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Management Consulted Goes to London (and Beyond)

Management Consulted

Arriving at LSE, we were met with bad news: the film club was in our room. Many questions were asked about resumes, cover letters and the importance of inserting a cover letter with their applications. How could you possibly go into an interview not having done this bootcamp?” “Really great!

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business

He interviewed 100 white-collar workers who had switched jobs in the previous five years and discovered that weak ties helped many of them find out about their next job. I set out to learn whether that was still the case. This advice originated in a groundbreaking study by sociologist Mark Granovetter in the early 1970s.