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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. ” asked the clever riff aimed at Uber workers.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). This culture highlights coming in first.

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

Check out this Zappos organizational culture video: [link] Keeping culture strong becomes more challenging as the organization grows. Google has faced many challenges on its path to becoming the 5th most valuable company by market capitalization in the world. Businesses have to reinvent themselves to grow and adapt to changes.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. This is a subtle but important distinction.

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

Management Consulted

I just graduated from Harvard in 2015. I originally applied to two firms: one is called CB Partners, which is a boutique firm in New York focused on market access. It started off with contacting – actually, I reached out to recruiters specifically and sent in my application, and they were mostly very quick to respond to me.

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Shell Fires Another 10,000; Energy Layoffs Top 250,000; Oil Breaks $28 Again; In Search of Jobs

MishTalk

Operating costs have reduced by $4 billion, or around 10% in 2015, and the company expects Shell’s costs to fall again in 2016 by a further $3 billion. I think it’s going to come bite us extremely hard,” says Tobias Read, CEO of Swift Worldwide Resources, an energy recruiting firm based in Houston. Don't fret.

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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

This added to the firm’s already glowing reputation as they continued to diversify their services and enter new markets. Recently, Alvarez & Marsal gained more territory in Europe and Asia by recruiting a new country head in Greece and by opening an office in Seoul, South Korea. ALVAREZ & MARSAL INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING.