75: Myths about Management Consulting

Far too many candidates demonstrate poor knowledge of consulting by insisting that they want to work for McKinsey strategy and not operations or BTO. This is a flawed strategy which will only hurt their chances in the short, medium and long-term. This podcast explains why and how ... Show More

You have been brainwashed by every single forum and case book to assume that McKinsey wants a framework and set of hypotheses, that you have stopped listening as carefully to the interviewer and simply providing hypotheses even when the interview is not asking for them! Here are ... Show More

For this episode, let's revisit a Case Interview & Management Consulting classic where we discuss consulting firm's training. Too often clients ask the wrong questions when it comes to assessing training at consulting firms: do smaller offices have poorer training, should I atten ... Show More

Welcome to our first episode of the Everything Business Consulting and the world of Business Consulting. This is the first of an ongoing weekly series of Podcasts it's all about consulting to business owners and assisting them to improve their profit, growth and business val ... Show More

Is Business Consulting the Right Profession for You? [Everything Business Consulting Episode 83] In this episode, David and Julius discuss the key factors your should consider when thinking about becoming a business consultant. Everything Business Consulting is brought to you by ... Show More

For this episode, let's revisit one of the classics by Strategy Skills where we talk about one of the issues that we deal with at Firmsconsulting and which many ex employees of major consulting firms (e.g. ex McKinsey and ex BCG consultants) encounter as they embark on building t ... Show More

Managers often have a bad reputation. What should we make of the people who tell managers how to manage? That question has often been raised over the years, with a sceptical tone. The management consultancy industry battles a stereotype of charging exhorbitant fees for advice tha ... Show More

Late last year the Financial Conduct Authority announced it would be forming a working group to look at how its SDR rules on greenwashing would affect advisers rather than publishing rules on the issue.In this week's podcast FT Adviser deputy editor Damian Fantato is joined by Ma ... Show More

Send us a textWe work with thousands of consulting candidates each year. 95% of them have McKinsey, Bain, and BCG as a target firm. And often, ONLY those 3 firms. We’re all for reaching for the stars, but we believe an “MBB or bust” approach is NOT the right approach for most asp ... Show More

If you have your own business and earn over $50k, you'll want to listen to this episode. Electing an S-Corp tax status for your LLC might save you thousands in taxes.  Michelle Moses, CFP® and Jared Van Arsdale, CPA discuss the complexities and benefits of electing an S-Corp stat ... Show More

Send us a textWe were joined by KPMG, Strategy&, Simon-Kucher, and 4 other firms for a state of the strategy consulting industry discussion. The panelists covered:How to get hired in strategy consulting right nowWhat strategy consultants actually doHow to identify which type of c ... Show More

In this episode of The Case Interview Podcast, Bruno and Julio talk about the misconceptions people have around case interviews, how they drive candidates in the wrong direction, and the right mindsets to have instead.They also bring up the scenarios case interviews are emulating ... Show More