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Starting your Consulting Journey as a College Student

Tom Spencer

Joining a consulting club can provide you with numerous benefits: networking, learning how to do a case study, assistance with resume and cover letter writing, and access to resources to prepare for interviews. Top performing students are often selected to attend networking events at company offices.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

THE ADVISORY BOARD COMPANY. Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of The Advisory Board Company. The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) is a professional services firm that offers resources to players who are mainly in the healthcare industry. KEY STATS FOR THE ADVISORY BOARD COMPANY.

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Welcome to new readers plus a few questions answered

Management Consulted

Top 10 Resume Tips. I spent the next two years learning as much as possible so I could take those skills and start my own company. I’ve been helping friends/colleagues looking to enter management consulting for years with their resumes, cover letters, interviews, and questions. Top 10 Interview Tips.

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The undisputed importance of appearance and how to get it right

Tom Spencer

When you walk into an interview, even before you speak, shake hands or talk through your resume, something else is doing a lot of talking in your behalf: your appearance. This way you make sure to have enough room for extra copies of your CV (without wrinkling them) and for a notebook to jot down notes during the case studies.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

Which leads to our second point — although what you learn will be on a smaller scale than what the Fortune 500 would do (you’ll use less data, involve fewer people, and have much less at stake), you will start developing the ability to see what really matters (and what doesn’t) to the CEO of a company — profits, operations, etc.

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Using Case Interview Prep for Non-Consulting Offers

CaseInterview.com

It was a business case task where you get a bunch of documents and papers with a lot of relevant & irrelevant info. You have 1 hour to go through the docs and develop recommendations for the company to solve the existing issues (which you also need to identify based on the given material).

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The Consulting Bible – Dominate Your McKinsey, Bain and BCG Fit and Consulting Case Interviews

Management Consulted

Master fit questions, conquer case studies, and become the smartest interviewer in the room. The Consulting Bible is the self-study version of our 10-hour prep package – we tell you every secret we know about getting jobs at the world’s best consulting firms. Let’s be honest - breaking into consulting is hard.