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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

These professionals stand out as some of the best I’ve met in the biz When I worked as an executive or a consultant advising C-suite leaders and business owners, many of them complained about their inability to attract and recruit talent. During my career of 25 years, I have met and worked with dozens of recruiters and search firms.

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Captive contact center vs. outsourcing: The most overlooked part of retail CX

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As retailers contend with the latest slate of challenges—inflation, snarled supply chains, the return to experience spending—there’s no overstating the importance of having a high-quality contact center. Captive centers are those that are client owned and operated and provide resources directly to their organization. Jon Stough.

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Holiday Human-Capital Culling Could Cost

Harmonious Workplaces

In-person, low-paying positions in retail, hospitality, restaurants, and healthcare remain in strong demand, though they may not attract highly skilled talent with college degrees or advanced credentials. In that case, these professionals can help manage the transition smoothly, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.

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How do MBA Programs Prepare you for Consulting?

Tom Spencer

We relied on marketing professors to learn current market analysis techniques and tools, online retail platforms for data, and customer surveys to generate a majority of our insights. With a team of five, we delved into 3+ years of sales data and operational costs to create an effective final presentation.

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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. You will need to adopt the same logical, rigorous-but-efficient approach to solve a case for BCG as you will in a case interview for Uber or Canada Goose.

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3 Major Forces Disrupting and Transforming the Professional Services Landscape

Progressus

You know, those same disruptive forces redefining all sectors from manufacturing and retail to healthcare and tech. For example, finance teams must be able to draw on information from the entire business – projects, operations, sales, marketing, HR, along with external sources that put internal data in context – to make decisions quickly.

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For Beginners: A Roadmap into the Consulting Industry

Tom Spencer

Whether I was talking to graduates, MBAs or experienced professionals, as a consulting club president at business school, I was frequently asked the same question, “What is the most efficient and quickest way to transform into a consultant?”. Honestly, this could be one of the toughest questions one can ever answer.