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

Tom Spencer

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. In-person MBA students don’t acquire most of their consulting industry knowledge from the classroom.

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Embracing Experiential Learning

Tom Spencer

Academic learning is no doubt incredibly important. The goal of this article is to help university students identify experiential learning opportunities on and off-campus. Personally, the most meaningful experiences I have had have come from those times when I solved a problem. However, learning does not end at the end of class.

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Does Getting an MBA Dual Graduate Degree Help with Consulting Recruiting?

Tom Spencer

As a volunteer graduate school advisor, I often get asked if acquiring an additional graduate degree in addition to an MBA as a dual degree student improves consulting recruiting opportunities. Compensating for a comparable lack of professional experience (generally less than 2 years). Reading Time: 3 minutes. Conclusion.

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Beating the odds: How to stick out from the crowd

Tom Spencer

Throughout my academic preparation for the University of Cambridge, I witnessed and experienced this phenomenon first-hand. Interestingly, there has been a long running tendency of mentors and academic instructors to miscalculate an applicant’s chances of success, despite all their expertise and experience in the field.

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Fatigued by rejections? Try a personality test!

Tom Spencer

Thus, if you find yourself repeatedly stuck at the assessment-centre stage of the recruitment process, despite demonstrably outstanding academic results, it might be that your personality simply does not match that given role. This analysis was congruent with my past experience as well. The bottom line. Try a personality test!

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How to Break Into Consulting – Guide for Non-MBA Graduate Students

Tom Spencer

As addressed in my article from last week , non-MBA graduate students face a comparatively more challenging journey in their quest to enter the management consulting industry. Are you actually competitive for a consulting role (consider your academic history, professional experience, as well as social and leadership skills)?

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Bloom’s taxonomy – 6 levels of effective thinking

Tom Spencer

There is a myriad of academic journals from varying fields that illustrate the practicality of the framework in specific situations. Its application stretches beyond the needs of a student. It combines all prior understanding, learning and experience to create something completely new. This is the highest level of thinking.