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Consultant Ninja: What to put on a consulting resume (part 3 of a.

Consultant Ninja

What to put on a consulting resume (part 3 of a continuing series). In my years of being involved with MBA recruiting, Ive never been able to hire a former special forces operator, but Ive been dying to come up with the right reason. Analysis. (40). Wednesday, December 10, 2008. of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88).

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Internal Strategy: Lessons Learned (2 of 2)

Tom Spencer

Since you will be encouraged to bond with your peers, colleagues, and senior leaders in other divisions, it is politically infeasible to produce analysis calling for a particular department to be right-sized or point out that the leader of the largest and most important business division is underperforming. Profit and Loss Ownership.

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Get a head start through pro-bono consulting

Tom Spencer

Before the recruiting process begins candidates work hard to polish their resumes, prepare for case interviews, gain professional experience, and participate in extracurricular activities to distinguish themselves from the rest. It allows you to enhance your resume and make some great connections, so if you see an opportunity, go for it!

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Management Consulting in Canada

Tom Spencer

Management consulting is a professional service offered to organisations which aims to help internal management improve operating performance. Consultancies are brought in to tackle individual problems (falling revenue, rising costs, geographical expansion, product launch, M&A) or to evaluate the company through a deep dive analysis.

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The Case Interview’s Big Brother: The Case Competition

Tom Spencer

The case interview will evaluate the candidate’s business and operational knowledge and ability to ask key questions, as well as performing public mental math and summing together key findings in a final recommendation. While the case interview will likely not disappear anytime soon, it fails to represent a consultant’s day to day work.

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Personal Experience Interview - McKinsey PEI

CaseInterview.com

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. The important thing to realize is that consulting firm interviewers ask resume-based questions differently than employers from other industries.

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How to Discover and Own Your Consulting Superpower: Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

And through both of those processes, I served as an Operator, and then also as a Project Manager, and then a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt. I’m all about the root cause analysis. Now, all of a sudden their operations are getting very sophisticated. They had a workbook.