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Tips for Case Prepping Alone

Tom Spencer

As fall recruiting season is on the horizon, it’s inevitably a busy time for many students looking to recruit into consulting. Reading the news is a great way to keep up to date with the business world while also providing you with realistic scenarios that contain business problems you can examine as a thought exercise.

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How to Handle Rejection from a Consulting Firm

Tom Spencer

Self-analysis alone won’t give you a holistic picture of why you did not get an offer, so start by getting feedback from the recruiter and the interviewers. Or, doing brain exercises on the Elevate App could improve your mental math and reasoning skills. There may be training or informal coaching you can undertake to help you develop.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

This group of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology practitioners took turns sharing how they found their way toward our aligned passions of how people think and behave in the workplace. I started working at the age of 16 in 1992 as an industrial cleaner on nights and weekends with my friend Mark.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

I begged my favorite Econ teacher to let me into his Industrial Organization course and fortunately I got a spot. Half of the class was devoted to examining different models and learning the game theory behind strategic decision making; in the remainder of the class, we applied that knowledge and analyzed different industries.

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Why We Modeled Our Hiring Process on the NFL and NASA

Harvard Business

Our aim is to do the same for intellectual athletes, giving them an opportunity to not just talk about but also demonstrate the qualities we seek: a passion for solving challenging problems, exceptional analytical rigor, and the ability to glean insights from complex data sets across markets industries and economies.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

My coursework was very informative and my research was in exercise physiology where I compared the fitness benefits of snowshoeing versus running. A few years later I was recruited for a position by one of the government consulting companies who had previously made me a contingent offer. I was in Vermont and there was lots of snow!

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Is Peter Mandelson really a strategy consultant?

Tom Spencer

He gave him a peerage, which allowed him to exercise a great deal of power without being elected. Global Counsel is not a member of any of the professional bodies which represent strategic consultants or the management consulting industry as a whole. The firm asks for public affairs experience in the people it recruits.

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