40: Advice for Deeply Experienced Candidates
This podcast looks at the profile of an older MBA candidate who has extensive oil and gas expertise. We offer some counter-intuitive advice to this candidate for their career and planning. While we us...
6 Nov 201110min
39: Converting the internship
This podcast presents some proven strategies candidates can apply this summer. We will discuss actual internship examples from our own experiences in consulting firms, and the characteristics of the s...
31 Okt 201124min
38: Case Interview feedback is not gospel
Too many aspiring consultants stick too closely to the feedback provided by consulting firms after an interview. The problem with this strategy is that it assumes the feedback is truthful, useful and ...
25 Okt 201115min
37: Lessons from Jan 2012 Internships
In this podcast we extract the most important mistakes, best-practices and lessons learned from our clients who interviewed and are still interviewing through the January 2012 US MBA internships.
19 Okt 201128min
36: Public Sector Consulting
Far too many candidates think public sector work is boring. In fact, just the opposite is true. Public sector work typically falls into 4 categories: national government, regional government, state-ow...
13 Okt 201123min
35: Deloitte S&O vs. McKinsey EM
We have responded to the bolded out part of the question below: "As a person from a big emerging market interested in the long term career in my region, I am thinking about which strategy makes more s...
7 Okt 20119min
34: McKinsey USA or McKinsey EM
We have responded to the bolded out part of the question below: "As a person from a big emerging market interested in the long term career in my region, I am thinking about which strategy makes more s...
1 Okt 201116min
33: Husband Wants to Leave
We get a variety of queries from all levels of consultants: analysts up to principal. This question came from a female engagement manager in the USA. She was distraught after having worked very hard t...
25 Sep 201112min
