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Consulting & Strategy

Consulting is both a functional role and an industry. Consulting roles are focused on helping organizations improve their performance.

With an emphasis on analyzing business challenges, consultants leverage their specialized expertise to develop appropriate business solutions and provide objective recommendations to their clients. Traditional consulting roles are typically external advisors to organizations. A consulting career path typically contains a wide variety of work and preparation for internal strategy roles, access to large networking and potential growth opportunities and frequently tackle significant business challenges. Requires strong presentation skills and ability to compose comprehensive written reports following required research and related analysis. The work is typically fast-paced in a deadline-driven environment.

It is important to prepare for case interviewing. There are many resources available. One resource we recommend is Rocketblocks to help you prepare for consulting, product management, product marketing, strategy + biz ops, analytics and behavioral interviews at top companies like McKinsey and Google. Their approach is simple: decompose interviews into atomic skills and give you the tools to master them.

It's built by management consulting experts from companies like McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Google, Facebook and Amazon. They have helped thousands of students from top programs like Stanford, Wharton, and Notre Dame (!) land offers at top companies.

Prepare in three ways

Concepts: guidance on how to approach case problems and build skills
Drills: high-quality exercises and sample answers to hone your case skills
Partners: access to live partners to practice your skills (both peers and experts)

Learn from Experts

RocketBlocks Experts offer coaching and contribute to content - such as drills, blog posts and videos - across our platform. Work with one of our Experts to tailor a mock interview to your specific needs and focus areas: