Category: Consulting skills

Top 6 Leadership Skills for Managers

We’ve all heard the cliché that leaders are made not born, but is that really true? As is the case with most well-worn sayings, there is both accuracy and exaggeration…

Amazon Leadership Principles

Amazon has a market cap of $2 trillion (let that sink in for a minute!), making it one of the most valuable companies in the world by that metric. The…

What Are Soft Skills?

Soft skills are often overlooked by candidates vying to enter the consulting industry. It makes sense as so much emphasis is placed on the case interview during the consulting recruiting…

Investment Banking Analyst: A Day in the Life vs. Consulting

Investment banking is an industry infamous for its notoriously long hours. When I was looking into how to become an investment banker, I first asked, "What is investment banking?" Then,…

Problem Solving & Decision Making

Problem solving and decision making are important for every consultant, business, and person in the world. After all, in the end, aren’t all entities and individuals just a sum of…

Business Writing: Definition, Tips, & Examples

If you write emails, create reports, produce memorandums, or anything similar at work, that means excelling at business writing is an important skill to have. The problem is that business…

STAR Method: Should it be Used in Fit Interviews?

Preparing for behavioral interview questions can be challenging. There are endless potential questions that can be asked, so even starting to prepare for them can feel overwhelming. But just as…

Fast Math: Quant Skills

Fast math. Just the term itself is enough to strike fear into any English or History major. Here’s the thing: no matter your background, you will be expected to be…

McKinsey, Bain, and BCG: 3 Things They Look for in Consultants

McKinsey, Bain, and BCG look for specific traits in consultants. After years of working with candidates that go to MBB firms and other consulting firms, we've noticed something. McKinsey, Bain,…

Getting promoted: 3 skills necessary to make it to Partner at a Consulting Firm

When you sit down for an interview or a performance review at a management consulting firm, you are being evaluated beyond just your current role. In fact, you are being…

Mental Math for Consulting – newly expanded and updated!

In 2015, we launched our first ever Mental Math course – with tremendous success. Literally thousands of clients have used Mental Math for Consulting to help them land 1 or…

Thinking Like A Consultant: Quantitative Reasoning And Prioritization

In 2013, The Economist published an article on the increasing demand for management consulting in various sectors of society. This article, titled, “To the Brainy, the Spoils”, was headed up…