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How Geography Affects Where Elite Consulting Firms Recruit

Harvard Business

Research has shown that attending an elite university can make or break a student’s chances of being recruited by the best firms ( whether or not that strategy makes sense for firms ). Since firms tend to recruit where they can find the most candidates, students in regions with many top schools may have a harder time being found.

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HR Guide to Company Culture: 5 Tangible Leverage Points

LSA Global

An HR Guide to Company Culture and Your Organizational DNA When it comes to people and organizational dynamics, the concept of company culture can seem nebulous and less vital when compared company strategies, systems, people, or finances. Do your recruiting and interviewing processes effectively assess for cultural fit ?

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How to Succeed in the New Age of Interviews

Tom Spencer

Through research and experiences of my own, I have gathered insights into how to prepare for and succeed in the search for an internship. A desired response from a recruitment manager would be “most cover letters I’m falling asleep. The process of securing an internship at an investment bank is both a daunting and strenuous endeavour.

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HR Leaders Need Stronger Data Skills

Harvard Business

.” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. This neglect has hindered their ability to leverage data into talent strategies that can help transform their businesses. Implement leadership planning models.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business

After extensive assessment, they settled on two initiatives: realigning incentives for employees and systematically introducing outside talent and practices. As a result, teams are perversely incentivized to protect and prolong dubious drug-development programs, diverting resources from more promising avenues of research.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

As consulting firms go, FTI Consulting is a newcomer – but at just over 30 years old, the firm has made impressive strides to become one of the most respected name in legal analysis and data-driven research to support major initiatives for law firms, banks and the majority of the Fortune 500. Corporate Finance/Restructuring.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

It was then that I found, after researching here, that my passion actually lay in consulting.! ” “Consulting struck me as my ideal future career after I quickly began researching everything there was to know about it after simply hearing about it through word of mouth. It was like “Oh!! Here’s my destiny!”