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How to Assess Entry-Level Product Manger Positions

Tom Spencer

Associate Product Manager (APM) positions are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. These alumni have gone on to become VCs, founders, and product leaders, in addition to starting APM programs at companies like Salesforce.

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Human Resources Management – How to Get Started

Tom Spencer

If you are early in your career, you may be engaging a lot with recruiters. Especially if you join a class structure, such as an “analyst class”, the recruiting team may also be responsible for onboarding and training. The goal of compensation teams is to develop competitive compensation packages to recruit and retain strong talent.

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How a Collaborative Culture Can Attract Young Professionals

Tom Spencer

Even if such initiatives are meaningless in practice, failing to include them as part of a firm’s recruitment talking points could result in top graduating talent flocking to other firms. Unfortunately, measuring productivity based on hours worked can seriously damage employee morale. The reason for this is obvious.

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Maximize Employee Retention by Mentoring “Spirited Patriots”

Rick Conlow

As a result, managers and companies are desperate to recruit and retain employees. That means redefine the lifecycle of an employee in your organization from recruiting to retiring. Overtime managers learn through training or education to focus on goals, plans, procedures, products sales, and results. That is all good.

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Unlocking a Career as a Marketing Consultant

Tom Spencer

To do this, they should possess a keen understanding of the client’s target market and existing customer base, as well as the ability to recommend clear and actionable strategies to increase sales, expand the customer base, and develop new product offerings that will appeal to customers.

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Consultant, Contractor, Freelancer - Labels Matter!

Successful Independent Consulting

Freelancers use artistic or technical skill to generate work products. They tend to do more tactical work, as opposed to the strategic problem solving of consultants or the creative production of freelancers. Contractors are less educated and less experienced than consultants.” The definitions have become fuzzy and intermingled.

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Has the MBA become Redundant for a Career in Consulting?

Tom Spencer

Through going to many different networking events and information nights with different firms, I have learned that this fact is quickly told by recruiters. Their advice is always the same, for them their other degrees showed firms that they have an inquisitive mind that can solve problems with the utmost productivity. Image: Pexels.