Hi All,
For those of you who started off at an entry level role at any of the top consulting firms, what were your main difficulties / challenges you had to overcome?
Thanks
Difficulties on the job?
Overview of answers
Upvotes
Best answer
The speed of the work, the hours, starting with a hypothesis, actual PowerPoint skills, being the most junior and inexperienced person in the room. And those are just some of them.
Was this answer helpful?
Everything!
One of the funny / not funny secrets in consulting is that we tell our clients to focus on just 1 or 2 objectives, but expect the consultants to improve a dozen dimensions at once - and the better / senior you are, the more difficult your job becomes => you will always be pushed, no matter how high you go or how long you stay
Was this answer helpful?
getting used to re-do all the work you have done all week when client rejects it and learning to suck it up
Was this answer helpful?
Related Cases
Expert case by Francesco
Topics:
Our client is SmartBridge, a nonprofit educational institution offering face-to-face tutoring services. The client operates in the US.
The mission of SmartBridge is to help as many students as possible to complete studies and prevent that they drop from the school system, in particular in disadva
... (Open whole case)
21.3k
Times solved
Advanced
Difficulty
Expert case by Francesco
Style:
Topics:
Our client is a BlissOttica, an Eyewear Manufacturer that is looking to reach a 10% increase in profits. How would you help our client?
... (Open whole case)
4.6k
Times solved
Intermediate
Difficulty
Expert case by Ian
Style:
Topics:
Our client is Energy England, one of northern England’s largest electric utility companies. They were created over the past decade through an aggressive series of mergers of existing utility companies each specializing in a single energy generation source.
Recently, the CEO has embarked on
... (Open whole case)
2.9k
Times solved
Intermediate
Difficulty