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Job Hub: Virgin Group Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

This group has a startling 300 companies in its portfolio in sectors ranging from travel, telecommunications, health, financial services, leisure, music, space travel, and renewable energy. History & Culture. When interviewing for a job at Virgin, you are required to travel at your own expense to interview with them.

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How to Evaluate, Accept, Reject, or Negotiate a Job Offer

Harvard Business

” Databases and job search websites, such as Glassdoor, Indeed, Ladders, and Salary.com are a good starting point, but Lees recommends talking to recruiters and headhunters and others in the industry. Do I want lots of international travel — or no travel at all? Cultural fit. ” Job content.

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Pay your team right: A comprehensive guide to compensation

Asamby Consulting

Next to effective recruiting, getting compensation right is one of the most important tools to position your company well in the market. Example: You have been a travel agent with a business travel agency for 10 years. You now enter a luxury, bespoke travel provider. There are many more forms of allowances.

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6 Ways to Change Your Organisation: A Menu of Choices

Confessions of a Consultant

There were a number of constraints… Simple Roadmap : The project had both organisation and HR elements, including strategy creation, revising the structure, recruitment impacts and so on. Option 4: Cultural Change: The shorthand definition of culture is “the way things are done around here.” How does this work in practice? #1:

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

“I am competitive in nature and always give the best in whatever I do and my passions include photography, travelling and embracing new cultures and languages. Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for.

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Undergrad Bootcamper Breaks into McKinsey Chicago

Management Consulted

I basically said that I wanted to learn more about consulting, and I wanted to see if consulting was right for me, and I just wanted to get an insider’s view of what their lifestyle was like, and what their recruiting process was like. So if you wanted to take some time to travel, then you would have the opportunity to do that, right?

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Harvard junior weighs internships in VC and Consulting

Management Consulted

So I guess for me, coming into recruiting, I always thought that consulting might be my top choice, but in reality when I got started, I didn’t know what consulting was and didn’t know what finance was. My fear with venture capital is more to do with culture. And so I could absolutely see you thriving in that culture.