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Tips for Case Prepping Alone

Tom Spencer

As fall recruiting season is on the horizon, it’s inevitably a busy time for many students looking to recruit into consulting. Reading the news is a great way to keep up to date with the business world while also providing you with realistic scenarios that contain business problems you can examine as a thought exercise.

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Start taking advantage of these 5 trends for small business in 2023

Asamby Consulting

Modern cashflow management tools make this exercise easy. Recruit smarter, not harder The shift in the labor market is here to stay. Working with recruiting firms can boost both speed and reduce cost of hiring. Also, the last years have shown how important it is to have some financial slack for unforeseen developments.

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A Simple Exercise Can Help Women Overcome Self-Doubt to Succeed

Harvard Business

Although efforts to recruit and develop women, ensure fair practices, and eliminate bias are as important as ever, are there any new ideas to help companies striving for gender parity? Other participants were prompted to do a similar writing exercise, but about other values (including institutional ones).

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How to Handle Rejection from a Consulting Firm

Tom Spencer

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. Or, doing brain exercises on the Elevate App could improve your mental math and reasoning skills. There may be training or informal coaching you can undertake to help you develop.

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The Power of Curiosity

Harvard Business

Her research shows allowing employees to exercise their curiosity can lead to fewer conflicts and better outcomes. Gino offers several ways that leaders can instead model, cultivate, and even recruit for curiosity. Gino is the author of the HBR article “ The Business Case for Curiosity.” ” Download this podcast.

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Tips to Streamline Your ERP Project Cutover

PM Alliance

You may have internal collaborators who can take on more material procurement or staff recruiting tasks, for example, or a project management consulting partner experienced in ERP implementations who can help guide you back to solid ground. If your team appears to be in constant firefighting mode, look for resources to help.

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DEI Initiatives Are Futile Without Accountability

Harvard Business

A three-part framework to move your organization beyond box-checking exercises.