Step One: Summarizing the facts
After the World War II the whole world was damaged by the war’s consequences. Destroyed towns, cities, states, economics, these all factors made people scream for new and better future. People were mobilizing in re-building towns and cities, but the most required thing to improve was the economics. Hand in hand with economics comes the management. After the war, many management consulting companies came to markets, especially in the United States, as e.g. Boston Consulting group, Booz Allen, McKinsey, BCG, Bain & company. As the „desire“ for management consulting grew, there was needed to make so called segmentation. The first group of consultants are specialists. They apply special knowledgements to various firms with real problems. The most wanted area in the whole consulting area is informational technology (IT). The second group of consultants are generalists. These professionals provide high quality advices for companies to run better, faster, cleaner. (Careers in business, 2004).
Overall, the ground of management consulting is to help or improve the customers‘ or clients‘ problems to solve and make it to be a long-lasting solution. The high-quality management consultants or consulting companies are able and willing to help its clients in weird, sometimes maybe hostile conditions and know what should be done. Many of these consulting groups are interested in graduating students, mostly with the MBA degree. But many companies, on the other hand, are afraid of hiring graduated students, because they have no experiences.

Step two: State the problem or opportunity
First, if companies are interested in students, they are seeking mostly for students with the MBA degree. The MBA degree is very important especially for companies, which are management focused. But for many people, without the MBA degree the chance that they could be hired declines. For example, in Bratislava there are at least two universities, The University of Economy and the University of Komensky with the focus on management. These students reach “just” the Mgr. title, which is very general and among international companies not that spread.
If happens, that a company hires a graduated student, in many cases is not allowed to them to interfere into the companies affairs. They are there just for making numbers or for doing just inferior work as e.g. overwriting, overtyping, etc., for what they do not need a diploma.
Rather than a newly graduated students, companies hire professionals from other, similar firms. To hire them, has many advantages and in many cases the company do not want to see and do not want to compare a student to a professional. A professional can disappoint, but the student can just surprise.
Another “challenge” for consulting companies are mothers with children. It is almost the rule, that when a woman becomes a mother, her place is endangered. Companies hire another person for that place. In Slovakia is the maternity leave set to 3 years, but many mothers, who want to be good mothers for her child, would wish to stay all 3 years, or maybe longer. But they cannot afford it, because they are afraid of loosing their position in the workplace. So they rather decide to leave their child and go back to work.
The little poor child is then sentenced to be, in better case with grandmother, in worse case with nanny. This has very often not a good influence on the woman’s performance in the work and achievements.

Step three: Analyze the causes of the problems or environment of the opportunity
For management consulting companies it is essential to do SWOT analysis, whether they want just professionals with experiences or to hire new enforces from the side of students. Another analysis is also required for the case of mothers.
The first case: To hire students
Strengths:
Students can bring new ideas, new methods of strategy
Students are unbiased of any company
Students may bring change in monotony in the workplace
Students are young, have potential, can make others to work better
Weaknesses:
Students may bring jealousy, pressure in the atmosphere (fear of firing)
Students can be good just in theory, not by working plans
Students firstly would not know what to do
Opportunities:
Students can bring new ‘wind’, new power in the company
The company may be positive seen as giving opportunity to young people
Threats:
Student first would not know what to do, how the company works
The company may be seen as having a inexperienced staff
Having financial problems, because of hiring graduated students