The email below is from a rising college senior who is majoring in Economics and is considering adding Accounting as a second major. He doesn’t know what he wants to do career-wise, but he is interested in Consulting as a possible destination after he graduates. He has asked me to give him advice on which courses he should take during his senior year to prepare him for a gig in Consulting. Instead of answering that question, I decided to break
This is going to be a really short entry with a really short video in which I answer a short email from a medical student who is interested in a career in Management Consulting. She has been looking into the industry lately and wants to pursue a position as a Consultant, but she fears that her work experience isn’t well-suited for it. She asked for my advice on the question and, because I’ve written several entries on this stopic in
What’s happening, folk. I know that it’s been a while since I posted an entry, but please know that it isn’t because I haven’t wanted to do so. I’ve been seeing a lot of happenings on the news and in the economy that I’ve wanted to comment on, but I’ve been SWAMPED with my real-life stuff lately. I’m going to try to get caught up with engaging with my reader community in the next few days and I’ll start by
The email below is a short one from a reader based in France. He’s interested in applying to one of the Big Three consulting firms, but is concerned because his school isn’t a target school for any of thsoe firms. I might be wrong, but I believe he’s asking about whether he has a shot as an applicant from a non-target school. His email was so short that it was easy for me to give a straightforward response and I
The email below is from a reader who was weighing job offers from Google, McKinsey, and BCG and was looking for my perspective on his choice. His career plan is to work in the Tech industry or become and entrepreneur and he was wondering which job offer would position him best for the future. Unfortunately, he sent this email several months ago, so my response is likely useless by now. That said, I thought that this might be a situation
Hey everyone. I know it’s been a while since I posted anything, but that’s because I’ve been pretty busy getting acclimated to my new job and learning what I need to “swim and not sink” in the role. So far, the new job is fantastic and I’m really excited about the nature of the work that I’m doing. Plus, the team of folks with whom I’m working are hella cool and have made the past couple of weeks in the
The message below came in a few months back from a relatively new Management Consultant looking for advice on how to quality control his PowerPoint slides. This is a highly important issue for folks new to Consulting and I’m surprised that this is the first time that I’ve been asked about it. I tackled this issue quite often during my first few months at McKinsey and, as such, I was able to develop some tricks to ensure that I was
The email below came in from a reader way back during the Fall and I’m just now having a chance to respond to her message. At the time, she was a little more than a year into her time as an Analyst at Bain & Company and was asking for my advice on whether moving on from there to join Google’s Business Operations Strategy team could be a good move. Unfortunately, because of my delay in responding, this reply will
What’s up, peoples. The message below is from a college senior who is targeting admission to business school straight out of undergrad. As I’ve mentioned in past entries, it is incredibly difficult to gain admission to a top MBA program right out of undergrad, but there are several spectacular candidates who make it happen each year. This reader is looking for advice from me about whether this could be a possibility for him without telling me much more than the
The email below is from a Software Engineer who currently works in the Telecom and Finance space and is planning to apply to business school soon. His goal is to move into IT Strategy consulting with a focus on the Finance vertical and he’s wondering whether there will be any jobs in that area once he finishes his MBA. I’m far from an expert at the intersection between IT Strategy and Finance, but I tried my best to give him
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