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How to Succeed in the New Age of Interviews

Tom Spencer

Provide your grade transcript, CV, and cover letter. The cover letter is the most important of these initial documents. A desired response from a recruitment manager would be “most cover letters I’m falling asleep. Reading your cover letter, I felt like I knew you.” Vary your sentence length.

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Networking to Get McKinsey, Bain & BCG Offers

CaseInterview.com

What you have to realize about this role of reading consulting resumes and cover letters is this. Out of 400 applications, I would say about 350 of them were clear and obvious mail merge cover letters. --. But the second time I saw a letter that sounded like it, I start to get suspicious. It is a judgment decision.

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Applying to McKinsey from a Non-Target School

CaseInterview.com

So rather than interpret rejection as a reflection of your talent, skills or self-worth, I think it is better to interpret rejection as a reflection of the approach you happen to be taking at this moment in time. This was the mental image I had in my mind when I was recruiting (and no information existed anywhere to counter this image.

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How Stay-at-Home Parents Can Transition Back to Work

Harvard Business

Research by the Center for Talent Innovation shows that only 73% of highly qualified women who wanted to return to work were able to do so, and just 40% of those landed a regular full-time job. In your cover letter and interviews, be sure to cite any germane volunteer experience. But transitioning back isn’t so easy.

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Bridgespan Non-Profit Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Bridgespan’s Leading for Impact is a six-month-long course that brings together nonprofit executive directors/CEOs and their senior staff to build capabilities across the critical dimensions that enable nonprofit leaders and their teams to become highly effective. Leadership Program: Leading for Impact.