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Travel, Training and Mentorship

Tom Spencer

Three significant aspects in the life of a management consultant: travel, training and mentorship. When it comes to travel, different consulting firms have different policies. McKinsey consultants often spend Monday to Thursday at the client site with Fridays in the office. Mentorship.

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Applying to McKinsey from a Non-Target School

CaseInterview.com

Using your frameworks and guidelines, I was able to recently secure offers from Oliver Wyman and McKinsey (I accepted the McKinsey offer). My school is a non-target and I am not sure if anybody from my school has received a non-MBA position at McKinsey in the past 10 years.

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MC Coach Interview: My First Year at McKinsey

Management Consulted

Today we get a sneak peek into a former McKinsey consultant’s first year of life at the firm. and asked a few questions about her time at a non-core school, breaking into McKinsey, and her early career to find out what McKinsey life was like for her. And how was the actual recruitment process for you?

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Undergrad Bootcamper Breaks into McKinsey Chicago

Management Consulted

This is a transcribed phone interview between Rachel (name changed) and Jenny Rae – enjoy her insights about failing the first time around but coming back for consulting success and landing an offer with McKinsey in her senior year. So the only offer I got was McKinsey, but that was my top choice. Hi Jenny Rae. Same to you.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

This may involve traveling to the client’s site to collect data, interview employees, and examine daily operations. If you’re looking to get into financial consulting, you will find that most audit firms recruit recent graduates across multiple academic fields. The company itself often does recruitment for internal consultants.

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated, stock markets around the world have tanked, and governments struggle to combat this devil on so many fronts. If the virus isn’t under control by May 1 st 2021 and the economy hasn’t picked up, do recruiters have plans to push back start dates? Commerce has ground to a halt.

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Bulger Partners – Strategy Consulting for the Software Economy

Management Consulted

In fact, the firm is already beating out heavyweights such as McKinsey, Bain, and Parthenon-EY for strategy projects in the tech sector due to better industry specialty. Beth Axelrod – Current VP of Employee Experience at Airbnb, former Senior VP of HR at eBay and Principal at McKinsey. BULGER PARTNERS ORGANIZATION.

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