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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. VP, Marketing, Communication, and Strategy 2011 – present.

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Friday Fusion: October 2nd, 2020

Tsavo Neal

The most effective networking strategy I’ve found has nothing to do with conferences, cocktail hours, cold emails, or any of the common ideas you hear. How do freelance consultants with a mix of long and short-term projects structure their resume? If you’re a freelance consultant, your resume isn’t important. Big difference.

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Breaking into Consulting as a Non-Business Student

Tom Spencer

Attend industry events and conferences, join professional organizations, and seek out internships or job shadowing opportunities. This will help you tailor your resume and cover letter to the precise skills and traits that each firm is looking for! Plus, many consulting firms recruit MBA graduates directly from business schools.

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Tips for Sending Successful Messages on LinkedIn

Tom Spencer

I receive 2-3 LinkedIn messages per day asking to schedule a call so that I can share my personal experience in consulting, answer recruiting-related questions, and sometimes even review a resume on the spot. Someone you came across at an event/conference and want to know more about? Is this someone you know and need advice from?

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Friday Fusion: September 11, 2020

Tsavo Neal

And a few nice-to-have pages — you don’t have to have these, but they can be useful depending on your goals: Resume: Write a compelling resume that increases your chances of landing a job interview. They’ll feel like you’ve written it just for them — which is the key ingredient to effective marketing. 1) Do interesting things.

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

Management Consulted

It’s an important question – and never more so than in today’s market. 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.

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Fool Me Once Or Fool Me All The Time

Martinka Consulting

This goes back to before the stock market crash of 1929. 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. Marketing expenses (the marketing didn’t work so it’s really profit). Conclusion.