675: How to Be Productive (with Google's Laura Mae Martin)

Bonus versus salary resumes, is a very simple test we do on resumes. This podcast explains the test. We basically look at whether or not a bullet point explains an action which earned you a salary or ...

10 Sep 20138min

The economic impact of poor business judgement, is a topic we managed every day as partners. Each time an associate made a poor "common sense" decision we needed to explain both the potential reputati...

4 Sep 20137min

Building of our technique to develop hypotheses, this podcast explains a clever way to generate creative hypotheses. In essence, the podcast will be useful to candidates who have already seen how we b...

29 Aug 20137min

In this podcast present a clever technique to treat graphs as "maps" when reading them. Corporate Finance candidates will like this. The key to this technique rests on the simple idea of ignoring the ...

23 Aug 20136min

We always ask our clients, especially those from weaker schools, to network with the most senior partners of consulting firms. This is a podcast about a PhD client, from a weaker school and no existin...

17 Aug 201310min

Lots of candidates leave it to the interviewer to determine the energy levels, tone and mood of the call. That is a bad idea. In our experience, the best candidates always bring a light mood to interv...

10 Aug 20135min

Due to culture, tradition and even good intentions, candidates make sexist remarks. Sometimes, a very innocent remark may come across as sexist. This podcast examines some the incidences we have encou...

4 Aug 20132min

This extremely detailed podcast offers advice and information on the rise of Sub-Saharan offices – Nigeria and South Africa, the rise of African candidates, types of work done in these offices, the in...

29 Juli 201339min