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Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume

Harvard Business

We set out to answer this question in a series of studies reported in the December 2016 issue of American Sociological Review. Specifically, we used a technique — known as the resume audit method — that is widely seen as the gold standard for measuring employment discrimination. Who gets invited to interview?

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Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories

Harvard Business

Updating your LinkedIn profile and resume. But for the most part, recruiters aren’t calling. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive. You’re searching for a new job.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

Is my resume where it needs to be?” We’ve got your resume to go through, and as I gather you have a whole bunch of questions about consulting. Do you want to talk about your resume and your experience first, or do you want to talk about the questions that you have? Commercial Pilot’s Resume. Is that right?

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How Taekwon-Do Prepared Me for Consulting Interviews

Tom Spencer

Flying leg break during a black belt test in 2016. To receive a job offer you must write a resume and cover letter, attend recruiting sessions and coffee chats, network with current consultants, and practice interview questions. I do not even think I felt the boards with my foot as my kick sliced clearly through them.

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Conversation with L.E.K. Consulting

Tom Spencer

I recently had the opportunity to communicate with Janine Clifford, Recruitment & HR Manager at L.E.K. Our graduate recruitment programs runs every March so we will be back on campus and recruitment in March 2016 for positions commencing in February 2017. We are also in the process of recruiting some new Consultants.

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2017 Management Consulting Salaries for Undergraduates, MBAs/Grads, & Interns

Management Consulted

This year promises the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century, the 2017 World Expo, and the French and German elections—fingers crossed these will not cause the pandemoniums of Brexit and the indelible 2016 US election. 5 Universal Qualities of a Winning Management Consulting Resume. 2017 Consulting Salary Data. More Reading.

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What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest

Harvard Business

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. My team and I worked alongside recruiters to ensure we would help them test new strategies for hiring.