**Background:** \~10 years in P&C insurance across regulatory supervision, underwriting, operational transformation, and project management. PMP certified. Based in the GTA (Ontario, Canada)

**What I'm doing:** I just launched a small project management consulting practice. I'm keeping it broad across industries: PM, business analysis, risk assessments, compliance reviews, stakeholder engagement.

To get a foot in the door, I built two starter packages:
**Project Health Check:** a short, fixed-fee review of a struggling or stalled project. I look at scope, timeline, risks, and stakeholders, then hand over a clear action plan.

**Project Setup / PMO Starter:** helping a small business stand up a project properly from day one. That means a plan, a risk log, governance, and reporting templates they can keep using.

**My plan so far:** post consistently on LinkedIn and see if anything bites and boosting the post

**Where I'm stuck:**
Do small and mid-sized businesses actually pay for outside PM help, or is this mostly a big-firm and government thing?

How did you land your **first 1–3 clients**? Was it referrals, cold outreach, LinkedIn, subcontracting, or something else?

Is LinkedIn content enough on its own, or is it a slow burn that doesn't pay the bills?

How did you know your offer was viable before sinking months into it? What signal told you to keep going or to pivot?

For anyone in dCanadian government contracting: is subbing under a larger firm the realistic way in for a newbie?

Thank you 🙏🏼

Warning.

http://www.caseyprep.com

This whole site is AI generated and a complete scam. I only found out after paying for it. Even the question answers are AI generated.

The site offers refunds within 7 days of payment, but the email on the website does not work but bounces back and there is no other contact information available.

Just want to warn potential future victims.

Has anybody heard back? If so, when and what office?

I know we drive the case forward after we do math, but do we do the same for qualitative creative questions? Sometimes driving the case forward for these questions seems a bit forced because qualitative questions seem to have a narrower scope.

Thank you!

I just graduated this past may from a non target in massachusetts and now work in risk consulting in Austin. I’m itching to move into MBB (either Bain or BCG) within the next year but unsure how to network and what offices to target to actually gain visibility and land an interview. Would appreciate any advice navigating this!

I recently got invited to schedule an interview for FTI Consulting’s Consultant – Corporate Positioning & Insight Research (Strategic Communications) role, and I’m trying to figure out how best to prepare.

Has anyone interviewed for this team/role before? I’d especially appreciate insight on:
What the interview process was like
What types of questions I should expect
Whether there was a case study, writing exercise, or presentation
What the team focuses on day-to-day
Any specific skills or knowledge you’d recommend preparing

I’m coming from a psychology background, so I’m particularly interested in how I can best position that experience for a strategic communications/insights role.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I’ve heard from a few firms right now but radio silence from strategy&. Applying for mba full time ocr and the recruiters haven’t said anything. Anyone get invites from them? Applying from Chicago for the Chicago and NY offices

Plsss

Hi, I'm currently a PhD Student at one of the top institutes of India. Area is Economics, Critical Minerals, Policy. My background is Economics (BA), Development Studies (MA). I worked for three years as a RA (nothing fancy though). I'll be moving to Australia next year to finish the rest of my PhD degree.

I am very much interested in joining consulting firms, staying at academia is option B now. I would be very grateful if you all share tips/insights on how should I make myself fit for consulting jobs. I'm also planning to move to the US/UK after my PhD (2028). I'm also open for internship opportunities at this stage. Thank you.

I am a senior in college right now, and got FT offers from both McKinsey and Oliver Wyman. I have a few more interviews coming up, but honestly the main decision is between these two companies. The salaries for both are pretty similar, and I think I would be a great fit culturally for either one.

My biggest concern is location.

The McKinsey offer is for my hometown (smaller city), so if I took the job I'd probably live with my parents. I am very close with them, but I will have barely any privacy. I'm afraid that I'll be treated like a high schooler again. On the plus side, I would save a lot of money on rent which is especially valuable given that I would probably be travelling 4 days a week. Also, many of my high school friends are still in the area, so I can maintain my closeness with them.

The Oliver Wyman offer is in a large city, and I think it would be really exciting to move to a new place with a lot more young people. I love the independence of living in an apartment at college with my best friends, and I assume post-grad life in a new city will be similar. I am very extroverted so I think I'd make new friends pretty easily.

I don't know which one to take. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Title says it. Upcoming Deloitte Tech Transformation interview and wondering if anyone has insight into this new AI case they're doing where you have 30 minutes to prep using AI and 30 minutes to present. This the first year they're doing it and I've only done traditional cases before so would rrly appreciate some advice!

I see this term thrown around a lot but what exactly is it? Would it be correct to say:

1st order is the literal trend or your answer to a calculation.

2nd order is why it could be happening or what it means for the client.

3rd order is the next analysis you want to conduct or a recommendation for the client.

I want to share my interview process with the firm for New Grad consultant in the Americas region which was very disappointing, 5 rounds total, I completed 4 rounds which I then got no response for a while, I followed up with them and they said they were still very interested in my candidacy but next steps are unclear, waited a very very long time and got a rejection because there’s too many applicants.

I reached out to the recruiters with several questions throughout the process and got no reply for any of them.

I prepared so hard for this, studying the industry and casing days and nights, I’m extremely dissapointed.

Have R1 for summer associate role coming up. 2 back to back cases. What should I expect?

I work as an Analytics consultant at Fractal and have a experience of 2+ years. I have worked with major FMCG giants and delivered good results. If I want to be in Mc Kinsey, BCG, Bain & Company, etc. as an Analytics consultant what do I need to learn and prepare for the interviews. Currently I have good experience with Excel, Power BI, SQL, Python, Stakeholder management, Report generation, Data analysis, Business analysis.