Your practice track for Management Consultant
at Boston Consulting Group

Philippine-specific tips for this role

• ▸ Ah basta, I'll just adjust po, kasi sanay naman ako magpuyat. Saka if they're mabagal, ako na lang gagawa ng lahat. Basta lang ma-submit, okay na yun. Pasensya na po.
• ▸ Shoocks, sorry po. Maybe we can like, guesstimate the market? I'll just compute the population times magic number times whatever, tapos yun na yun. Iisipin ko na lang po yung iba habang sinasabi. Sana okay lang po.
• ▸ Grabe, I was so stressed po. Parang I just told them, 'Guys, kailangan lang natin tapusin ito, bahala na.' I didn't want to make anyone feel bad so I just did all the work myself. Sorna po.
• ▸ Kasi, like, BCG is the best po, maganda sa resume, and I heard malaki sahod? I'm not sure about other firms, pero BCG lang talaga because sikat siya.
• ▸ So, I showed them the Excel po with all the formulas and correlation coefficients, tapos sabi ko, 'You see, the p-value is less than 0.05, so it's significant.' Sana na-gets nila. Sorry po, hindi ako magaling mag-explain.
• ▸ Avoid saying 'I think the Philippines is a good market because it has many people.' Instead, use a framework like PESTEL or customer-competitor-company to stay organized. Say 'Let me look at the macro environment first.'
• ▸ Don't say 'I will assume 50% market share' without justification. Instead, use a logical bottom-up or top-down approach based on real Philippines demographics. Practice saying 'I will start by creating a framework before doing the math.'
• ▸ Don't say 'I just showed the data and they immediately agreed.' In Philippine corporate culture, senior leaders can be especially risk-averse. Instead, say 'I first acknowledged their perspective, then used a visual comparison to make the data easy to understand.'