Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

With LinkedIn and personal websites widely used to promote careers, the idea of independent management consultants having a printable résumé may seem old-fashioned. However, in most cases it’s still necessary. This article explains why and how a consulting résumé should differ from a traditional corporate résumé.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 9, 2019

It is easy to put a lot of pressure on yourself during interview season, especially when your classmates are receiving interviews for firms you’re interested in. This blog post is mostly about what to do when you receive an interview at that firm you’ve been eyeing for some time. So, if this is you, congrats!

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It applies not only to how you serve clients as a consultant but also how you manage your own career. My thoughts on this topic are widely applicable to CIBs (Case Interview Beginners), F1Ys (Future first years), and CIFMs (Consulting Isn't for Me). No, I'm pretty sure I could beat him in a case interview competition!

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

What’s next – when your resume doesn’t receive an interview; your first round doesn’t lead to a call-back; your final round receives a polite rejection? You’ll typically receive a rejection call after the interview. It felt to me like I didn’t perform well in summarizing the cases.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Interviewers want to know what you did.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Today I’m joined by seasoned consultant and passionate leader Ron Carucci. Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. Ron, welcome. Thanks for having me.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

Is it possible to balance work and life as a consultant? The first factor is the culture related to your geography (both country and city). Consulting is a client business. At other firms, they often go to the client for meetings, to conduct interviews, gather data, etc. Here is the reality. You are working hard too.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

There’s a lot of writing to be done as a consultant – it’s a core consulting skill. There are proposals, issues papers, interview guides, strategies, background briefings, guidelines. Over the years I’ve heard many stories from my clients about their frustration with the poor quality of reports delivered by [other] consultants.

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QEmploy

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This is the best ”top 50 list” of blogs, magazines and websites for consultants that you will find on the internet. That is why I have compiled a list of 50 different blogs, magazines and websites that every consulting firm should know about, and I explain what they all have to offer their readers.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 4, 2011

List of economic consulting firms in Hong Kong 2011. in Management Consulting. List of economic consulting firms in Hong Kong. FTI Consulting. Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services. FTI Consulting.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

There’s a lot of writing to be done as a consultant – it’s a core consulting skill. There are proposals, issues papers, interview guides, strategies, background briefings, guidelines. Over the years I’ve heard many stories from my clients about their frustration with the poor quality of reports delivered by [other] consultants.

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

From this innovative and noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. One of their finest moments in the early years was when Time magazine dubbed the firm, “the world’s largest, most prestigious management consulting firm”, at the end of the 1950s. Management Consulting.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Your videos are by far the clearest and the most helpful in aceing the case interviews. If most other resources are like giving a fishing rod to a hungry man (or giving frameworks to a desperate consultant-to-be), yours is like teaching someone how to make his own fishing rod. It was that useful. Networking. Do not give up.

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Claris Consulting

JUNE 3, 2019

In a worst-case scenario, should you lose your job because you lack adequate people skills? We are often quick to shift the blame of our lack of success to bad leaders, inferior culture, crazy customers, weak markets, defective products, or the competition. They had a job interview scheduled for 2:00pm and got caught in traffic.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

I have recently received feedback from my final round interviews at McKinsey, and have been told that they would like to interview me two more times because they were not clear on some of my case solving abilities. And how do I improve on this aspect of the case? analytical, i.e. structuring of a problem. quantitative.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 25, 2019

What the student was asking about is what is the dress code for an informal interview like this and what would be the best use of the 20 minutes or, so they were being giving to “chat” with the consultant. . Questions like: * Why did you decide to get into consulting? * What do you like the least?

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. And Der Tagesspiegel said that a criminal case of slander could only be launched if the victim were to make a formal complaint. Consult your. Top Financial Blog Citations. Home Builders. Kathy Lien.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

Google possesses a math/engineering-heavy corporate culture. Of the top eight attributes of Google’s top performers, six of them were the so-called “soft skills” that the Google culture had historically dismissed in favor of “hard skills” like engineering, mathematics, and data science.

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MishTalk

JULY 25, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Interesting Hussman Tweets on Case Shiller PE, Institutional Selling, Book Values. Interesting Hussman Tweets on Case Shiller PE, Institutional Selling, Book Values. Consult your. Home Builders.

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MishTalk

JULY 29, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. As a case in point, Carl the robot bartender serves customers at German bar. Consult your. Top Financial Blog Citations. Time Magazine : Best 25 Financial Blogs. Home Builders. Union Watch.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Luxembourgs parliament had reviewed a report alleging a series of cases of misconduct by the countrys SREL security agency, which the prime minister oversees. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. Home Builders.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 3, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Consult your. Top Financial Blog Citations. Time Magazine : Best 25 Financial Blogs. Bloomberg : Financial Blogs: The Best of the Bunch. Strategist News : Best Business Blogs 2011. -->.

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MishTalk

JULY 24, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Supreme Court Cases. What follows is a guest post regarding two important union cases that the US Supreme Court will hear. In the first case, the U.S. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. Union Watch.

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MishTalk

JULY 27, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. be cheaper to hire in many cases than younger workers. with their children and grandchildren for jobs that in many cases do not pay living wages. Consult your. Top Financial Blog Citations.

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MishTalk

JULY 28, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Juergen Stark, former ECB chief economist (who resigned in 2011 over a dispute regarding bond purchases), says in an interview in Handelsblatt "The Euro crisis will worsen in late autumn". Consult your.

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MishTalk

JULY 24, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. However, as government programs go, its easy to make a case that HAMP was a tremendous success. Consult your. Top Financial Blog Citations. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. Home Builders.

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Investigators have discovered cases where as many as 150 loans have the same property as collateral. Consult your. Top Financial Blog Citations. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. Home Builders.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. Jekyll Island Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island. 3 "Implode-O-Meters" Mortgage Lenders. Home Builders. Recommended Books. Tomorrow's Gold. The Dollar Meltdown.

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MishTalk

JUNE 28, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. An alleged "worst case scenario" shows the FHA could lose as much as $115 Billion. Since these worst case scenarios are always famously optimistic, the best course of action would be to shut the agency down.

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MishTalk

JULY 26, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Consult your. Top Financial Blog Citations. Time Magazine : Best 25 Financial Blogs. Bloomberg : Financial Blogs: The Best of the Bunch. Strategist News : Best Business Blogs 2011. -->.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 3, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. In case you missed it, please consider Carl the Robot Bartender Mixes Drinks and Chats With Customers. Consult your. Top Financial Blog Citations. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. Home Builders.

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MishTalk

JULY 16, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Consult your. Top Financial Blog Citations. Time Magazine : Best 25 Financial Blogs. Bloomberg : Financial Blogs: The Best of the Bunch. Strategist News : Best Business Blogs 2011. -->.

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MishTalk

JULY 31, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Consult your. Top Financial Blog Citations. Time Magazine : Best 25 Financial Blogs. Bloomberg : Financial Blogs: The Best of the Bunch. Strategist News : Best Business Blogs 2011. -->.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 1, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Consult your. Top Financial Blog Citations. Time Magazine : Best 25 Financial Blogs. Bloomberg : Financial Blogs: The Best of the Bunch. Strategist News : Best Business Blogs 2011. -->.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 4, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. The steady rise in the share of young adults who live in their parents’ home appears to be driven by a combination of economic, educational and cultural factors. Consult your. Home Builders.

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MishTalk

JULY 19, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Consult your. Top Financial Blog Citations. Time Magazine : Best 25 Financial Blogs. Bloomberg : Financial Blogs: The Best of the Bunch. Strategist News : Best Business Blogs 2011. -->.

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MishTalk

JULY 25, 2013

Case Against The Fed. Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. Via Mish-modified Google translation from Libre Mercado (LM), Enrico Colombatto, Professor of Economics at the University of Turin says in an interview "The only hope for Italy is the bankruptcy of the State".

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