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Starting your Consulting Journey as a College Student

Tom Spencer

Consulting firms are highly invested in consulting clubs because they offer an ideal recruitment platform from which they can handpick top talent. Firms typically provide consulting clubs with casebooks, containing demo or previous client cases, that students can use to practice for case interviews. Demonstrate Leadership.

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Three Slightly Ranty Thoughts on “Back” to Normal

Johanna Rothman

However, I see several problems: Many of those same people think there's a talent shortage. Rant 1: There's a Talent Shortage. When people say there's a talent shortage, they really mean: “We can't hire people for what we're willing to pay them.” We don't have a talent shortage. There's no talent shortage.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age.

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Creative people start to leave, and other executors are put into more senior roles, hiring more process people, which in turn forces out the remaining creative talent.

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

Management Consulted

I eventually built up a little demo reel, and I started presenting that to other companies. Were you involved in leadership at all when you were there? Not at the school, just at the church level, just doing different leadership level stuff for our college ministry. Basically, every industry has business leadership, right?

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Inside the Minds of Your Prospects: 37 Critical Digital Marketing Statistics for Consultants

Tsavo Neal

SOURCE: Social Talent. Up to 70% of B2B websites don’t display clear calls to action on any of their home pages, such as specials, e-mail newsletters, how-to guides, demos, and interactive tools. Thought-leadership and demonstrating expertise are how you build trust and attract new clients.

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