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When it’s Time to Focus on Your Consulting Career

Tom Spencer

When playing sports as a child exploring different sports will help you identify your strengths and find what you naturally enjoy. However, as you get older, focusing on one sport will help you stay competitive. You can also vision board your ideal resume. Exploring once you have focused.

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Walking the city, walking the world

Seth Godin Blog

Perhaps 40 went to a famous college, maybe 10 played competitive sports. But what we see when we look at the media or at a stack of resumes doesn’t accurately represent the world as it is. Of those 800 people, not one was as conventionally attractive as a movie star. Few looked like the images I saw on the billboards I passed.

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Consulting’s Unofficial Interview Hurdle – The Airplane Test

Tom Spencer

If you are just starting out, you will find yourself editing your resume, preparing answers for experiential questions, and practicing business frameworks to use in the case interview. One big area is sports – many people have a vested interest in major sports. No need to dig yourself into a hole. International Level.

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Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume

Harvard Business

Specifically, we used a technique — known as the resume audit method — that is widely seen as the gold standard for measuring employment discrimination. All in all, we sent fictitious resumes to 316 offices of 147 top law firms in 14 cities, from candidates who were supposedly trying to land a summer internship position.

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

Get involved with the sports club you had been meaning to join, try climbing the rock wall in the gym, or run for student government. This does not need to be a resume building activity, as you obviously have the job already. Maybe you do not want to learn something new, but this is also a good time to try a new activity.

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Networking Your Way into Consulting, Even in a Pandemic

Tom Spencer

You might have a picture-perfect resume. Your credentials might even get past the robotic sorters looking through thousands of resumes for specific “buzz words”. You might satisfy all the basic qualifications. So how do you combat this nightmare?

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Once You Get the Job, Does Networking End?

Tom Spencer

This means you want to keep your current job title and description up to date online as well as keeping your resume polished. When engaging in discussion with someone new, talk about careers and ideas, not simply sports scores and viral videos. Make many conversations and make them count. The Bottom Line.