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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. Craft exceptional application materials (Cover letter and Resume). If the candidate fails to meet those hard numbers, their application will be automatically eliminated. This is Gate Three.

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

Tom Spencer

Meeting people early before you are polished will end up burning a lot of bridges. For example, after a very disorganized meeting the consultant will come back and skewer the coffee chat, recommending everyone else in the firm not to meet with this person. Send a Resume in the Cold Email. Image: Pexels.

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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. I'm not blaming the manifesto writers—no one invited a manager-type person to the meeting. That's because flow efficiency thinking is so contrary to general accounting practices.

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

This does not need to be a resume building activity, as you obviously have the job already. This is your chance to try something new, meet new people, and enjoy your time. Usually, these clubs offer pro-bono consulting opportunities, host competitions, and require student leaders to run efficiently. The Bottom Line.

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Friday Fusion: September 11, 2020

Tsavo Neal

And a few nice-to-have pages — you don’t have to have these, but they can be useful depending on your goals: Resume: Write a compelling resume that increases your chances of landing a job interview. But you want a more efficient way of getting people to come over to your stand— so that you can sell more hot dogs.

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Book Recommendation: Four Thousand Weeks

Kai Davis

A few years ago, drowning in email, I successfully implemented the system known as Inbox Zero, but I soon discovered that when you get tremendously efficient at answering email, all that happens is that you get much more email. We plan compulsively, because the alternative is to confront how little control over the future we really have.

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PARADE Method

CaseInterview.com

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It can be used by candidates to prepare concise and powerful answers to commonly asked consulting resume questions. Did you just show up at the sales meeting? The savvy interviewer will immediately ask, "I see.