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The Importance of a First Impression

Tom Spencer

Make sure you put your “emotional intelligence” hat on and gauge where the conversation is going. It could be about sending over a resume, getting referred to another person at the firm, or staying in touch for the future. Jeff Zhang is an Associate at PwC working with the Deals Strategy / Strategy Consulting team.

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How to Become a Better Mentor

Tom Spencer

For example, as a mentor you can provide detailed advice, offer to edit resumes, or provide mock interviews. Emotional intelligence > cognitive intelligence. Jeff Zhang is an Associate at PwC working with the Deals Strategy / Strategy Consulting team. How to maximize the value you provide to mentees.

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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Things continued in this vein, with Daniel Goleman using Hay Group research to publish “Working With Emotional Intelligence” in 1999. Reward strategies. Turning strategies into reality. Not many Hay Group employees go into pure strategy consulting right after working there. Capability assessment. Job evaluation.

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When IQ Matters (and When It Doesn’t)

CaseInterview.com

Daniel Goleman’s work in emotional intelligence, or EQ, was completely contrarian when first published in the Harvard Business Review in the 90s. In the early 1990s, McKinsey screened resumes primarily based on GPAs and test scores (a proxy for the IQ score) — the higher, the better. out of 4.0) Comment below to let me know.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

But viewing reference checks as a formality is a mistake, according to Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. After all, she says, the goal with any reference check is to “go beyond simply verifying facts” on a resume.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Interestingly, KPMG is the only one of the Big 4 that has not yet acquired a boutique strategy firm. across your resume. Advisory ranges from risk consulting – very technical, low-level and compliance oriented – to high-powered analytical strategy projects and M&A work. KPMG CONSULTING KEY STATS.