Careers in Management Consulting

The essence of management consulting is to help a client obtain information and advice which leads to real and lasting solution of a problem.

Managing consulting is a growing area with good jobs available in the 2009-2010 time period.

Consultants think, analyze, brainstorm, cajole and challenge good organizations to become even better by adopting new ideas.

Great consultants are able to step into ambiguous, sometimes hostile situations and sense what changes need to be made. Great consultants are driven by ideas and a strong desire to have a positive impact on clients.

This web site is designed to help you become a great consultant by presenting key information needed to enter consulting jobs including an overview of the industry, descriptions of firms and common practice areas, comparisons to other jobs, interviewing practice and advice and a discussion of some of the powerful ideas consultants are using to reshape organizations.

Thinking About Consulting Jobs?

• Is Consulting Right for You?
  
• Skills & Talents Required
  
• Consulting Salaries
  
• Guide to Top Consulting Firm Recruiters
  
• Facts & Trends in Consulting
  

Practice Areas and the Players

• Top Ten Management Consulting Firms
• Consulting Firms Ranked
• Finance Consulting
• Healthcare Consulting
• Litigation Consulting

About Management Consulting

• A History of Management Consulting
• A Note to New Consultants
• The Role of Ideas in Consulting
• A Letter from Bob
• Musings

Recommended Books on Jobs in Consulting

• Vault Career Guide to Consulting 2008.
• Best Careers 2009: Management Consulting. An informative article from US News and World Report.
• Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms.
• How to Get Into the Top Consulting Firms: A Surefire Case Interview Method. by T. Darling
• Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation. By Marc Cosentino.
• Management Consulting: A Complete Guide to the Industry. By S. Biswas and D. Twitchell.
• The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy: Classic Concepts and New Perspectives . By Carl Stern.
• The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Management Consulting 2001, Harvard Business School Publishing
• The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century , by Christopher McKenna
• McKinsey's Marvin Bower: Vision, Leadership, and the Creation of Management Consulting

• Rankings from 1968
• Rankings from 1995

Other Sites and Blogs

• Management Consulted
• Institute of Management Consultants
• McKinsey Quarterly
• Strategy and Business Magazine. By Booz Allen & Hamilton.
• Crazy Life of Consultants
• Killer Consultant
• 43 Folders
• Big Sky Thinking
• McKinsey Blogs