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How Taekwon-Do Prepared Me for Consulting Interviews

Tom Spencer

My favorite part of Taekwon-Do is competition, with its categories of forms, sparring (hand to hand and foot to foot combat), weapons demonstration, and board breaking. While my martial arts journey has been long and difficult, it has also been rewarding and improved my professional life as a future consultant.

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3 ways financial advisory consulting bests strategy consulting

Management Consulted

In our last post, we discussed 5 major differences between 2 prominent types of consulting. From the variety of work and access to C-level executives to the wide array of exit opportunities, strategy operations consulting far surpassed financial advisory consulting as our recommended career to pursue. Missed part one?

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7 People who NEED to apply to McKinsey in the next 8 days

Management Consulted

The following 7 categories of people have 8 days left to apply at McKinsey for a full-time position (provided they finish their programs in 2017/2018): PhDs. For most aspiring consultants, McKinsey is the gold standard. The post 7 People who NEED to apply to McKinsey in the next 8 days appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Applying to McKinsey from a Non-Target School

CaseInterview.com

I hadn't applied during the regular recruiting season as I was planning on going directly to an MBA program and trying to get into consulting afterwards. Before my interviews with both firms, I actually got rejected from non- management consulting jobs (even though they were both less prestigious firms and would have been backups for me).

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Harvard junior weighs internships in VC and Consulting

Management Consulted

Pierre was a junior at Harvard University who was offered 2 very exciting internships – one for BCG in management consulting (plus, after this call he got an offer for Bain as well) and the other for a VC firm in New York. Want to know the pros/cons of consulting vs. VC from our perspective? Are you in the same shoes?

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How Do I Prepare for the Case Interview?

CaseInterview.com

Clients don’t give consultants math tests. Solving an equation is NEVER the goal in consulting. Consulting firms have come to favor the scientific method approach when they need to prove a point. A scientist uses an experiment to test a hypothesis; a consultant uses an issue tree. It is simply a means to an end.