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Vault.com provides volumes of information to describe the management consulting industry. The industry portal offers snippets on the industry, 'Why Go Into Consulting,' 'Day in the Life of a Consultant' and specific company reviews.

Wetfeet.com's industry review provides an overview of the promotion path while listing salary bands.

As the financial industry further collapsed in the fall of 2008, WSJ describes increased competition for the reduced number of consulting slots among candidates on campus.

For the members of GlassDoor.com who post company reviews and salary information, those members gain access to view GlassDoor.com's salary and company reviews.

Blogs like Greendotlife.com allow the employees of a particular management consultancy to ask and respond to salary questions at various levels.

Vault.com allows members to view posted salaries for a fee.

Wetfeet.com’s industry overview provides general salary ranges for the different levels in a management consulting company

Payscale.com and Salary.com provide salary information for any career based upon job function, geography, and years of experience.

To produce a customized resume, professional resume write services charge anywhere from $150-$900. There are independent reviewers of these resume writing services: One of them is Best10ResumeWriters.com.

Assessing your resume can be done using a checklist. Other articles caution that resumes avoid these commonly-made mistakes.

Here are several examples of resumes. If some time has passed since your last resume rewrite, your resume’s content and the formatting may need a refresher. The evaluation of a resume is subjective, and the Consultant Advisor provided a few notes on each of the examples supplied.

Sample Resume	Strengths	Could Use Improvement
www.theladders.com	7 jobs captured in resume. Highlights of experience have quantifiable metrics. Good job capturing 'what is most important' for the position sought.	Opening 2 paragraphs may be longer than necessary. 18 core competencies may be too many
Senator Obama Resume	Highlights 6 critical skills necessary to demonstrate capability	Details backing up the critical skills didn't necessarily answer the question of "so what?"
Senator McCain Resume	Strong visual objective that is very compelling (the boxed in area)	The volume of the bullets is a bit challenging, but it is balanced by the strong objective on top of page 1.
Functional Resume example from Quintcareers.com	Example of how 5 specific skills are highlighted to secure desired position. Note, experience of this candidate is taken from 5 different jobs.	Not sure if stated objective is effective in targeting the job that candidate wants.
Public Relations Manager from Monster.com	Interesting visual format, decent job in highlighting selected achievments (less than half had quantifiable metrics behind it). Candidate has 3 different job experiences.	Use of paragraph-prose makes it difficult to visually scan resume quickly.
DBA from Monster.com	Interesting visual format	The way experience is described can be strengthened if it is framed in a results-based format.

Several of the management consulting companies now provide resources on their websites to help candidates prepare for the case interview:

• Boston Consulting Group
• McKinsey
• Bain and Company
• Oliver Wyman

Vault.com also provides free information on defining What Is a Case Interview.