Tom Spencer

APRIL 22, 2017

Most consultancies hold company presentations, networking events, or workshops for students at target universities, which enable you to get to know them better. Consultants and recruiters often spend no more than a few seconds looking at your application when shortlisting interview candidates.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2018

In STEM fields, both the private and public sectors continue to struggle with recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Like many technical workplaces, UCAR, which has approximately 1400 employees, has struggled to recruit and retain women and people of color. We kept this in mind when creating our own workplace diversity program.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I was told I did pretty good in all three case interviews but they did not like my "leadership stories" so they would not be extending me an offer. It was a mix between the normal McKinsey case interviews and leadership questions, and a more specialized approach for the subsidiary in particular. I am very grateful for that.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

According to that same VetAdvisor and Syracuse report, the top reasons veterans report for departing their first jobs include lack of career development/advancement, work that lacks meaning, limited professional development opportunities, or unfamiliar work culture. You can’t expect veterans to do all of the adapting.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. Change management certainly tested us. What made them proud?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. Focusing on additive contribution, a term we developed in a collaboration with Alix Hughes , diversity program leader at Amazon, is a powerful way to avoid sameness in a team and to foster inclusion and innovation.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

It can serve as the basis of a design visioning workshop with a larger group about how and where people work and how they would envision working in new ways in the future. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

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