Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

To secure a final round interview at Bain, you would have to be in the top 3% of applicants for that office. No one enjoys being turned down, especially in the case of a consulting role where a lot of preparation is required. The key thing to do after a rejection is to reflect on the interview process and ask for feedback.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

Also, the compensation is lower than the industry standard, which is a reason why many people leave the firm – they get trained, and they get out. THE ADVISORY BOARD COMPANY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Interviewing at The Advisory Board Company is relatively straightforward, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

Because of this, we sat down with consulting veteran Lisa Bright (who is now part of the MC interview coaching team!) I was going down the route of finance, asset management, investment banking, or something like that. Then, they flew me out to the Chicago office where I had my first round interview. That was rough.

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Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

A global firm with a very interesting history, they’re known for motivating, developing and training their clients’ staff as well as the for research they carry out on the companies they work with. Brian Beckstein – Vice President, Learning & Leadership Development at Bank of America. HAY GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. As consulting firms go, FTI Consulting is a newcomer – but at just over 30 years old, the firm has made impressive strides to become one of the most respected name in legal analysis and data-driven research to support major initiatives for law firms, banks and the majority of the Fortune 500.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. So you have a Booz & Company interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? After 2 years, he recruited 2 friends from Chicago and formed the Business Research and Development Company with $500 borrowed from the bank. We want you to nail it.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Interviewing with NERA Economic Consulting? Finance: Bankruptcy, Consumer Protection in Financial Services, Financial Institutions and Banking, Financial Risk Management. . M&M companies are traditionally excellent pioneers of diversity and inclusion culture – check out the below under Interviews & Recruiting. .

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. Banking salaries average 50-100% higher than consulting salaries , with the difference increasingly significant as your seniority increases.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

Sometimes, when struggling through yet another case interview practice , candidates might wonder: "Why consulting again?" Indeed, many other job opportunities have straightforward interviewing and hiring processes that don't require hours of practice and coaching. Consultants learn a lot--fast. The first challenge is getting in.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 23, 2020

It’s been interesting to notice how well trained they are to be aware of their surroundings — assessing potential threats, planning escape routes, managing time and space between themselves and potential threats. If sales and retention are on target, but you have no cash left in the bank, something is wrong.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 27, 2018

Interview Transcript: Betsy Jordyn: Well hello there everybody it's Betsy Jordyn of the Consultants Institute, and I am so excited to finally be interviewing Michael Zipursky of Consulting Success. inaudible 00:01:59] Panasonic and Dow Jones and Financial Times Japan, Royal Bank of Canada and a whole host of others. Time flies.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 18, 2020

Oftentimes interviewers ask case questions based on their previous projects and industry experience. Although those experiences might look appealing to a recruiter on a resume or cover letter, an interviewer is more interested in exploring a candidate’s ability to problem-solve. Workplace culture. Exit opportunities.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Hi readers: I hate to pause the blog train, but for the next few days I will be traveling and enjoying the last moments of 2008. The “ultimate” interview guide – complete with fit/behavioral questions, sizing/quantitative questions, and brain-teasers. You can expect my posting to start again on Friday, January 2.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you. As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 27, 2008

Management Consulting versus Investment Banking. Top 10 Interview Tips. The training – both on the job and formal – was continuous and applicable far beyond management consulting. In future weeks, I plan to release case studies, interview guides, and the like. Top 10 Resume Tips.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2015

Mario Draghi has strong opposition to his QE program from two sources: German central bank president Jens Weidmann and Dutch central Bank president Klaas Knot. In a television interview on Sunday, Dutch Central Bank Head Says He Doesn’t Support ECB Bond Purchases. De Hass Writes. Knot was very candid.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The one-on-one format can create a more conversational, interesting, and intimate experience, and has the added benefit that the CEO or luminary being interviewed theoretically doesn’t have to prepare as much. Despite how effective interviews can be in theory, however, they are often difficult to execute in practice.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

If you’re an undergrad with a desire to break in to consulting, an economics degree will train your mind to tackle problems and make you an attractive prospect for internships and Masters’ programs. Dropping these terms in interviews can be good, but only as a Master’s student, and only when appropriately practical.

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Effective Managers

MARCH 31, 2023

Any piece of work that has been prepared based on the data set on which ChatGPT was trained is bound to be thorough. Yes, ChatGPT has been trained on a very large data set. Much of the highly proceduralized work of bank tellers has been replaced by automated tellers and online banking. But there is a catch.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

As the next installment in our popular Firm Profile series, we take a look at the evolution, reinvention, and current interview tactics of one of the world’s premier consulting firms – IBM. IBM provides all the broad-business based training and offers some more specialized training subjects like sales training, if desired.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 11, 2015

Australian newspaper " The Age " has an interesting interview with Gerard Minack, former Morgan Stanley strategist. Finally Minack calls " central bank credibility " the biggest bubble. In the two years before that, every time we hit a soft patch you reintroduced the tail risk of a systemic European banking crisis.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

If you have views on on-boarding, shaping, and training young product managers, you can effectively mold these programs to fit your vision. Here are some questions to ask your recruiter, interviewer or APM coordinator: How long has the APM program been around? How many cohorts have graduated from it? How big is the average cohort?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

Bringing light to Africa , mobile banking to Bangladesh , low-cost health care to Nepal, or better school lunches to the American cafeteria: In all these cases, the private sector is a big part of the action. Training and skill development solves another problem too. — money. Social entrepreneurs already recognize this.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

For more than four hours, Stumpf fielded a range of questions about why the bank, which had over $1.8 The recordings of the hearing are a shocking but illustrative case study of how leaders are at risk of being corrupted by power. ” One CEO we interviewed for our upcoming book was very open about this problem.

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MishTalk

JULY 28, 2013

Case Against The Fed. They are 15 percent lower than Belgian and French wages and 30 percent lower than wages in Germany, according to a current Bank of Italy comparison. And unit labor costs are about 30 percent higher than German levels, say central bank officials. This Week in Money Interview. Home Builders.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Interestingly, I’ve also had conversations with Airbnb, Walmart and Silicon Valley Bank, which have actually been hugely responsive. Does she go through interviews? But for those folks who are the right fit, I will contact them and we’ll schedule an intake interview, which we mostly do by Skype. ” Great.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Solomon, aka DJ D-Sol, is known for his mantra of finding passion at, and outside of, work — and he’s not an isolated case. To validate and enrich our findings from public sources, one of us (Emilia, a former CEO herself) conducted private interviews with 17 CEOs of S&P 500, Fortune 500, and similarly sized U.S.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2017

We interviewed search professionals, CEOs, and CHROs with nontraditional backgrounds to find out what happens when business leaders outside of HR move into the role. Zabeen Hirji, CHRO at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), grew up in retail banking and operations management roles before moving into HR.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

Consider the cautionary example of a large bank I recently worked with. These ideas and practices, however, were nowhere to be found in the evaluation criteria of the bank’s employees. To prove this, ING made every employee at its headquarters (nearly 3,500 people) re-interview for their job. Go and See.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 3, 2013

Case Against The Fed. The head of the IMF Mission explained that to ensure job creation Spain needs a further increase in wage flexibility, improvement in training for the unemployed, reduced taxes and elimination of regulations that discourage hiring. 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 24, 2019

I received this email from a CaseInterview.com student that recently had a final round interview with BCG and got stuck on the questions in this round. What follows is this student’s story as well as my advice on how to regain confidence before their next case interview. Yesterday I had the final round interview.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Although she was sad to see her longtime colleague, Anne Bank, go, she was more consumed with trying to figure out who should replace her. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. nicholas blechman for hbr. Meeting Ed Yu.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Another was Geri Thomas, former Chief Diversity Officer at Bank of America, started at the bank when she was a sophomore at Georgia State (and the bank was still Citizens and Southern National). Both women came from educated parents (Drew Jarvis’s father was a physician and researcher who pioneered blood banks).

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

Case Against The Fed. With little or no bank lending growth, decelerating wage growth, and trend growth of real GDP per capita at 0% to negative implies the 3- and 5-year change rates of US M2+ will decelerate from 2-3% to 0-1% in the next 5-6 years as occurred during the early to late 00s in Japan. This Week in Money Interview.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 12, 2020

If so, you're gonna love today's training on how to design consulting offers.that convert. When you're working with corporate, as long as you can establish a business case, somebody will be willing to go with you on the return on investment, regardless of the price, because it's not coming out of their own personal salary.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

While that has been a great experience, I ultimately found my greatest training and instruction in how to prepare for case interviews from your website and materials. I had gotten similar advice from others, specifically as it related to entering a career in the prestige-obsessed industry of finance and investment banking.

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Management Consulted

MAY 13, 2015

For the last 2 years, we’ve been running our popular Black Belt interview training courses – with tremendous success. On average, they do 30-50 cases with peer partners, 10 with us, and hours of personal reflection, preparation and planning for both fit and case interviews. I have lots of case practice.

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