232: McKinsey Paris: Debrief Call After Sasha's Offer
Our client, Sasha recently received an offer from McKinsey Paris for the Operations Practice. This is the third podcast of a series of three interviews with him.
Dec 16, 2014•47 min
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking
Firmsconsulting maintains a 80% success rate at placing clients within McKinsey, BCG and Bain. This is the highest in the industry and the rate is higher if we include other firms. We achieve this rate because we only use former partners from McKinsey, BCG et al to develop our clients. This makes us unique. We never use analysts, associates, engagement managers or associate principals. We also carefully select and develop clients on their communication, image, technical and case interview skills. This podcast channel describes our lessons from training our clients.
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231: McKinsey Paris: Second Coaching of Sasha
Our client, Sasha recently received an offer from McKinsey Paris for the Operations Practice. This is the second podcast of a series of three interviews with him.
Dec 10, 2014•44 min
230: McKinsey Paris: First Coaching of Sasha
Our client, Sasha recently received an offer from McKinsey Paris for the Operations Practice. This is the first podcast of a series of three interviews with him.
Dec 04, 2014•47 min
229: Why Internal Strategy Units Rarely Create Consultants
This podcast is based on the Quarterly article about the pros and cons of joining internal consulting units in banks, primarily as a substitute for careers in McKinsey or BCG.
Nov 28, 2014•25 min
228: How Great Consulting Firms Die
This podcast is linked to the article about recent recruiting problems at BCG. We elevate the problem here and discuss the basic elements which lead to the decline of great firms or why smaller firms never become great.
Nov 22, 2014•26 min
227: Lessons from returning to Turkey from the USA
This podcast accompanies the recent article about a Turkish client who was trying to complete her MBA and move back to Turkey BCG or McKinsey after about 15 years outside the country. The podcast was done 18 months after the article was written so we will discuss her experiences since the time we provided the initial advice in the article. In many ways, what worked to this client's benefit was her genuine sincerity when asking for helping, excellent personality and high intellect. A rare combina...
Nov 16, 2014•22 min
226: Poor Networking and Mentor-Mentee Etiquette
This podcast is linked to the recent quarterly article about the speech Marvin Bower made way back in 1964. Rather than focusing on the many useful elements of the speech, we will focus on the unifying theme of finding outstanding people, inspiring them and requiring the highest levels of conduct from them.
Nov 10, 2014•30 min
225: How Michael Would Use The Consulting Offer
This is not a complex podcast. It is more a reminder. I talk through the very simple steps I would use when learning from The Consulting Offer: Read all the pages about the show Read all the session descriptions Read them again Develop my study plan Complete quizzes 0 to 9 Stick to my plan Go through sessions 1 to 23 in that order for Felix and some sessions from Sanjeev. You can also do all the cases from Samantha and Rafik. In general, go through the drop down menu of The Consulting Offer and ...
Nov 04, 2014•9 min
224: Picking a Mentor Who is Not the Best At their Field
This podcast is based on an off-the-record conversation I had with Felix when we were not recording The Consulting Offer. Sometimes after the 90 minute sessions we would engage in small-talk and useful things were discussed but never captured.
Oct 29, 2014•15 min
223: Picking a Mentor Who is Not the Best At their Field
This podcast is based on an off-the-record conversation I had with Felix when we were not recording The Consulting Offer. Sometimes after the 90 minute sessions we would engage in small-talk and useful things were discussed but never captured.
Oct 23, 2014•25 min
222: Using The Consulting Offer Videos Effectively
Clients using the Consulting Offer Videos fit into a neat bimodal distribution.
Oct 17, 2014•8 min
221: The First 3 Minutes of a Case Interview
The first 3 minutes of a coaching session, practice session and case interview determines everything. First impressions count.
Oct 11, 2014•11 min
220: Why Candidates Fail to Succeed
This is an important and wide ranging podcast around the theme of why candidates fail and some key observations from Felix in The Consulting Offer Season 1.
Oct 05, 2014•43 min
219: Are Some Consulting Club Leaders Selfish?
The concept of a Management Consulting Club is great, but the execution leaves little to be desired. Very few clubs are actually run by presidents/executive council members who know anything about consulting, or worse, care about their members.
Sep 29, 2014•16 min
218: Ignoring partners in an interview
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!
Sep 23, 2014•9 min
217: Women are their own worst enemies
I want to talk about three incidences and what it says about how women think about themselves.
Sep 17, 2014•25 min
216: Choosing Boutique Firms over McKinsey
Choosing a boutique firm as one path into management consulting is a popular choice. While boutique consulting firm appear to operate like McKinsey and BCG, and may even be led by ex-partners, there business models typical mean they create overwhelmingly different experiences for their consultants.
Sep 11, 2014•30 min
215: How non-case problems impacted Rafik
Most aspiring management consultants will spend about 95% of their time focusing on the technical issues to fix their case performance. That is, they focus on hypotheses, frameworks, decision trees, structures and calculations. However, what if that is not the areas which will yield the greatest gains?
Sep 05, 2014•13 min
214: Why entrepreneurs always provide poor PEI answers
Entrepreneurs almost always fail to answer the most basic question: If you were so successful, why are you leaving behind all that success to apply for a ~$150K/annum package at McKinsey as an associate?
Aug 30, 2014•11 min
213: How Michael fixed a stuttering problem
This podcast draws on the feedback of one of our principals, Michael Boricki who was a Big-3 principal and left the firm on the day after he was appointed director, to discuss the technique he used to not only fix a stuttering problem, but use the pain from fixing the problem to introduce broader, and much needed, flexibility in this communication techniques.
Aug 24, 2014•15 min
212: Vague McKinsey/BCG feedback is good
This podcast is built on a discussion we recently had with a Yale PhD. His friend, who made it to the final round of McKinsey, was told that the firm had no specific development areas for her. She just did not make the make cut and she was upset about this lack of feedback, especially having been denied a place at the firm.
Aug 18, 2014•16 min
211: Ignore the case interviewer at your peril
It is quite common for Firmsconsulting to receive the following emails, questions or comments from clients and readers. When reading the comments below, try to think about why a reader would have these questions. In other words, what are their underlying assumptions?
Aug 12, 2014•12 min
210: Yale PhDs, Berkeley PhDs and Harvard MBAs start here
Due to our longstanding relationships at Yale and Berkeley, since several Firmsconsulting mentors are Harvard alumni, our Harvard and Yale clients' involvement in the development of The Consulting Offer Season 1 and 2, students of these schools receive complimentary access. This podcast offers some unique suggestions for PhDs and MBAs from these schools to use the material. In particular, 32 Harvard MBAs were intimately involved in testing the program between December 2012 and June 2013. We disc...
Aug 06, 2014•17 min
209: Unemployed To The Big-3, Behind The Scenes
Putting together the September 2013 Quarterly feature article, "Unemployed to the Big-3," was both an interesting and challenging article. It follows the new format of the Firmsconsulting Quarterly. This podcast discusses the lessons you should be taking from this article. The context for those lessons, however, is determined by the way this article was written.
Jul 31, 2014•29 min
207: Case Interview Support
This series of detailed podcasts provides prospective applicants to our program all the information they need to put together an application package, do well in the screening interviews, and, should they be the offered a place in the Firmsconsulting program, succeed at their McKinsey, BCG et al interviews.
Jul 19, 2014•12 min
206: Case Interview Coaching
This series of detailed podcasts provides prospective applicants to our program all the information they need to put together an application package, do well in the screening interviews, and, should they be the offered a place in the Firmsconsulting program, succeed at their McKinsey, BCG et al interviews.
Jul 13, 2014•48 min
205: Case Interview Networking
Networking will not lead to an interview in management consulting. That is because networking is very poorly done and treated merely as a process of asking for help and referrals. We have a very high success rate due to the unusual steps we take to prepare clients. All time allocated in this part of the training is at the sole discretion of Firmsconsulting since it is not subtracted from the 12 hours of coaching.
Jul 07, 2014•13 min
204: Case Interview Resumes
For the majority of clients, the most important area is resume preparation. A poor resume leads to a poor LinkedIn profile which results in no networking when consultants view the weaker online profile. Our most successful clients take the time to build effective resumes. All time allocated in this part of the training is at the sole discretion of Firmsconsulting since it is not subtracted from the 12 hours of coaching.
Jul 01, 2014•10 min
203: Case Interview Planning
Give our extensive screening process; we have a detailed file on clients before the program begins. The planning call sets the agenda, timetable and objectives for the next few weeks or months if needed. Very few candidates tend to work with us for less than a month and the majority are working with us for more than 6 months.
Jun 25, 2014•15 min
202: Case Interview Decision
This series of detailed podcasts provides prospective applicants to our program all the information they need to put together an application package, do well in the screening interviews, and, should they be the offered a place in the Firmsconsulting program, succeed at their McKinsey, BCG et al interviews.
Jun 19, 2014•12 min
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