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Job Hub: Virgin Group Jobs and Culture

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Virgin Group. Virgin Group, a leading international group, is one of the most recognized and respected brands in the world. This group has a startling 300 companies in its portfolio in sectors ranging from travel, telecommunications, health, financial services, leisure, music, space travel, and renewable energy.…

Thinking Like a Consultant: People Skills

One of the best things about strategy consulting is that you get to work across a broad spectrum of industries, giving you exposure to a lot of the wonderful variety that exists around us in the business world. However, one of the most unnerving things about strategic consulting is that you’re supposed to be able…

Launching the Consulting Fit Interview Bootcamp – Online

In May, we launched the Consulting Case Interview Bootcamp - Online. You have told us - over and over again - that you loved it. In June, we launched BBS - our once-a-year program for aspiring consultants to work together, as a group, to be the best that we can be. It's almost July, and…

Business Book Review – The E-myth

Today, we continue our series of book reviews with a look at E-Myth, an insightful book written by Michael Gerber (a marketing genius who has built a world-wide web of products and services to help small businesses grow). Our author today is Golibe, one of our fabulous content editors and a whiz at everything media. Enjoy!…

Job Hub: Airbnb Jobs and Culture

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Airbnb. Airbnb, a California-based private company, to-date has had more than 25M people use its services for stays at locations in more than 34,000 cities and 190 countries worldwide, and has been stirring things up in the hospitality industry for the past few years by empowering…

Seabury Group Consulting Interviews and Culture

Note: On March 10, 2017, Accenture completed its acquisition of Seabury Group.  Welcome back to our Firm Profiles. Today, we’re going to be looking at the consulting arm of aviation specialists Seabury Group. As part of a group that’s focused on Aviation, Aerospace and Defense, you won’t be at all surprised to find out that…

Case Interview Scoring System: Insider’s Look

  Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems, once summed up consulting interviews perfectly when she said, “The first rule of any game is to know you’re in one.” If you’re anything like us, when you play, you play to win. In the research you’ve been doing into the wild world of management consulting, you should…

How I Started My First Consulting Business: Confessions of a Bain Consultant

This month's Transparency Series article, How I Started My First Consulting Business: Confessions of a Bain Consultant, is all about Jenny Rae's renegade life and her first business that wasn’t a souped-up lemonade stand. If you haven't read Part 1, Part 2 or Part 3 of our Transparency Series (on Jenny Rae's journey before, during and after…

Job Hub: T-Mobile Jobs and Culture

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at T-Mobile. T-Mobile, an American operating entity of a German company, is the smallest big player in U.S. Telecom. T-Mobile has been ranked by J.D. Power and Associates, a global marketing-information-services firm, as the highest in retail store satisfaction amongst its competitors consecutively for the the past four…

Thinking Like A Consultant: Quantitative Reasoning And Prioritization

In 2013, The Economist published an article on the increasing demand for management consulting in various sectors of society. This article, titled, “To the Brainy, the Spoils”, was headed up with the following tagline: “As the world grows more confusing, demand for clever consultants is booming” We hear confirmation of this from every corner of…