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

Management Consulted

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. While each question comes from a unique personal perspective, many of the issues apply to our entire reader base of consulting wanna-bes.

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Why Trying to Pivot to a Consulting Career through an Online MBA Might Not be the Best Idea

Tom Spencer

MBA consulting recruiting season starts every fall. For a few falls now, in my capacity as a volunteer career advisor, I have had to uncomfortably tell incredibly intelligent MBA students from highly respected schools that they are utterly ill-informed about entering the consulting profession. The Consulting Career Landscape.

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When it’s Time to Focus on Your Consulting Career

Tom Spencer

When in college you have to pick a major, which is the first step to focusing your career. When choosing classes, the first two years you get to explore different topics within that major and in your last 2-3 years you are focusing on classes that interest you and preparing for your first job. Consulting. Making the decision.

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Investigating Career Journeys

Tom Spencer

If you are in college, you may want to transfer to a different college or switch majors, but you have to consider the expense of time and money that constrain your decision. Write your future resume and then look for opportunities to get the experiences, skills, and recommendations that you need to make your ideal resume a reality.

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3 ways financial advisory consulting bests strategy consulting

Management Consulted

In our last post, we discussed 5 major differences between 2 prominent types of consulting. From the variety of work and access to C-level executives to the wide array of exit opportunities, strategy operations consulting far surpassed financial advisory consulting as our recommended career to pursue. Missed part one?

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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

As consulting has become more popular (frantically so), we are getting increasing numbers of emails from undergrads – and even high schoolers – begging the question – if you want to break into consulting, what should you major in – and what majors are deal-breakers? The problem with Econ majors?

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Simon-Kucher & Partners Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

The firm has developed an impressive client list of many Fortune 500 companies from a variety of industries, but the majority of its business comes from pharmaceutical, healthcare, and medical technology firms. The word “partner” means something different at SImon-Kucher than it does at many other consulting firms. Industries.