Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2022, at the age of 46, I interviewed for a marketing executive position with a tool manufacturer. After five or so interviews, the hiring manager stated that they wanted a “digital native.” The interview ended. I interviewed with several members of the team, including the parent of one of the executives.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 20, 2019

In my last blog post I wrote about how new grads can navigate interview season when they finally receive a consulting interview they’re excited about. Interview questions are commonly split up into technical, behavioural and fit questions. You can find the full article here. Key takeaway: You’re serious about your academics.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 18, 2024

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced completion of a project for Instructional Design for Inexperienced Managers.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 27, 2018

Interview Transcript: Betsy Jordyn: Well hello there everybody it's Betsy Jordyn of the Consultants Institute, and I am so excited to finally be interviewing Michael Zipursky of Consulting Success. And we had a three, four hour meeting to resolve it all. So Michael and I met how many years ago was it, Michael? Zipursky: Oh, wow.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 31, 2022

The class didn’t just cover theories regarding how people of differing gender, racial, and educational backgrounds were perceived. Researchers found that applicants with male-sounding names were invited to interviews at a far higher rate than those with female-sounding names — even when the résumés were 100% identical other than the name.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2014

” Here is one we got recently from John: A few months ago, I wrote you for advice in regards to resources I could use to prep for interviews in consulting. I realized I didn’t have a future in football after college so that prompted me to focus more on my education and gaining experience in internships outside of the classroom.

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 24, 2023

In the fast-paced world of education and training, the saying “knowledge is power” has never rung truer. How Do Instructional Design Firms Stay Current with Technology Encourage Continuous Learning At instructional design firms, a culture of continuous learning is not just encouraged but fully embraced.

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2021

The problem with hiring salespeople is the very fact that they’re salespeople – they are good at persuading sales managers in job interviews that they can do things they can’t. So when you’re interviewing candidates, you need to be able to winnow out those who only say they can – let’s call them impostors – from those who really can.

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freshminds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

At FreshMinds, we’re committed to helping our candidates prepare well for their interviews. So here’s our top 5 guide to interview research. • Company website: A company’s website advertises everything that a company is proud of – their culture, their clients, their successes. Learn the basics.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Things like ethnicity, gender, height, and educational achievement determine how others perceive the validity of your ideas. For example, if you take two identical resumes -- one with an obviously man’s name versus one with an obviously woman’s name, the man will get more interview invitations. Instead, situational gravitas is a.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 18, 2020

Students at target schools are often exposed to the promoting efforts of consulting firms who come to educate students about opportunities for a career in the consulting industry. Do your own research, share what you have found, and talk to the consultants you meet to try and fill in the gaps in your knowledge. Be long term orientated.

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Comatch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Look for partners who make time in their personal lives for ongoing education, certification, and networking opportunities. Taking things a step further, consultants who are genuinely receptive to feedback and can pivot in their approaches for better results are more likely to meet their client’s goals. .

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

What’s next – when your resume doesn’t receive an interview; your first round doesn’t lead to a call-back; your final round receives a polite rejection? You’ll typically receive a rejection call after the interview. to schedule a quick call for post-interview feedback. Focus on upcoming interviews.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

This phase involved a round of interviews with people at 28 organizations across a variety of sectors, including aviation, banking, pharmaceutical, professional services, and technology. Support an organizational culture that positions parental leave as a brief interlude, not a major disruption. Takeaways for Organizations.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

As the next installment in our popular Firm Profile series, we take a look at the evolution, reinvention, and current interview tactics of one of the world’s premier consulting firms – IBM. This is for students with a varied educational background (not crazy-varied, but out-of-the-norm-yet-still-excellent varied).

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2017

Yet what matters here is not just job insecurity; it’s also what we might call the culture of insecurity: the growing conventional wisdom that precarious employment is inevitable. These kinds of cultural proverbs, as they are repeated and shared among us, tell us which kinds of emotions are appropriate responses and which are not.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I’d wake up at 6 to ride my bike to the pool for swim team practice, shower and change at the gym so I could get dropped off from 10-5, and taught swim lessons in the evenings when we didn’t have meets. Over spring break in my second year, I did an externship, working for NBC’s “Meet the Press.” I lived in Washington, D.C.,

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Set regular start and end times for meetings. Some organizations have implemented a policy that no meetings will start prior to 9:30 AM or end later than 4:30 PM. I spoke with BirchBox’ s VP of People and Culture, Melissa Enbar. Offer access to flexible spending accounts, and educate employees on how to use them.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Here are some questions to ask your recruiter, interviewer or APM coordinator: How long has the APM program been around? There are two key ways to do this: Company culture is a great way to assess the quality and ease of being mentored. Do you feel like it’s easy to meet with people at the company, regardless of their level?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 26, 2018

Over the course of a year I worked with Professor Elizabeth Morrison, Vice Dean of Faculty at NYU, to interview 10 women of color in order to understand the challenges they face in the workplace, how they cope with those challenges, and how those coping mechanisms affect their chances of long-term success.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

Jenny Rae interviewed him to hear about his journey from Yale, how he knew he wanted to be in management consulting, his recruitment process (and why he chose Altman Vilandrie over Oliver Wyman), his decision to leave management consulting and the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship. *. Yeah, definitely. I started at Yale in 2008.

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 26, 2019

We recently interviewed an employee who displayed all of these symptoms. Meet four times a year to discuss the employee’s goals, create a plan and ask how you can support them in their future growth and development. When you hire someone who is not the right person, coach, counsel and educate them. Accountability counts.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 17, 2014

Massive pollution, especially unbreathable air, lack of educational opportunities, food, safety, and corruption are some of the reasons behind a recent poll that shows a whopping 64% of wealthy Chinese plan to leave the country. The Wall Street Journal calls it The Great Chinese Exodus. Today, China''s borders are wide open. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

Working with the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, we conducted 86 in-depth interviews with women in the program, observed 36 discussion groups, and sat in on 15 program-wide meetings. The majority of women in our study were white and college-educated, and two-thirds were parents.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2017

They often cite poor cultural fit, inadequate onboarding, or the lack of appropriate expectations. Interviewers were especially impressed by Len’s ability to conceive of and drive a vision. Schedule meetings with them, jot down a list of open-ended questions to ask them, and be ready to take notes and learn.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

And while some progress has been made in advancing women to leadership and board positions, the pay gap between men and women in PR is $6,000 on average (even when tenure, job type, education, field of study, location, and ethnicity are held constant). The pay gap between whites and nonwhites is even wider — an average of $9,000 a year.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Leaders are intimately involved in the architecture, culture, and metrics of the company, hiring people who can innovate and grow a business and holding them accountable with a minimum of midlevel management. The senior leadership team meets often to look at metrics and trends. What’s unique about this company’s leadership?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

By examining the rates of callbacks, or invitations to job interviews, for white and nonwhite applicants with equivalent qualifications, these studies provide high-quality measures of rates of discrimination in hiring. And in-person audits — done with trained pairs of testers, white and nonwhite — have participants apply for jobs.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

Working with the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, we conducted 86 in-depth interviews with women in the program, observed 36 discussion groups, and sat in on 15 program-wide meetings. The majority of women in our study were white and college-educated, and two-thirds were parents.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

MAY 20, 2014

Although we rarely meet that skepticism now (over 10 million people have taken StrengthsFinder), we still take time at the beginning of each engagement to explain what the Clifton StrengthsFinder is. A Brief History The Clifton StrengthsFinder was created under the leadership of educational psychologist Donald Clifton.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Listen to Angelia Herrin, Special Projects editor for Harvard Business Review, interview Dr. Terri Cooper, Principal and Chief Inclusion Officer of Deloitte Consulting, as she discusses six attributes of leaders who display the ability to not only embrace individual differences, but to potentially leverage them for competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Tom often hogs the spotlight in meetings unaware of how that alienates his peers. This is an ill-defined catchall for a multitude of issues from the seemingly trivial but career damaging body odor, to deeper challenges, such as when someone doesn’t carry herself/himself in a way consistent with company culture.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Naval Academy professors who spend our days educating and championing women for careers of service as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps, we feel heartsick and angry about this. Most recent, Uber has come under fire for allegedly tolerating a culture of unbridled sexism and sexual harassment. I was the only woman in the room.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2016

But as shareholders gather in Omaha for the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders meeting on April 30, they ought to be thinking about Buffett’s biggest bet. billion) will help to improve education, enhance healthcare, and reduce extreme poverty – a huge boon to societies around the globe. That’s a big gamble.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent. In a recent interview, Benko discussed AT&T’s efforts and offered advice for HR leaders and individual managers on how today’s workforce can avoid obsolescence.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We interviewed these 411 leaders, as well as those who work for them, analyzed their education, background, and experience and recorded their actions and impact using 64 investment variables and 24 performance measures over seven years. Academies have devolved decision-making powers enabling them to bypass local government.)

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

CEOs routinely tell me that their teams “get the business case, they just need to understand how to change,” but our anonymous interviews with their colleagues quickly call this assumption into question. It’s time everyone had a little more education in gender issues. Talk about it in key management meetings.

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