Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 15, 2021

MBA consulting recruiting season starts every fall. I am commenting purely on recruiting for a post-MBA consulting position. They generally learn about it through formal campus based recruiting events, their Consulting Club, or the constant pressure to network and talk to lots of consulting professionals. The Bottom Line.

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MAY 9, 2019

Management Consulting Networking Success Story: I just want to drop you one additional thank you e-mail, as I heavily relied on your preparation sources throughout my interviewing journey (and the corresponding case interview preparation). I went through workshops offered by these firms and talked to numerous recruiters and consultants.

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MAY 9, 2019

My Thoughts: This is a great example of how the management consulting interview process works. There are two ways to get an interview with a management consulting firm. 1) On campus / Send in your Application - Recruiting. Hint - recruiting coordinators have a slow season, and I had contacted this person during her slow month.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

As a former consulting resume and cover letter reader for McKinsey, and someone who has reviewed thousands of applications, I have noticed an interesting trend. Most cover letters stink, and many resumes emphasize the wrong things. Most people obsess over resume format -- what font size, margins, etc. Here's why it works.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 4, 2022

There is a lot to think about when preparing for consulting interviews , and you may want to check out some of our other blog posts and guides for preparing your resume , creating your cover letter , and improving your network. For example, BCG requires one-way video interviews. Frameworks. Experiential Questions. Case Studies.

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MAY 9, 2019

I suggest you network with anyone within a management consulting firm regardless of whether they are involved in recruiting or consulting resume screening. Your goal is not to contact people who can help you in recruiting. Check out our Privacy Policy below for details on how we protect and manage your submitted data.

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

I had my eye on management consulting for some time, so I decided to give it a shot. I wasn't ready to give up, so I decided to reach out to some recruiters that were listed on the firm's websites (mistake). After talking with the recruiter, I was set up to do a practice case over the phone with an ex-McKinsey consultant.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

As the full time recruitment season in Autumn 2010 approached, I returned to your site and subscribed to your mailing list too. For you, I wanted to point out that recently, I revised and added new online tutorials and articles on how to write a consulting cover letter and what employers look for in a consulting resume. No, Thanks!

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Your videos are by far the clearest and the most helpful in aceing the case interviews. Thanks to you, I managed to secure an offer at BCG South East Asia as a Junior Consultant (I have a PhD) as well as 2 other offers from smaller firms. I got a slight edge in the McKinsey recruiting process by accident. It was that useful.

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MARCH 10, 2019

The first step in the application process where cuts are made would be the Consulting Resume and Cover Letter Screen. get an awful lot of resumes out of the blue -- but historically they. have done the majority of recruiting out of the schools (under grad, MBA, JD, MD, PhD). what's impressive on the resume and what's not.

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JUNE 13, 2019

I also found a lot of value in the LOMS materials that I purchased after going through the Case Interview Secrets videos. After reading your article on CVs and resumes , I set my sights on getting a big name employer since I didn't have any work experience or a big name school on my resume. Read Our Privacy Policy.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here is my question: Recently while I was rejected by the consulting firm that I applied to, I also received offers from [ major international consumer bank ] - management associate; [ major consumer products company ] - financial analyst; and another management associate of our local leader bank. Read Our Privacy Policy. No, Thanks!

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In addition, when learning new kicks and punches, students like myself consult instructors or encyclopedias to help us perfect techniques, much like we consult videos and books when we need to learn new frameworks and methods of analysis. He aspires to become a management consultant in the aerospace and defense fields.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Having been an engineer for close to two years at this point, my GPA was extremely low for the top management consulting firms (2.8 ). However, I knew that with extensive networking and with a continued extreme success in my classes I would ultimately end up at a top management consulting firm. This was the one interview I had.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

One of the things we really love to do here at Management Consulted is answer the questions you have for us. After this first success came a string of high-profile engagements in which Alvarez & Marsal provided advisory and crisis management services to troubled and underperforming entities. Regulatory and Risk Management.

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JUNE 13, 2019

What you will learn: Learn how to market yourself through your resume and cover letter so that you will get the interview. Topics Covered: How to Write a Resume That Will Get You the Interview. How to Write a Resume That Will Get You the Interview. Your resume needs to show all of these skills. Academic Performance.

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MARCH 21, 2019

Below is a recap of four key reasons management consulting provides a truly differentiated career opportunity. Many consulting firms also invest significant dollars in their knowledge management and training programs. I have heard a number of hiring managers and headhunters remark that a year of consulting experience is worth 1.5-3

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 4, 2015

As you’ve been busy popping bottles of champagne, watching the ball drop while fireworks shoot up in the background, or just flat-out ambitiously working through the New Year holiday, we here at Management Consulted have had our version of fun. IBM Global Business Services (IBM GBS). IMS Consulting Group. McKinsey & Company.

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MARCH 28, 2016

From this noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. One of Booz Allen Hamilton’s finest moments from the early years was in the 1950s when Time Magazine dubbed it “the world’s largest, most prestigious management consulting firm.” Acquisition & Program Management.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

I hadn't applied during the regular recruiting season as I was planning on going directly to an MBA program and trying to get into consulting afterwards. Before my interviews with both firms, I actually got rejected from non- management consulting jobs (even though they were both less prestigious firms and would have been backups for me).

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Coming from a school which McKinsey did not recruit at, I had to reach out to many people to seek referral. Out of the 50 people, every single person from McKinsey told me that McKinsey just does not recruit from my school, and then told me to think about post-MBA trial. I am from a second tier school in [ U.S.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I was so nervous and overwhelmed by the volume of the material that I started to panic and didn't manage to prepare myself properly. I watched the videos first and found them amazing! I managed it so well that I even had some minutes to rethink my answers and prepare mentally for the questions. Read Our Privacy Policy.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As a recruiter, if you saw a CV from a guy from BCG [ Eastern Europe ] and A.T. From a prestige factor, BCG is the better name to have on the consulting resume , particularly if you are early in your career and you do not have another big brand name employer preceding ATK or BCG.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Even if you are interviewing over a video call, there will still be some time to verbally exchange words before the actual interview questions kick in. After the interviewer briefly explains their work, most candidates would say “cool” then quietly get their resume ready to begin the interview.

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Management Consulted

JULY 15, 2015

Check out the video below to hear what the greatest perks for working at Virgin are, from none other than Virgin’s employees themselves. After submitting your initial application, with your resume/CV, cover letter, and other supporting documents, HR typically will respond to your application within a couple of days.

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Management Consulted

MAY 5, 2015

What started off as an informal blog about management consulting with just a few readers became interview prep sessions, resume edits, videos on YouTube and Vimeo, books and the presentations we give at colleges around the world. There are 28 lessons with a teaching video (10-20 minutes). 9 hours of video content.

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MARCH 10, 2019

So getting the interview is a function of 1) your consulting resume , and 2) your cover letter. To solve that problem, make sure the information on your resume is competitive and the cover letter is extremely strong. They were good enough to get through the recruiting process, but they had to force themselves through it.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 23, 2015

What started off as a casual blog about management consulting with just a few readers became interview prep sessions, resume edits, videos on YouTube and Vimeo, books and the presentations we give at colleges around the world. There are 12 lessons with a teaching video (10-20 minutes). 7 hours of video content.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 5, 2015

managed to establish themselves in the market and grew into a global firm with 1000+ employees and 21 offices. Consulting career path is pretty standard: Associate – Associate Consultant – Consultant – Manager – Principal – Partner. Tim Sims – Managing Partner – Pacific Equity Partners.

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Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

From this innovative and noble seed came a company that birthed management consulting as we know it. One of their finest moments in the early years was when Time magazine dubbed the firm, “the world’s largest, most prestigious management consulting firm”, at the end of the 1950s. Acquisition & Program Management.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. In 1982, Andy presented his and Prabha’s mathematical models for sales force sizing and territory alignment to the Pharmaceutical Management Science Association (PMSA), using an early Apple computer to display sales territories on-site. sales force teams.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I first came across your materials [ last year ] as I was about to undergo undergraduate internship recruiting at [ U.S. Thus, from the start, I have always set a personal goal of making it through the McKinsey process and working for what I still believe to be the most prestigious management consulting firm.ever. University ].

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JULY 17, 2019

Following is a success story I received from a new BCG hire who has some insightful tips for those still recruiting as well as my follow-up where I elaborate on the importance of perseverance and hard work in obtaining a consulting offer. Prepare for math , cases, and comments on resume questions. Prepare well. a math mistake.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

An ERP system is an enterprise business management software program that organizes and tracks large company’s resources (cash, raw materials, production capacity, etc.) SOX severely limited even more the interaction between management consulting and financial auditing services. 1982 - Price Waterhouse World Firm formed.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

For me, your workshop videos and LOMS program really helped to build an understanding of how consultants approach problems while your newsletters served to constantly reinforce it. I think this internalization is one of the key reasons I came out of the recruiting process with an offer, so thank you for making it so much more accessible!

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Management Consulted

JUNE 5, 2016

as well as other general management and boutique firms in Boston. Around the November time period, I started gathering my resume and doing some applications. It started off with contacting – actually, I reached out to recruiters specifically and sent in my application, and they were mostly very quick to respond to me.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The stories below are from readers who have successfully landed their first management consulting offer. Success Story: I just wanted to very briefly reach out, offer my thanks and let you know of my success with consulting recruiting in my final year of a Bachelor of Commerce degree at [ public research university ]. No, Thanks!

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