I generally prefer not to bore my readers with arcane details about my blog statistics, but for those of you who are interested, the following search terms led readers to my blog, this week:
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But by far, the two searches that I see most common are “thinkpad disable client security setup” and “getting hired mckinsey”. Lenovo, if you’re reading this, you need to make your laptops more user-friendly… As for McKinsey & Company, it appears that internet surfers just can’t get enough about “The Firm”. My all time most popular posting was my analysis of the 2006 INSEAD Careers Decision Report. It would not be an exaggeration to say that I could significantly increase my traffic and page rank if every post I wrote on this blog was about McKinsey & Company and INSEAD.
For the uninitiated, INSEAD is one of the top 3 feeder schools to McKinsey & Company. A significantly percentage of company sponsored students at INSEAD are former McKinsey business analysts and McKinsey remains the single largest employer of INSEAD MBA graduates. Last year McKinsey hired 75 INSEAD MBAs (including returning students) and percentage-wise, a greater proportion of INSEAD MBAs are hired each year by McKinsey than from Harvard Business School. There are several reasons for this, but most significant is the unmatched geographic demographic of the INSEAD class. Simply put, INSEAD draws the best students from around the world, and after graduation they disperse around the globe. As the world’s most prestigious international consulting firm, McKinsey values INSEAD MBA graduates and continues to hire them at an impressive rate.
