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Choosing Management Consulting as a Career

Tom Spencer

Decision-making may lead to an error of judgement, but you will never meet a consultant who doesn’t have a “can-do” attitude. Many consultants have a commerce (business, finance, and economics), engineering or technology background. It is also about how you structure your work and meet deliverables.

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How to scale shared success through collaboration and trust

Kates Kesler

And we aren’t able to have the kinds of meetings where we just work it through and get aligned.”. “We Here are three insights from our clients and our experience as we activate our own new growth model at Accenture. But meetings don’t always equal connection or trust building. Set clear priorities from the outset.

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Dinged From MBB Consulting Firms – Now What?

Management Consulted

If you are an undergrad who has been turned down for a summer internship at MBB, going in to finance is your next best bet. In addition, having a finance internship under your belt shows that you’ve got the necessary quant skills to succeed in consulting. For the Pre-MBA level, finance should be your last option.

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Networking 102: It’s Never Been More Important – And It Truly. Does. Work.

Management Consulted

And by “times like these”, I mean “economy-in-trouble, big-firms-like-BCG-tightening-hiring, even-bigger-firms-like-Accenture-cutting-people” times. How about meeting industry professionals at events? Finance-Specific Networking. What about PhD to MBA to finance?”. Consulting-Specific Questions.

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Making the Switch - Nick Anderdon, Spayne Lindsay & Co.

freshminds

After graduating in 2010, Nick started his career at an American financial consultancy before moving to Accenture for two years. In what way do you feel that you’re using the consulting skills you’ve learnt at Accenture in your role now? Working at Accenture also taught me a lot about how a larger firm operates.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for. I took on internships as a market researcher for Google and a research analyst for Accenture Management Consulting, both of which I enjoyed doing.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business

The director of finance grumbled that overtime costs were too high, due to high turnover and the fact that employee sick time had spiked. Sponsored by Accenture. Revenue was trending down, which would affect our year-end bonuses. So we decided to have our change begin in the kitchen. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.