by Marquis | Jan 5, 2014 | Business, career, career path, professional advice, recruiting, Technology, Technology management, Technology-related
The email below is from a college Sophomore that I met a few months back while giving a talk to a group of university students. He’s focusing his studies on topics at the intersection of technology and business and has a few questions for me about how to...
by Marquis | Dec 27, 2013 | career, career path, Education, internship, professional advice, recruiting
Back in October, I gave a talk to a group of Freshman students in an undergrad business school here in the Midwest. The email below is from one of the students who attended my presentation. Unlike most Freshmen, he was lucky enough to have secured a summer internship...
by Marquis | Dec 1, 2013 | Business, career, career path, global impact, Non-profit, poverty
The email below came from a college student that I met after a speaking engagement last Fall. He spent this past summer working in South America for a public service organization and developed a passion for that type of work. In his message, he had a few questions for...
by Marquis | Nov 22, 2013 | About Marquis, career, consulting, Education, Education, Technology
The email below came to me from a current Freshman at the University of California at Berkeley who learned about me from an interview that I did a few years ago for ManagementConsulted.com. He had a couple of questions for me about the Computer Science and Education...
by Marquis | Nov 10, 2013 | Business, career, career path, consulting, interview advice, management consulting, Networking, professional advice, recruiting, transition
The email below arrived in my inbox so long ago that it’s just plain embarrassing. The reader emailed me way back in 2011 and, at the time, I had so many emails that I didn’t have a chance to give him a response in a decent amount of time. Recently, I was...
by Marquis | Oct 24, 2013 | Business, career, career path, consulting, management consulting, McKinsey
The email below came from a relatively new reader of my blog who is interested in pursuing a career in management consulting. He recently completed his Freshman year at Georgia Tech, so he’s particularly interested in the Atlanta offices of McKinsey (and its...