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Winter 2014 East Coast Tour Recap

Management Consulted

By way of a quick words-only recap, we made our way back to Duke and got to train 30 eager sophomores and juniors preparing for their first interview season. It was a beautiful Sunday, and the only real excitement was the day before – we got evacuated onto the lobby level of our hotel with 80MPH+ winds and major tornado warnings.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

Rita High School, where I learned to develop group and individualized training toward specific goals — namely, competing in band competitions or performing in concerts. L&D, goal-setting theory of motivation, and leadership training took shape during those five years with the band. In today’s society, we have career choices.

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Experienced Hire from Harvard breaks in to Healthcare Consulting (Part 1)

Management Consulted

If healthcare decision-making processes and drug development get you out of bed in the morning, or if you simply want to learn from someone who successfully navigated the consulting interview process just last year, be ready to pick up some great networking and interview tips for yourself. interview on Friday.

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Management Consulted Goes to London (and Beyond)

Management Consulted

As if traveling across the ocean on the plane wasn’t enough, we felt it necessary to use as many forms of transportation as necessary…so we took a train up to Durham University. How could you possibly go into an interview not having done this bootcamp?” Time just flew, and yet it didn’t leave me exhausted.”

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Unspoken truths of top-tier consulting: things every consultant knows, but no one says 

Tom Spencer

When you first start consulting, it can seem like a sort of corporate utopia: interesting work, a new client every few months, access to leaders of industry, great colleagues, endless career development and training, generous dinner budgets, extensive travel, nice hotels, international travel.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. In the case of the recruiting issue, we made faster hiring a competition, rewarding individuals and teams that showed the best results.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

” That being said, KPMG is a very good brand and the firm offers incredible training and project work, providing you with great exposure to many of the biggest and most influential businesses in the world. Richard Solomons – Chief Executive of InterContinental Hotels Group. KPMG CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & RECRUITING.