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Financial Modeling 101: 6 Features Of A Killer Consulting Financial Model

Strategic thinking. Passion for results. Creativity. Structure. These were the key words used during information sessions, interview introductions and sell weekends to describe my future life in consulting. As I look back on it now, they are the words that the partners used to describe Bain's solutions and partnership strategy with clients, but these words…

Mercer

We continue our monthly focus on profiles of key firms in the management consulting industry by shining a bright light on Mercer - one of the world's top HR consulting firms. This will be fun - Mercer is a big player with key focus on a specific niche of consulting. After you've read this profile,…

Top 5 Consulting Jokes

Our topic for April 1? What else -- jokes! We wanted to have some fun because it's April Fool's season, so we decided to survey the web for the best consulting jokes out there. We found tons of good ones, and a few great ones, and then some that made us laugh out loud. We…

Consulting Cover Letter Q&A: 5 Tips

This is the final post in our series of resume and cover letter Q&As. Our newsletter subscribers shared the one thing they wanted to know about consulting resumes and cover letters and what they thought the answer was. Questions in our final post focus on 3 key how to's for consulting cover letters. How to give your cover letter that special something,…

Bain and Company

Today we continue our firm profile series with a consulting company we know a lot about - Bain - and we're talking about the insider-insider view. Following a year of globetrotting after undergrad, Jenny Rae joined the youngest of the MBB firms in their Atlanta office. So when we say we have a first-hand perspective -…

10 Reasons To Work For Deloitte – And 6 Reasons Not To

Considering a career with Deloitte? Today, we've got 10 reasons to work for Deloitte... and 6 reasons not to. We have a guest post from Maria at BusinessBecause. Before we launch into the pros and cons of working at Deloitte, however, we wanted to say a few words about Deloitte and what we’re referring to…

5 Ways to Catch a Recruiter’s Eye with Your Consulting Cover Letter

In this post, we focus on consulting cover letters – everything from how to catch a recruiter's eye and nailing format to what recruiters are really looking for. If you have another perspective on consulting cover letters – we’d love to hear from you! Subscribe to our newsletter, add your comment below, or send us an email. 75%…

Deloitte Consulting

DELOITTE CONSULTING (S&A) The companies we cover are big players in the industry and show up on all sorts of lists - best company to work for, the best place to start a career - Deloitte Consulting, and specifically Deloitte S&A (Strategy and Analytics - formerly Strategy & Operations) seems to enjoy talking about it…

6 top case interview questions – answered!

Many of you this month are heading into interviews for summer internships - our inbox is testimony! Tons of eager undergrad and MBA consulting candidates have been emailing us with interview questions about interview tips, case prep pointers, and our consulting interview prep services, so we'll start off by giving you a clear explanation of…

2013 MC Giveaway…win one of 16 FREE Interview Prep Sessions

For the next 3 weeks only we're running a giveaway contest for MC readers. The prize? 16 total hours of intensive consulting interview prep with MC's Managing Director and former MBB consultant, Jenny Rae. In other words, we're giving away $3,200! What the heck would we do that for? Good question. No, we're not just extremely nice.…