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Consulting Resume 101 Video Overview

Ever wonder what MBB, the Big 4 firms, and other firms like Accenture or Oliver Wyman are looking for in a consulting resume? During recruiting season, consultants review 100s of…

5 Questions with an Associate at BCG London

In today's post, we feature some love from across the pond - and an insider's look at consulting from an Associate at BCG London. This guest post comes to us…

Is Consulting Right For You? Video Series

Is consulting right for you? This question has two parts. The first part involves deciding whether working at a consulting firm would be a great fit and a great next…

Advisory Board

Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of The Advisory Board Company, now referred to as Advisory Board after its acquisition by Optum. Advisory Board is…

Consulting Firms 101 Video Series

There are 3 different tiers of consulting firms - Top 3 firms, Big 4 firms, and Tier 2 firms - and there are pros and cons of working at each level.…

Winter 2014 East Coast Tour Recap

On our January 2014 Consulting Bootcamp tour, we travelled to several universities up and down the East Coast - Duke, Georgia Tech, UGA, Penn, Harvard, McGill, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Cornell.…

Business Book Review: The McKinsey Way

Today, we continue our series of book reviews with a look at The McKinsey Way, a book written by a former Associate at McKinsey, Ethan M. Rasiel, who is also the co-author…

Consulting 101 Video Series

We've been busy. Not only have we spent the last several weeks gallivanting all across the East Coast speaking at schools like Harvard, Penn, Columbia, McGill, and Cornell, but we've…

Business Book Review: The 4-Hour Work Week

This week's post is on "The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live anywhere, and Join the New Rich." - written by Timothy Ferriss (2007), an American author, entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor…

BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?

BearingPoint began at the height of the consulting boom years in the late 1990s, and was a part of KPMG's worldwide consulting practice. However, after the ENRON scandal erupted, SOX…

2014 Management Consulting Salaries – Undergraduate, MBA, Interns and More

Welcome, welcome to 2014. To start the year out on the right foot, we'll be continuing our series of posts on consulting salaries with compensation information for those starting in…

Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

We're starting a series of guest posts offered by staff, readers and interns that are reviews of books we think are helpful for those interested in consulting (specifically) and business…