Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Or in my case, “I hate to write.” So here I am, launching this blog , which will help you become a better management consultant and solopreneur. For the next 12 years, I continued doing independent consulting. “I can’t commit to another thing!” But the idea still won’t go away. I thought, Everyone should be doing this!

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

What you will learn: Learn how to market yourself through your resume and cover letter so that you will get the interview. Topics Covered: How to Write a Resume That Will Get You the Interview. How to Write a Cover Letter That Will Get You the Interview. How to Network Your Way to an Interview.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Short the market, but long on you. THE market may be down, but not you. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Graduate Consulting Group. Case Interviews. Management Consulting. Enjoy the Consulting Blog? Definitions. Helpful Links.

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Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As a self-employed consultant do you really need a website? I’m asked this a lot, particularly if a consultant gets most business from referrals or they contract through agencies or boutique firms. Indeed, I know dozens of independent consultants making six-figure incomes without one. If you don’t, keep reading!

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Question: Thank you for creating the Case Interview Secrets videos and Look Over My Shoulder ® program. It is the most practical and intuitive resource on the market, in my opinion. My question is related to note-taking during the interview. All information you receive in a case is not created equally.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 29, 2013

Victor Cheng, former McKinsey consultant and creator of CaseInterview.com, indicates that: The definitive book on this subject is the Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto. Previous post: Dick Smith: The Power of Viral Marketing. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Case Interviews.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Question: Thanks to the material proposed on your website as well as to a lot of practice sessions with my friends (I don't have a business background), I managed to successfully pass my first round interview with BCG. 2) Creativity in how to analyze a case. One of the feedback elements concerned the lack of creativity in my approach.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 17, 2013

My son was born yesterday so I’m now in the market for father/son advice (no problems with starting early, I suppose). I was looking for some inspiration lately due to my struggles in finding a consulting position. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Case Interviews.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 13, 2019

10 years, one of the most common questions I am asked is how much time is needed to prepare for a case interview and how to prepare when you don’t have much time. I want to address in this article the 2 nd question of how to prepare for a case interview when you don’t have much time. Reader #2 – 3 Days Until Interview.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 20, 2013

Next post: Dick Smith: The Power of Viral Marketing. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Graduate Consulting Group. Case Interviews. Management Consulting. Enjoy the Consulting Blog? Previous post: How to Achieve Your Audacious Goals. Categories.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 18, 2013

In the third issue of the SVA Consulting Quarterly , Duncan Lockard explains that a social enterprise, despite having a social mission, should also have a commercial business model. On the revenue side, insufficient focus on marketing can lead to weak sales growth. The case of the Nundah Co-op. Graduate Consulting Group.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with another blog contributor to the SpencerTom community, Jason Oh, to share our experiences about the consulting recruiting process. Why did you decide to pursue management consulting? Jeff : I had little idea about management consulting until my second year at university.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most consulting firms are wrapping up their recruitment process for this year and offers have been sent out. As a result, the consulting firms want to see strong soft skills demonstrated in the interviews. As a result, the consulting firms want to see strong soft skills demonstrated in the interviews.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 4, 2011

ECONOMISTS tend to favour a small positive rate of inflation , and there are 4 reasons why this makes sense: Labour market flexibility: inflation allows relative real wages to adjust even if nominal wages do not move. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Graduate Consulting Group.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 23, 2015

In May, we launched the Consulting Case Interview Bootcamp – Online. In June, we launched BBS – our once-a-year program for aspiring consultants to work together, as a group, to be the best that we can be. While the case interview is the great equalizer, the fit interview is the great differentiator.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

You can perform better in a consulting interview by having an upfront preview of what types of questions might be thrown your way. Profitability cases directly tackle the amount of money a business is generating. They can also refresh their sales and marketing approaches. 5) New market. 3) Pricing. 4) New product.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

THE MARKETS have been temporarily buoyed amid optimism that European leaders will find a solution to the debt crisis. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Graduate Consulting Group. Case Interviews. Management Consulting. Enjoy the Consulting Blog?

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

INFOSYS CONSULTING. Birthed in 2004 as a spin-off of Indian tech outsourcing behemoth Infosys Technologies, Infosys Consulting is quickly climbing the charts as an industry leader in IT Operations and Strategy consulting. INFOSYS CONSULTING KEY STATS. INFOSYS CONSULTING HISTORY. Infosys Revenue: $6B (2010).

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

For example, you may be a skilled management consultant. Money you earn through your consulting work might be used to build a house even though you may not have the skills to build the house yourself. Market prices are able to adjust to equate supply and demand without the need for any central planning. Case Interviews.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 13, 2014

Are you applying to consulting jobs in the good ol’ U.S. … But seriously, all jokes aside, we’re not entirely sure whether anyone who reads this blog has an interest in the American market. We have prepared a guidebook that profiles the most prominent consulting firms in America.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 12, 2020

What services do I offer my consulting clients? If so, you're gonna love today's training on how to design consulting offers.that convert. Creating great offers that will attract and impress your consulting clients starts with falling in love with your consulting clients and serving them to the best of your ability.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 25, 2013

Dick Smith: The Power of Viral Marketing. Through this Australia Day marketing campaign, he is using viral marketing (i.e. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Graduate Consulting Group. Case Interviews. Management Consulting. Definitions.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

This is a particularly attractive model for indie rock artists who don’t have access to established record labels; Ad revenue – apps can act as an “advertising vehicle” where mobile marketers can place advertisments. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Case Interviews.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

in Management Consulting. Please find below examples of the Rule of Three used in marketing, politics, religion, science and sports. Next post: List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong 2011. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Graduate Consulting Group.

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Tsavo Neal

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Let’s take your consulting website as an example. Most consultants want to generate more leads through their website — but they write and design it like a brochure, which adds no value. Treat your LinkedIn profile like marketing material — not a resume. Instead, write your LinkedIn profile like marketing material.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 17, 2019

In the consulting world, your resume is even more important. The top three consulting firms — McKinsey, Bain, and BCG — have acceptance rates of less than five percent during any given year. This goes to show just how important it is to write a strong resume when applying to be a consultant.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 6, 2012

LIBOR, the “London InterBank Offered Rate”, is a benchmark which indicates the average rate at which leading banks can obtain unsecured funding in the London interbank market. In a bid market structured like this, game theory can make millions… or billions. Graduate Consulting Group. Case Interviews.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 17, 2013

A Perfect Storm: Growth in Public Sector Consulting. in Management Consulting. THE United States government has utilised management consultants for the past fifty years, beginning when McKinsey organised the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958. Subscribe.

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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 20, 2019

“Why am I not getting any clients through my consulting website?”. In this article, I’ll take you through the exact questions — and steps — I would ask a consultant whose befuddled why they aren’t getting any clients with their website. As a consultant, your website has a purpose — to make you more money.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

It’s an important question – and never more so than in today’s market. 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.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

What you will learn: Learn the basics of a case interview – what it is, how they are different from a regular job interview, who uses them, why they are used, and the types of case interview formats and the difference between them. Topics Covered: What is a Case Interview? What is a Case Interview?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Jobs saw its potential and took responsibility for marketing this creation to the world. Previous post: List of economic consulting firms in Hong Kong 2011. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Graduate Consulting Group. Case Interviews. Management Consulting.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

A reader sent me an email asking if there was a pattern or trend to what kind of case problems are given by each firm? So, does BCG give M&A questions while McKinsey gives business cases? My answer is the cases you get are all over the place and there's no pattern that I've ever seen or heard about.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In one of my early McKinsey engagements, I was assigned to conduct 1:1 market research interviews with the client's top customers. I was a 22-year-old consultant, and he was taking notes on what I was saying! It can be knowledge about an account, a market segment, a vendor, a particular problem, or an internal process.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Today I’m joined by seasoned consultant and passionate leader Ron Carucci. His work has taken him to over 20 countries in four different continents, and he is the author of several consulting and leadership books as well as a regular contributor to Forbes.com and the Harvard Business Review. Ron, welcome. Thanks for having me.

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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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