Category: Consulting Applications

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Lawyer to Consulting: How JDs Land MBB Offers in 2026

Moving as a lawyer to consulting is not as common but easily possible if approached well. Lawyers are one of the cleanest fits on paper for management consulting. McKinsey, BCG, and Bain all have formal pipelines that recruit JDs alongside MDs and PhDs as Advanced Professional Degree candidates. For instance, roughly 30% of new McKinsey…
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Investment Banking to Consulting: How Bankers Land MBB Offers

Ex-bankers are a large experienced-hire pool at MBB. Roughly 15-20% of Bain’s experienced hires come from finance and banking, so the move from investment banking to consulting is not rare. McKinsey and BCG run similar numbers. The transition is well-trodden. Every senior partner in a Strategy & Corporate Finance practice can name half a dozen…
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Engineer to Consulting: How to Land an MBB Offer in 2026

Moving as engineer to consulting happens more often than people think. In fact, engineers are one of the largest non-MBA talent pools at McKinsey, BCG, and Bain. Roughly 1 in 5 incoming MBB consultants holds an engineering degree. So if you’re reading this with an engineering or software development background, you’re not the underdog. You’re…
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The Reality of AI in Consulting: A Mercor Perspective

The question of whether artificial intelligence can truly perform professional consulting work has moved from academic curiosity to practical urgency. Businesses, prospects, and even consulting firms themselves are experimenting with autonomous AI agents in hopes they might eventually replace or augment human consultants. But recent research from Mercor, a research and expert-marketplace startup, suggests that…
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Artificial Intelligence and Junior Consultants: How Recruiting, Training, and Work are Changing

Between efficiency promises and reality Artificial intelligence is widely regarded as the most significant transformation of consulting work in recent decades. Within just a few years, large language models have entered everyday project work, from market analyses and presentation drafts to internal knowledge databases. Hardly any other technology has been rolled out so quickly and…
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