Is Management Consulting a Career?
Recruiters and careers advisors often talk about the consulting career, but I realised that actually most of those I knew heading into consulting had any intention at all of staying more than five years, let alone trying to become Partner. Prompted by a chat with William Johnson, MD of Openside Group, I ran a quick…
On becoming a unicorn: MBA vs. MSc IT?
Is the MBA over-priced and over subscribed? I’m getting a lot of questions about whether IT Masters (incl. software engineering / data science) are as good for a consulting career than traditional business/MBA routes. There is no doubt that outside the top 50 Universities in the world, the MBA no longer has the cachet that…
So you want to be a management consultant? Three important things to tell aspiring students (and two things to get them to ask).
“I want to be a management consultant” is a statement most careers advisors hear a few times a day. I heard it twice today myself. It’s easy to jump to advice about which companies to apply to or the application process. But there a few things students should think about before applying. First, there is…
Consulting is changing, but the big beasts are still winning
We’ve been told for a long time, that ‘traditional’ management consulting is being ‘disrupted’ (or even ‘dead’). The idea being that new entrants, the democratization of knowledge, the competition for talent (especially from technology companies) and the rise of ‘asset-based’ consulting (read consulting + databases & software) will knock the incumbents off their thrones. But, to paraphrase…
COVID-19 career survival for consultants: jobs & strategies
I’m writing this piece because there is a predominant, though not universal, view among management consultants in my network that things will return to normal after a pause in operations. An increasing stack of evidence suggests that this is not the case. First, I will outline the reasons for the relative complacency of especially younger…
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