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Industry Information
- Careers in Business:
Guide to various business career areas including jobs, salaries, what people
are saying and entry requirements
- Hoovers: Source for
Business Information. Browse the industry and various companies.
- The
Vault: Links for various Operations & IT Consulting.
Case Interviewing
- Case Interview
Preparation: This website for the Boston Consulting Group will give you an
idea of what to expect from an interview and provides links to practice: Case
Interviews, Interactive Cases, and Brain Teasers.
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Solve a Case - Practice Problem Solving: At the bottom of the McKinsey and
Company web page, find a link to several Case Studies and practice problem
solving.
- CaseQuestions.com: Provides sample
question (no answers) asked in real case interviews over the last 2
years. Also, provides some tips on case preparation.
- Case Interview Presentations
Alumni Stories
Professional Associations
Job or Internship Listings
- Job Openings for Economists: Job
openings provided by the American Economic Association
- Jobs4HR: Job listings within
Human Resources
- Fast Company: Links to jobs
and personal growth opportunities.
- JobWeb Career development and
job-search advice for new college graduates sponsored by the National
Association of Colleges and Employers
- Monster.com National job listings
- NationJob Network Jobs,
careers, and employment listing along with resume services
Management Services and Consulting Bibliography: A
Sampling of Books in the Resource Library
- Harvard College Guide to Consulting: This guide is perfect
for individuals that are not sure if consulting is right for them. Most
individuals when thinking of consulting are locked into one idea of what it is
this guide outlines 12 consulting fields: Strategy Consulting, Management
Consulting, IT Consulting, Economic Consulting, Management Consulting in the
Health Care Field, Consulting in Service Quality, Litigation Consulting,
Mediation, Sales Performance Training, Public Policy Consulting, Consulting to
the Government, and Environmental Consulting.
- Case in Point: This book
provides a methodology for working through case interviews with sample case
interview questions and solutions.
- Case Study Interviewing: A guide to prepping for case
interviews with case examples.
- Ace Your Case: This book gives insight into the process of
an interview. It offers a guide to the different types of case questions along
with tips on how to prep for them. It also provides an insight into the
recruiter’s perspective.
- Insiders Guide to Management Consulting: This is just what
it says it is: a guide to Management Consulting. It offers an overview of
the field and provides some interesting profiles of individuals that entered
the field of Management Consulting.
- Fast Track: The Insider’s Guide to Winning Jobs in Management
Consulting, Investment Banking, and Securities Trading: This book
gives an overview of each field and explains the intricacies of the recruitment
process, what potential employers are looking for, the intricacies of
interviewing, and consulting case questions. Also included are profiles
of leading consulting firms and investment banks.
- Harvard Business School Guide to Management Consulting:
Individuals interested in consulting can use this book to examine whether or
not consulting is the right choice for them. It provides an overview of
the consulting industry along with profiles of 50 management consulting firms
outlining their company description, consultant’s job description, recruiting
processes, and human resources practices.
- Tuck Consulting Club: This is one of the more advanced
resources available. You should use this resource only after laying down
a good foundation of information. This book contains strategies and
frameworks for the myriad of consulting fields and their case interview
processes.
- Seven C’s of Consulting: The definitive guide to the
consulting process: This book is oriented towards the process of consulting and
illustrates some consulting practices. It will also give the reader an
appreciation of some of the thought processes and intricacies involved in the
consulting world.
NOTE: Italicized titles can be borrowed and can be found in the
Baker Library Project Room located in the Reserve Corridor. Click
here for a complete list of borrowable books.
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