Management Consulted

MAY 5, 2015

What started off as an informal blog about management consulting with just a few readers became interview prep sessions, resume edits, videos on YouTube and Vimeo, books and the presentations we give at colleges around the world. The case interview is the great equalizer. And after all that, even with 1.5M The problem? Who is it for?

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 9, 2019

So maybe you’ve gotten to the second round, maybe you’re still waiting to hear back, or maybe you’re hoping to interview again in the next recruitment cycle. Regardless of whichever bucket you fall into, it always helps to see things from the interviewers’ perspective. Here are the top three things they’re looking for: 1.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2018

When interviewing for your next job, how can you impress your recruiter and increase your chances of securing a job offer? Of course you may wish to emphasize your ambitions and goals you hope to achieve as a result of working at the company — your extrinsic motivation for the job. TOSHINORI TARUI.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 11, 2020

As a volunteer graduate school advisor, I often get asked if acquiring an additional graduate degree in addition to an MBA as a dual degree student improves consulting recruiting opportunities. Reading Time: 3 minutes. History of outstanding academic and professional performance (however long or short the history might be). Conclusion.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 10, 2022

There are many steps to take in preparing to apply and interview for a consulting position. If you are just starting out, you will find yourself editing your resume, preparing answers for experiential questions, and practicing business frameworks to use in the case interview. Rather, it can encompass the entire interview.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 27, 2020

And today you don't have a lot of choices to resolve this crisis as you can't simply sign up with an executive recruiter and get busy finding a job because the opportunities simply aren't there. Several years ago, Michael Zipursky of Consulting Success, interviewed me for his podcast on my "$0 to $300K in 18 months Business Launch story."

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Management Consulted

JUNE 12, 2016

PARTHENON-EY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Be prepared for 2-3 rounds of interviews, the first of which may consist of connecting with a recruiter for a phone screen. You can expect these two interviews per round to be back-to-back and no longer than 30 minutes. Check out our PowerPoint for Consulting course here ).

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 4, 2022

There is a lot to think about when preparing for consulting interviews , and you may want to check out some of our other blog posts and guides for preparing your resume , creating your cover letter , and improving your network. I also applied during the Covid-19 Pandemic so I cannot comment on in person interviews, just virtual.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Specializing in economic, financial and market analysis, specifically for cases in litigation, Cornerstone Research touts itself as the one player major law firms turn to when navigating the obstacle course that is the American and European legal systems. CORNERSTONE RESEARCH INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart. These days, it pays to practice being in “interview mode” so you’re ready for the real thing – whether it’s networking with a neighbor at Starbucks or sitting in the hot seat.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

Candidates will be interviewed on campus or over the phone. With internal courses, external courses, and mentoring programs among other things, Booz Allen Hamilton strongly encourages its staff to pursue growth throughout the year. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Exit Opportunities.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 1, 2009

Everything from recruiting to lifestyle, daily work to client relationships. Berkeley undergrad who received Navigant and FTI Consulting offers – our interviewee shares insights on recruiting from a large public university , and his thoughts on the relative merits of Navigant Consulting and FTI Consulting. Favorite recent posts.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I interviewed more than 50 people from underrepresented groups who have made it in the tech industry, asking them to help me understand why they weren’t applying for my open tech jobs. They recruited a group of 30 individuals, ages 18-20, who expressed interest in the program. Native American, 18.1%

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The Management Centre

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We are currently recruiting for trainers here at =mcLearning, and it is a very interesting process given the current challenges with recruitment in the UK. Here, lead recruiter and =mc Director Yvette Gyles shares her thoughts on the process so far, and what can be done to make a recruitment process successful.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As the pioneering Danish firm Specialisterne showed first in the early 2000s, however, and as the Australian Defence Organization’s partner DXC Technology has demonstrated through deployments in Australia, if you manage things right, you can recruit great talent and activate it to a maximum degree from populations of autistic people.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

A desired response from a recruitment manager would be “most cover letters I’m falling asleep. Stage two of the process may find you in front of your webcam, coming face to face with the recent recruiting tool developed be Hirevue. If you continued to impress in step two, you’ll secure yourself an interview with a real human!

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Job interviews typically begin with a set of seemingly innocuous questions unrelated to the job: How is your day going? It is commonly assumed that job candidates and interviewers both prefer to start with these types of questions rather than just diving into the more rigid and formal structured interview topics.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Our first-ever Black Belt Supreme course launched in June, and we had an overwhelming response. With the crazy recruiting cycle, we know the pressure that you are under and we are here to help you out! Sign-ups for the new Black Belt Supreme course close October 31st – no exceptions. 30 days of focused interview homework.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 12, 2017

Many lawyers we’ve heard from would rather be involved in proactive strategy vs. reactive strategy – being involved in setting a company’s course as opposed to being called in to fix something after it’s gone wrong. We created a comprehensive course on how to do it well. On the plus side?

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 10, 2012

If you’re not selected for an interview, you’ll never regret having tried – and if you do make it through the interviews and obtain an offer, you can always decide to take or leave it at that point. (By Still – you might have had your reasons, and you chart your own course at the end of the day.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2018

In other words, what employees saw on a careers site or on their company’s social channels, or what they heard from recruiters, was often inconsistent with what they experienced when they joined the company. They can benefit greatly from assessing the distance between their recruitment marketing and the actual employee experience.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Inevitably in any job, internship, or graduate school interview, you will hear these words. You are sitting in a chair facing a recruiter, manager, or professor asking you to share an experience where you displayed a particular emotion, dealt with a problem, or overcame a challenge. “Tell me a time where you…”.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

As fall recruiting season is on the horizon, it’s inevitably a busy time for many students looking to recruit into consulting. On top of regular life commitments, you also must spend time on preparing applications, practicing for interviews, and partaking in the interviews themselves. Make use of interviewer-led cases.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

I vividly remember the last consulting interview during first-year MBA recruiting season. I had managed to get interviews with three firms but only made it past the first round with this final company. The recruiting coordinator mentioned she’d get back to me by the end of the day. I was tense. 5pm rolls by, no call….

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 9, 2019

Management Consulting Networking Success Story: I just want to drop you one additional thank you e-mail, as I heavily relied on your preparation sources throughout my interviewing journey (and the corresponding case interview preparation). I interviewed last autumn for a post-MBA/PhD position at the top firms in Germany.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 11, 2017

MBA-level : If you’re currently wrapping up your 1st or 2nd year in an MBA program and entering the internship or full-time recruiting process, competition is tough! The one question you’ll almost always be asked in an interview is “Walk me through your resume.” ” Sounds easy enough, right?

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 27, 2009

From salaries to travel, from boutiques to MBB, I’ve helped people understand the job, write the perfect resumes , and ace the toughest interviews. Get The Consulting Bible today and be the smartest interviewer in the room. One phrase that everyone encourages you to use but you should never say in an actual interview (pg.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Of course, some senior partners spent a surprising amount of their “business development time” on the golf course, but that was OK because they had already paid their dues to the organization. The competition was relentless, but once you won the prize, it was yours for keeps. This is no longer true.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

To secure a final round interview at Bain, you would have to be in the top 3% of applicants for that office. The key thing to do after a rejection is to reflect on the interview process and ask for feedback. For example, doing a course on LinkedIn on ‘ Communicating with Confidence ’ could help you develop your interview skills.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2017

For example, implementing a new interview process, without educating employees on its benefits, inhibits its adoption. Our trainings are organized around three specific situations that our participants encounter in their day-to-day work: recruiting and hiring, team dynamics, and career development.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

We’re talking about the basics like 100% employer paid health, medical, and dental insurance, but also fun stuff like an onsite gym and fitness center, free healthy meals prepared by an on-site crew of chefs in their corporate cafeteria, subsidized daycare, employee scholarships, and, of course, major restaurant discounts.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

So I bet there are probably interesting projects, maybe some course names. While I was there I knew I was going to be a pilot, so I didn’t put as much emphasis on my courses as I probably should have. So I started searching for programs that consulting firms recruit from. I’ve actually had an interview recently.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

We followed that with a different study that examined student grades over a 10-year period in 991 courses that were taught several times by the same professors. As with the dance competition judges, the more times an instructor taught a course, the higher grades they gave. Doing so could help you assess more accurately.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Case interviews are synonymous with consulting recruitment and are characterised by unfamiliar problems. How then can you ace the interview confidently when it’s your first encounter with a particular business case scenario? Interview with multiple firms. Of course not. What is Confidence?

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Personally, I found the best case interviews [ in LOMS ] to be the most helpful. This understanding gave me confidence and peace during the interview process. Before interviewing, I was already convinced these companies were the right fit for me, my job was to convince them! Here's how I prepared and what worked well for me.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 18, 2021

Now I am not talking about brief stays at national laboratories where you conduct your doctoral research, nor clinical rotations for course credit, nor programs where summer internships are required. You pass your courses, ace examinations, conduct research, and write lots of reports. Test Drive Your Degree. Find Career Mentors.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 12, 2021

Later, talking to admissions tutors and interviewers at university, an explanation for this paradox started to crystallize. The keenest applicants generally leave from their interviews with confidence and professional satisfaction, yet often end up disappointed. Do not hesitate to free up some space for this in your CV!

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