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Top 5 Consulting Resume Mistakes by Ph.D’s, Postdocs, and Other Advanced Degree Holders

Management Consulted

engineers, med students, JDs, post-docs, interns, practicing MDs or residents, these magical BCG and McKinsey consulting seminars are crash courses, extended job interviews, and sell weekends all rolled into one. 5 Resume Mistakes Advanced Degree Holders Should Avoid At All Costs. Aimed at Ph.D.s, 1 – Focusing on the irrelevant.

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Simple Strategies to Create a High-Converting Website with Marty Greif

Consulting Matters

Way too many consultants and coaches mistakenly believe that their website is nothing more than an online brochure or resume. My guest today is Marty Greif, president of SiteTuners, a website conversion company and author of the book “'True Connections: Relationship Marketing in the Digital World.”

Strategy 156
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Simple Strategies to Create a High-Converting Website with Marty Greif

Consulting Matters

Way too many consultants and coaches mistakenly believe that their website is nothing more than an online brochure or resume. My guest today is Marty Greif, president of SiteTuners, a website conversion company and author of the book “'True Connections: Relationship Marketing in the Digital World.”

Strategy 156
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Consultants and Candidates: No Free Work. Ask for Reasonable Compensation

Johanna Rothman

Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? And candidates and consultants invest time that has no perceived payoff for them. I agree—hiring managers do need to assess a candidate's or consultant's skills. (I So what can a candidate or consultant do to show their skills without working for free?

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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. That’s why we’re giving you some guidelines on key resume errors to avoid and things you can do to make it past the first round of reviews.

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How to Build a Consulting Website

Consulting Matters

Do you have a consulting website? For many consultants and coaches - both new and seasoned - they see their website as nothing more than an online brochure or resume. This tutorial will show you how to build a consulting website that makes you the obvious solution for your future client's most pressing problems.

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Reader FAQ – “Designer” Consulting Resumes, Late Applications, and Plan Bs

Management Consulted

You’ve bombarded us with insightful questions about resumes, interviews, applications, and how to pick up the pieces and consider alternatives to consulting when you don’t make the cut. While each question comes from a unique personal perspective, many of the issues apply to our entire reader base of consulting wanna-bes.

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