Consulting Bootcamp on June 28

[Anish Paul Antony]

The team from Management Consulted will be hosting their annual Consulting Interview Bootcamp on Friday June 28 from 11am-5pm at the MIT campus. This bootcamp is tailored for Advanced Degree Candidates and is 100% practical and interactive. There are only 13 tickets left for this once-a-year opportunity. Come and learn<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-consulting-interview-bootcamp-mit-tickets-60773648619> from the foremost expert in the world on the consulting interview process! Below is a special message from Jenny Rae, an ex-Bain consultant and the instructor of next Friday’s bootcamp.​


I've been reflecting recently on my life and my work.

It started 2 months ago at my Columbia Business School reunion. Reunions do that - make you evaluate if you are where you thought you would be - and where you want to be.

The reflection has been good for me, and it's also made me realize - I'm. Really. Happy.

Management Consulted is a lifestyle company. We work insanely hard (in fact, this is the hardest I've ever worked anywhere, including Bain), but also make room for work/life balance. We allow our team to work from anywhere and take company off-sites to fun places like Iceland. I spend every Wednesday with my kids and bring them on occasional business trips. I live on a 180-acre ranch in Northern California and my commute to the office is 12 minutes.







With that kind of life, it's hard to be a hater. As a team, we've built what we wanted - and because of that, we have a smaller team that has longer tenure and gets more done than any other company in our industry.

In this period of reflection, I realized that while we are super privileged in so many ways, we're not just lucky.

We've built what we wanted, together, by trading some seasons of insanity for others where we recalibrate and try something again.

Here's an example:

My first son was born in the middle of peak interview season. Management Consulted was a lot smaller then and we only had 3 coaches, so our other coaches covered me for a 4-day maternity leave and then I went right back to doing 1:1 coaching sessions with clients.

You know what? It was super hard. I remember pretty much nothing of my son's first 3 months. But I was still really living a dream.

Having been a consultant, I had the power to build a life that allowed me to work from a home office. I had a nanny, took breaks to breastfeed while she cooked and cleaned, and charged right on. And I did all this after leaving a startup - at 8 months pregnant - that was running me ragged. I had options - good ones. And consulting gave me that.

When I went to Bain I had no idea that - 7 years later - I would be reaping these kinds of benefits.

Work/life balance - and by extension, career balance - is not about being home at the dinner table by 5:30pm every night. It's about recognizing that you give up balance in some seasons to gain more down the road.

Consulting is one of those seasons where you give up balance in the short-term to gain much more in the long-term. If it wasn't for my time in consulting - building the skills and learning that balance - I wouldn't run Management Consulted, live on a ranch in NorCal, or be involved in any of the other 25 things I'm working on (only a slight exaggeration).

If I had known in my 20s what I know now about the skills consulting would give me to build a life I love, I would have prioritized my goal of becoming a consultant. To be honest, I was winging it, and hoping for the best. I listened to good mentors, but I should have made it my number. one. thing.

This month, I'm on maternity leave again - this time, for the third time, and this time, for a few months. But by choice - because I really, really love what I do - I'll be at MIT on Friday June 28 leading our only summer consulting bootcamp in the Northeast.



So, come and join me as we walk through:

·             Networking into consulting from an academic background

·             Tricky behavioral questions you’ll be asked in every interview

·             A full Round 1 case

·             What separates Level 1 from Level 2 candidates





Last year’s event sold out early, and there are only 13 spots left for this year. Tickets

are only $75 (tickets to our open bootcamps sell for $500), so don’t miss out. It’s now or

never – register here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-consulting-interview-bootcamp-mit-tickets-60773648619>.

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