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Management Consulting

Management Consulting: Your First 90 Days

Your first 90 days at a management consulting firm are crucially important to establish your reputation with your colleagues and especially with the firm's leadership. Starting a new job is an adventure. You can be anyone you want. It is not easy but you can completely reinvent your life using your new consulting job as a platform. So it is a huge opportunity. Take it and make the most of it. During the first few months, you are being constantly observed to see if you will measure up. Management consulting is tough and partners expect to constantly deal with hiring mistakes by counseling out those who will not make it. They want to make sure you are not one of them. Leave them with no doubt that you are one of the greatest people they have ever hired. Below are some ideas to make your first 90 days at a management consulting firm count. 1. Get to know senior people.  During your first 90 days in consulting you have a perfectly valid reason to set up 30-minute chats with senior people, which for someone at the senior associate level will be engagement managers, principals, and partners. Remember 8 months down the road…

Management Consulting

Your first 90 days at a management consulting firm are crucially important to establish your reputation with your colleagues and especially with the firm's leadership. Starting a new job is an adventure. You can be anyone you want. It is not easy but you can completely reinvent your life using your new consulting job as a platform. So it is a huge opportunity. Take it and make the most of it. During the first few months, you are being constantly observed to see if you will measure up. Management consulting is tough and partners expect to constantly deal with hiring mistakes…

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