Job Responsibilities
Competitive benchmarking (~15%); Meetings with mid-level clients
(~10%); Data-collection (~15%); Analyzing data (~20%); Writing
presentations (~15%); Internal meetings (~15%); Other including
travel; ad-min; etc. (~10%)
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Job Requirements
Generally, most recruiting for position done at core schools
(Harvard, Yale, UVA, Stanford, MIT, Princeton); also, offers off-
cycle recruiting for folks from other corporate functions (i.e.
through head-hunters or through monster.com or through
referrals). Most of the training is "on the job" and an
apprenticeship model is used but also formal training as well as
e-learning is offered.
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Uppers
Key uppers: super-smart and super-nice individuals to work with and work for
(there's an author of a novel; an advisor to a former president; an accomplished
and well-known Physicist all work in my office); great exposure to senior
management at the client from CEOs, CFOs, to high-level managers (had lunch with
a #4 guy at a retail client).
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Downers
Often, the job entails dealing with a lot of politics -- being
able to "manipulate" people to do what you want
without "manipulating" them (i.e. having clients be on your side
and winning them over with more than just analytics but with
positioning); also need to convey a "neutral" tone on a lot of
things (i.e. cannot take sides in a political situation where the
CEO and the CFO both hate the COO but the Board loves the COO);
occasionally, not very exciting work or chat some times (i.e.
having to make sure that you often nobody makes small-talk a huge
plus).
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Lifestyle
Unpredicatable schedule (weekend work is often expected for short-cases);
excessively amounts of travel (for longer-term cases); high expectations (for all
cases)
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Compensation
Standard base salary (~$54K vs. $55K at I-banks) with a low
signing bonus ($3K vs. 10K at I-banks), plus reimbursement for
moving (for those who are not local); and an average year-end
bonus (~$7K vs. at $10-15K at I-banks) with a great back-end
profit sharing in lieu of 401K (~$8K vs. $0 at I-banks)
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Advice to Jobseekers
The job outlook is great! The industry is poised for growth in
the future and those who can navigate the "neutrality" involved
will easily thrive!
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