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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Analytical skills include more than the obvious need for technical competence with applications for modeling, forecasting, and statistical analysis, such as SPSS, R, and Python. Culture Lever #6 : How leaders recruit, promote, and excommunicate. There are tangible rewards and social rewards.

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Fatigued by rejections? Try a personality test!

Tom Spencer

This article was inspired by a recent conversation with an IT prodigy who specializes in building virtual games used for recruitment purposes. Online assessments, aptitude tests, and gamified problem-solving tasks have become ubiquitous in the recruitment processes of top companies, with consulting firms being some of the earliest adopters.

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Benefits of Small Business Consulting

Business Consulting Agency

Consultants work closely with business owners to assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis), develop growth strategies, and identify key performance indicators (KPIs) for measurable success.

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ESG’s Impact on Professional Services

Prudent Pedal

How firms use ESG to position their businesses is of strategic importance to a firm’s brand, demand generation, client relationships, recruiting, and culture. According to Forbes, “The Davos Manifesto highlighted a set of 22 quantitative core ESG metrics and then added a more advanced phase two aspirational set of 34 metrics.

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How to Interpret Charts During Case Interviews

Tom Spencer

So, a few minutes into your case interview, the recruiter slides a chart across the table and asks what you can tell from that particular exhibit. Tie those findings to the case and your analysis and interpret their implications. Taking into context the core objective, make a quick hypothesis based on the key metrics.

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

Management Consulted

Consultants are very risk averse and are very hyper focused on issues like GPA and other metrics – not because they are a perfect indicator, but because there are a decent indicator of whether or not somebody is going to be able to manage work that sometimes is really exciting, and sometimes kind of mundane. Let’s see here.

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2022 wage strategies: How contact centers can face the Great Resignation

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With several outsourcing contact centers in 2021 reporting training class rates as low as 20% and above average stress levels , it’s no longer a question of how does the industry recruit quality employees, but how does it retain them? Meeting employee needs and equipping them with the right tools with be critical in 2022.