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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. How has the firm grown from a podunk, small-town cluster to a global behemoth? FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Private Equity.

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MC Coach Interview: My First Year at McKinsey

Management Consulted

Because of this, we sat down with consulting veteran Lisa Bright (who is now part of the MC interview coaching team!) The school I was at isn’t one of McKinsey’s core schools, so I had to do a lot of reading online to prepare for the interview, get accustomed to case interviews and stuff like that. That was rough.

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Translation: turnaround expert. What situations do you know how to address? The exact opposite is true. What problems do you solve?

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We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

Harvard Business

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner. But what else did you do?

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The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

How to answer the case study. The Ivy Case is a system created by a Harvard professor who coached students for interviews at top-tier consultancies such as McKinsey. Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds. Is there anything else we need to know?

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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. You’ve not only been a great marketer in one region, but proven that you can lead marketing when you have a new team, in a turnaround situation and in a different geography. You can create your personal experience map after you: Interview experts in your field.

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10 Must Read Books for a Business Consultant

ConsultX

Gerber Focus - Al Ries How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B Cialdini Outwitting the Devil - Napoleon Hill Purple Cow - Seth Godin The E-Myth Revisited - Michael E. Conquer the Chaos shows you how. Conquer the Chaos - Clate Mask & Scott Martineau Crush It!