Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2021

The risks to the management consulting industry are summarized well in an article written by Alexandre Gonfalonieri , an AI Consultant based in Paris. They are acquiring tech firms, setting up innovation labs, and developing AI software solutions.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 9, 2024

In this article, Petia Tzanova, =mc Learning and Development Consultant draws on her extensive career to outline key considerations when taking your first step into management. Do I like supporting others through coaching, teaching, training or motivating them to achieve their objectives? Are you an aspiring manager?

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

Because these firms tend to have slim margins and cannot pay Silicon Valley salaries, many have had to get creative in their recruiting and employee development. Another common strategy we’ve seen is firms rushing to train internal talent. There were no processes in place to share the learning.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

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. The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. ” asked the clever riff aimed at Uber workers. So venture out.

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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. Critics of such training contend that it doesn’t visibly move the needle on diversity numbers, and can even backfire. Clearly, not all trainings are equally good — and none are a silver bullet.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

After he graduated from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), he developed the idea that companies would become more successful if they called on someone outside of their organization to offer expert, unbiased advice. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. Organization and Change. Product and Service Innovation.

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

As I’ve seen from teaching over 960 recruits as a basic-training company commander in the U.S. I’ve found that people with disparate life experiences often require help from their leaders to see and develop common ground. Take my recruits, for instance. That reinforces the bond.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

When it comes to training and workforce development, lots of them. In a 2014 survey , 55% of executives said a major constraint to investing in training was that they did not know how to measure success. By tailoring our training to those challenges, we can reduce turnover, therefore saving employers money.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As the pioneering Danish firm Specialisterne showed first in the early 2000s, however, and as the Australian Defence Organization’s partner DXC Technology has demonstrated through deployments in Australia, if you manage things right, you can recruit great talent and activate it to a maximum degree from populations of autistic people.

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Recruiting Recruitment Talent Case Interview 28

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

In 2003, Bridgespan created the “Bridgestar” initiative to focus on leadership development and to help professionals transition into nonprofit careers. Strategy Development. Youth Development. By the fall of that year, the organization had 27 employees and had already opened an additional office in San Francisco.

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Interviews Culture Bain Consulting 150

Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

We are now in the era of “do-it-yourself” career development. Companies less frequently offer formal training – a trend that has been on the decline for years. During my 11 years at PepsiCo, mostly during the 1990s, “personal development” was treated as a major company initiative.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 11, 2020

This article looks at some of the key questions to consider as you pursue a career in the management consulting industry. On the other hand, top global firms provide a more structured graduate program, formal training and development opportunities, and typically pay higher salaries. Reading Time: 3 minutes.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

In the meantime, Marsh & McLennan was creating Mercer; in 1975, Mercer was developed as the human resources consulting arm of Marsh & McLennan. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. Aviation, Aerospace, and Defense.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Consulting Matters

MAY 13, 2021

One of the first things he did after developing a consulting business was to think about his ideal client. Don't write articles around YOURSELF. Set up the recruitment process. Phil's Solutions: Reduce pitfalls through training, support, and warming up clients. We can't profits going up. We can't get turnover down.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

BearingPoint partners with the major technological suppliers, like Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, to develop solutions and strategies suiting their clients’ requirements. International Development. Sustainable Development. Lots of excellent training is available and other co-consultants are very helpful.

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BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

Management Consulted

JULY 10, 2016

It’s no secret McKinsey recruits PhD and APD level candidates, but the process is unique compared to the way the firm hires other candidates. We’re starting this article off assuming that you’ve already knocked some socks off during networking (see here ) and created a masterful resume and cover letter (see here ).

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2016

But more than just teamwork, Kellogg also knows how to train you up in problem-solving skills. The Class of 2015 had a full 35% of its graduates accept offers in the consulting field, and Kellogg has become a hot recruiting spot across top firms – but especially for McKinsey. Buckle up; here we go!

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. In January 2017 we partnered with Colleen Showalter from the local Boys and Girls Club (BGC) in Portland, Oregon, and asked if they would help us recruit new talent, ages 18 and above, from underrepresented groups.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

Many consulting firms also invest significant dollars in their knowledge management and training programs. Multiple day trainings off-site at each step in the career path in appealing destinations such as Cape Cod, Cancun, and Barcelona are common investments at top firms. Private equity firms also enjoy recruiting former consultants.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Resumes 91

Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

Know that funding alone is not going to solve the recruiting problem. Just as entrepreneurs of all kinds need to anticipate consumer trends and product development, they also need to stay ahead of their hiring needs. Training and skill development solves another problem too. Talent is scarce and therefore expensive.

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Talent Enterprise Survey Recruiting 52

NeoAcademic

MARCH 25, 2021

Specific job tasks vary over the phases of the project, and training on all such tasks will be provided as required. The position principally requires responsibilities in the management and administration of project personnel and secondarily in the completion of scientific research tasks, such as assigned literature review or data analysis.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

The company has also hired hundreds of workers to revamp production processes, train (and retrain) the robots, and swap them out when needed, among other tasks. The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Some Training Required.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2018

In STEM fields, both the private and public sectors continue to struggle with recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Like many technical workplaces, UCAR, which has approximately 1400 employees, has struggled to recruit and retain women and people of color. We kept this in mind when creating our own workplace diversity program.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

When I was recruiting, I once had a McKinsey engagement manager explain to me what I just explained to you. Often, there are dozens of industry reports to read, dozens of client materials to review, and entire stacks of practice development training materials geared around a particular kind of problem.

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Consulting Case Interview McKinsey Interviews 56

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Also – scroll down to the end of the article and see what came out of our conversation just 3 weeks after we talked! It’s unfortunate, but my flight training isn’t reflected in my GPA. When I went through my flight training I was at the top of my class. Hey Beau – I’m excited to talk to you today. Let’s see here.

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Consulting Resumes Bain Recruiting 125

Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Fast forward to the present and we see that most jobs today demand the exact opposite from employees: the capacity to keep learning and developing new skills and expertise, even if they are not obviously linked to one’s current job. Simply reading the articles your Facebook friends share doesn’t count.)

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

You will be responsible for preparing an expert witness for court, conducting and then submitting analyses to the court, and developing case strategy. Intern pay and training are above-average compared to what you will find at many other consulting firms, and prior interns have found it a good foot in the door for landing permanent positions.

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Halo Psych

MAY 16, 2022

Also ask if the right people are involved in demystifying the situation and developing the plan ahead. The need for COMPETENCE and feeling like we’re growing and developing our skills in response to the challenges we face wt work. What development activities are in place to help people be and do their best?

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

When Army 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Riley was a senior at the University of Virginia, he ranked 10th out of 5,579 in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) National Order of Merit List. military over the last 250 years can, at times, make recruitment and retention difficult. Attracting Talent.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

To check out our London video with in-person testimonies (with awesome accents), make sure to read on to the end of the article… The trip started off on the right note – Michelle got her first-ever upgrade to First Class. It’s good to travel with an ex-consultant! Thank you, Delta Platinum status!

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We see three common scenarios that can cause employers to recruit outside their ranks for talented people (albeit at their own risk). Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Consider professionals working as app developers, social media managers, or driverless car engineers. That left us wondering, what’s the disconnect here?

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. The DC office management pushes training programs and the culture is all about grooming employees into McKinsey-bred consultants; they do everything they can to stay on top.

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The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And your LinkedIn profile is the perfect place to both develop and spotlight your most focused marketing message. This is the fourth of five articles about the 5 Pillars of Marketing, my marketing model that helps get your marketing on track. Read the original article 5 Pillar here. This article shows you exactly how to do that.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Economists have recently begun to suspect that the shift was caused by a decrease in “ recruitment intensity.” Lower recruitment intensity increases the time it takes to fill a job, which means more unfilled jobs and a higher job openings rate for a given level of unemployment.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn.

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Leadership Recruiting Recruitment Training 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

We also explored several decades of research on that subject published in HBR; and we reflected on our own experience in the area of leadership development. Recruit, develop, and reward a team of great people to carry out the strategy. “I took a risk, and it helped put us on the map, as never before.”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2017

Leaders tend to coach and mentor their “own,” and here’s the human impulse that drives it: Even those who believe that diversity improves creativity, problem solving, and decision making naturally invest in and advocate for the development of the subordinates who are most like them.

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