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Fundamentals
Tech vs Strategy Consulting: How Recruiting Differs
Accenture Tech, Deloitte Tech, IBM, and strategy firms recruit on different calendars and score different skills. Compare assessments, cases, and what interviewers reward.
Firm guides
Accenture Strategy Behavioral Interview: What Partners Score
How Accenture Strategy behavioral rounds differ from generic Accenture fit, with STAR scoring, a worked example, and a one-hour practice plan.
Getting started
Consulting Resume Keywords: Verbs That Survive a 30-Second Scan
What ATS portals actually parse, which action verbs carry evidence vs filler, and ten side-by-side bullet rewrites a recruiter can defend.
Fundamentals
Leadership Stories Interviewers Actually Probe
Three original spoken leadership stories (student, early-career, switcher) with the probe chains McKinsey, BCG, and Bain use to score them.
Fundamentals
Deferred Starts and Slow Cycles: A Gap Plan That Works
Since 2023 firms have stretched starts and compressed campus windows. Here is how to read a delay and what to do with a long gap.
Frameworks
Cost-to-Serve Flips Customer Profitability in Case Interviews
Why revenue leaders can destroy profit: ABC, the whale curve, and a worked example that reallocates cost-to-serve until customer rankings reverse.
Fundamentals
Case Prep for Non-Business Majors: Vocab, Math, Six Weeks
Firms hire non-business majors on purpose. Close the real gap: a short vocab list, arithmetic habits, a six-week plan, and one worked translation.
Fundamentals
Campus Consulting Clubs: What They Buy You (and Don't)
What a campus consulting club actually buys a candidate—casebooks, peer mocks, events, a résumé line—versus what it does not: an interview.
Math and quant
Market sizing resources: anchors, firm cases, drills
Memorize 15 primary-source anchors from Census, Eurostat, ONS, World Bank, and BLS, then practice with firm cases and CoachNed sizing drills.
Fundamentals
Consulting Networking Emails: What Gets a Reply
Five original consulting networking templates with line-by-line reasoning, realistic reply rates, and how firm referral policies actually work.
Firm guides
PhD at MBB: the real advantage is the starting rung
A PhD helps at McKinsey, BCG, and Bain on entry level and recruiting access—not on the case. What firms publish, pay parity, and how to avoid academic habits.
Frameworks
VRIO in Cases: Defensibility Filter, Not a Moat Recital
Use VRIO to test whether a proposed move is defensible. Trace it to Barney 1991, see where it fails to size anything, and work one full case.