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Reader FAQ – “Designer” Consulting Resumes, Late Applications, and Plan Bs

Management Consulted

October was the peak of full-time recruiting, and it shows! You’ve bombarded us with insightful questions about resumes, interviews, applications, and how to pick up the pieces and consider alternatives to consulting when you don’t make the cut. We edit about 600 consulting resumes a year – so we see a LOT of resumes.

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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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Alternatives to a Traditional Summer Internship

Tom Spencer

By articulating the problems you solved in your resume and during future interviews, recruiters will be better able to understand your professional skillset. Student Government. Your university’s student government organization is responsible for representing student concerns at the administration level.

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Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume

Harvard Business

These jobs also open doors to even more lucrative employment in the private sector as well as prestigious judiciary and government roles. Specifically, we used a technique — known as the resume audit method — that is widely seen as the gold standard for measuring employment discrimination.

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Analysis Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

On a day-to-day basis, you may could be helping a law firm critique their opponent’s expert analysis and developing financial models, or you may be working with government and corporate clients, helping them value companies, analyse markets and place for mergers and acquisitions. ANALYSIS GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Bejing, China.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Most recently, I’m a Program Manager for a government consulting company called The Tauri Group and I have been working in government consulting for the past 7 years. When did you first stumble upon the field of government consulting? Tell me about your work as a government consultant. What did you discover about it?

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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Recently, Alvarez & Marsal gained more territory in Europe and Asia by recruiting a new country head in Greece and by opening an office in Seoul, South Korea. Corporate Governance. That being said, Alvarez & Marsal are still a prestigious and exciting firm, so working there will not look bad on your resume. Tax Advisory.