the site for management and strategy consultants: getting in, consulting life, getting out
If you are a management and strategy consultant, please take 2008/2009 Management and Strategy consulting survey.
This survey is for practicing management and strategy consultants worldwide. We aim to gather your valuable insights and knowledge, distill and redistribute the findings to the participants and the community. We cover important areas for our profession such as [...]
In response to popular demand from our readers, here is a sample resume for applying for an post-MBA level management and strategy consulting job. You can see that, this resume follows many of the guidelines in our earlier post on writing killer consulting resumes. This resume is intended to be used for a second year [...]
Given the ever increasing sophistication of business world and client needs, is there still any room for a generalist track in management and strategy consulting?
One of the top reasons to choose a management consulting career is the generalist experience. Many people coming out of an MBA or undergraduate program want to get a broad exposure [...]
Consulting firms have well defined titles but it is hard to compare them across firms. If you checked out my posts on levels and responsibilities in management consulting firms and consulting salaries, you may be wondering how titles in my posts correspond to titles in different firms.
Below is an attempt to map consultingjunkie.com lingo to [...]
In this post, we dispel or confirm some myths about the profession, here we go:
Management consultants are useless:they tell us things that we already know in a fancy presentation
Debatable, it is true that the client usually knows their business better than a consultant. Consultant brings expertise on a particular area, e.g. M&A, Marketing. They also [...]
This is a burning question for many who would like to enter the profession and those who have an offer and would like to compare it to other firms.
The good news about comparing one offer to another firm’s is that the labor market for consulting is efficient. So, in general, your offers reflect what a [...]
Top reasons to get into the profession
Get great exposure: You will discover many industries, corporate environments, situations: If you start out as a generalist, your client could be anyone. They could be in variety of situations: growth, merger, cost cutting.
Gain rapid business experience: Usual saying is one year in consulting is worth two years of [...]
Ask 10 management consultants what they do and you are likely to get 10 different answers. This is partly due to the large variety of experiences one can encounter in the job. It is also due to the abuse of the term management and strategy consulting. Although many firms claim to be exclusive management and [...]
Soon after you start your research on management and strategy consulting firms, you will notice that there is no common set of title across firms. Sometimes this makes it hard to understand where you would fit in and who you are talking to.
Although the titles vary, the tasks are similar and mostly you would meet [...]
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