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Interviews

How to Get an Economic Consulting Job

Economic consulting is the more analytical but lesser-known sibling of management and strategy consulting. The industry comprises global players like Analysis Group, Cornerstone Research, and Charles River Associates that help hundreds of clients each year with complex economic problems that often require a lot of expert-level testimony and data analysis. This space provides a perfect […]

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Skills, Tips, and Tactics

How to Use Excel’s Nested IF Function

When we start using Excel, a lot of us dabble with it by creating simple formulas. After that, we might perform some more complex calculations using some of Excel’s pre-set functions, and in this context by far the most powerful feature in Excel is the nested IF function. In this short post, we will first […]

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Career Advice

Charting a First Principles Career Path

Career paths which are dominated by knowledge workers all have one thing in common. The personal interests of the individual drives their career. I have heard about and personally experienced the “choose your own path” phenomena of consulting. Wherein you can express interest in a certain type of work and network with managers and principals […]