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As a management consultant, who is your ideal client?
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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
This question is something of a personality assessment. In your career as a management consultant, you may have the opportunity to work with a vast range of clients across several industries. Sharing those clients who you work best with, which contributes to your job satisfaction, and with which you have the highest success rate will inform them of how well you'll complement their teams and gives them insights on how to play on your professional strengths. Discuss the type of client with which you prefer to collaborate. If you can identify your preferences among the type of clients McKinsey and Company works with, express your interest in those opportunities.
Kimberly is a freelance writer and editor with a decade of experience in the education field, including her time as a pre-kindergarten teacher.
"My ideal clients are receptive to change, focused on scaling, while never forgetting their roots and what their employees offer them. The industries in which I am most interested in working are the finance, real estate, and investment realms; however, I have found that there are excellent clients in every industry imaginable."
Kimberly is a freelance writer and editor with a decade of experience in the education field, including her time as a pre-kindergarten teacher.
"I am new to the management consulting industry, so at this point, my ideal client is one I can learn from, who I can teach new things to, and collaborate in a way where we both grow. I see that Mckinsey and Company works with businesses who are startups in the SaaS industry which is particularly interesting to me."
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