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Winter 2014 East Coast Tour Recap

Management Consulted

On our January 2014 Consulting Bootcamp tour, we travelled to several universities up and down the East Coast – Duke, Georgia Tech, UGA, Penn, Harvard, McGill, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Cornell. *. After a full day (8 hours) of interview training, our group had bonded big-time. 10AM – 11AM – Structuring the fit interview.

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What it’s really like at a top consulting firm: the good and the bad

Tom Spencer

You will quickly become adept at handling complicated client situations, presenting to large groups of high status individuals, thinking strategically about world-sized problems, communicating clearly both orally and in writing, and making slides that look like they’re from Machiavelli’s own hand. Bad #2: Travel. Expect to be top-tier.

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From Internship To Full-Time Job: The Best Way Into Consulting

Tom Spencer

Working 80+ hours during stressful weeks, not being home (or having any notable social life) between Monday and Thursday, frequent travel, and a high-pressure work environment can really take a toll on some people. There are lots of drawbacks to this kind of work that many people initially tend to ignore or brush off as “not that bad.”

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From the Bench and Bedside to the Boardrooms (How to transition from academia into consulting, Part 2 of 2)

Tom Spencer

Case & Fit Practice. Excelling in the Interview. So, the rest of this post will focus on the two remaining areas: proper case practice, and things to remember during the interview. Case & Fit Practice. Case Practice. The Application Process.

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Unspoken truths of top-tier consulting: things every consultant knows, but no one says 

Tom Spencer

When you first start consulting, it can seem like a sort of corporate utopia: interesting work, a new client every few months, access to leaders of industry, great colleagues, endless career development and training, generous dinner budgets, extensive travel, nice hotels, international travel.

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Management Consulted Goes to London (and Beyond)

Management Consulted

We hung out in the MASSIVE hall as Jenny Rae prepared to present the 2 hour bootcamp - the only time that day the largest venue at Wharton was used. As if traveling across the ocean on the plane wasn’t enough, we felt it necessary to use as many forms of transportation as necessary…so we took a train up to Durham University.

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Experienced Hire from Harvard breaks in to Healthcare Consulting (Part 1)

Management Consulted

If healthcare decision-making processes and drug development get you out of bed in the morning, or if you simply want to learn from someone who successfully navigated the consulting interview process just last year, be ready to pick up some great networking and interview tips for yourself. interview on Friday.