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Competitive Advantage in Consulting and in Life

CaseInterview.com

It applies not only to how you serve clients as a consultant but also how you manage your own career. My thoughts on this topic are widely applicable to CIBs (Case Interview Beginners), F1Ys (Future first years), and CIFMs (Consulting Isn't for Me). No, I'm pretty sure I could beat him in a case interview competition!

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From Ad Agency & Non-Target School to McKinsey Offer

CaseInterview.com

Second, after college, I got a job at [ ad agency ], a top advertising agency, but not exactly a common (though not unprecedented either) route to management consulting. I had to learn how to do a case interview. According to my interviewer, I needed to work on analytical skills, quantitative skills and conceptual skills.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. . The CHRO needs to be at the center of any acquisition of talent from the outside. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers.

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Tips for Case Interview Mastery

CaseInterview.com

There are lots of little things that separate a candidate who does a good job on a case vs. an excellent job. While it's not necessary to be perfect on every case, it is necessary to come pretty close most of the time. By the time you master the case interview, will you have any interview opportunities left?

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How to Make a Great First Impression

Harvard Business

The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls. If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. Case Study #2: Know what you’re good at and prepare a list of talking points.

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How to Tell an Employee They Didn’t Get a Promotion

Harvard Business

News of this kind is “hard to hear, and it’s hard to deliver,” says Joseph Weintraub, a professor at Babson College and the coauthor of The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Because the topic is so unpleasant, it’s a “conversation that many managers have a tendency to want to avoid.”

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Labour Retention: How you can create ‘Sticky’ Talent

Confessions of a Consultant

Management consulting can be likened to a ‘fashion business’, in the sense that new ideas fall in and out of vogue all the time. The book attempted to distil the methods deployed by the best-managed companies to create what’s sometimes referred to as sticky talent. Don’t take talent for granted. You get hired.

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