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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. Banking salaries average 50-100% higher than consulting salaries , with the difference increasingly significant as your seniority increases.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. So you have a Booz & Company interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? After 2 years, he recruited 2 friends from Chicago and formed the Business Research and Development Company with $500 borrowed from the bank. We want you to nail it.

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Can we rely on LIBOR? - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

At this stage, it is unclear whether the investigations will uncover any wrongdoing, and Bremmer notes that no banks or individuals have actually been charged. If banks have engaged in collusive behaviour to manipulate LIBOR, then this is a serious cause for concern. How concerned should we actually be? The LIBOR calculation.

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Crude Plunges Following OPEC Decision to Not Cut Production

MishTalk

Western Canada Select, the Canadian benchmark, has lost more than a third of its value since June, in step with declines for West Texas Intermediate and the international gauge Brent. billion in the week after President Nicolas Maduro transfered $4 billion of Chinese loans to the central bank. in Calgary. Maduro on Nov.

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Welcome to new readers plus a few questions answered

Management Consulted

Management Consulting versus Investment Banking. Top 10 Interview Tips. It showed me the “benchmark” that I need to meet in order to be successful in business. I’ve been helping friends/colleagues looking to enter management consulting for years with their resumes, cover letters, interviews, and questions.

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Labour Retention: How you can create ‘Sticky’ Talent

Confessions of a Consultant

In the banking sector in Ireland – historically – it was tantamount to treason to work for a competitor. Now staying with the same bank for a lifetime is the exception rather than the rule. The interviewer replies, “ Yeah, but you started it.”. Don’t take talent for granted. Are you kidding?”.

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Canadian Recession Coming Up: Yield Curve Inverts Following Unexpected Rate Cut; Loonie at Six-Year Low

MishTalk

Currency wars pick up steam today with still more unexpected central bank actions. Please consider Canadian Central Bank Unexpectedly Lowers Interest Rates. The currency reached the weakest level in almost six years after the Bank of Canada reduced economic forecasts and lowered the benchmark rate target to 0.75