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Create a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts, Part 5: Write Your Bio

Johanna Rothman

If your conference proposal has a speaking experience field, use that field to explain your expertise, authority, and credibility. These fields help the potential audience realize your session is the one they must attend, out of the entire conference. I want to be the reason people come to a conference. Am I always?

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Breaking into Consulting as a Non-Business Student

Tom Spencer

Develop Strong Quantitative Analysis Skills Consultants are often called upon to solve complex problems, so having strong quantitative analysis skills is essential. If your degree leans more heavily towards the qualitative humanities — as mine does — be sure to make special provisions to develop key quantitative skills.

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Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories

Harvard Business

Updating your LinkedIn profile and resume. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive. Communicate across logos, taglines, ads, marketing, trademarks, media, trade shows, and conferences.”

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Think Strategically About Your Career Development

Harvard Business

As I described in “A Campaign Strategy for Your Career,” one technique you can use is “pre-writing your resume.” ” In this exercise, you put yourself five years into the future and write your resume as you envision it, including your new title and exact job responsibilities.

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You’ve been rejected from all consulting jobs. What’s next?

Management Consulted

What’s next – when your resume doesn’t receive an interview; your first round doesn’t lead to a call-back; your final round receives a polite rejection? If you don’t make it past the resume stage, don’t ask. Here are some possible criteria for resume rejections. Focus on upcoming interviews.

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Why Consulting?

CaseInterview.com

Consulting firms are in the business of renting out brains--so attracting and developing world-class business brainpower are mission-critical priorities. The upside to huddling with brilliant colleagues in a client conference room for 10-13 hours a day means you grow close with your coworkers. 3) Network.

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Fool Me Once Or Fool Me All The Time

Martinka Consulting

There’s now a plethora of Ebitda clone terms including those showing “profit” before things like stock-based pay, marketing, business development, and administrative expenses. Owner “perks” like cell phone, car, travel to conferences, etc. (as Zweig asks, “Can “Ebidtdaft” be far behind?”. as if all owners don’t deduct these).