Break Into Strategy Consulting - Lessons from Former Bain Consultant Davis Nguyen

Davis Nguyen is the founder of My Consulting Offer and helps people break into strategy consulting. He worked for two years at Bain & Company.
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⌚ TIMELINE
0:00 How did the consulting offer start?
6:08 What to know about the recruiting side of consulting and the "why?" question
8:44 The most important thing about getting a job in consulting
11:45 Exercises to help people figure out what they are good at
14:58 Why you need to have more motivation than prestige
16:42 Some of the consulting skills Davis uses in running My Consulting Offer
20:32 Instilling a culture in a startup and Bain's culture
26:09 Differences across McKinsey, Bain and BCG culture
30:01 McKinsey & BCG experiences from Paul
34:50 Does these firm talk about each other?
36:19 How Davis works with the top consulting firms
39:24 The top firms need many more people than they used to

[@bluepavilion82]

15:57 what other career opportunities is he talking about? jobs that pays better and you work less hours, can you list some of them?

[@itm1996]

Tech?

[@Jmiedawg]

2 years experience in an up or out system hmmm 🤔🤔

[@mohdwagdi]

You'd prepared a good questions to ask, but not for a two years experience guest 🤔

[@StrategyU]

Interviewing a BCG principal next week!

[@mohdwagdi]

@@StrategyU If there is a room to add a question to your next interview, please consider to ask about the average percentage of the "technical contribution" from different levels in the consulting projects.

[@StrategyU]

What do you mean?

[@mohdwagdi]

@@StrategyU To ask about the technical contribution in a consulting project from different levels in a consulting firm (junior, associate, senior, manager, consultant, director, principal and partner)