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Job Hub: Virgin Group Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

This group has a startling 300 companies in its portfolio in sectors ranging from travel, telecommunications, health, financial services, leisure, music, space travel, and renewable energy. The group’s travel-related operations, led by 51%-owned Virgin Atlantic Airways, are among its largest cash generators.

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Pay your team right: A comprehensive guide to compensation

Asamby Consulting

Next to effective recruiting, getting compensation right is one of the most important tools to position your company well in the market. Example: You have been a travel agent with a business travel agency for 10 years. You now enter a luxury, bespoke travel provider. Even in much more local settings, location matters.

ROI 40
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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

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). My coursework was very informative and my research was in exercise physiology where I compared the fitness benefits of snowshoeing versus running.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. ” “Was attracted by the following attributes of consulting.

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6 Ways to Change Your Organisation: A Menu of Choices

Confessions of a Consultant

There were a number of constraints… Simple Roadmap : The project had both organisation and HR elements, including strategy creation, revising the structure, recruitment impacts and so on. Some of the German discount supermarkets are now travelling this route. Execution excellence = new core competence. Disallow game playing.

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Harvard junior weighs internships in VC and Consulting

Management Consulted

So I guess for me, coming into recruiting, I always thought that consulting might be my top choice, but in reality when I got started, I didn’t know what consulting was and didn’t know what finance was. Why don’t you just lay out what some of your thoughts are about the offers the opportunity, and what you’re thinking.