As 2021 comes to a close, we wanted to share a recap of favorite or featured articles from 2021. In a season where competition in the corporate world and for consulting roles is at an all-time high, one piece of knowledge can make the difference between getting that promotion, landing that coveted role, or another trip on the recruiting merry-go-round. Without further ado, here are the favorite and featured articles of 2021.
Table of Contents:
- Recruiting Articles
- Case Interview Articles
- Corporate & Skills Training Articles
- Leadership & Management Articles
Recruiting
Consultant Salary Report
A perennial favorite is our Consultant Salary Report. The report is chock full of salary data for all your favorite firms, and probably some you've never heard of. The data is directly sourced from actual consulting firm offers - the most trusted report of its kind. Check out how much you could be making at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, Accenture, and many, many others. Don't forget to check back in mid January for our updated report for 2022!
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Target Schools For Consulting Firms
The target schools for top consulting firms – an area of perennial interest for consulting candidates and those interested in consulting careers. It’s easy to see why that’s the case – consultants at top firms often start out making close to or even above $100,000 a year. So...
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Cultural Fit Interview Questions Ultimate Guide
Chances are, if you talk to anybody preparing for consulting interviews, you won’t hear much about the fit interview. But the case interview? Almost guaranteed. So, if the fit interview is ~50% of your final interview score, why is it…
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Breaking Into Consulting From a Non-Target School: 6 Tips
Yes, the top consulting firms hire large numbers out of HBS, Booth, Wharton, Kellogg, et al year in and year out. And yes, firms do give preference to their target schools. But, there is a pathway you can take to…
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Case Interview
Case Study Samples: Video Examples With Answers
Looking for sample case study interviews with answers? Look no further! In this article, we’re walking you through some of the best case study samples on the web. These case studies simulate the virtual case interview environment and represent cases…
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Bain Online Test: Overview & How to Prepare
Did you apply for a position at Bain & Company and receive an email from a recruiter asking you to take a test? The Bain Online Test is becoming the first hurdle to clear in the interview process with the…
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Unstructured Case Interview: A Final Round Curveball
Unstructured case interviews have become a more common occurrence in the process of getting hired at a top consulting firm. And while you may be familiar with the standard case interview, the unstructured case interview can surprise you if you’re…
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Digital Interviewing
With technology improving on a day to day basis, consulting companies are adapting with the times when it comes to recruiting. One of the latest and most common hiring practices in the industry is known as the digital interview. Digital…
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Corporate & Skills Training
Interpersonal Communication: What Is It?
Interpersonal communication is one of those concepts that sounds so self-explanatory that it’s easy not to take a deeper look at what it is. But having an underdeveloped sense of interpersonal communication puts you at a disadvantage. The fact that…
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Business Continuity: Protecting Your Business
In this article, we’re going to take a look at Business Continuity. What is it? How do we plan for it? How can we implement those plans to keep our businesses resilient in the face of global transformation? Business Continuity…
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4 Guidelines To Excellent PowerPoint Storytelling
We’ve all been there – sitting in that long, boring presentation after lunch, holding on for dear life to make it to the end awake. Where was this presentation when I needed to put my kid to sleep last night?…
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Sales Training: 4 Skills Crucial to Sales Success
Sales skills are central to your teams’ success. The right Sales training can supercharge your sales teams’ performance. How? It will enable them to become advisors instead of “just” salespeople It will increase their communication clarity It will make them…
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Best Business Podcasts for 2021
Seemingly every company has joined or has plans to join the audio revolution by way of the podcast. One of the most popular categories is business podcasts. With hundreds of options, how do you decide which to give your time…
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What Causes Inflation?: Common Questions About Inflation
What are the main causes of inflation? Or you may be wondering more broadly, how is inflation caused? These days, it seems like everyone is asking these kinds of questions as inflation continues to increase. Many people understand that inflation…
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Business Presentation Basics
In a world drowning in data, it’s not the data analysts who rule. Those with the most influence are the ones who can extract the most impactful story from the data – that’s why today we’re breaking down business presentation…
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Leadership & Management
Leadership Training: What’s The ROI?
For all levels of leaders – from brand new managers to C-suite executives – leadership training offers a path towards expanding the capacity of leaders in your organization to operate in the roles they currently possess, and the roles you…
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Project Management Best Practices
Project-based work often has many moving parts and managing them can be difficult. Luckily, there is a great deal of accumulated wisdom from the business world and defined project management best practices. In this article, we’ll walk you through the…
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Leadership: Where Everything Rises and Falls
Every organization involves a complex dynamism of human activity, and every new individual added increases the complexity. How can an organization ensure that all that activity happens synergistically, make sure people aren’t working at cross-purposes, resolve disputes, bring people together…
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Women in Leadership: Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Women in leadership is the tantalizing proposition of equity that has, for a century, seemed just around the corner. It’s interesting to take an honest look at the events of the last hundred years. Multiple pandemics, a world repeatedly shattered…
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Amazon Leadership Principles
On January 7, 2019, Amazon grabbed the notable accolade of being the most valuable company in the world in terms of market cap. Later on in the year, the company also reached a value of over 1 trillion U.S. dollars…
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Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance
Any business owner will tell you about the immense difference between vision and reality. Performance management is how management works to achieve outcomes that match the vision as closely as possible. While performance management might sound like a specific niche…
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Employee Motivation: Is Money, Vision, or Mission the Primary Motivator?
Employee motivation is one of the things every manager thinks about most. It’s not because all managers are naturally empathetic. Rather, the manager’s job is to oversee the harmonious operation of an organization’s material and human resources. In other words,…
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