Consultants make $175,000 right out of business school. But some of them have nothing to do — so they're just sitting around getting paid.

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Recent hires, fresh out of business school, at some big consulting firms don't have enough work to do. They're spending the idle time meal-prepping, taking naps, and even applying for other jobs, the told The Wall Street Journal.

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Clarence Thomas' wife Ginni was paid nearly $100,000 for 'consulting' by a nonprofit that ended up filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court: report

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Virginia “Ginni” Thomas at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 23, 2017.

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These 25 companies have the highest-paying internships of 2023 — with some paying more than $9,000 a month

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Tech, finance, and consulting firms dominated Glassdoor's list of the highest-paying internships of 2023.

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Blue-chip consulting firm Bain is reportedly offering new hires $20,000 to become yoga instructors or go on safari for a year

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Bain is reportedly offering new MBA hires tens of thousands of dollars to delay their start at the consulting firm.

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Walmart could expand into consulting and website design for other businesses as it continues to look beyond traditional retail, trademark filing suggests

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Walmart filed a trademark application for the term "CLUBHOUSE" on April 6.

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Teacher transitions from the classroom to a major accounting firm — and reminds others 'you haven't just taught'

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Michael Sanders is now a CEO Action for Racial Equity Fellow at PwC.

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I'm the head of talent at Deloitte US. Here are the top 3 things I look for in a job candidate and my favorite interview question.

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David Rizzo.

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I turned my consultancy side hustle into a full-time business and book using these two strategies

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Ashley Stoyanov Ojeda is a consultant and author

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Management consulting firm McKinsey & Co plans to cut 2,000 jobs after adding 17,000 over the past 5 years: reports

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The 10 companies that produce the most startup founders, including Bain, McKinsey, and Sony

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Heidi Zak, the founder of the bra company ThirdLove, used to work for McKinsey & Co.

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