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UK 2014 Consulting Bootcamp Tour Recap

Management Consulted

It’s good to travel with an ex-consultant! The focus is on developing and refining your approach to the recruitment cycle to be able to make a powerful impression throughout. The Bootcamp gave the MBAs a great grounding as well as how to continue to develop successfully, a must for all those wanting to get into Consulting!”

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How Diligent Biz Dev Led to a Six-Figure Consulting Project

Successful Independent Consulting

It’s an 11-month project for one consultant: $320k in consulting fees and another $100k for travel expenses. The short answer: business development. The long answer: diligent business development that built a relationship over time. July 2014: Joe changes jobs. That’s not a typo. Why did the client contact me for help?

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Here’s a list of notable AlixPartners alumni (okay, none of them are brand-name or famous but all are impressive) include: Reid MacInnes Cuming – Founder – Platform Development LLC. Even for such a high travel firm, which we’ll discuss below, they all seem to be so gosh darn chummy with each other.

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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

As such, some junior players in the firm feel like their career development is limited. A vested commitment to your professional development is something that inexperienced employees revel in when it’s given to them, so the lack of structured mentoring, though not disastrous, is a big miss. Finally comes work/life balance.

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Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

Below are some average base salary and bonus figures for new analysts drawn from Glassdoor for 2014/2015. Travel: Bankers sometimes do roadshows to drum up support from investors, but will typically spend 90% of their time in the office. In stark contrast, it is normal for consultants to travel up to 80% of the time.

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Conversation with North Highland

Tom Spencer

Examples of this include our strategy and advisory group, launched in 2014, and we’ve seen tremendous interest in that offering. North Highland: Again, it depends, but if there is interest to rotate between or within practice areas, we certainly work to develop a career path for an individual that aligns with their professional goals.

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Saxo Bank's Steen Jakobsen Warns of Global Economic Vacuum, China Slowdown, Germany Growth Negative, 30% S&P Correction

MishTalk

The changes will during 2014 mean that: Germany growth will go negative quarter-over-quarter in Q4 (from Q3) World growth will come down from the recent 3.7% average expected growth for 2014. Strategy Fixed income: Still see new lows in 2014 – mainly in Q4- into Q1-2015. to less than 3.0% The blockbuster Q4 growth of 3.2%

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