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

Johanna Rothman

Then ask several senior staff to use those phone screens in parallel on all the candidates who pass the first resume review. (I See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) You don't need a lot of auditions or tests, and you're definitely not wasting a candidate's time. I wrote about this in Hiring Geeks That Fit.)

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3 Ways Management Consulting Applications Differ from Traditional Ones

Management Consulted

You know how important your resume is in getting your foot in the door for an interview. Actually, your resume is all-powerful. You need to hear it from us first: y our metrics really matter. The whole point of your resume is for the firm to see clearly and quickly what makes you special.

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

Management Consulted

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. Definitely.

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Top 5 Consulting Resume Mistakes by Ph.D’s, Postdocs, and Other Advanced Degree Holders

Management Consulted

5 Resume Mistakes Advanced Degree Holders Should Avoid At All Costs. All power to you for your impressive brain, but all those brains don’t mean your resume is good. But if you’re one of the chosen few who can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 6 seconds, should you make it a featured section of your resume?

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Elite Performance - What It Really Takes

CaseInterview.com

the key is to actually do a reasonableness test by finding some other metric that should be correlated to the number you're estimating. (By Normally, she almost never gets any candy and definitely never any caffeine. And I wanted to let you know about a new video I recently put together titled The Top 5 Consulting Resume Mistakes.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

This core value has definitely permeated the entire firm culture. Round three is a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation including a SWOT analysis and other metrics for a company of your choosing. The culture at BTS Group is described by employees as fun, tight-knit, and quirky.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

While McKinsey, Bain, or BCG will probably provide the most powerful resume augmentation, every one of the top consulting firms carries a blend of size and prestige that can take you places. McKinsey is the definition of competitive. Because of its competitive atmosphere, there is sometimes a high turnover among young consultants.