Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I have been training for over seventeen years now. To receive a job offer you must write a resume and cover letter, attend recruiting sessions and coffee chats, network with current consultants, and practice interview questions. But through my training and intense focus, I blocked out all distractions mentally.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. ” asked the clever riff aimed at Uber workers.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

VR and drone scanning can make project information more accurate – technical engineers will be able to get the exact size and projection of buildings faster, and project managers will be able to sustain value. It’s also essential to attract young people and make recruitment in construction firms attractive for them (e.g.,

Construction 81

Construction Trends Industry Energy 81

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

If you’re an undergrad with a desire to break in to consulting, an economics degree will train your mind to tackle problems and make you an attractive prospect for internships and Masters’ programs. Engineering (Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused). The knock on engineering?

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 26, 2015

Georgia was extremely helpful and was kind enough to answer some questions I had about Accenture and its recruitment process. Tom: What kind of training and mentoring can graduates expect to receive at Accenture? Is training provided online or does Accenture bring consultants together as part of a regional or global training program?

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 31, 2022

It means you recruited well. I will be doing a training exercise in a few weeks where I’ll command an incident simulating a multiple-casualty situation after a major earthquake. The entry-level engineer seeks to become a more advanced engineer. The entry-level salesperson seeks to become a more seasoned salesperson.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 24, 2022

Hire or train an operations manager or COO Another obvious alternative is to recruit an operations manager or Chief Operating Officer. Or you train someone in your team to take over that role. Think of the COO or operations manager as the execution engine to your strategic decisions. If you don’t, delegate it to them.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Self-analysis alone won’t give you a holistic picture of why you did not get an offer, so start by getting feedback from the recruiter and the interviewers. There may be training or informal coaching you can undertake to help you develop. The key thing to do after a rejection is to reflect on the interview process and ask for feedback.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

He began by helping firms recruit competent executives, acquire new customers, and establish conducive office space. After 2 years, he recruited 2 friends from Chicago and formed the Business Research and Development Company with $500 borrowed from the bank. Booz, Business Engineering Service; Edwin G. Intellectual integrity.

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

The company has also hired hundreds of workers to revamp production processes, train (and retrain) the robots, and swap them out when needed, among other tasks. The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts. Some Training Required.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 28, 2015

Tom: What kind of training and mentoring can graduates expect to receive at Cartesian? Adam Fraser: There is a two-week [on-boarding] training process, followed by Brown Bag sessions (internal training) and external training. Beyond this, you receive a great deal of on-the-job training. Adam Fraser: Yes, they do.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2015

Tom: What kind of training and mentoring can graduates expect to receive at A.T. We have a series of formal and informal training sessions which consultants must join as part of their development – certainly the formal training. Tom: When is the next round of recruitment application deadlines? Tom: Does A.T.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Hi readers: I hate to pause the blog train, but for the next few days I will be traveling and enjoying the last moments of 2008. Here’s what’s coming up: -A series of posts on “breaking into consulting” from non-business/economics backgrounds (eg, engineering, liberal arts, etc).

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

For example, while women typically make up roughly 16 % of software engineers in the U.S. and almost no companies report engineering data specifically), Pinterest’s goal in 2016 was to hire women engineers at nearly twice this rate. We created a playbook and training for managers focused on inclusive leadership.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The other creates output for machines to consume like models, training data, and algorithms. Data science for machines: here the consumers of the output are computers which consume data in the form of training data, models, and algorithms. Modeling scientist: Models, training data, algorithms. They are decision scientists.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

Know that funding alone is not going to solve the recruiting problem. Gayathri Vasudevan , a 2015 “ Entrepreneur of the Year ” in India, is a cofounder of LabourNet Services , which provides training for the unskilled. Training and skill development solves another problem too. But they need help. Fair enough.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

If you have views on on-boarding, shaping, and training young product managers, you can effectively mold these programs to fit your vision. Here are some questions to ask your recruiter, interviewer or APM coordinator: How long has the APM program been around? How many cohorts have graduated from it? How big is the average cohort?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Even though we were following the typical playbook — posting open positions on job boards that specialize in attracting candidates from underrepresented groups, sponsoring events, giving scholarships, and training our employees on inclusion and hidden bias — we weren’t seeing progress. Native American, 18.1%

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A year after graduation, my rugby career started to show promise and I quit my analyst job to focus on training and competing. This provided me with a steady income, a flexible schedule to travel and train and also helped me tap into my “inner entrepreneur” (I have started three businesses since this experience).

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NeoAcademic

MARCH 25, 2021

Specific job tasks vary over the phases of the project, and training on all such tasks will be provided as required. The position principally requires responsibilities in the management and administration of project personnel and secondarily in the completion of scientific research tasks, such as assigned literature review or data analysis.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

While these figures might not look as impressive as, say, an engineering firm, some unstaffed time can bring the figures back into balance. Many consulting firms also invest significant dollars in their knowledge management and training programs. Private equity firms also enjoy recruiting former consultants.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Yet even in STEM fields where unemployment rates are low, many highly trained scientists still work in jobs outside of their field of education. My coauthor and I set out to find some answers, particularly for science and engineering. The population of workers employed outside STEM fields may be an overlooked recruiting ground.

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Confessions of a Consultant

JUNE 3, 2018

We were running a training program in Antwerp with an engineering crew from a large pharmaceutical company. Participants, having flown half way around the world, need to see something more than the inside of a training room. A lot of training is boring. Don’t just run training programmes for your people.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

As usual getting into McKinsey is tough, but it’s even tougher in NYC – with many target recruiting schools nearby and hundreds of aspirants swarming to locate in NY, it’s a highly competitive office. The NYC office offers a great place to start a career; there is a great training system and great working environment.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 11, 2016

Each of these leaders hold advanced degrees in economics, engineering, finance, management from top universities around the world. THE BRATTLE GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. As an RA, you will build your knowledge and skills through both hands-on and formal training. An interest in leading, training, and developing staff.

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Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

Software Engineer. Be warned that their training is not as formal as most top firms. ” GALLUP CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. In Person Interview with Recruiter. The world is broken up into regions and Gallup has assigned recruiters to those regions. IVR Administrator. Systems Administrator.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 181

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

You are trained on how to get into a CEO’s mindset within a lifetime of an engagement while being an outsider. Marketing to safari clientele for funding, partnering with local safari companies for logistical support and networking to learn everything from charity fundraising to electrical engineering.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Over time, they should commit to supporting training programs that can broaden the talent pool beyond those who’ve graduated from elite universities. Recruiting diverse sets of people will also help to improve and reinvent AI user experiences. Engineers conduct testing in labs and research facilities before a product launches.

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Prudent Pedal

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This zone is recognized as the firm’s core business and drives the firm’s profitability, recruitment and training efforts, rewards structure, and brand. This instability compels practice leaders to expand the Performance Envelope by pushing its edges outward to “reinvent” the firm while maintaining the “core” that powers the engine.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. These goals include aiming for Yelp’s sales teams to match the composition of the diverse communities in which they operate, increasing its proportion of female engineers, and making its culture more inclusive. The numbers were grim.

Recruiting 28

Recruiting Recruitment Interviews Engineering 28

CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

As long as you're not asking for months of extra time, a few extra days will not screw up their recruiting plans. and would risk hampering future recruiting efforts, especially in on-campus recruiting. I find the top firms are actually more likely to do this than the boutique firms. People will probably forget within a year.

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Ethics Case Interview Consulting Interviews 40

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2018

Using driverless trains, robotic operators, cameras, lasers, and tracking sensors, the company will be able to manage the whole supply chain remotely — while improving safety and reducing the need for workers in remote locations. Delivery drones and self-driving vehicles aren’t far off.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We see three common scenarios that can cause employers to recruit outside their ranks for talented people (albeit at their own risk). Here’s a common scenario when it comes to the former: A hiring manager shares a healthy list of job requirements and asks their recruiter to find someone who fits the bill. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 30, 2020

The investment banking sector became so big, so powerful, and so profitable that it started recruiting talent out of other industries. PhDs in mathematics, physics, and astrophysics were being poached out of engineering fields to instead do financial engineering. One sector, in particular, was “rocket scientists.”.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

These are areas in which recently available, off-the-shelf AI tools, such as Google’s Cloud Speech API and Nuance’s speech recognition API, can be used, and they don’t require massive investment in training and hiring. This all leads to the question of how best to recruit the resources for these efforts.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2017

Their key finding: “Many college majors that lead to high-paying roles in tech and engineering are male dominated, while majors that lead to lower-paying roles in social sciences and liberal arts tend to be female dominated, placing men in higher-paying career pathways, on average.” Music majors show a similar pattern.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

As a startup founder, I’m constantly struggling to recruit top talent without breaking the bank. How do you recruit a developer making well into six figures, or an experienced salesperson with four kids in private school? Invest in training and professional development. HBR Staff/Phatharapol Nopharat/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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