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Recruiting versus reality

Tom Spencer

Consulting firms are very good at selling themselves to potential recruits. But, like any sales pitch, there’s a degree of exaggeration behind the polished smiles. You’ll get great learning and development opportunities”. It’s hard to match the learning and development opportunities in consulting. You’ll get to travel”.

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Unlocking a Career as a Marketing Consultant

Tom Spencer

To do this, they should possess a keen understanding of the client’s target market and existing customer base, as well as the ability to recommend clear and actionable strategies to increase sales, expand the customer base, and develop new product offerings that will appeal to customers.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

They evaluate issues that the client is facing and help them develop action plans for improvement. This may involve traveling to the client’s site to collect data, interview employees, and examine daily operations. I always develop specific criteria to measure the success of my recommendations.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

I seriously considered sales & trading (in fact, I spent a summer at Credit Suisse First Boston in NY), and was tempted to continue in that line of work post-graduation. Consulting compensates with perks that banking does not offer – from better travel allowances to more generous health and retirement packages.

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Conversation with L.E.K. Consulting

Tom Spencer

I recently had the opportunity to communicate with Janine Clifford, Recruitment & HR Manager at L.E.K. Tom: LEK offers a range of services including Strategy, Marketing & Sales, Operations and Mergers & Acquisitions. The life of a management consultant is certainly a busy one and often involves travel. Consulting.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

After he graduated from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), he developed the idea that companies would become more successful if they called on someone outside of their organization to offer expert, unbiased advice. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. Organization and Change. Product and Service Innovation.

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. Strengths-Based Development. There are 4 job types at Gallup (order irrelevant): Consultants – Client Development.