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LinkedIn Hacks for Management Consulting Applicants

Tom Spencer

Copying your resume verbatim can irritate recruiters and end up being counterproductive when they visit your LinkedIn profile looking for additional insights into your fit for the role. While this is not a deal-breaker, it will make a seasoned recruiter cringe.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Corporate and Institutional Banking. Retail and Business Banking. Oliver Wyman actively recruits for internships at target schools, and interns are typically in their junior/penultimate year of university studies. For Consulting roles, Oliver Wyman recruits in 60 top schools all over the world. Surface Transportation.

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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Alvarez & Marsal have been making waves in recent years for the high profile, high quality work they did in the midst of the banking crisis. One example is when the New York School’s system hired them to boost the efficiency of their school bus network, which they did, saving the city $12M. . ALVAREZ & MARSAL CONSULTING.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

A financial services company engaged in investment banking and capital markets estimated the customer benefit of the Space X Falcon 9 reusable rocket. This culture emphasizes efficient, reliable, and cost-effective performance. million per launch. Market Culture creates a competitive, fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

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Study: A CEO’s Decision Making Is Shaped by Whether Their Parents Were Immigrants

Harvard Business

bank CEOs who were born in the U.S., banks between 1994 and 2006. The banking industry experienced a series of profound competitive shocks in the 1990s. The one we used was the Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act (IBBEA) of 1994 that legalized interstate branching in some U.S. For instance, U.S.

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Before Automating Your Company?s Processes, Find Ways to Improve Them

Harvard Business

For one recruitment-process-outsourcing client, consultants found that the existing process involved the same data being checked by several teams in different countries. health care firm, for example, had over the years stripped a process down to the minimal viable steps to achieve efficiencies.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

As usual getting into McKinsey is tough, but it’s even tougher in NYC – with many target recruiting schools nearby and hundreds of aspirants swarming to locate in NY, it’s a highly competitive office. Bank of New York, AIG, Depository Trust, Standard & Poor’s, etc.). The Boston Consulting Group.