Management Consulting

This new article series shares advise our clients receive from consulting partners during the networking phase of the case interview process, as well as our feedback on how to make networking more effective.  In the first article in this series we introduced Martin and his networking journey. Martin is an ex-McKinsey associate trying to rejoin the firm after almost 2 decades out of business school. The names and some details have been modified for confidentiality reasons. In the articles to follow in this series we will continue to follow all of Martin's networking efforts to get back into management consulting. Below you will find a…

Management Consulting

This article series shares advice our clients receive during the networking phase of the case interview process, as well as our feedback on how to make networking more effective. In the first article in this series we introduced Martin and the start of his networking journey where he was chatting with McKinsey partners. Martin is an ex-McKinsey associate trying to rejoin the firm after almost 2 decades out of business school. In the second article we covered Martin's conversations with Strategy& partners. In this 3rd article we are covering Martin's initial interactions with Deloitte Consulting. The names and some details have been modified for confidentiality reasons. In the…

Management Consulting

2016 has ended and as always I send out my thoughts recapping the year and offering advice for clients. If you saw many changes with Firmsconsulting in 2016 brace yourselves for an even bigger, and very different, 2017. 2017 is going to be about major updates to FC Insider. Exclusive and, dare I say, groundbreaking new training programs (not yet revealed) along with some major changes elsewhere. A necessary reward for our most loyal clients: man y whom have been with us since the beginning. Ethics No discussion about future leaders should ever begin without ethics. Christmas can be a particularly…

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As many of you know I am a big Rugby union fan. I also watch a lot of football and basketball. So, like many of you, I am a sports guy. I like sports. One of the things you notice in sports is that if you look at the great players today in just about any sport, they rarely go on to become greatest coaches. Rarely! There are obviously exceptions. But those are exceptions that prove this rule. You can see this in Rugby, Cricket, Soccer, Basketball and Baseball. There are a few outstanding players that went on to become good coaches.…

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Today let's shatter some of the damaging myths about McKinsey BTO. Firmsconsulting has a particularly high percentage of clients who tend to be Indian, between 30-40 years old, who tend to have executive MBAs or MBAs, work in the tech sector and are looking to move into management consulting. This is one of our most common client profiles. And they tend to ask the same question all the time so we decided to address it in this article, and related podcast. The question is along these lines, “How do I avoid being tagged as a tech person and being placed into McKinsey BTO…

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The Emerging Leaders Program (formerly called the Emerging Fellows Program) is a scholarship we award where we take people from very disadvantaged communities, with limited chances in life, and we guide them through their studies, even guide them into universities and place them into major consulting firms and other major companies. Graduates of the program have joined McKinsey, BCG, Bain and Morgan Stanley. I don’t want to talk about the part of the program where we help them join consulting firms and other companies. We covered this topic a number of times previously. Today I want to talk about values, obligations…

Management Consulting

Welcome to the release of the much anticipated Season III of The Consulting Offer. In this introductory video we talk about what to expect and offer some critical guidance on using The Consulting Offer, the world's largest and most successful case interview training program. This video offers a glimpse into the very detailed analytics we collect on subscribers and our ability to predict case interview performance based on this real-time data. For those of you who may be new to The Consulting Offer we will also give you a brief overview of the format and the differences between the seasons. Jennifer Nwankwo was a…

Management Consulting

Follow this unique 110 episode series (see the full list of episodes below), prepared for the Darden EMBA program, to help experienced hires and EMBAs successfully prepare for their McKinsey, BCG and Bain interviews. This is the only case interview training program in the world dedicated to helping experienced hires /  EMBAs, by taking into account their very unique challenges, join elite consulting firms. This is a much needed program. If you are an experienced hire or an EMBA you usually have to rely on the advice that has been developed for MBAs and sometimes PhDs. But as an experienced hire or an EMBA…

Management Consulting

We recently ran a pilot whereby we partnered with leading finance, technology and consulting firms by granting them access to recruit graduates of both our Insider program and 1-on-1 case, consulting and executive coaching programs. Only graduates who affirmatively consented in writing to participate in the program had their resumes shared. Part of the pilot included an F500 technology company automatically granting internships to our case interview coaching graduates, in their internal strategy and product divisions. That pilot is completed. It was very successful and we are bringing back the program in the following format. It is only open to Insiders.…