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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Interview Process

Tom Spencer

As a result, many consultants shift to industry and join the client’s side so that they can not only offer solutions but also take more ownership to formulate, execute, and implement a strategy from start to finish. Interviews. Corporate development. Multiple hiring team interviews (case + fit). Corporate Strategy.

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The Importance of a First Impression

Tom Spencer

In management consulting, relationships matter a lot; most of the time, a strong relationship is developed by making a strong first impression with the other individual. The best-case scenario is to receive an invitation for an interview. This includes understanding each firms’ core industries and service offerings.

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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? You created not just a firm, but an industry we are all now proud of. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. We want you to nail it.

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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

A global firm with a very interesting history, they’re known for motivating, developing and training their clients’ staff as well as the for research they carry out on the companies they work with. Things continued in this vein, with Daniel Goleman using Hay Group research to publish “Working With Emotional Intelligence” in 1999.

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How to Overcome Your Fear of Failure

Harvard Business

A client (who I’ll call “Alex”) asked me to help him prepare to interview for a CEO role with a start-up. It was the first time he had interviewed for the C-level, and when we met, he was visibly agitated. Caiaimage/Andy Roberts/Getty Images. Let’s go back to Alex as an example of how to execute this.

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What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)

Harvard Business

Surveying thousands of people across countries and industries to explore the relationship between self-awareness and several key attitudes and behaviors, like job satisfaction, empathy, happiness, and stress. The highly self-aware people we interviewed were actively focused on balancing the scale. Take Jeremiah, a marketing manager.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring.