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Recruiting versus reality

Tom Spencer

Though time in consulting can help you ‘skip’ five to ten years of industry experience, when you exit makes a difference: leaving before your first promotion can be a red flag and may hurt you in entry negotiations. Consultants who leave before promotion from an analyst position to a managerial position (e.g. Image: Pexels.

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Ensuring Good Performance: How Consultancies Keep Their Employees Motivated

Tom Spencer

It is a crucial question for management consultancies (and other professional service firms), which are – by definition of their core competence – dependent on good performers and dedicated employees. 1980)), and a consulting job usually has all of these intrinsic benefits. and Wall T.