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Bain and Company

Today we continue our firm profile series with a consulting company we know a lot about - Bain - and we're talking about the insider-insider view. Following a year of…

10 Reasons To Work For Deloitte – And 6 Reasons Not To

Considering a career with Deloitte? Today, we've got 10 reasons to work for Deloitte... and 6 reasons not to. We have a guest post from Maria at BusinessBecause. Before we…

5 Ways to Catch a Recruiter’s Eye with Your Consulting Cover Letter

In this post, we focus on consulting cover letters – everything from how to catch a recruiter's eye and nailing format to what recruiters are really looking for. If you…

6 top case interview questions – answered!

Many of you this month are heading into interviews for summer internships - our inbox is testimony! Tons of eager undergrad and MBA consulting candidates have been emailing us with…

2013 MC Giveaway…win one of 16 FREE Interview Prep Sessions

For the next 3 weeks only we're running a giveaway contest for MC readers. The prize? 16 total hours of intensive consulting interview prep with MC's Managing Director and former MBB consultant,…

Consulting resume structure and 23 other MC tips (January contest Q&A – Part 2)

This is the second in our series of resume and cover letter Q&As we collected during our Consulting Resume and Cover Letter Bible giveaway contest last month. We asked our…

McKinsey: Firm Overview

What goes on behind that McKinsey veil? But do you just want the party line? No way - you can swallow a marketing pitch in an info session or jump…

Perfect Your Consulting Resume – Reader Questions, Answered (Part 1)

In our January newsletter we offered one lucky winner a FREE Consulting Resume and Cover Letter Bible from our pool of email subscribers who told us one thing they wanted…

Reader FAQ — weekend getaway flights, new hire jitters, and the LinkedIn labyrinth

While the majority of questions we get from our readers are about breaking into consulting, a good portion of them are from new hires looking for guidance in their first…

2013 Management Consulting Salaries – from Undergraduate and MBA to Interns and more

We’re starting 2013 off with everyone’s favorite topic – consulting salaries! We’ve been compiling data on management consulting salaries now for 3 years. What have we seen? Total compensation packages…

2012: Year in review

What a year! 2012 has been fantastic here at MC. At our year-end dinner last week, over a fantastic red bubbly wine and gourmet fare, we reflected on all of…

Reader FAQ – Switching gears: from intern to full-time, from IT to strategy, and from PwC and IBM to MBB

It's time for our final Reader FAQ for 2012, and we're going out with a bang. (Even Santa's reading MC now!) This month we feature questions from readers who want…