Careers at 10 top consulting firms July 29, 2007
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If you don’t want to miss any superb career opportunities
that appear in a HR department of one of the world’s
leading Consulting firms, then consider registering your
CV with them. I’ve pulled together some of the best career
portals at some of the world’s best consulting firms and
included their links below. You might be actively looking
out for your ext opportunity or just passively interested
in opportunities that could catapult your career into a new
an exciting phase. Over to you! …
Bearing Point
But if you have the time and opportunity to choose from
more than one opportunity from the above and other top
consulting firms, which would you go for?
Consulting Magazine surveyed 5,058 consultants from 32
consulting firms - around 152 consultants per firm.
Questions were grouped into six:
Compensation
Work/life balance
Career development
Job experience
Firm leadership
Firm culture
The 32 participating firms were:
Abt Associates
Accenture
AT Kearney
Avanade
Bain & Company
BearingPoint
Booz Allen Hamilton
The Boston Consulting Group
Deloitte
Development Dimensions International
Diamond Mgmt. & Technology Consultants
First Consulting Group
Hitachi Consulting
Huron Consulting Group
IBM
PRTM
ICF Consulting
Infosys Consulting
Kurt Salmon Associates
McKinsey & Company
Mercer Management Consulting
Mercer Oliver Wyman
Monitor Group
Navigant Consulting
PA Consulting
Point B
Proudfoot Consulting
Robbins-Gioia
Sapient
Tata Consultancy Services
Towers Perrin
ZS Associates
The top ten list was created by comparing the 32 firms across these categories, each category having an equal weight. You can see the results here
Successful consultant stories wanted February 2, 2007
Posted by Consultant in : General , add a commentI might be a successful consultant in my own area (IT Management Consulting) and I can write about that all day long. But like all of us, I’m not not sitting in the right place to write about all types of consulting. So I’ve decided to put the word out and ask for successful consultants from all areas of expertise to write something (200-400 words) about their story of being a successful consultant.
It doesn’t matter what type of consultant you are. I’ve listed a few types below but really, I want to hear from all kinds of successful consultants. (more…)
Top 25 management tools January 28, 2007
Posted by Consultant in : Management Consultants , add a commentDarrell Rigby from Bain Company has just published “Management Tools 2007: An Executive’s Guide”. It’s an excellent PDF which looks at the key management tools used by executives, including five new tools that have entered the game. With the explosion of available tools, it’s not always easy to ensure that you use all that are appropriate. (more…)
Top 75 UK consultancies January 27, 2007
Posted by Consultant in : General , add a commentThe total fee income for the top 75 consulting firms in the UK grew by £455m for the 2005 financial year, or 9.6%, according to a survey conducted by managementconsultancy.co.uk. This a much lower rate of growth than the previous year. It’s also a much lower fee income increase. The 2003/04 gain was 13.9%, which included an extra £574min total fee income. It’s is a big disappointment for the industry. (more…)
62 tips for consulting success January 25, 2007
Posted by Consultant in : Being a Consultant , add a commentMichael McLaughlin publishes an interesting blog called ‘Guerrilla Consulting’. He has also published a 75 page ebook with 62 tips for consulting success. It’s organised into seven parts. (more…)
Management consulting associations January 25, 2007
Posted by Consultant in : Management Consultants , add a commentBelow is a list of some of the organisations that support professional development and ethics of Management Consultants. This is very unexhausted so please feel free to let me know of any others that could be included here. (more…)
Document management questions January 25, 2007
Posted by Consultant in : Document Management Consultants , add a commentIf you’re unfamiliar with document management, you’ll naturally have a host of questions that you’d like answered.
Data Capture Solutions in the UK has provided an clear and consise FAQ page on their web site that address the following questions: (more…)
How to hire a management consultant January 25, 2007
Posted by Consultant in : Management Consultants , add a commentSo you know that a management consultant is an expert who helps the management of client organisations define and achieve their goals. But that’s just the beginning because you are likely to have any nunber of unanswered questions that prevent you from moving forward.
The Institue of Management Consultants USA has published an excellent PDF which addresses many of the common questions that arise when considering the idea of using a management consultant. These are: (more…)
Institute of Management Consultants USA January 25, 2007
Posted by Consultant in : Management Consultants , add a commentThe Institute of Management Consultants USA, INC. was founded in 1968 to establish management consulting as a self-regulating profession meriting the same public confidence and respect as medicine, accounting and law. Its primary purpose is to assure the public that its members possess ethical standards, professional competence, and independence required to practice as management consultants. Those individuals who meet the strictest professional requirements are designated Certified Management Consultants and may use the designation CMC after their names. (more…)
Top 25 management concepts January 25, 2007
Posted by Consultant in : Management Consultants , add a commentBain & Company began a research project in 1993 which spanned 12 years, consisting of 10 surveys and 7,283 participants in over 70 countries. The objective was to gather facts about the tools managers around the world use, and the trends that the respondents saw impacting their businesses in the years ahead. (more…)
