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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Interview Process

Tom Spencer

Interviews. After going through a handful of interviews through referrals, direct reach out from HR/hiring team, and LinkedIn/company website applications I would categorize my interviews into three buckets: Corporate strategy. In terms of the interview process it followed the following steps: HR interview (fit).

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Is A Lack Of Executive Presence Stalling Your Career?

Organizational Talent Consulting

After one of the interviews, the hiring team complimented a candidate's strategic decision-making, innovative ideas, strong work habits, and organizational commitment. Build your emotional intelligence. Practice identifying, evaluating, and expressing your emotions. Counseling Psychology Journal. Dagley, G., &

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What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)

Harvard Business

We are currently writing up our results for submission to an academic journal.). Conducting in depth interviews with 50 people who’d dramatically improved their self-awareness to learn about the key actions that helped them get there, as well as their beliefs and practices. Take Jeremiah, a marketing manager.

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Younger and Older Executives Need Different Things from Coaching

Harvard Business

Our data included executives’ scores on personality and emotional intelligence assessments, interviews with their managers and HR, and our case notes. Our study was published in Consulting Psychology Journal in December 2016. We examined data from 72 executive coaching engagements we conducted from 2008 to 2014.

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Coping with the Effects of Emotionally Difficult Work

Harvard Business

In a recent study published in Journal of Management Inquiry , we explored how carrying out necessary evils affects those who must do the work, not just once or twice, but repeatedly — hundreds or even thousands of times. These caused a number of our interviewees to feel exhausted and burned out.

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