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Consultant, Contractor, Freelancer - Labels Matter!

Successful Independent Consulting

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. Freelancers use artistic or technical skill to generate work products. Friends don’t let friends W-2!

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Bridgespan Non-Profit Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Bridgespan was birthed out of Bain’s desire to expand its support of nonprofits. In 2003, Bridgespan created the “Bridgestar” initiative to focus on leadership development and to help professionals transition into nonprofit careers. Nonprofit Job Board. BRIDGESPAN HISTORY .

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Charting your consulting career direction

Tom Spencer

Management consultants get the opportunity to work on challenging real world problems for companies, governments and nonprofits. It can be hard to assess work culture from the outside looking in, but finding a firm that is a good cultural fit for your personality can make your work life more enjoyable and productive.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. adults were at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2015. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

In this job I managed investigator initiated clinical trials, scientific messaging and key opinion leader development. A few years later I was recruited for a position by one of the government consulting companies who had previously made me a contingent offer. Thus, the recruitment-to-hiring phase can often be quite fast.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Washington, DC

Management Consulted

Close to the Capitol, its office serves dynamic clients in a mix of industries including healthcare, aerospace, defense, and consumer products. The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. McKinsey – is notably skewed more private sector.

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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business

When it comes to training and workforce development, lots of them. This is a particularly acute issue at the entry level, where employers have come to accept that high levels of attrition and low levels of productivity and quality are normal. Almost half (49%) said that it was difficult to ensure a return on investment (ROI).