This guide provides job-search advice for the prospective management consultant. Contributors describe a consultant's work, offer first-hand insights into the industry, profile well-known consulting firms, advise on career self-assessment and provide a mailing list of recruitment contacts.
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
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This book is a waste of money,
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This review is from: The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Management Consulting: 2000 (Paperback)
I don't think this book is helpful. The industry profile is minimal; the Harvard alumni's stories (a few) are a bit more interesting. The main part of the book contains the profiles of 62 management consulting firms. However, 17 of these companies have only 60 or fewer professionals, and a lot of them have offices only in a couple of cities. Examples - John Barry & Associates: 10 professionals, offices in Newport Beach only; Alliance Consulting Group: 35 professionals, offices in Boston and Cupertino; Amherst Consulting Group: 20 professionals, offices in Boston; Corporate Directions: 40 professionals, offices in Tokyo only (! - this is the absolute record); Etc. It puzzles me why on earth were such obscure companies profiled in a career guide. Besides, the companies' information is general, collected from internal sources and will not help you too much in your research. If you are interested in management consulting go for the vault.com and wetfeet.com guides. Another excellent book is "Management consulting: a complete guide to the industry" by Sugata Biswas and Daryl Twitchell.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Geared for neophytes - not a useful publication for most,
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This review is from: The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Management Consulting: 2000 (Paperback)
Provides a cursory look at a consultant's life and some of the companies one would normally consider, along with many smaller companies that many people wouldn't have access to. Better information is likely available elsewhere, including the Internet and other publications.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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good, but the Vault guides are better,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Management Consulting, 2001 (Paperback)
In my opinion there is more and better objective information on consulting careers in the Vault Career Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms and in the Vault Guide to Case Interviews, which have the added benefit of being able to be purchased on vault.com and downloaded immediately. Good luck.
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If you're considering working in management consulting, you're probably just starting out in your career: you're either about to graduate from college or business school, or are within a year or two of either milestone. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
upward evaluation process, performance appraisal system for consultants, applicants from other schools, formal summer program, many summer interns, turnover rate for professionals, consulting differ, compensation for day care, place for all offices, ongoing professional development programs, recruiting contact, major strategy consulting firms, recruiting locations, lifestyle aspects, general management consulting firms, average hours per week, adoption leave, initial training programs, management consulting career, does your firm, summer intern program, leading management consulting firms, recruiting coordinator, how many professionals, corresponding responsibilities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Company Description Describe, The Recruiting Process Describe, Total Number of Professionals, New York, Human Resources Practices Describe, San Francisco, United States, Value Partners, Health Advances, Andersen Consulting, Los Angeles, Hagler Bailly, North America, Towers Perrin, Abt Associates, American Express, Cornerstone Research, Roland Berger, Deloitte Consulting, Mercer Management Consulting, Provider Consulting, Harvard Business School, Hong Kong, Swander Pace, The Farrell Group New!
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upward evaluation process, performance appraisal system for consultants, applicants from other schools, formal summer program, many summer interns, turnover rate for professionals, consulting differ, compensation for day care, place for all offices, ongoing professional development programs, recruiting contact, major strategy consulting firms, recruiting locations, lifestyle aspects, general management consulting firms, average hours per week, adoption leave, initial training programs, management consulting career, does your firm, summer intern program, leading management consulting firms, recruiting coordinator, how many professionals, corresponding responsibilities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Company Description Describe, The Recruiting Process Describe, Total Number of Professionals, New York, Human Resources Practices Describe, San Francisco, United States, Value Partners, Health Advances, Andersen Consulting, Los Angeles, Hagler Bailly, North America, Towers Perrin, Abt Associates, American Express, Cornerstone Research, Roland Berger, Deloitte Consulting, Mercer Management Consulting, Provider Consulting, Harvard Business School, Hong Kong, Swander Pace, The Farrell Group New!
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- The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market by Michael Treacy on page 202
- Management Consulting 1990-91 (Harvard Business School Career Guide Series) by Harvard Business Review on page 1
- The Fast Track: The Insider's Guide to Winning Jobs in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, & Securities Trading by Mariam Naficy in Back Matter
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