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Tour Recap – Day 7 (New York Consulting Bootcamp)

Management Consulted

Welcome…to the final day, the crowning achievement, of our 2013 8-day East Coast (we counted our final travel day too). Despite all we’d seen and done on our tour already, Sunday was the biggest day of the whole tour – our 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. consulting clubs'

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The Consulting Myth

Tom Spencer

The first piece of advice I was given when I started my Master’s in Management at London Business School was to beware of the mirage of consulting. applying to consulting began to seem like more of a rite of passage than a genuine attempt at forging a professional path. Not the benefits, not the travel, not the prestige.

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Student consulting – it does more than deliver

Tom Spencer

Student consulting would seem to most students as an obvious first step towards a career in consulting. However, Sam Smith has recently argued in the post ‘ Student consulting – Does it deliver? This results in a misplaced comparison between the abilities of an experienced consultant and that of a student one.

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Tour Recap – Day 1 (Georgia Tech)

Management Consulted

First, we had an absolutely ridiculous time at our day-long Consulting Bootcamp at the Marriott Marquis in New York on Sunday. For those of you that missed it, we are holding another 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. consulting clubs' So…come on, British folk!

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Reader FAQ — weekend getaway flights, new hire jitters, and the LinkedIn labyrinth

Management Consulted

While the majority of questions we get from our readers are about breaking into consulting, a good portion of them are from new hires looking for guidance in their first 3 months on the job. Q: I’m new to management consulting (just started this past summer). You have many years of fully-funded travel ahead of you.

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Conversation with Marakon

Tom Spencer

What made you decide to pursue a career in strategy consulting? I had a few friends working in consulting and started talking to them and going to the careers fairs and presentations. The opportunity to work in a team in a faster paced environment is what appealed to me about consulting. Some firms will play across all three.

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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).