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Recruiting versus reality

Tom Spencer

Consulting firms are very good at selling themselves to potential recruits. In this post, I explore the other side of the value propositions presented by consulting firms during the recruiting process: “You will be exposed to a wide range of problems and industries”. insurance) or types of work (e.g.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT. Finally, you have constant client interaction which develops “client skills” – from managing client teams to running meetings to learning how to navigate different corporate environments. This helps you develop the ability to be “standalone” in consulting lingo.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Now a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, Oliver Wyman is known to give MMC its strong reputation as experts over other insurance providers because of the firm’s focus on strategy. Burrows, Marsh & McLennan began in Chicago in 1905 and became the world’s largest insurance agency. Aviation, Aerospace, and Defense.

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The First Wave of Corporate AI Is Doomed to Fail

Harvard Business

For example, early efforts of companies developing chatbots for Facebook’s Messenger platform saw 70% failure rates in handling user requests. For example, an insurer could take a business process such as claims processing and automate it entirely, using speech and vision understanding.

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NERA Economic Consulting Interviews – Moving Up in a Down Economy

Management Consulted

NERA has developed quite a reputation, but has managed to keep itself small, clearly focused and prestigious in the process. Industry Related Practices: Energy, Environmental Economics, Health Care and Life Sciences, Insurance, Postal Services, Communications Networks and Media, Transport, Water. .

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BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?

Management Consulted

BearingPoint partners with the major technological suppliers, like Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, to develop solutions and strategies suiting their clients’ requirements. International Development. Sustainable Development. BEARINGPOINT INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Practice Areas. Human Resources.

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Tips for Case Prepping Alone

Tom Spencer

As fall recruiting season is on the horizon, it’s inevitably a busy time for many students looking to recruit into consulting. In developing your stories, be mindful that the way you tell your stories can be more important than the specific details. I wish you the best of luck!