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How to Get Consulting Jobs from a Liberal Arts and Humanities Background

courtesy of toothpaste for dinner Liberal arts and humanities majors are often criticized for being "soft majors" - with unchallenging classes and lack of "real world" skill development leaving them…

Engineering To Consulting: Career Change Strategy

Going from engineering to consulting is a great move. That's why we've created a series on entering consulting from "non-business" backgrounds - other posts include entering from liberal arts/humanities degrees…

Overview of the Management Consulting Summer Internship – from Recruiting to Guaranteeing a Return Offer

Summer internships in management consulting are tough to find because there are so few. Some companies have just begun to expand their internship programs (eg, McKinsey) and some don't hire…

Networking at Management Consulting Company Presentations

how to get your ex girlfriend back I summarized the management consulting recruiting process in this post. This is the beginning of my deep-dives on each piece of that recruiting process and will be focused…

Welcome to New Readers

Received an influx of new readers in the last few days, thanks to some link love from fellow bloggers. Thanks to Marquis first and foremost, who is both a fellow…

Management consulting “lingo” – words and phrases that applicants and interviewees should know

People make fun of consultants constantly for their lingo. Whether justified or not (I will restrain from turning this blog into too much of a soapbox), it's important for anyone…

Management Consulting Recruiting Overview

This is post #1 of our series to give you a consulting recruiting overview. Below, we'll touch upon the main components of the consulting job search and what we believe…

Top 5 Myths About Travel as a Management Consultant

Travel is a defining characteristic of management consulting regardless of your company. From Bain to Accenture, from McKinsey to Alvarez & Marsal. If you're a consultant, you can expect to…

Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulting or Investment Banking? This is an important question for prospective applicants (in particular, undergrad/MBA students) looking for summer internships and full-time jobs alike. The decision was easier for…

Day In The Life Of A Management Consultant (Client Version)

Following is a quick excerpt of a "typical" day in the life of a management/strategy consultant on a project with heavy client interaction. From a recruiting perspective, you should take…

McKinsey vs Marakon: The Battle Between Global Management Consulting Firms and Boutiques

This is an important issue when recruiting for a business consulting job. In finance, most people think you must work for the biggest - the Goldman-Sachs-or-bust mentality. And while the…

Management Consulting and the Consulting Industry 101

It seems like everyone these days is in management consulting - strategy consultants, business consultants, technology consultants, IT consultants, marketing consultants, and the list goes on and on. It's a catch-all…