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Consultants and Candidates: No Free Work. Ask for Reasonable Compensation

Johanna Rothman

Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? And candidates and consultants invest time that has no perceived payoff for them. I agree—hiring managers do need to assess a candidate's or consultant's skills. (I So what can a candidate or consultant do to show their skills without working for free?

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3 Ways Management Consulting Applications Differ from Traditional Ones

Management Consulted

If you’ve been around the management consulting industry for any amount of time at all, you know how different of a beast it really is to conquer than nearly any other industry. Even if you’ve done a masterful job of networking , you still have to jump through the hoops and meet the stringent criteria of consulting firms.

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

If you have sufficient functional skills, domain expertise, and agile expertise, use the advice in Part 1 to iterate through your resume. Instead, we can invite them to change, by showing the value with the pirate metrics. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress. I strongly recommend you get a line job, not a staff job.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. Here are some ideas that might relate your agile experience and expertise to value: How you've used the flow metrics while supporting a project and/or the managers. Then, practice your agility in your job search.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

Beau approached us a few months ago to ask about breaking into consulting. He had the epiphany that consulting was his calling in life, and went searching for details – finding MC in the process. Is my resume where it needs to be? Well, let’s just go through the resume and maybe that will lead into some of my questions.

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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

As consulting has become more popular (frantically so), we are getting increasing numbers of emails from undergrads – and even high schoolers – begging the question – if you want to break into consulting, what should you major in – and what majors are deal-breakers?

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Friday Fusion: August 21, 2020

Tsavo Neal

Which are the best consulting website themes for WordPress? As a consultant, your website has different needs than other businesses. Choosing the best WordPress theme for consultants will give you an effective website. The best theme on the market for consultants is X Theme by Themeco. EXPERIENCE.

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