Hi all!I've recently been successful in securing a role at PA consulting group as an Analyst for their Life Science and healthcare practice. I start in March and I was wondering if anyone would recommend I prepare for anything in advance before starting? e.g. reading any good books or brushing up on certain maths. Any advice would be good really!

Drugs.

Read the FT from front to back everyday from now until you die.Subscribe to the Economist.Practice public speaking in Trafalgar Square.Go on an advanced Excel training course.

Go and have fun for the last 1 month of freedom....

Learn ISO/IEC 27001 intimately! !Seriously

[quote]Go and have fun for the last 1 month of freedom....[/quote]I recommend seeing how many beer festivals you can visit in that time - you can get a little book listing every real ale available in the UK which you can dutifully tick off as you progress through them. Good training.

Read "Biting Pillows: Taking One For the Team", the unofficial handbook of Consultancy

LOL!!! I haven't laughed that hard for a long time!

Is this available for Kindle?

Writing the first chapter now...

I would recommend reading "The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Thinking and Writing" by Minto, it is very often recommended to new consultants.