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How to Win Your Consulting Case Competition

Tom Spencer

Are you signed up for a case competition , ready to showcase your skills and get a quick resume-building experience? Use the right process When running a team in preparation for a case competition, time is limited, and efficiency is necessary.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

These managers might not know how to ask for what they want, but that's what they want.) Here are some ideas that might relate your agile experience and expertise to value: How you've used the flow metrics while supporting a project and/or the managers.

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How to avoid being blacklisted from consulting (or any other) recruiting

Tom Spencer

Send a Resume in the Cold Email. There are differing opinions on this, but the benefit of flipping a resume over as part of the initial communication (or including your LinkedIn in the signature) exceeds the risk. The reality of the situation is that even if they think this is the case, they open the resume 99% of the time.

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

If you have sufficient functional skills, domain expertise, and agile expertise, use the advice in Part 1 to iterate through your resume. While we now know how to manage agile and lean programs (with both hardware and software) and create an agile approach to the project portfolio , too many organizations do not use those approaches.

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Preparing for Your Consulting Application

Tom Spencer

The HR person will look at your Resume, Cover Letter, and Transcript and decide whether you are qualified to attend a first round interview. There are thousands of articles telling you, as an aspiring consultant, how to prepare your application. Craft exceptional application materials (Cover letter and Resume).

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

Rather, if you find that you have some additional time before starting your first job post-graduation or even in-between your first and second jobs, these suggestions might provide some ideas on how to best utilize it. This does not need to be a resume building activity, as you obviously have the job already. The Bottom Line.

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Job Hub: Intuit Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

The firm believes in people who do things – the hat jugglers, the to-do list junkies, the masters of getting it done faster, better and more efficiently than ever before – whether that’s balancing the household budget, running a business, or paying taxes. Not sure how to turn your resume in to a compelling story?

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