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7 Reasons Why Your Clients Aren't "Getting It" When you Talk and Write About What You Do

Consulting Matters

One of the biggest challenges that both new and seasoned consultants and coaches face is finding the words to describe what they do. They go to networking events and try to explain that they are a consultant or coach but instead of getting head nods and curiosity.they experience the angst of the blank stares. You are not alone.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. What will you learn from starting a business that will help you prepare for consulting? Complete our Consultant For a Day exercise. Size its market. Identify how it makes profit.

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Experienced Hire from Harvard breaks in to Healthcare Consulting (Part 2)

Management Consulted

Today, we continue Part 2 (see Part 1 here ) of our interview with Charlie, an experienced Harvard grad who took an unusual path into healthcare consulting, yet leveraged his experience and hard prep work into an offer at Putnam. Do you know what their primary job is in consulting? To bring in cases. They are the salesmen/women.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

How in the world did Josh go from a PhD in cell and molecular biology to a job in federal consulting for The Tauri Group? Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide.

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Consulting’s Unofficial Interview Hurdle – The Airplane Test

Tom Spencer

There are many steps to take in preparing to apply and interview for a consulting position. If you are just starting out, you will find yourself editing your resume, preparing answers for experiential questions, and practicing business frameworks to use in the case interview.

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Options for Post Consulting Careers

CaseInterview.com

I really enjoyed meeting the consultants, but ultimately feel BCG is a better fit. In any case, I have a question for you regarding Consulting vs. industry. I have been told that one year in consulting = 2 - 3 in industry. If I leave a consulting firm, what's next? He found that McKinsey on the resume was a liability.

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Keep Calm (and practice self-care)

Kai Davis

Expect the business-, marketing-, and freelancing-focused letters to resume on ~Friday. Journaling. I use a mixture of Notion.so (business/workday journal) and a paper notebook (personal/life journal). Their guided meditations (and daily ~10-minute meditation) make building a meditation habit very graceful.

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