Tom Spencer

JANUARY 5, 2019

It’s now January, and as the MBA internship recruitment season shifts into full gear, here are some tips from someone who went through the consulting recruitment process last year. Happy recruiting! Note: These tips are geared towards MBA1s, but are applicable to anyone interviewing with consulting firms.). Image: Unsplash.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. 3) Presentation skills – this is a cornerstone of consulting work. The decision was easier for me than for most people.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2016

The Class of 2015 had a full 35% of its graduates accept offers in the consulting field, and Kellogg has become a hot recruiting spot across top firms – but especially for McKinsey. Kellogg has also recently placed a focus on recruiting more women in to its program, and women made up 35% of the Class of 2015.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Finance – A Finance degree not only shows that you’re proficient in math, but also implies you’re inquisitive and like to get to the root of problems. To be specific, a degree in finance shows that you not only know the numbers, but can communicate them in a way that is easy to understand.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Practice will only help for future interviews or next year’s recruiting cycle. Explore alternatives such as grad school, finance, and entrepreneurship. Suggested areas include finance (eg, investment banking and sales & trading) and the corporate track (eg, corporate management and product management).

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Consultant Ninja

DECEMBER 10, 2008

In my years of being involved with MBA recruiting, Ive never been able to hire a former special forces operator, but Ive been dying to come up with the right reason. Presentation Zen. Wednesday, December 10, 2008. What to put on a consulting resume (part 3 of a continuing series). December 10, 2008 at 11:56 AM. Post a Comment.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Past and present employees love the passionate and high-energy environment, as well as competent managers. You’ll get behavioral questions, role play presentations, with and without time to prepare. Are you an employer,recruiter, or hiring manager? 28% of Management Consultants Pursue Finance. Relax and you’ll do fine.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Make sure you take time to find who the recruiting contacts are for your region of the country or even your specific school and be comfortable reaching out to those individuals. If you happen to attend a non-target school then the next best thing would be to attend a virtual recruiting and case interview workshop.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 14, 2015

Then, underneath three of these sub-subsidiaries are, you guessed it, more subsidiaries, such as Seabury Airline Planning Group LLC and Seabury Maritime Corporate Finance LLC. INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. They recruit a lot of their staff that way. Presentations. Are you confused yet? Finding the right Boutique firm.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

Alex Formstone is a Principal in Marakon ’s London office, and heads up recruiting in the UK for graduates and MBAs. I recently had the good fortune to talk briefly with Alex about his career, Marakon and its recruitment process. How does finance link to strategy and basic accounting? How do you work with clients?

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

The tiny company brought major changes to the presentation of technical courtroom evidence using computer models built with a simple yet powerful goal in mind – to help jury members understand the technical merits in law cases. Corporate Finance/Restructuring. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 23, 2015

Once you get passed to Round 0, you can bank on at least 3-5 interviews (although they have been known to give more) which typically consist of connecting with the recruiter for a phone screen and a phone interview with the hiring managers. Are you an employer,recruiter, or hiring manager? 28% of Management Consultants Pursue Finance.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Bridgespan offers a wide variety of online LinkedIn groups for networking purposes, ranging from role based groups including operations and finance, to general networking, to groups designed for those who have transitioned from a for-profit to a nonprofit career. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Presentations.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Plus, the benefits at Pixar are fun: in-house screening of in-progress films, access to presentations on incredible in-house graphics research and development, ping-pong, massages, an in-house gym and on-site daycare. Are you an employer,recruiter, or hiring manager? 28% of Management Consultants Pursue Finance. Let us help you.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Shortly after this, the junior enterprise organized a recruitment fair in which I had the chance to talk to major consulting companies about their career opportunities, the kind of projects they worked on and what their daily activities were. When I started out in the program, I quickly realized I was never cut out for finance or accounting.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Working anywhere from the strategy related to the business unit to corporate finance and strategy to strategic foresight, A.T. KEARNEY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Kearney recruits outside the U.S. Sustainability.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. The firm is interested in the individual growth of its employees, and thus training programs are present which any employee can take advantage of. Many specifically mention the camaraderie present in the firm. TOWERS WATSON CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. HR Software.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The quickest way to flip this public perception on its head is to render AI genderless, something I advocate for tirelessly and practice with Sage’s personal finance assistant, Pegg. Recruiting diverse sets of people will also help to improve and reinvent AI user experiences. Eliminating Biases in AI: The Technology.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

After a presentation or big meeting, state one thing you think went well and then ask for advice on one thing you could improve. It’s not always possible to get noticed by senior leaders through your direct work so you might try volunteering for initiatives, such as charity work, company events, or on-campus recruiting.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Back in my GE days, the Finance Director was skeptical about the merits of the HR function which he labeled the ‘Health and Happiness Department.’ When there are big ‘presenting issues’ in an organization it’s relatively easy to ride in on a white horse, complete your diagnosis and ‘fix’ the place. Ensuring HR adds real Value.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Well, I grew up in Bethesda, MD, and attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT for – BS (finance), MS (nutritional sciences), and PhD (cell and molecular biology). A few years later I was recruited for a position by one of the government consulting companies who had previously made me a contingent offer.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

This was not a deliberate choice, but I had the interest in the sector, I wasgood in certain aspects related to the finance industry, I liked my colleagues in that sector, and they and my clients liked me a lot. And finally, how good are you at recruiting clients to do the work for you? Guess what we were working on?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

It may seem kind of strange to have every marketer, salesperson, recruiter, and finance person spend a week programming an app, a skill they’ll never use in their day job. Yet, this is a rite of passage at Twilio.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

Mindfulness meditation — the practice of cultivating deliberate focused attention on the present moment – has caught on as a way to bring focus, authenticity, and intention to the practice of leadership. Is the answer to simply recruit leaders and board members who engage in contemplative practices? It can’t hurt.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Real-world applications range from medical diagnoses and judicial sentencing to professional recruiting and resource allocation in public agencies. ” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 5, 2016

It started off with contacting – actually, I reached out to recruiters specifically and sent in my application, and they were mostly very quick to respond to me. Because sometimes, for example, for a great recruiter, that might actually matter more to them than it would to a junior level person. All for the Boston practices, exactly.

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QEmploy

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Since Gartner is a global research and consulting firm that provides information, advice and tools to companies within IT, finance, marketing, you can expect to find useful articles on these areas on their blog. Finance Monthly. His articles are well written, easy to read and informative. . Hinge Marketing. Steve Tobak. Consulting Mag.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2016

He led the finance team. They’d only gotten to know each other in the past couple of months, after she’d been asked to present at a few investor conferences, repurposing the spiel she’d successfully given to so many customers. Claudia was the newest recruit to the sales team—young, eager, pretty.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. And many diversity programs fail. Interviews were recorded and professionally transcribed.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Under increasing scrutiny, and mindful of the benefits of diversity on the bottom line, many companies are trying to recruit and retain a more diverse workforce. On some teams, members were assigned distinct roles (Artistic, Event, and Finance Manager), thus increasing diversity of viewpoints. Success has so far been marginal.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 21, 2006

You will have the opportunity to use your special knowledge - be it in marketing, finance, or event planning - in a manner that will help shape the organization for years to come. We were invited to give a presentation that resulted in a $20,000 donation to my organization. Use this as an opportunity to ask about the organization.

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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Consultants experts in startups, finance, project management, and different specific industries, that have been part of companies like Deloitte, PwC, Accenture, KPMG, Roland Berger, McKinsey can be part of your project and help you succeed. Future Trends: Businesses have gradually discovered that good talent is harder to find.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

We recruited a panel of expert judges (see the list below), who evaluated the companies through the lens of their own expertise and gauged which transformations were most durable and had the highest impact in their industries. During phase two, we used these comparative metrics to narrow the list to 18 finalist candidates.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. Generally, recruiters will make their demands for previous experience or knowledge crystal clear.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 23, 2015

We’re not going to send you to Canary Wharf to work in finance. We also have particular training courses around client engagement, presenting in meetings, and presentation skills so that people get an equal balance of hard analytical skills and soft engagement skills. We recruit for experienced hires on a rolling basis.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. I was a speaker at 2008’s Fortune 500 CEO conference and listened with interest as BCG presented the findings of a study conducted in partnership with with the European Association for People Management.

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