1. Getting started
2. The YOUinConsulting job test: Do you REALLY want to become a consultant?
3. Consulting career check (1): Rapid career progress - true or false?
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3.1 Myth #1: An excellent academic performance safely lands you a top consulting job (6:52)
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3.2 Myth #2: Your learning curve is extremely steep (3:22)
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3.3 Myth #3: Your career progress is determined by strictly meritocratic rules (3:13)
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3.4 Myth #4: After x years, you will become partner (consulting firm shareholder) (2:23)
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3.5 Myth #5: Career springboard management consulting: "Headhunter will chase you!" (1:55)
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3.6 Myth #6: Forever famous - the aura of an ex-consultant stays with you for life (2:54)
4. Consulting career check (2): Fantastic job - true or false?
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4.1 Myth #7: You contribute to the most meaningful ventures in history (2:01)
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4.2 Myth #8: Your work leads to change ("Impact!") (2:23)
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4.3 Myth #9: You work at eye level with corporate boards (1:57)
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4.4 Myth #10: You get to explore many different industries and business challenges (5:21)
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4.5 Myth #11: Your day-to-day work is extremly varied (2:30)
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4.6 Myth #12: Your work makes the world a better place (4:43)
5. Consulting career check (3): Unique colleagues - true or false?
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5.1 Myth #13: "Join a firm with the best in class" — You work with top performers (2:26)
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5.2 Myth #14: The academic backgrounds of your colleagues are incredibly diverse (1:56)
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5.3 Myth #15: All your colleagues bring extraordinary experiences (1:57)
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5.4 Myth #16: Teamwork is key! (1:18)
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5.5 Myth #17: Consultants have access to a brillant network (2:49)
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5.6 Myth #18: In the consulting industry, hierarchies are flat (2:37)
6. Consulting career check (4): Dazzling lifestyle - true or false?
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6.1 Myth #19: You earn an above-average salary (6:46)
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6.2 Myth #20: An international career - you get to travel around the globe (2:45)
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6.3 Myth #21: Glamor & luxury - you fly business class and stay in exclusive hotels (6:38)
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6.4 Myth #22: Consultants work hard during the week, but the weekend is sacred (2:48)
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6.5 Myth #23: Working as a consultant is perfectly compatible with having a family (5:27)
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6.6 Myth #24: Consultants are (and remain?) fit, resilient and healthy (3:41)
7. Your individual test result: Should YOU really become a management consultant?
8. Understand what management consulting truly is about
9. The who's who of the consulting industry: more than McKinsey, BCG and Bain?
10. Megatrends in the consulting industry and their implications for YOU
11. Your individual consulting career path
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11.1 Your roles as a consultant (1:40)
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11.2 Your role #1: The (Junior/Senior) Consultant (5:13)
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11.3 Your role #2: The Project Manager & Junior Partner (3:01)
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11.4 Your role #3: The (Senior) Partner (3:33)
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11.5 Further roles you can play in a consulting firm: Research Analyst, IT Specialist (3:37)
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11.6 Your career progress as a consultant (2:12)
12. Consulting mediations?! Experience truthful consulting project reports
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12.1 My invitation: Experience consulting life for yourself (2:06)
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12.2 Project 1: First steps on the learning curve - cut cost in the countryside (6:27)
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12.3 Project 2: Jet between four countries - for a continental infrastructure project (6:28)
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12.4 Project 3 Walk through fire for your ticket to the Wild West (7:42)
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12.5 Project 4: A dream project for a good cause: Save the world in 10 weeks! (9:54)
13. How to move on: your consulting career plan
