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Consulting basics
What Do Management Consultants Actually Do?
What management consultants actually do: why clients hire them, what the day to day looks like, and why so many people choose consulting as a first career.
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Consulting basics
What Does a Consulting Project Look Like?
Nearly every consulting project runs in five stages, from kickoff to recommendation. See each stage and how it maps onto the five parts of a case interview.
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Consulting firms
Types of Consulting Firms: MBB, the Big Four and Boutiques
MBB, the Big Four and boutique consulting firms: what each type does, how each one recruits, what every firm interviews for, and how to decide where to aim.
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Consulting careers
The Consulting Career Path: From Business Analyst to Partner
The consulting career path from Business Analyst to Partner: three ways in, typical years per role, what each role does on a project, and up or out explained.
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Consulting recruiting
How Consulting Recruiting Works: The Six Stages From Networking to Offer
How consulting recruiting works, stage by stage: networking, applications, online assessments, first and final rounds, offers, and what each stage screens for.
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Reference
Consulting Recruiting Timeline
When to apply for undergraduate and MBA internships, full time roles and experienced hire positions: the general shape of the year.
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Plan your prep
Case interview prep
How to Prepare for Consulting Interviews: A 12 Week Plan, and How It Compresses
A consulting interview prep plan for about three months, with a case track and a fit track side by side, and how it compresses to four weeks or one to two.
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Final round interviews
Consulting Final Round Interviews: What Changes When a Partner Interviews You
What changes in a consulting final round: partner interviewers, open cases, deeper fit questions and a committee decision, plus a worked example and a mock day.
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The case interview
Case interview basics
What a Case Interview Actually Is, and Why Our Interviewer Won't Do the Math for You
Case interviews are a crucial part of getting an offer at a consulting firm.
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Case interview clarifying questions
Stop Asking “What’s the Goal and Timeline?”
The two kinds of clarifying questions that turn case interviewers off, and what to ask instead, by type of case.
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Case interview frameworks
How to Build a Case Interview Framework That Does Not Sound Memorized
How to answer the real client question, add specific insight, and show the interviewer where you would begin.
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Reference
The Case Interview Master Framework, on One Page
One whole-business tree for case interviews, and how to use it to check a framework, never to recite one.
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Case interview math
The Five Parts of a Strong Case Interview Math Answer
Why getting the calculation right is only one part of a strong quantitative answer.
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Case interview communication
How to Think Out Loud in a Case Interview
The most common way a first case goes wrong is not a bad framework or a wrong number.
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What interviewers test
What MBB Interviewers Are Actually Testing in a Case Interview
Most candidates enter a case interview believing the interviewer has a hidden answer key.
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Case interview practice
The Most Important Part of Case Interview Practice Happens After the Case
A practical process for reviewing every practice case, understanding your mistakes, and turning feedback into better performance.
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Networking and fit
Consulting networking
Your Consulting Fit Interview Prep Should Start Before Your First Coffee Chat
Why preparing your stories early makes you more memorable in coffee chats and stronger when interviews begin.
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MBB recruiting
How to Tackle the MBB Online Assessments in 2026
A practical guide to McKinsey Solve, the BCG CCA, BCG Casey, and Bain TestGorilla.
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Consulting networking
How to Network Into MBB and Consulting (Video)
A 26-minute video from the other side of the table: what to do at big events, how to get the 1:1, and how to be remembered. Full transcript included.
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Framework Library
One whole-business tree, tailored for eight case types and hybrids, each with what the client is deciding and where to start.
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Industry primers
How six industries make money, the words to know, and the metric each word points to.
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Case Math Playbook
The eight main calculations cases actually use: what each one is, the formula, when to reach for it, and the traps that catch people.
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Speed Math
The mental-math toolkit: fraction-percent equivalents, multiplication and division tricks, and the drills that make them automatic.
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Brainstorming Guide
How to turn 'what ideas come to mind?' into your best moments: the structures to grab, the T-chart method, and where creative ideas actually come from.
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Business Concepts Cheat Sheet
The core terms and formulas that cover about 95% of case interview vocabulary. Interviewers use them without defining them.
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How You're Evaluated: The 4 Dimensions
The four dimensions behind every evaluation: what each one measures, what strong looks like, and how to improve.
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Glossary
One plain definition for each term you will hear in recruiting and in the case.
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Printable one-pagers
The pages worth having on the desk while you practice, ready to print.
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