Tom Spencer

This guidebook will help to create a winning résumé in order to secure an interview.   To stay in the loop, please following us on LinkedIn here.

Produced by Aneta Kosinska, this document provides you with the basics on knowledge management including:
Expert views,  The definition, Key challenges, and  Ways to encourage knowledge sharing. To stay in the loop, please following us on LinkedIn here.

A copy of McKinsey's practice problem solving tests and coaching guide. McKinsey uses the Problem Solving Test as part of its selection process.
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This excel spreadsheet was prepared by Jason Oh, President of the Consulting Club at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2018.
It provides a template for organising your networking contact list in order to network efficiently during the consulting application process.
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The PEST Analysis Template can be used to examine the macro environment and uncover hidden opportunities and threats that could impact a business unit, product or project.  Insights gained from the analysis can be used to develop a strategic plan of action.
For more information, read the article on PEST Analysis. 
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Are you a busy professional?  Do you want to stay in peak physical fitness?
Here are two fitness plans, one for men and one for women.  
They are high quality as they were both designed for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in the 1950s.  Each plan is perfect for busy professionals as they can be carried out at home, and require just a 15 minute time commitment per day. Sound too good to be true?  The catch is you need to be consistent, which is harder than it sounds! 
5BX (Five Basic Exercises) is the physical fitness program for men  XBX (Ten Basic Exercises) is the physical fitness program for women Note that these pdfs are freely available from many locations on the Internet and (according to the acknowledgement section in each pdf) appear to have been made freely available to the general public. Attempts to contact the original author for clarification about copyright restrictions failed.
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For aspiring consultants (and perhaps also as a refresher for practicing consultants and business leaders), the profitability framework cheatsheet provides all the essentials on one page to help you get your head around the Profitability Framework.
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This recruitment toolkit was prepared by a management consultant at MBB. It contains four templates that will help you to keep your recruiting activities organized, namely: 
Companies you are applying to/have applied to All company employees with whom you established some sort of rapport Practice cases you have given and received; and  Your preferred function and industry combinations To stay in the loop, please following us on LinkedIn here.

The Roadmap Into Consulting is easy to read, and contains 60-pages of exclusive content.  Download it now!
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Many mainstream economists argue that while individuals can save, an economy taken as a whole cannot because one person's spending is another person's income.
This line of reasoning seems to defy logic and begs two questions: 
Can economies accumulate savings? Can total spending in an economy exceed total income? This PowerPoint deck shows the traditional model which suggests that an economy cannot accumulate savings and total spending will equal total income. It then proposes a simple revised model which suggests that (a) an economy can accumulate savings and (b) total spending can exceed total income.
If you have studied economics, the slides will take 5 minutes to read through. Although you may have to brush up on how the banking system creates credit since this topic is typically absent from economics courses. Please take a look, and send your constructive criticism to tom [at] spencertom [dot] com
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Here is a template that you can use to gather relevant information in order to develop a robust problem statement. 
A problem statement is a statement that describes the goals of the client project clearly and concisely. A clear problem statement makes it easier to establish clear boundaries for the project in order to prevent scope creep, ensures that you focus resources and efforts in the right direction, and makes it easier to regularly check back to make sure you are fully addressing the agreed problem. Most often clients come to consultants with problems that aren’t well defined. As a consultant, you must make sure that you translate a general problem into a client problem statement.

Here is a good template, with illustrative inputs, of a well-structured workplan to help you organize and plan the analysis and data required to validate your hypotheses as part of the hypothesis-based problem solving approach. 

Prepared by Vishal Agarwal, EY consultant and MBA candidate at Kelley School of Business, this is a sample document that shows how to use a plain A4 sheet to take notes during the case interview.
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Create a killer cover letter using this quality free template.
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Create a winning résumé using this quality free template, which is based on a standard template provided to Oxford's MBA students.
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This document was produced by Victor Cheng, founder of CaseInterview.com.
It provides an excellent quick guide to the key frameworks that you will need for your case interview.
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This document was produced by Victor Cheng, founder of CaseInterview.com.
It provides a copy of the overhead slides that he produced to accompany his case interview marathon workshop.
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