Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

They are interested in case studies only to a point. This principle hit home for me when I did an interview project to find out what executives are looking for in consultants. Discover how to start your business right.the first time when you download the “Strategic Business Build Guide.”

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

After spending 18-years under the guidance of your parents, you gain the freedom to explore the world, study a degree of your choice, discover who you are, and explore potential career options. Most importantly, you can learn how to pitch as if you were presenting to a client. Prioritise academic excellence.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci. How did you go from that pivotal moment of working in the arts to actually starting a consulting business? I switched careers into learning and development and organization development. Ron, welcome.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 6, 2018

In this post, I will share tips on the case interview, assessment centres, keeping stress levels down, and staying motivated on your journey to land a coveted role in the management consulting industry. Get friendly with case studies. Though some may be interviewer-led (i.e. industry, market) and internal (e.g.

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Interviews Case Interview Case Study Case Studies 60

Tom Spencer

APRIL 22, 2017

Consultants and recruiters often spend no more than a few seconds looking at your application when shortlisting interview candidates. Get comfortable with case studies and develop your own style. Case studies only make up about half of each interview.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 23, 2014

In my view, the 2 best things about working at BCG are the people and the opportunity for personal development. In my experience, the average case team is made up of 3 or 4 nationalities, including the individuals who in past lives were entrepreneurs, surgeons, or front line soldiers and now run charities or marathons in their spare time.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 13, 2015

As you’ve likely already figured out, the case interview is a very unusual creature. In the consulting case interview, your time is even more precious: you have only 4 minutes to develop and present a plan (2 to structure your case and 2 to present). Overview of consulting case frameworks.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 29, 2022

The school environment helped them develop networks that played a key role in launching their enterprises. Informational interviews become second nature to the point that rejection no longer leaves a mark on you. Developing negotiating skills. The majority of the MBA programs will cover similar business cases.

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Ethics Case Interview Case Study Case Studies 88

Chad Barr

AUGUST 16, 2023

Here’s its first attempt: Day Theme Content Day 1: Marketing Monday Maximizing Digital Outreach Share insights on the latest digital marketing trends and how they can be implemented to reach new audiences. Include real-life examples and case studies to illustrate the potential impact. Pretty impressive, isn’t it?

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Kai Davis

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This could look like content marketing (articles, testimonials, case studies) , marketing campaigns (advertising, outreach, events, webinars) , or personality based marketing campaigns (podcast hosting, podcast guesting, guest articles). How Do You Become A “Consulting Niche Celebrity”? Would you believe it?

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Kai Davis

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This could look like content marketing (articles, testimonials, case studies) , marketing campaigns (advertising, outreach, events, webinars) , or personality based marketing campaigns (podcast hosting, podcast guesting, guest articles). How Do You Become A “Consulting Niche Celebrity”? Would you believe it?

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

The focus is on developing and refining your approach to the recruitment cycle to be able to make a powerful impression throughout. The team draw on their vast experience to deliver a unique take on how to excel at the interviews, with an emphasis on tackling a variety of case study scenarios.

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Kai Davis

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This rule applies no matter if you’re promoting your services as a consultant, pitching a guest article or interview, or promoting yourself. Look at how they are and aren’t using ‘you’ focused language. This is Propeller ( [link] ), a popular Shopify development agency. The website — Propeller.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 18, 2015

IMS HEALTH INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Business development and licensing. Market development strategies. New product planning/product development strategy. IMS CONSULTING GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. The first round of the interview will generally be held over the phone and lasts around 45 minutes.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

If you know what you need to do and how to do it ahead of time, you could save yourself a lot of heartache during your job search. Application process: There is an extensive online form with more stages to follow, including interviews, tests, and assessment centres. This tends to be followed by several rounds of interviews.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Consulting-style case interviews are highly effective, and the same format is being adopted more and more widely. The major consultancies have converged on a largely identical interview style, precisely because it excels in picking out the most genuinely capable candidates from the huge pools of applications received.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. 1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Kearney aims to provide support for companies by helping them stay ahead of new market developments and positioning them to capture new opportunities. Firm hires 2,000th employee.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

OC&C STRATEGY CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Like the practice areas, OC&C Strategy Consultants have developed their personal strategy around smaller focus areas but promising big results. OC&C STRATEGY CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Business Unit Strategy. Strategy Realization. Industries .

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

And if you’re called in for an interview, should you acknowledge you might be overqualified? ” Your goal, therefore, is “ to make sure the interviewers don’t shy away from you.” ” In this instance, it’s helpful to ask a reference to state your case. Should you still apply?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

You might know how to do the former, but how do you do the latter? And how do you serve as a good role model? Here’s how you can fill in the gap and help your direct reports be great managers. The people who report to your direct reports look to you for clues as to how they should feel about their managers.

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Rod Burkert

JANUARY 7, 2020

In case you missed the last post: 1 simple year-end tidying up task that will make you look your best. And please join me this Friday at 1pm ET on Practice Development INSIDER for my interview with Mark Zyla. In that case, you can hire an SEO expert to set up your website so it is strong for the keyword(s) in your company name.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Furthermore, given the uniqueness of each person’s situation and context, it’s especially difficult to write an exhaustive how-to article on this topic. Prioritize skill development over compensation. I believe the best route to long-term compensation and self-confidence is to focus intensely on skill development early in my career.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market. How large is each segment?" "I’m How fast is each growing?" "I

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Chad Barr

JUNE 3, 2015

This week’s reflection point: The most common question I am asked is how to drive traffic to one’s site. These pages should contain offerings and credibility building pages such as case studies and testimonials. Get interviewed by others, which will then get announced by them with the focus on you. Stay tuned.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 20, 2021

And with stories of how traditional companies like Fidelity Investments, Walmart, and B2W have adopted them, he offers a practical toolbox for applying them to your business, starting today. Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance by Erica Dhawan (2021). How to Change by Katy Milkman (2021).

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

How in the world did Josh go from a PhD in cell and molecular biology to a job in federal consulting for The Tauri Group? Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls. How can you make sure that you start off on the right foot in any of these scenarios? “The camaraderie develops naturally.” “I do not get nervous for interviews.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

“Think about the offer in terms of your development, your quality of life, and the variety of the work you want to do.” “The purpose of the interview is to get the offer,” he says. ” That may indeed be the case, but it’s not the message you want to send to your would-be manager.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. ” Talk about development separately. “It’s not the time for a development conversation ,” he says.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

You’ve done your research and know the ins and outs of the company’s public profile, but how can you assess cultural fit — and if you’d actually be happy working there? During the interview process, you had a singular goal: to get an offer. Interview your prospective colleagues. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

“It’s the equivalent of doing informational interviews. ” A professional can advise you on whether it makes sense to incorporate, how to save in taxes, and how to manage all of your expenses. Many clients will have their own contract template, but you should have one just in case.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

Ming is a tech optimist, believing that all kinds of previously intractable problems will be able to be solved as the tool kit for addressing them is developed. Cautiously, we called it problem-led leadership, and launched into all the interviewing, case studying, and literature review that goes into a leadership research project.

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Consulting Success

JULY 24, 2017

He’s interviewed over 200 C-level executives and written over 170 white papers. His career path took him from software company technical writing and journalism to a marketing executive in a software company before becoming an independent copywriter who specializes in white papers and case studies.

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Deb Siegle, WIC’s president, was recently interviewed (by email) regarding women consultants and business owners for possible inclusion in an article for one of the Boston College blogs. Here are excerpts from that interview. But we can develop skills and expertise that make us relevant, credible, and sought after.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

Although you might be tempted to counter-offer, Fernández-Aráoz advises against it because in most cases it can “backfire.” Grote agrees: Counter-offers give “only a temporary gain because the employee realizes that you’ve been holding out on them and the word gets out that this is how you get more money.”

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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 20, 2019

By the end of this article, you’ll know exactly why you aren’t getting any clients from your website — and how to turn it into a lead-generating consulting website. If you don’t have a lead generating website, take my course on how to write and design one. Develop the habits, and your website traffic will increase.

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