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Starting your Consulting Journey as a College Student

Tom Spencer

Although a club is required to sign a contract with an advisor, it does not have a specific department or student body that governs how the club is run. Through these events, you can get to know more about the firm, the clients they work with, and experience the firm directly by interacting with consultants and recruiters.

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Simple Changes to Job Ads Can Help Recruit More Police Officers of Color

Harvard Business

The United States is experiencing a human capital crisis at all levels of government. For public services to be delivered more effectively, the government workforce needs to diversify. Because of this, it’s no surprise then that police departments lean on public service messaging to recruit.

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Selling Your Competitive Advantages in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Looking back to consulting recruiting in graduate school, I always think about how interesting it was that so much of the conversation among candidates was about getting an offer from a top consulting firm. During the recruiting process, firms screen candidates for potential to succeed given the firm’s business portfolio and culture.

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Why the Australian Defence Organization Is Recruiting Cyber Analysts on the Autism Spectrum

Harvard Business

As the pioneering Danish firm Specialisterne showed first in the early 2000s, however, and as the Australian Defence Organization’s partner DXC Technology has demonstrated through deployments in Australia, if you manage things right, you can recruit great talent and activate it to a maximum degree from populations of autistic people.

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MBA vs Non-MBA Programs as a Pathway to Consulting

Tom Spencer

In order to give some perspective, it is helpful to highlight what those MBA advantages actually are: On campus recruiting from a large range of firms. For non-MBA graduate programs, at best there may be a few firms that conduct recruiting on-campus regularly, and placement opportunities are likely limited.

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

Management Consulted

With 57 offices worldwide, Booz offers consulting services for top businesses, governments, and organizations. Besides their core competency – advising the federal government and its contractors – maybe this is why we could call them “America’s favorite.” An ability to thrive in a team environment.

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Consulting 101: Operations, Hierarchies, and Types of Firms

Tom Spencer

Consulting clients are generally businesses, government entities, non-profits, and NGOs. Career pages explain intern/first year programs, and the recruitment process. If you are interested in recruiting for a consulting internship or graduate program, visit the firm’s careers page and read about the specific program.