Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

Alex Formstone is a Principal in Marakon ’s London office, and heads up recruiting in the UK for graduates and MBAs. I recently had the good fortune to talk briefly with Alex about his career, Marakon and its recruitment process. Tom: I assume that Marakon uses the case interview as part of its recruitment process?

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 20, 2015

You are likely to visit clients for client meetings and workshops. We just finished this week, and will be re-advertising starting from September for 2016. Tom: Does IMS Consulting Group use the case interview as part of its recruitment process? How many interview rounds are there? Tom: What’s a speed interview?

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Groups Consulting Case Interview Interviews 60

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

and almost no companies report engineering data specifically), Pinterest’s goal in 2016 was to hire women engineers at nearly twice this rate. I joined Pinterest as the company’s first Head of Diversity in January of 2016. Others wonder if underrepresented groups can truly meet a high hiring bar. referrals).

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2017

There’s a growing skepticism about whether unconscious bias training is an effective tool to meet corporate diversity goals. For example, implementing a new interview process, without educating employees on its benefits, inhibits its adoption. But do employees actually act on these good intentions?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

The 2016 Care Index released by the New America Foundation and Care.com shared an increasingly troubling cost profile of child care right now. These are the very same cities where employers struggle to recruit and maintain skilled talent. Set regular start and end times for meetings. Photo by Mike Wilson. This is not news.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

But for the most part, recruiters aren’t calling. And on the rare occasions when you do land an interview, you stumble over questions about what you’d bring to the hiring company and why you’re the perfect fit. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? Interviews.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. L’Oréal now spends 32% of its net media budget on digital channels, and saw e-commerce sales jump by 33% in 2016 alone.

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