Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with another blog contributor to the SpencerTom community, Jason Oh, to share our experiences about the consulting recruiting process. Why did you decide to pursue management consulting? Jeff : I had little idea about management consulting until my second year at university.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 2, 2019

Your success as a manager is often linked to whether you are recruiting and hiring winners. Too many managers are unaware of key good practices. Unfortunately, not all managers have complete control over the selection process. Some managers inherit the employees they oversee. For example: Flexible work hours.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 31, 2022

One of the questions I get a lot from newer managers is: “How do I manage someone who is older and more experienced, knowledgeable, and talented than I am?” The people asking this question typically feel awkward managing someone who, by many measures, is more competent in a particular area. It means you recruited well.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Leadership and Management Development Matters According to recent research by McKinsey and the Corporate Executive Board, more than 500 executives ranked leadership development among the top three human capital priorities, and two thirds of leaders rated developing effective leaders as their top concern.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 9, 2024

Are you an aspiring manager? In this article, Petia Tzanova, =mc Learning and Development Consultant draws on her extensive career to outline key considerations when taking your first step into management. If you are ready, it’s crucial to reflect on whether management is truly the right path for you.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2021

There is a concern that the 4 th industrial revolution will lead AI technologies to replace many white collar workers, including management consultants, whose daily tasks involve finding, organising, analysing, and evaluating information in order to solve their client’s most challenging problems.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 4, 2024

Analytical skill sets also need to include: negotiating consulting communication developing others quantitative analysis Also, organizations need analytical leadership at every level, not just in the CTO or IT department. For example, a great starting point is to ask leaders what data they use to make decisions.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Management consulting interviews generally have two types of assessments, behavioral and casing. Recruiters are assessing your background, your project experience, and your ability to fit into the company. Recruiters are assessing your background, your project experience, and your ability to fit into the company. What to Expect.

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The Management Centre

JUNE 5, 2021

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. This time, the issue comes from a manager with a thorny issue: supporting a colleague who has been treated badly but doesn’t want to make a complaint. They gave me some clear examples.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2023

Develop Strong Quantitative Analysis Skills Consultants are often called upon to solve complex problems, so having strong quantitative analysis skills is essential. If your degree leans more heavily towards the qualitative humanities — as mine does — be sure to make special provisions to develop key quantitative skills. Keep on Trying!

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Maybe you're skeptical of whether it is possible to develop a creative and innovative team and believe you should just hire for it. A common argument presented in support of team development is that if people were born with creativity, we would observe more consistency in creativity among team members.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2024

Company culture and the inevitable subcultures that develop are the organizational DNA that — intentionally or unintentionally — guide every behavior and decision. Based upon this research, clients asked us to develop a high level HR Guide to company culture to be used as a starting point to culture change.

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PM Alliance

JULY 21, 2023

Recruiting and hiring Some technology providers offer long-term staffing services for ongoing system maintenance and administration roles. Does your company have a strong commitment to support workers’ career development goals or to promote from within?

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

The number of companies adopting and managers leading remote work teams has increased significantly. In addition, Gallup research shows 82% of managers are failing. Here are nine roadblocks that make it difficult for remote work to work for employees and managers. The COVID-19 pandemic initiated this trend. hours a week.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Clients may need help with market research, competitor analysis, growth strategies, supply chain optimization, product development, or a range of other issues. Although each consulting firm has slightly different structure, they generally have similar roles including partners, managers, associates, and analysts.

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Rick Conlow

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Employee productivity is critical to a manager’s success. It will help you recruit and keep great team members. 82% of managers fail because they do not receive on-going training and development. 82% of managers fail because they do not receive on-going training and development.

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The Management Centre

AUGUST 21, 2020

In every high performing organisation you’ll find brilliant leaders, and brilliant managers. And what about brilliant managers – what do we need from them? Organisations that have brilliant leaders, but where management roles mean technical competence and expertise. Naturally, that’s not great for the people they manage.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 11, 2020

During both consulting recruiting and the initial months working in consulting, experienced by myself and my friends, the top priority for a consulting career which has been consistently emphasized has been delivering excellent client work. Just to better illustrate it, prime examples include: Social activity planning. Networking.

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PM Alliance

JUNE 9, 2023

This desire for a truly hybrid experience extends to project management, where project teams and stakeholders face a growing need to strike a similar balance within processes and workflows as new technologies and new ways of working change how activities are carried out.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2016

MBA programs for Management Consulting – and the results may surprise you. Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University. The Class of 2015 had a full 35% of its graduates accept offers in the consulting field, and Kellogg has become a hot recruiting spot across top firms – but especially for McKinsey.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Through these events, you can get to know more about the firm, the clients they work with, and experience the firm directly by interacting with consultants and recruiters. Consulting firms are highly invested in consulting clubs because they offer an ideal recruitment platform from which they can handpick top talent.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Fortunately, a top management consulting firm is not the end all and be all. Self-analysis alone won’t give you a holistic picture of why you did not get an offer, so start by getting feedback from the recruiter and the interviewers. After all, those insights are available and would help you understand where you need to develop.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 3, 2022

Manage Operational HR Functions Some of the major functions are HRIS management, payroll system management, and budget management. Manage Employee Rewards & Benefits This task includes compensation design and reward strategy, which a company can be an attractive employer if this is done correctly.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 28, 2022

Personally, I benefitted by watching Victor Cheng’s Case Interview Workshop and videos produced by Management Consulted. It works best if your partner is also recruiting for consulting, as you can learn a lot by being an interviewer as well. For example, you could meet twice a week and do 1-2 cases each. Practice cases.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2021

Looking back to consulting recruiting in graduate school, I always think about how interesting it was that so much of the conversation among candidates was about getting an offer from a top consulting firm. During the recruiting process, firms screen candidates for potential to succeed given the firm’s business portfolio and culture.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

Because these firms tend to have slim margins and cannot pay Silicon Valley salaries, many have had to get creative in their recruiting and employee development. Accelerators tend to have different cultures than their parent companies — they have different language and jargon, management techniques, tools, and office spaces.

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Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

A majority of the firm’s hires are from the undergrad level (the firm doesn’t recruit at any MBA programs), and if Silicon Valley is your dream, working at Bulger Partners for 2-3 years may be better equip you for the future than a top-flight MBA. Associate -> Manager (6-11 yrs. One example?

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 22, 2019

For example, many of my readers, spend a fair amount of time practicing answers to "fit" questions. I only really started preparing for the case interviews a few weeks before the recruitment programs began. One thing that helped me a lot during the final interviews was developing a repeatable system of revision.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Others lean more toward the view that interests can be developed and that, with commitment and investment, they can grow over time — we call this a growth mindset of interest. But if interests can be developed, then having strong interests in one area would not preclude the development of interest in other areas.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

Also, the last years have shown how important it is to have some financial slack for unforeseen developments. Modern cashflow management tools make this exercise easy. Recruit smarter, not harder The shift in the labor market is here to stay. Working with recruiting firms can boost both speed and reduce cost of hiring.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 14, 2020

This post shares four insights from my journey into the management consulting industry: 1. Should you join a new and developing student organisation or one that is well established? These experiences will give you stories and examples to help you cruise through almost any application. Take initiative to engage with firms.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. We addressed the issues with new communication channels, customer service and quality initiatives, on-going quality leadership training for all leaders (executives, too), and team development applications.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 27, 2022

Positioning yourself the wrong way can limit your income, cost you thousands of dollars a year in taxes, stunt your professional development, and tie you unnecessarily to the traditional 9-to-5 routine. Additionally, hiring managers and clients associate certain pay ranges with the various labels. Friends don’t let friends W-2!

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Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. This new method was named “Q12 measurements,” which offered a platform his was a huge management consulting breakthrough!

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. ” asked the clever riff aimed at Uber workers. So venture out.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Talent Management Questions to Test If You are On the Right Track. If you truly want to attract, develop, engage and retain a high performing workforce, you have to break through talent management barriers – outmoded ways of thinking about talent in old-fashioned and ineffective ways. The Goal of Talent Management.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

We are now in the era of “do-it-yourself” career development. During my 11 years at PepsiCo, mostly during the 1990s, “personal development” was treated as a major company initiative. And managers aren’t helping. Drawn Ideas/Getty Images. But the reality is the bigger burden is on employees.

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