Big Four (Consulting)

Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG, the four large accounting networks, each with a consulting arm. By headcount they are most of the industry, and the arm contains everything from strategy and deals work to multi-year technology delivery, so the practice a graduate joins matters more than the firm name.

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The Consulting Firms, and How They DifferThe tiers are real and they are not a ranking of quality. They describe different businesses with different work, different clients and different lives.Read the guide, 10 min The Consulting Career Path, Analyst to PartnerThe ladder is unusually explicit and unusually short at the top. Most people are meant to leave, and the industry is built around that.Read the guide, 10 min Consulting Recruiting: The Cycle and How to Run ItThe internship is the main door and it is decided a year before the job starts. Almost everything else is a smaller door.Read the guide, 10 min

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