Tom Spencer

JULY 27, 2019

Before you seriously consider a consulting career, you should answer three questions: Is consulting the right fit for you (consider your skills and talents as well as preferred lifestyle)? Of course, if your non-MBA program has a consulting club and on campus hiring, vigorously engaging with those is a great starting point.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before my interviews with both firms, I actually got rejected from non- management consulting jobs (even though they were both less prestigious firms and would have been backups for me). Basically, to get interviews, network, network and then network some more. a) You applied to a bunch of MBA programs and didn't get in.

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McKinsey Case Interview Interviews Oliver Wyman 64

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Even in the startup world, where a talent gap means tech employees are in high demand, a solid resume is no guarantee of employment. The interview is your first and possibly only opportunity to stand out. Of course, this list is not definitive and these things may appear obvious. Even worse.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Is my resume where it needs to be?” We’ve got your resume to go through, and as I gather you have a whole bunch of questions about consulting. Do you want to talk about your resume and your experience first, or do you want to talk about the questions that you have? Commercial Pilot’s Resume. Is that right?

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Consulting Resumes Bain Recruiting 125

Management Consulted

JUNE 1, 2009

From my interview sessions these days, it’s apparent that many of you are uncomfortable with sizing/estimation questions and the assumptions-based arithmetic in tackling these problems. From Steve Shu’s blog – a crash course reading list for new consultants. I offer resume editing and interview prep.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart. These days, it pays to practice being in “interview mode” so you’re ready for the real thing – whether it’s networking with a neighbor at Starbucks or sitting in the hot seat.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The sheer number of resumes can be overwhelming. When a manager reads through resumes of job applicants, she is implicitly trying to predict which applicants will perform well in the job and which won’t. Of course such an exercise creates plenty of controversy in organizations entrenched in existing practices.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

” Then the CHRO paused for a moment and added, “Of course there is this issue of his executive presence. Having assessed over 2,000 CEOs and over 18,000 C-suite leaders since 1995, we are struck by how often careers of talented executives stall or even derail because of seemingly trivial issues, many of which are utterly fixable.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

By the end of that year, we had hit or exceeded most of our goals , improving hiring rates of underrepresented engineers from 1 to 9% and increasing underrepresented talent from 7% to 12% in other roles. Over the course of my first year at Pinterest, I’ve learned four key lessons about how to improve diversity from within a company: 1.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2017

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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Management Consulted

JANUARY 4, 2015

Revenues for the great majority of top consulting firms and for the consulting divisions within the Big 4 accounting firms has risen throughout the past year, and competition for talent beyond consulting is rising. With that, the compensation packages and demand for top-notch talent are on the rise as well.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Employees of course have to be allowed to leave the office during work hours for interviews or other search-related activities, but I ask that they minimize these absences and keep them brief to avoid raising questions. I have reviewed their resumes at their request, made introductions and offered to serve as a reference.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Buck Consultants at Xerox offers advisory, technology, and administration solutions to help companies effectively operate talent management programs while engaging employees each individually in his or her health, wealth, and career. BUCK CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Nervous about your case and behavioral interview chances?

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Healthcare 100

Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

The first step in the process is to solicit feedback from all the people in your organization who interviewed the candidate, according to Claman. After all, she says, the goal with any reference check is to “go beyond simply verifying facts” on a resume. Say that you know, of course, that “no candidate is perfect.”

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Leadership Vision Consulting

JULY 8, 2014

Sometimes you have to do it from scratch – going off interviews, resumes and references. We all have unique talents and gifts that make us who we are. So, when putting a team together, you don’t want to base it on the individual, isolated talent of each single person. Even then, how do you Maximize their strengths?

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Talent & Human Capital. Talent Management. across your resume. Upon joining KPMG, you’ll have access to a wide variety of the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) courses that are made available to employees. In 2013 alone, 2,861 instructor-led courses were offered by the firm. KPMG CONSULTING ORGANIZATION.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Note that the 13 key behaviors do not include “wearing dressier clothes to work,” “leaving a resume on the printer,” or “missing work for doctors’ appointments more frequently than usual.” One technique is to use what are called “stay interviews.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Other researchers have approached these questions about CEOs by conducting interviews, analyzing resumes, and even evaluating vocal patterns. We believe our data-based approach has particular relevance due to our use of Russell Reynolds Associates’ and Hogan’s proprietary psychometric databases at the core of the study.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

If you’re a hiring manager, you’re probably happiest getting a sense of a candidate through unstructured interviews, which allow you to randomly explore details you think are interesting and relevant. These interviews should not be your evaluation tool of choice; they are fraught with bias and irrelevant information.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 22, 2016

Contrast this model to the one that most companies use to source new talent. They select potential candidates largely based on resumes—a tool that rarely provides a full and accurate assessment of a person’s skills or potential fit. They all use some version of tryouts or auditions to select their talent.

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