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Management consulting career: 10 insights for your 1st study

So you decided that a management consulting career is for you, have joined an elite management consulting firm and were staffed on your first engagement. You feel apprehensive and exited, wondering what should you focus on to ensure you meet and exceed your team’s expectations. You may not know anyone on the team or even within the firm. You may not know much about the subject matter of the engagement either. In fact, the subject matter may be something as “mind blowing” as assisting a client in streamlining IT systems or in navigating changes in the market. Something you know next to nothing about. What should you do? First, remember that it is a good thing that you are staffed on an engagement. In consulting there is some competition involved in getting picked for an engagement. Everyone wants to have high utilization since it is taken into account when bonuses and overall performance are determined. In fact, ensuring high utilization is vital for enhancing your management consulting career. When you are not on an engagement, it is not that much different from being between jobs. You go and search for your next engagement because you don’t want to be “on…

So you decided that a management consulting career is for you, have joined an elite management consulting firm and were staffed on your first engagement. You feel apprehensive and exited, wondering what should you focus on to ensure you meet and exceed your team’s expectations. You may not know anyone on the team or even within the firm. You may not know much about the subject matter of the engagement either. In fact, the subject matter may be something as “mind blowing” as assisting a client in streamlining IT systems or in navigating changes in the market. Something you know…

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