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Types of Consulting Firms: Business Models, Not Brand Ladders
How consulting firms actually make money—leverage pyramids, managed services, success fees—and what each model does to your job, interview, and exits.
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Consulting Coffee Chat: How Firms Score the 20 Minutes
From the consultant's chair: how coffee chats get scored informally, a 20-minute structure, questions that earn a voucher, and the follow-up that does not kill it.
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MBA Consulting Recruiting Timeline: The Two-Year Calendar
Month-by-month MBA consulting recruiting from pre-MBA programs through January interviews, summer conversion, and second-year full-time—plus sponsored and international paths.
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Consulting salary by city: same base, different take-home
MBB US campus base is usually one number. City changes tax, rent, and Big 4 bands. NYC, Dallas, SF, London, Dubai, Singapore with sources.
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Reapplying After a Consulting Rejection: Change the File, Not the Calendar
How MBB and Big 4 reapplication rules work, how recruiters use your old file on the second look, and a 12–18 month plan that changes the evidence.
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Low GPA Consulting: How Screens Actually Use the Number
GPA is a campus screen, not a published MBB cutoff. What firms' own pages say, which routes dilute the number, and the evidence packet that survives a human review.
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Consulting Referrals: What They Buy (and What They Don't)
A referral usually buys a human résumé read, not an interview. What firms publish, what the referrer risks, how to earn one in two talks, and the exact ask.
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Consulting Application Deadlines: Fixed, Rolling, Campus, Volume
How MBB and Big Four deadline systems actually work — fixed closes, rolling fills, campus clocks, volume caps — plus verified 2026 dates checked on firm pages.
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What Management Consulting Actually Is (As a Business)
Who pays consultants, for what, at what price: firm revenue and headcount from filings, a typical week, firm types, and when clients should not hire.
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Consulting Brain Teasers Are Mostly Gone. Here's What Remains
MBB interviews are cases and fit, not riddles. How market sizing, estimation, and aptitude logic are scored—with worked examples.
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Consulting Offer Negotiation: What Moves, What Doesn't
Campus base at MBB and Big Four is largely lockstep. Use signing, start date, office, relocation, and level—with scripts that keep the relationship intact.
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Guesstimate Interview Questions: Six Worked Chains That Score
Interviewers score the assumption chain and sanity checks, not the number. Six original guesstimates with public anchors, plus five ways candidates leak points.