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First Six Months – Adjusting to Consulting Life

Tom Spencer

What you see is what you get in consulting, and after spending time interviewing with the people, understanding business case analysis, and researching the firms, I knew what I would be getting into at Bain. The cases really are key – make sure you like doing them, because they aren’t just important during the interview phase.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Here at MC, we had the pleasure of recently interviewing Josh and asking him how he’s navigated his interesting career path, and how consulting was a great place for his passions and skills to collide. I was selected to interview at both the NIH and the DoD and subsequently was offered positions in both organizations.

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Oliver Wyman Careers

CaseInterview.com

The hiring process involves a mixture of both behavioral interviews and case interviews. Whether or not you view travel as an opportunity depends upon your personal preferences. Either way, Oliver Wyman's global approach tends to result in more international travel than firms with a local staffing model (e.g.

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Charting your consulting career direction

Tom Spencer

This article identifies what lies ahead for graduates considering a future in consulting, and highlights key insights that I gained by interviewing junior and senior consultants. Management consultants get the opportunity to work on challenging real world problems for companies, governments and nonprofits. Brace yourself.

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The CEO’s Guide to Retirement

Harvard Business

We studied the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviewed 13 of them. Over half assume leadership positions at nonprofit organizations and almost all are philanthropic. .” Almost every CEO we interviewed reported great satisfaction in their work lives after being CEO.

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Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau

Emerson Consulting Group

Many of life’s major arenas and how we approach or practice them, such as environmentalism, writing, travel, war and peace, politics and rebellion, philosophy and introspection, are steeped within the life and legend of Henry David Thoreau. By Ken Lizotte CMC. As part of his ongoing column in Money Inc.

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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life

Harvard Business

” In an interview, three CEOs rated as top performers by HBR said the job was 24/7 and admitted they weren’t great role models. Their strategies have since become the “ Vacation Checklist ” DeGroot shares with others at the nonprofit. But does it have to be that way? “I had such guilt.