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Tour Recap – Day 5 (Yale)

Welcome back to Tour Throwback Week. We're recapping our lives as road warriors via planes, trains and automobiles...we visited Georgia Tech, Duke, Georgetown, and Columbia before rolling over to today's campus...Yale. If you missed us, we are generally funny. Go back through our previous posts and laugh with us. If you are convinced that -…

Tour Recap – Day 4 (Columbia)

We're on a Tour Throwback trip...welcome to Part 4. If you missed our recaps of Georgia Tech, Duke, or Georgetown, read those first. If you are just joining us, we are holding our next 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30…

Tour Recap – Day 3 (Georgetown)

This is Part 3 of a 7-part throwback series on our East Coast Tour. Go back to Part 1 or Part 2 here... In case you're new to the site, we are holding our next 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp in San Francisco on September 21. Or, invite us to come present a 2-hour Bootcamp Lite (60 attendees minimum, lecture) or 8-hour Consulting Bootcamp (8-30…

Tour Recap – Day 2 (Duke)

This is Day 2 of our East Coast Tour Recap...for Part 1, go here. Otherwise, read on. After a Tuesday morning full of client calls and edits, we rocked the rental car again and – with the exception of a stop at Chick-Fil-A – one of the only chain restaurants that consistently rises above our…

Tour Recap – Day 1 (Georgia Tech)

And…we’re back. Not back in the saddle – we never left (and we never do!). But back from the East Coast – where we just completed an invigorating, hilarious, exhausting 8-day tour of some of the most beautiful and smarty-pants campuses around. A huge shout-out to all 500+ of you who met up with us…

Strategy&: Firm Overview & Salary Data

So you have a Strategy& interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? We agree! We want you to nail it. Where prestige, pay, exit opportunities and culture are concerned, Strategy& is just a half-tier below MBB as it rebrands itself (again) following its acquisition by PwC. In the U.S. at…

Royal Air Force Officer Nails McKinsey London Interview

Earlier this year I had the distinct pleasure of working with Andy, a 16-year veteran with the Royal Air Force and a real-life fighter pilot. Andy had failed a case interview with one firm but had a confirmed chance with McKinsey London, and he didn't want to walk away without the offer. With no formal…

3 Month Mastery – the Ultimate Guide for New Consultants!

For the last 3 months, we've enjoyed receiving feedback and comments from readers all over the globe that purchased 3 Month Mastery through Amazon. We had a key finding from the program, however - MC readers are more global than Amazon users! As such, we've decided to make the book available directly from our website.…

Oliver Wyman: Careers, Salary, Internship, & Interview Info

Does Oliver Wyman really offer a "different kind of consulting"? Today, we are digging into a firm that prides itself on its entrepreneurial spirit. Oliver Wyman's strategy consulting practice has made waves specifically in the financial services sector, and beyond as well. Now a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, the firm is known to give…

3 Ways Financial Advisory Consulting Beats Strategy Consulting

In our last post, we discussed 5 major differences between 2 prominent types of consulting. From the variety of work and access to C-level executives to the wide array of exit opportunities, strategy operations consulting far surpassed financial advisory consulting as our recommended career to pursue. Missed part one?  Find it here: 5 reasons to choose…