the firm went into the financial world (from hedge funds to PE), and salary was undoubtedly a major factor in the decision. Note -firmsodeling” done in case work may not be directly comparable to the financial modeling more common at investment banks. CONSULTING.

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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. Afterwards, my curiosity grew and I took the initiative to participate in other case competitions and business plan competitions.

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NERA Economic Consulting Interviews – Moving Up in a Down Economy

Management Consulted

Interviewing with NERA Economic Consulting? NERA Economic Consulting is a subsidiary of parent company Marsh & McLennan Companies, a Fortune 500 company in the diversified financial industry who also owns a number of firms including Mercer , a HR Consulting firm, and Oliver Wyman , one of our Top 10 Financial/Strategy Consulting firms.