Deloitte, Accenture, AT, Booz and the like are all major consulting firms...just dont have the brand of McKinsey or BCG. Deloitte does a lot more ops stuff from what I know, if you want ops it might be better than some of the big 3. Monitor is big with marketing stuff. If you want energy its more about location then just company. McKinsey has a huge energy practice but its definitely aimed more at oil and gas. All the big firms do lots of energy in their practices in oil heavy places. Schlumberger is a pure oil consulting practice, but I dont think they recruit at Booth. I know Accenture and Deloitte do a lot of tech stuff not sure in what roles. All the firms will do manufacturing stuff.

Most of the big firms require you to be a generalist and wont allow you to specialize in a particular area of expertise. One of my friends is going to a Texas office of one of the Big 3 because he wants energy and figured his chances of getting those jobs are much higher in that part of the country. One thing to consider is different brands have different strengths in different parts of the world. For example some of the top consulting firms in Europe are 2nd tier here such as Roland Berger. If you want to be back in your home country that is something to look into too.
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Thanks for the tips, riverripper and isa. However, I've decided since I'm incredibly shallow, I'll go to the one being hosted at the nicer hotel, hehe.

Well chicago sent out all that info in their newsletter. It appeared to be geared towards women and minorities for Bain,BCG etc but did not seem specific to booth.

Not sure whether this is the same info xenok was using. If not, xenok, please share

Bain did these last year and a few others also did. I think overseas office do a lot of them too for people heading to top schools around the world. Its harder to find people at top schools for an office in Seoul or São Paulo than it is for Boston, Chicago, NYC, San Francisco, etc.
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Accenture and Deloitte both do a bit more implementation-related work relative to M/B/B. For example, Accenture has a large IT practice, and Deloitte has groups dedicated to human capital management. The difference between implementation projects is that they often last longer and are often seen as more "contractual" work (e.g. on client site executing the processes yourself). It is not uncommon for "implementation" engagements at these firms to last over a year (it takes a surprisingly long time to install a new IT system, migrate data, etc.). The caveat here is that both Accenture and Deloitte also do have disparate "strategy groups"-- they are just not quite as scaled as M/B/B with regards to the larger projects. There are pros and cons to this model-- strictly depends on your interests/style.

Other non-M/B/B nuances include: LEK's private equity focus, ATK's procurement/supply chain focus. (Similar to above, these are just particular strengths-- not corporate definitions as a whole)

Note: M/B/B firms also have process-oriented and implementation cases; they are just typically shorter in duration and less contractor like. (They simply don't specialize to that level and don't compete head to head with some of the more niche expertise mentioned above). This is why M/B/B will oftentimes refer to themselves as "The 3 pure strategy firms". Most of the cases (not all!) that I have seen enter multi-bidder situations are usually with other M/B/B offices. Some people mistake then as a tiering system (MBB vs. Non-MBB), when it really is just classic market segmentation.

Disclaimer: This is just the general "lay of the land" from a consultant's perspective. I am sure you can find exceptions and examples where the generalizations above are not true-- but most consultants know consultants from other firms, and have a general sense of how their host firm's core capabilities differ. To me, this seems at least in the ballpark of "representativeness".

I am also getting invitations from most of the i-banking and consulting firms too! It is crazy that recruiting has already started, even before we marticulate... If you want to do consulting in your home country, I think it is easier to get MC gigs since there are less bilingual top talent with top MBA. That certainly is the case in where I am from.

Accenture and Deloitte are a bit tricky because they have large IT practice (and for general population, thats what they are known for), but as Mikus said, they have their own strategy practice (Accenture's strategy group and Deloitte's strategy and operations group). If you have an MBA, that is where you end up, and you wont be doing IT implementation although your operation project may involve some implementation tasks. I have never heard of anyone with an MBA recruiting for IT groups of these firms. As Mikus said, although we have substantial strategy projects (I work at Deloitte's S&O), we definitelly have a good number of operation related projects compared to M/B/B. I always thought strategy projects are "sexier", but having worked for about 4 years as a consultant, your daily work isn't that much different; they all can be tedious whether it is strategy or operation oriented projects. One trend in my country is that even M and BCG are moving a bit towards operation side. They have hard time justifying their fees just on strategy (also hiring consultants isnt very pupular among traditional companies here), and operations work, which tend to last longer, is an attractive source of revenue. We often come across M/B in sales pitch these days.

If you are recruiting in your home country, you should really network and learn what they actually do. For example, Monitor, which I think is a great company in general, only has about 30 people here. And mostly because of their size, they dont have enough capabilities and presence to sell projects on their own. So their tasks are mostly doing market research, that can only be done locally, for foreign companies (mostly American) trying to enter the market, which is not fun at all. Even if an office has 100 consultants, their practice should be concentrated in core industries or competencies. So, I actually think size matters to certain degree.

Most mgt (and even tech) consulting firms have a govt. arm which deals primarily with public sector organisations. With your background, you should appeal to any of the top tier consulting firms in their Washington office (depending of course on their recruitment requirements).

Don't discount the Accentures and the Deloittes of the world - these firms might be more generalist or tech focused but they do have reasonably strong strategy practices. In this market, getting the experience and exposure would be the most important thing.

You might also want to look at PWC and Deloitte, they have a DC office as well. Not sure how much you want to get in on the policy/development side of things, if you're open to that try firms like Abt, Gallup, Chemonics, etc.

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