Category: Where do I Start?

The Pyramid Principle – Applied

  The Pyramid Principle® will help you drive action from key stakeholders and increase your organizational influence. What if we told you that there’s a better way to structure your presentations, meetings, and emails? One that will drive action and get you to the most important part of the conversation right away? That’s right -…

Tech Consulting vs Strategy Consulting

In the past, we've explored how Tech consulting experience can hurt you when it comes to applying for more strategy-focused roles, and how to mitigate this during the recruiting process. While tech consulting is incredibly meaningful work (not to mention the fastest growing sector inside of consulting), the negative stereotype of the field remains inside…

5 Tips for Undergrads Wanting to Land a Consulting Internship

So you're an undergrad (maybe even a freshman, or God forbid a pre-freshman). And you have your heart set on landing a management consulting internship. What can you do now to set yourself up for success? Surely we didn't have nearly as much foresight our freshman year as you do! (It took me 6 weeks…

3 Ways Management Consulting Applications Differ from Traditional Ones

If you've been around the management consulting industry for any amount of time at all, you know how different of a beast it really is to conquer than nearly any other industry. That's not to say it's not worth it: we happen to believe that consulting is right for almost anyone, and the cross-functional experience…

Law School To Consulting

Lately, we've been hearing the same question from more and more law students - How do I go from law school to consulting? This may surprise some of you: after all, why "waste" law school and go into an entirely unrelated field? Or why leave a partner track in a law firm to start over?…

Consulting 101 Video Series

We've been busy. Not only have we spent the last several weeks gallivanting all across the East Coast speaking at schools like Harvard, Penn, Columbia, McGill, and Cornell, but we've also been busy creating a YouTube series. At the start of the new year, we promised our subscribers a YouTube video every week on a…

How to Get Consulting Jobs from a Liberal Arts and Humanities Background

*courtesy of toothpaste for dinner*  Liberal arts and humanities majors are often criticized for being "soft majors" - with unchallenging classes and lack of "real world" skill development leaving them unable to land competitive business jobs. Fortunately for all the budding English and Philosophy majors out there, that's simply not true. It's very common for…

Management Consulting Recruiting Overview

This is post #1 of our series to give you a consulting recruiting overview. Below, we'll touch upon the main components of the consulting job search and what we believe are the key do's and key don'ts. After this consulting recruiting overview, you'll know where you're at in the timeline and be prepared for next…

Management Consulting and the Consulting Industry 101

It seems like everyone these days is in management consulting - strategy consultants, business consultants, technology consultants, IT consultants, marketing consultants, and the list goes on and on. It's a catch-all title for someone who gets paid to give their advice on particular subjects to companies. In this post, we'll attempt to answer 3 big questions:…