Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

As Alexander Graham Bell once uttered: before anything else, preparation is the key to success. The saying may sound clichéd, but there is still much truth in it almost a century later. In a competitive field like consulting, it’s important to stay ahead of the game if you want to have an advantage over the many similarly qualified candidates. If you know what you need to do and how to do it ahead of time, you could save yourself a lot of heartache during your job search.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

If you’ve ever joined more than three people on a Skype or Zoom conference call, I hope you’ll appreciate these tips, and perhaps share them: Sit close to the screen. Your face should fill most of it. Use an external microphone or headset. When you’re not talking, hit mute. Don’t eat during the meeting. When you’re on mute during an audio call, you can do whatever you want.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

As a former advanced degree candidate who applied to consulting while finishing medical school, I would like to share my experience with those of you who are in the middle of making a similar jump out of academia. As I stated in part 1 of this series , many of my M.D. and Ph.D. colleagues had similar questions about how to best position themselves to land a job in management consulting, and so I thought it might be helpful to share my thoughts with a larger audience.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Mark Twain, the fiction writer, first popularised the phrase “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics”. Twain erroneously attributed the line to a British Prime Minister, who in fact, was never recorded saying any such thing. It’s fitting, given what I’m about to describe, that one of the best-known claims about statistics is grounded in the absence of evidence.

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