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Experienced Hire from Harvard breaks in to Healthcare Consulting (Part 1)

Management Consulted

If healthcare decision-making processes and drug development get you out of bed in the morning, or if you simply want to learn from someone who successfully navigated the consulting interview process just last year, be ready to pick up some great networking and interview tips for yourself. interview on Friday.

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From Internship To Full-Time Job: The Best Way Into Consulting

Tom Spencer

Once you have already started a full-time job though, it may be much more difficult to quit in case you realise that you do not enjoy the job or the lifestyle that comes with it. If you want to figure out what really differentiates firms, company websites and recruitment events may not be enough. Stay flexible.

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From the Bench and Bedside to the Boardrooms (How to transition from academia into consulting, Part 2 of 2)

Tom Spencer

Case & Fit Practice. Excelling in the Interview. So, the rest of this post will focus on the two remaining areas: proper case practice, and things to remember during the interview. Case & Fit Practice. Case Practice. The Application Process.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations. In 2001, Michael hired a no-name like me after an informational interview to become the Associate Marketing Director for GIA Publications. What a funny place to find wisdom — a hotel lobby shop! In today’s society, we have career choices.

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Charting your consulting career direction

Tom Spencer

This article identifies what lies ahead for graduates considering a future in consulting, and highlights key insights that I gained by interviewing junior and senior consultants. Every year consulting firms hire new high achieving young graduates, meaning that recruits from last year must move up or move out. Brace yourself.

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How to Balance Work and Life in Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

At other firms, they often go to the client for meetings, to conduct interviews, gather data, etc. Sure, it was a very nice hotel, and it's really, really cool for the first four weeks. And finally, how good are you at recruiting clients to do the work for you? I recruited four clients to do the analysis for me.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. In the case of the recruiting issue, we made faster hiring a competition, rewarding individuals and teams that showed the best results.