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Advancy Recruiting Process Overview

We recently sat down with Keith Fogerty, a Manager at Advancy New York. Advancy is a global strategy consulting firm serving clients in a select number of B2B and B2C sectors. Keith shared more about the firm, Advancy’s recruiting process, and how you can pursue a consulting role at the firm (hint: they’re hiring!). Interested…

Microeconomics For the Aspiring Consultant

Microeconomics knowledge is highly useful for aspiring consultants. Becoming a consultant is a great way to use your microeconomics skills. As a consultant, you will be paid to help businesses make decisions about pricing, marketing, and other strategic issues. To be successful, you will need to understand microeconomics concepts such as game theory, market structure,…

How Palm Tree Advises Private Equity Clients To Create Value in Complex M&A Situations (Podcast)

We're excited to share this conversation with Palm Tree's Rouzheen Myrick (SVP) with you! She shares about Palm Tree's practice areas, what type of candidate the firm is looking for, what it means to "stay frosty," and so much more. If you're looking for a challenging consulting role serving the M&A industry, Palm Tree may…

McKinsey Recruiting: Process, Timeline, Events, & Resources

The McKinsey recruiting process is a relatively standardized process that can be broken down into a few different buckets: Job for which you are recruiting: Business Analyst jobs (undergraduate candidates; professionals with a few years of experience) Associate jobs (MBA and advanced degree candidates) Process through which you are interviewing On-cycle Off-cycle “Entry point” into…

BCG Recruiting: Process, Timeline, Events, & Resources

The BCG recruiting process is like the recruiting process for other MBB firms. Specifically, BCG follows a relatively regimented process for applicants out of school (whether it be an undergraduate program or a graduate school program). For these students, BCG has general timelines to follow when filling each year’s intake. The timelines are even more…

Product Management: Overview, Skills, Interview Questions, & More

Product management is one of the more under-appreciated areas of business. Most of the time, the ‘better’ a product has been designed, the less you think about how it came to be. A perfectly designed product integrates with the user’s needs so effortlessly that the user may never consider the thought and complexity that goes…

McKinsey Conflict Resolution: How the firm approaches this critical skill

McKinsey is arguably one of the most prestigious and successful consulting firms in the world. The company has a reputation for solving some of their clients’ most critical issues in a short time. This amount of responsibility can bring on a tremendous amount of pressure, and, at times, that can lead to conflict. The conflict…

Corporate Communication: Challenges, Feature, & Tools

In an unpredictable world, companies need effective corporate communications now more than ever. Whether internal or external facing, corporate communication must do more than just convey information – it must share a narrative that gets distinct stakeholders to “buy in” to the company’s mission, vision, and goals. What Is Corporate Communication? There are lots of…

A Summer in Consulting at L.E.K. with Partner Gigi Wong (Podcast)

Gigi Wong joined L.E.K. Consulting as a summer intern in 2013, crushed the experience, then stuck around to become a Managing Director/Partner. In this podcast conversation, you'll hear about her internship experience, why she stayed, and much more: What a summer internship at L.E.K. is like How the firm structures engagements Ways L.E.K. supports intern…

Maine Pointe

Maine Pointe is a supply chain and operations consulting firm committed to improving the way businesses operate by delivering business process optimization services with its proprietary methodology, Total Value Optimization (TVO)™. The company's unique approach to business transformation focuses on breaking through functional barriers and integrating all aspects of an organization to optimize customer experience…