Management Consulting: A Guide For Your Career Choice

This book gives you the inside track on one of the most lucrative professions in the world. Management consultants are highly sought after by firms who want to achieve higher performance and need experts in best practices and solving complex business problems. In this course I draw on my ten years of experience in management consulting to teach you how the profession works, what you can expect as a consultant and how they work with clients to add value. If you ever wanted to learn about management consulting from someone who has truly been there and worked their way up through the system, then this book will give you that advantage. In this book you will learn the following about management consulting: Which are the big firms and how do they differ from the specialist consultancies A typical management consulting career path and how you can work your way up the ladder The typical skills that you need to deliver value on client engagements Pricing and billing of client engagements and the role you play in managing finances The reasons a firm will engage a team of management consultants What type of roles you can expect if you become a consultant and how to position yourself The importance of always demonstrating business value to a client The increasing importance of delivering sales targets as you advance in a consulting career A typical day in the life of a management consultant The importance of being mobile in your management consulting career The reason I left management consulting despite enjoying numerous international projects How to integrate into the client's organisational culture and the pressures this creates Working with multiple consultancies and my experience of working with McKinsey The stages of a client engagement from the RFP through the project and close-out Knowledge exchanges and the importance of access to the skills of a global workforce The reason that management consultants use case studies in their interviews Fixed price versus Time & Materials as different methods of billing and the pr