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Job crafting to get consulting skills

Tom Spencer

Job crafting your current role to gain consulting skills. Your title doesn’t have to be “consultant” in order to gain consulting skills. Emotional intelligence, empathy, and adaptability. If you have all of them covered – you are probably a consultant. Desire to innovate and transform.

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The Importance of a First Impression

Tom Spencer

You might have been given an opportunity to have a coffee chat with a firm representative or with a Partner at your dream consulting firm. In management consulting, relationships matter a lot; most of the time, a strong relationship is developed by making a strong first impression with the other individual. Increases your credibility.

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When IQ Matters (and When It Doesn’t)

CaseInterview.com

Daniel Goleman’s work in emotional intelligence, or EQ, was completely contrarian when first published in the Harvard Business Review in the 90s. In the early 1990s, McKinsey screened resumes primarily based on GPAs and test scores (a proxy for the IQ score) — the higher, the better. out of 4.0) out of 4.0)

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

KPMG CONSULTING. However, not all of its resources are pointed towards consulting, as it offers three lines of services, Audit, Tax and Advisory, with the Advisory arm of its operations (where consulting lives) generating $9.09 KPMG CONSULTING KEY STATS. KPMG CONSULTING WEBSITE: www.kpmg.com. Billion last year.

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How to Become a Better Mentor

Tom Spencer

Oftentimes, I was paired with an upper-year student or recent graduate who worked at a management consulting firm. Given the demanding work schedule in management consulting, you may have noticed how challenging it can be to take the time to speak with strangers who reach out on LinkedIn or other social media platforms.

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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

HAY GROUP CONSULTING. In this firm profile, we do a deep dive into Philadelphia-based Hay Group, a darling in the boutique organizational consulting realm. Hay and Associates, Management Consultants.” This resulted in Saatchi Consulting, of which Milton Rock was the Management Director. Hay Group Revenue: $700M.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

But viewing reference checks as a formality is a mistake, according to Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. After all, she says, the goal with any reference check is to “go beyond simply verifying facts” on a resume.