Tom Spencer

APRIL 20, 2019

In my last blog post I wrote about how new grads can navigate interview season when they finally receive a consulting interview they’re excited about. This blog is dedicated to ‘fit’ questions, and how to and how perhaps not to, answer them. Tell me something about you that’s not listed on your resume. So, let’s begin!

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 2, 2019

I recently sat down with my friend, Jesse, over a cup of coffee to learn more about his experience as a Deloitte consultant over the past 5 years. Jesse had many interesting speaking points, which I personally found useful, and which I will share with you today in this blog post. Aneta: Why did you choose consulting as a career?

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

What’s next – when your resume doesn’t receive an interview; your first round doesn’t lead to a call-back; your final round receives a polite rejection? If you don’t make it past the resume stage, don’t ask. Here are some possible criteria for resume rejections. Focus on upcoming interviews.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

If you are less than a year away from applying for jobs you may be better off building a surface level understanding of the core consulting skills and then trying to identify places where you have already applied these tools in your life. consulting, VC, and PE) who are hosting classes. How relevant is the content to consulting.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with another blog contributor to the SpencerTom community, Jason Oh, to share our experiences about the consulting recruiting process. Why did you decide to pursue management consulting? Jeff : I had little idea about management consulting until my second year at university.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss five essential steps that you can take to help you prepare effectively and confidently for your next interview. Moreover, gather and organize any necessary documents, such as copies of your resume, cover letter, and reference letters. All the best!

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

What you will learn: Learn how to market yourself through your resume and cover letter so that you will get the interview. Topics Covered: How to Write a Resume That Will Get You the Interview. How to Write a Resume That Will Get You the Interview. Your resume needs to show all of these skills. Academic Performance.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 1, 2009

I wanted to take this time to welcome new readers, share a few of my favorite consulting-specific reads from around the web, and answer a few reader questions. International Management Consulting 101 – we discuss what it’s like to work in an overseas management consulting office. Critical reading for new consultants.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Salesforce. Salesforce also offers sweet perks like onsite messages, monthly wellness reimbursements, career development programs, uncapped commissions and unlimited gummy bears. Be ready to take notes and have your resume with you.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

Booz developed a theory that businesses could be more profitable and more successful if they could garner advice from impartial outsiders. From this noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. Management Consulting. Consultant. Booz Allen Hamilton Engagement Cost: $350K. CAPABILITIES.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 15, 2020

Do you have a consulting website? For many consultants and coaches - both new and seasoned - they see their website as nothing more than an online brochure or resume. This tutorial will show you how to build a consulting website that makes you the obvious solution for your future client's most pressing problems.

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

Booz developed a theory that said businesses could be more profitable and successful if they could garner advice from impartial outsiders. From this innovative and noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. Management Consulting. Your career path at BAH will be as follows: Consultant.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 18, 2019

At consulting firms like McKinsey, you will receive a personal experience interview (or McKinsey PEI). Despite the emphasis I and others places on the case interview, it is important that you be prepared for the more general interview questions that are based on your consulting resume. First, let's step back for a moment.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 23, 2019

Another good resource on the Accenture site that you should read prior to interviewing is this recruiting and careers blog: [link]. The achievements and experiences that you had to edit or condense in your resume you now can discuss at greater length. You should know all this cold by the time you are interviewed.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. D ecision-Making Rationale. E nd-Result.

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Confessions of a Consultant

AUGUST 20, 2017

We tend to forget the achievements of the Celtic tiger era (there were many) and even some upsides in the recession which followed… Superior Value: We developed a new focus on value for money. The consultants who survived morphed into ‘resultants’. Don’t worry – normal service will be resumed shortly!

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

If you're not already familiar with LinkedIn , it began, basically, as a place to post your online business profile/resume and connect with others in your field to grow your network using a "six degrees of separation" model. She states that this is true, not just of LinkedIn's new service, but of all board matching programs.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. She works with individuals, teams, and leaders across the organization to resolve risks and see alternatives for their product development.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

BUCK CONSULTANTS. Today, we highlight another one of those consulting firms you may never have heard of – yet another reason why MC is here! That’s what Buck Consultants stands for – driving thinking-real-world solutions. BUCK CONSULTANTS KEY STATS. Buck Consultants Website: www.buckconsultants.com.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 31, 2020

Here’s a story from Tiago Forte about the importance of having a personal website as a job seeker : “I remember when I was working at a consulting firm, I was responsible for hiring an employee. They were going to be a junior analyst — the lowest ranking person in that brand of our consulting firm in San Francisco.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Everything you produced about consulting (video tutorials, emails, etc.) I would like to highlight how frameworks were helpful to approach almost any problem, then I found out that I developed my own "decisional analytical reasoning tree.". [ Question: First of all I would like to thank you. Live, written, creating cases for yourself.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 14, 2020

Exclusive Bonus : Download my guide on How To Make A Personal Website In 5 Easy Steps if you want to start YOUR personal website (takes less than 30 minutes) — and level up your career and self-development. Your website is your resume, your business card, your store, your directory, and your personal magazine. Read your blog?

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Consulting lead generation isn’t easy, especially when done online. Now, B2B decision makers are actively looking for consultants online, and your digital presence can be a huge part of how you generate new conversations with buyers. That said, methods like “Website” and “Blogging” are rather vague terms.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 10, 2019

Facing rejection from consulting firms is an emotional topic especially with the time and effort candidates put in preparing for the case interview. I recently received this question from a reader about being rejected from all of the consulting jobs they applied for, here is the question and my response to dealing with not getting the offer.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

What are the Top Consulting Firms? While it sometimes seems that everyone wants to get into the top 3 strategy consulting firms McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Bain & Company (Bain), also known as MBB , it's worth noting that there are several other top consulting firms that can give a career a real boost.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 7, 2016

The Cambridge Group is the embodiment of a “boutique” consulting firm. Rick Kash developed an inverted, but extraordinarily effective, ideology of “demand and supply” and applied it to all aspects of The Cambridge Group. However, despite its small size, The Cambridge Group is quickly rising up the charts of consulting firms to watch.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 13, 2017

What’s one big difference between a global consulting firm and a small consulting firm? Small consulting firms and independent consultants don’t have the same sized marketing budget. Small consulting firms and independent consultants don’t have the same sized marketing budget.

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SkillQuo

APRIL 3, 2018

The consulting industry has had some interesting developments within the past year. Below is an examination of some key consulting trends that 2017 may bring. The Evolving Image of the Consulting Firm and Consultant. Some firms are even dropping the words “consulting” and “services” from their company names.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

For Z and S, the conference launched opportunities to consult on the many client projects that came their way. The firm is a strong niche player, distinguished in its speciality of sales and marketing consulting. Below are the rankings by Vault for ZS Associates in 2015: #5 Health Care Consulting. #16 16 Retail Consulting. #27

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 25, 2019

Something similar happened four years later when I got job offers from all the top consulting firms. Having an Ivy League diploma on your resume IS very useful for the first six seconds that your resume is being read by a busy resume screener. That seemed peculiar to me. Again, peculiar.). Thanks, Victor.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 29, 2009

This is the second post in my “Life as a Consultant” series. The first was with a Booz Allen consultant. Expect more soon from current and former consultants at firms such as McKinsey and Bain! Upon further discussions and email exchanges, I learned that he’s currently a part-time consultant at A.T.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 16, 2006

(This is actually an article I wrote a few months before I started the blog. Many times in my work as a grant writer and consultant, I am asked by my clients to contact a foundation about potential funding. I'm re-posting it here to make it part of the archives.)

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I think my most significant takeaway from your program has been to be able to internalize how good consultants think. For me, your workshop videos and LOMS program really helped to build an understanding of how consultants approach problems while your newsletters served to constantly reinforce it.

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