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Setting Healthy Boundaries in the Consulting Industry

Tom Spencer

A manager at Accenture has been known to say that “analysts are often over enthusiastic about the consulting industry”. At first glance, I did not understand what this meant because it seemed normal to take on as many roles and responsibilities as possible. What are boundaries? Why is it important to set them?

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Is Consulting an Attractive Career Option?

Tom Spencer

Prior to Accenture offering me a position, one of my interviewers asked me “what attracted you to consulting?”. Consultants will not only consider the specific problem that a client has but also look at the entire company, how it operates, and what is happening in the industry and broader business environment.

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Finding Confidence as a Management Consultant

Tom Spencer

As a management consultant at Accenture in South Africa, many students, graduates, and aspiring consultants ask me how they can maintain confidence throughout their consulting journey. By shifting your focus from the negative to the positive, identifying your distinct characteristics, and pinpointing what you want to be remembered for.

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What / Who Is a Professional Independent Consultant?

Successful Independent Consulting

Many people who call themselves consultants are employees of large global firms like Accenture, and others perform temporary assignments through a staffing agency. You might never be able to explain what you do quickly over cocktails but it’s imperative that you can easily summarize what you offer, how you work, and how you deliver value.

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Accenture Recruiting

CaseInterview.com

Accenture recruiting is a non-stop process. One of Accenture’s core values is to constantly and aggressively seek out the very best people, regardless of race, religion, nationality, gender or orientation. For more information on Accenture’s recruiting process click here. A good place to start is right here: [link].

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And the winner is….

The Source

We are often asked what makes for good thought leadership, so we thought we’d share some real-life, high-quality examples. Accenture is good at engaging the reader—an “in brief” summary on the report’s landing page does a great job of hooking in the audience with a tantalising reference to the potential value that can be realised.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

What is Management Consulting A lot of people ask me, “What is management consulting exactly?”It’s It’s not easy to come up with a simple definition of what we do. Rather than addressing the operational angle of how to do it, we address the bigger question of what to do. What does this mean?