Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2015

We spend a lot of time on the road here at MC, traveling to colleges and universities in North America and beyond, giving training and advice on resumes, fit interviews, case interviews and beyond. Ever wondered what it would be like to come with us? Well wonder no more! Last year on our trip to L.A.

Case Interview 100

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2015

We spend a lot of time on the road here at MC, travelling to colleges and universities in North America and beyond, giving training and advice on resumes, fit interviews, case interviews and beyond. Ever wondered what it would be like to come with us? Well wonder no more! Last year on our trip to L.A.

Case Interview 100

Case Interview Resumes Travel Interviews 100

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Managers rarely yell, coworkers try to help each other out whenever possible, and companies are organized to provide consultants support with training, expertise, etc. Call me biased, but I received the best years of business training possible in my time at McKinsey. We offer resume editing and interview prep.

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Banking Boston Consulting Group Consulting Management 272

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It’s harder to get an offer at a consulting firm once you’ve passed the resume screen than it is to get into MIT. ” “I bought your Consulting Bible training course several weeks ago in a frantic, last-minute attempt to prepare for upcoming consulting interviews. You’ll need every edge that you can get.

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Case Interview Bain McKinsey Interviews 175

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Hi readers: I hate to pause the blog train, but for the next few days I will be traveling and enjoying the last moments of 2008. I offer hands-on coaching sessions to help people break into management consulting and top business jobs – from re-writing your resume to simulated interviews/case studies to thorough Q&A.

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Case Interview Case Studies Case Study Consulting 100

Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

In front of him is a pile of resumes, culled off of monster.com, of people who currently or recently worked at a particular division of a major CPG company, on behalf of the client, another competing CPG company in the same market. Was there good training involved?". Timmy: "and did you have people reporting to you? Timmy: "Mmm, I see.

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Oliver Wyman Consulting Resumes Airlines 100

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

We’re recapping our lives as road warriors via planes, trains and automobiles…we visited Georgia Tech , Duke , Georgetown , and Columbia before rolling over to today’s campus…Yale. Our train ride was uneventful with the exception of the conductor, who was a joke-telling machine.

Cover Letters 114

Cover Letters Case Interview Resumes Interviews 114

Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2017

For the last 4 years we’ve been running our popular Black Belt interview training courses – with tremendous success. Do I have to complete my resume/cover letter edit right away? Compared to a 3% acceptance rate at top consulting firms, 55% of our Black Belt Supreme participants have received 1 or more offers from top 10 firms.

Case Interview 188

Case Interview Interviews Cover Letters Resumes 188

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Is my resume where it needs to be?” We’ve got your resume to go through, and as I gather you have a whole bunch of questions about consulting. Do you want to talk about your resume and your experience first, or do you want to talk about the questions that you have? Commercial Pilot’s Resume. Is that right?

Consulting 125

Consulting Resumes Bain Recruiting 125

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

When you walk into an interview, even before you speak, shake hands or talk through your resume, something else is doing a lot of talking in your behalf: your appearance. In his study, 100 business students got interviewed by trained interviewers just as if they were competing for roles at large corporations. Reading Time: 4 minutes.

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Case Interview How To Interviews Study 211

Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

As former leaders, we are trained to speak corporate. Just because you know how to put a resume together or create executive presentations doesn't mean that you know how to write copy and content. Pro tip: Meet your clients are their point of departure. Which is NEVER engaging. Because it's a brand new skill!

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Methodologies Consulting Video Industry 288

Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2017

There’s a growing skepticism about whether unconscious bias training is an effective tool to meet corporate diversity goals. Critics of such training contend that it doesn’t visibly move the needle on diversity numbers, and can even backfire. Clearly, not all trainings are equally good — and none are a silver bullet.

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Training Training Interviews Survey 56

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

You’ve done all your homework on the firm, networked your butt off, and crafted the pristine consulting resume and cover letter. The good news is that, with proper interview training and practice, you can successfully navigate this labyrinth. Here they are: Walk Me Through Your Resume. “What did I get myself into? .

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 25, 2019

The teenagers attempted suicide by jumping in front of the local commuter train. The local school district contemplated solving the problem by posting a security guard near the train station. Having an Ivy League diploma on your resume IS very useful for the first six seconds that your resume is being read by a busy resume screener.

Resumes 88

Resumes Tools Training Training 88

Management Consulted

JULY 10, 2016

*We’re starting this article off assuming that you’ve already knocked some socks off during networking (see here ) and created a masterful resume and cover letter (see here ). Once you’ve passed the resume screen, you’ll be invited in to a local office for a first round interview. Please don’t!

McKinsey 100

McKinsey Case Interview Interviews Resumes 100

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 10, 2012

You’ll need to be able to play this up on your resume and in your cover letter, so cover your bases and rock your first year (starting with your first 3 months – when your status at PwC will largely be determined). We offer resume editing and interview prep. when you’re trying to make the case for switching.

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Strategy Strategy& Strategy Case Interview 128

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Additionally, experience at an MBB firm can add significant value to a resume, hopefully leading to better career opportunities and higher earning potential in the long term. Training and Development MBB firms invest heavily in the training and development of their consultants. How is the MBB experience different?

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McKinsey Methodologies Transportation Bain 78

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Many that serve clients with strategy come from organizations (like Bain or McKinsey) that offer excellent toolkit and skills training pre-Bridgespan; the training at Bridgespan is there, but not as thorough. Group Consulting. Leadership Program: Leading for Impact. Internships. Exit Opportunities.

Interviews 150

Interviews Culture Bain Consulting 150

Tom Spencer

MARCH 10, 2018

As I went through my medical training I even came to the point where I just knew I would be a surgical oncologist. I decided to pursue a master’s degree alongside my current training in order to better understand how clinical research played a driving role in the pharmaceutical and medical device business world.

Healthcare 84

Healthcare Consulting Case Interview Resumes 84

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

If you don’t live in the Bay Area, don’t whine – our attendees in NY flew in from Atlanta, Ohio, and London and took the train at 6AM from other spots to meet us. For those of you that missed it, we are holding another 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. So…come on, British folk!

Case Interview 114

Case Interview Cover Letters Interviews Deloitte 114

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

One question asked of Gold Medalist Jordyn Wieber was, "When did you first start doing gymnastics, and how much do you train?". If I told a room full of my old McKinsey colleagues that Jordyn Wieber, who is now 17 years old, starting doing gymnastics at 4 years of age and trains around 5 hours a day, I kid you not. within 15 seconds.

Case Interview 71

Case Interview Resumes Interviews Training 71

Management Consulted

MAY 13, 2015

For the last 2 years, we’ve been running our popular Black Belt interview training courses – with tremendous success. Do I have to complete my resume/cover letter edit right away? Want some even better news? We don’t charge a penny more for the significantly upgraded support available to you on Black Belt Supreme!

Case Interview 100

Case Interview Cover Letters Interviews Resumes 100

Management Consulted

JULY 3, 2016

According to Vault’s ranking, Bates White stands at #30 in the top 50 consulting firms, #3 among the top consulting firms in philanthropy and #12 among the best consulting firms for informal training! Needless to say, an encyclopedic knowledge of your own resume is an absolute must.

Interviews 140

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 140

Management Consulted

JULY 12, 2015

It was a good first 5 years for Abt, and things carried on in much the same way as they started a job corps at the company headquarters, providing single mothers working at their day center with training in childcare, social work and computer programming. Abt also conducted the first social audit. ABT ASSOCIATES CULTURE . Direct Employers.

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Interviews Culture Case Interview Resumes 100

Tom Spencer

JULY 11, 2020

Of course, the challenges of the management consulting industry are offset by many benefits: an attractive salary, formal training, real world business experience, variety of projects in different industries, and strong networking opportunities. Should you start your career at a top tier consulting firm or a small boutique?

Consulting 88

Consulting Resumes Training Training 88

Management Consulted

MARCH 12, 2017

These are the professionals who will be reviewing your resume, cover letter, and application, and a recommendation from one of these consultants inside the firm will go a LONG way in securing a first-round interview invite. Why is this important? Not sure how to network effectively or reach out to cold contacts?

Consulting 133

Consulting Management How To Cover Letters 133

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

Many consulting firms also invest significant dollars in their knowledge management and training programs. Multiple day trainings off-site at each step in the career path in appealing destinations such as Cape Cod, Cancun, and Barcelona are common investments at top firms.

Consulting 91

Consulting Case Interview Interviews Resumes 91

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

Updating your LinkedIn profile and resume. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive. You’re searching for a new job. You know the standard advice. ” Résumé Story.

Resumes 28

Resumes Interviews Cover Letters Recruiting 28

Tom Spencer

MAY 6, 2018

I then sent this email along with my resume to the 30 people on my list, with minor customized changes for each one. Some may argue you may appear too keen to attach your resume in the first email but I think this depends on the situation. There are usually things that don’t take much skill and nobody wants to do but need to get done.

Resumes 68

Resumes Banking Travel Culture 68

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Specifically, we used a technique — known as the resume audit method — that is widely seen as the gold standard for measuring employment discrimination. All in all, we sent fictitious resumes to 316 offices of 147 top law firms in 14 cities, from candidates who were supposedly trying to land a summer internship position.

Resumes 28

Resumes Research Interviews Education 28

Management Consulted

JUNE 26, 2016

” It could be the approach of the firm toward the client, it could be their training, it could be their culture. I know the general questions they’ll ask me wiil be “Run me through your resume,” “Tell me about yourself,” “What are your future aspirations?”

Healthcare 140

Healthcare Case Interview Consulting Interviews 140

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Intern pay and training are on-par compared to what you will find at many other consulting firms, and prior interns have found it a good foot in the door for landing permanent positions. The average process starts with an initial phone call (15-30 minutes) covering your background (practice walking through your resume!), Internships.

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Interviews Culture Case Interview Automotive 100

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Even if you’re focused in just one practice area (and that can admittedly get boring and repetitive), you’ll get to touch multiple industries – often at the same time, which does offer great training and some skills-based flexibility. . Office Locations. Towers Watson has local offices in over 38 countries around the world.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Johanna Rothman

JULY 6, 2020

Let's make it part of every hiring manager's responsibility to at least read resumes from people who didn't go to their school, or weren't at their most recent company or they don't know. Maybe a diversity officer can help people learn to read resumes instead of abdicating that responsibility to the tracking system.

Resumes 16

Resumes Culture Recruiting Recruitment 16

Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The world is a lot more complex than our gut is likely to comprehend, at least without training. Train your gut, get better instincts. If you want to have better instincts about hiring, sit in with the HR folks or volunteer to help a non-profit you care about do screening of incoming resumes. How do this? Then another one.

Retail 54

Retail Resumes Training Training 54

Management Consulted

JANUARY 14, 2013

Went through training with my company X and about to start on an engagement in Cleveland, OH. I work with folks one-on-one (30 minutes, 1 hour, or 4/10 hour packages) or inside combo packages that include resume/cover letter editing too. We offer resume editing and interview prep. I’m located in California.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare Case Interview Cover Letters Resumes 100

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

MD or PhD), is whether to pursue residency training for newly minted physicians or a post-doctoral research fellowship for PhDs. This is a very difficult decision for many because deciding not to follow further training may eliminate the possibility of going back to the academic and clinical realm that they spent so much time in.

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