Category: consulting recruiting

Top 5 Consulting Resume Mistakes by Ph.Ds, Postdocs, and Other Advanced Degree Holders

Bridge to BCG and McKinsey Insight are events aimed at Ph.D.s, engineers, med students, JDs, post-docs, interns, practicing MDs or residents. These magical BCG and McKinsey consulting seminars are crash courses,…

Dinged by MBB Consulting Firms – Now What?

If you're new to consulting, it won't take you long to discover that the MBB firms are insanely competitive. There are only so many positions they can fill every cycle.…

4 Key Types of Consulting Fit Interview Questions You Must Prepare For

During an interview, it is common to be asked "Tell me about yourself." Even though you're mentally prepared for the question to be asked, suddenly your heart starts racing, your…

Advanced Consulting Resumes – Video Overview

Recently, we released a video series on Consulting Resumes 101. Today, we continue where we left off with advanced tips to help guide you as you craft and edit your…

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…

3 Insights Into How Deloitte Recruiters Read A Resume

Today we're taking on a hot topic - how to polish your resume "consulting style". Many of our resume edit clients come to us with the wrong assumption that the resume…

5 Surprising Secrets of a Killer McKinsey Resume

Haven't you always wondered if there are any McKinsey resume secrets? Maybe a magic wand that you could wave over your resume and - poof! A perfect resume! Well, there's…

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…

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…

Rescue from the trash…avoiding key resume errors that get your consulting application tossed aside

Paper airplanes are fun, but you don't want your resume to become the vehicle for a recruiter's mid-afternoon horseplay because you've bored them to death. That's why we're giving you…

From resume review to recommendation: how to leverage insider contacts to get an interview

You've done your homework on LinkedIn, mastered networking, and landed the critical informational interview with a consultant at your dream firm. The sweetest words you can hear at the end…

Launch of The Consulting Resume & Cover Letter Bible

It's been a long time coming. It was worth the wait. Introducing.... Our 98-page guide on applying to consulting jobs -- power-packed with specific action steps for you to create…