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Rescue from the trash…avoiding key resume errors that get your consulting application tossed aside

Management Consulted

Paper airplanes are fun, but you don’t want your resume to become the vehicle for a recruiter’s mid-afternoon horseplay because you’ve bored them to death. Visit our recruiting deep-dive post for specific guidelines on networking at recruiting events if you need a refresher. People love to give advice.

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Do you think culture and collaboration require an office? Think Again

Brimstone Consulting

Tsipursky cautions that these biases are causing leaders to “fall victim to mental oversight,” and “doing what they feel comfortable with, even if it devastates employee morale, engagement, and productivity; seriously undercuts retention and recruitment; and harms diversity and inclusion. Rob Cross, Edward A.

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Welcome to new readers plus a few questions answered

Management Consulted

Overview of the Management Consulting Recruiting Process. It showed me the “benchmark” that I need to meet in order to be successful in business. 3 Can you help me… I’ve gotten many emails with questions about recruiting; requests to help with specific aspects of applications; and so forth.

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How to Assess Entry-Level Product Manger Positions

Tom Spencer

Here are some questions to ask your recruiter, interviewer or APM coordinator: How long has the APM program been around? If this is tough, ask the recruiter to set up chats with multiple potential managers. If the recruiter is willing to set up chats with multiple people, that’s generally a good sign.

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Archstone Consulting Culture and Interview Tips

Management Consulted

While originally founded as an independent strategic firm, Archstone Consulting was acquired by leading enterprise benchmarking firm The Hackett Group in 2009. ARCHSTONE CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Be prepared for 3-4 rounds of interviews, the first of which may consist of connecting with a recruiter for a phone screen.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

Finally, you have constant client interaction which develops “client skills” – from managing client teams to running meetings to learning how to navigate different corporate environments. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.”

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How One Company Made Its Analytics Investment Pay Off

Harvard Business

That way, if ABU projects have high profits relative to the costs, the departments they work with have an easier time meeting annual targets. Recruited employees had: (1) significant quantitative strength; (2) negotiating skills and diplomacy; (3) the ability to communicate with the business lines; and (4) entrepreneurial instincts.

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