Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 18, 2016
Your resume, simply put, is the platform through which your story is told. Based on our years of experience editing consulting resumes, we’ve identified the 5 universal qualities of a winning management consulting resume. However, a consultant won’t be nearly as attached to your resume as you are.
Johanna Rothman
MAY 1, 2024
Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? And candidates and consultants invest time that has no perceived payoff for them. I agree—hiring managers do need to assess a candidate's or consultant's skills. (I So what can a candidate or consultant do to show their skills without working for free?
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Management Consulted
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
You’ve bombarded us with insightful questions about resumes, interviews, applications, and how to pick up the pieces and consider alternatives to consulting when you don’t make the cut. While each question comes from a unique personal perspective, many of the issues apply to our entire reader base of consulting wanna-bes.
Tom Spencer
MARCH 3, 2023
One of my biggest fears when I first gained an interest in consulting was that I was simply ineligible as a non-business student. Breaking into the consulting industry with a non-business degree can be challenging as a sizeable portion of hires are from top business schools, but non-business hires are on the rise.
Management Consulted
APRIL 9, 2017
If you’ve been around the management consulting industry for any amount of time at all, you know how different of a beast it really is to conquer than nearly any other industry. Even if you’ve done a masterful job of networking , you still have to jump through the hoops and meet the stringent criteria of consulting firms.
Tom Spencer
JANUARY 8, 2022
Definition of experienced hire. Typically, experienced hires have 2+ years of experience working in an industry job or at another consulting firm, but they could also have over a decade of relevant experience if hired into the top level of a firm. Some firms decided to let consultants go during the early phase of the pandemic.
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
Job crafting your current role to gain consulting skills. Your title doesn’t have to be “consultant” in order to gain consulting skills. If you have all of them covered – you are probably a consultant. Another trick is to start with the end-in-mind and think of how you would want to describe your role on a resume.
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