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Consulting Networking: 6 Best Practice Guidelines

Tom Spencer

One of the more memorable parts of the consulting recruiting process was witnessing people attempting to network with consulting firms. What can inspire a more productive conversation with a consultant or recruiter is helping them understand how you might be an asset to the firm. Referral to a recruiter. Conclusion.

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When to hire an HR person

Asamby Consulting

Recruiting This task is the most well known task of HR, which includes creating a hiring roadmap, building employer brand and talent pool, sourcing talents, and onboarding employees. Others contract through HR companies that provide basic recruiting and sourcing, which leaves onboarding and training to the company managers itself.

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Rescue from the trash…avoiding key resume errors that get your consulting application tossed aside

Management Consulted

Paper airplanes are fun, but you don’t want your resume to become the vehicle for a recruiter’s mid-afternoon horseplay because you’ve bored them to death. That’s why we’re giving you some guidelines on key resume errors to avoid and things you can do to make it past the first round of reviews.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

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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Conversation with Vivaldi Partners Group

Tom Spencer

Tom: What kind of training and mentoring can graduates expect to receive at Vivaldi Partners Group? As part of the mentor program, we assign a senior partner to a handful of people on the mentor team, and we have a learning and development guideline that guides the process. It depends on the situation.

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Fixing the Gender Imbalance in Health Care Leadership

Harvard Business

For example, Duke has promotion tracks specifically for faculty with clinical service and educational focuses to their careers, providing tenure-track guidelines for advancement from assistant all the way to full professor. Men and women alike should work to enhance gender diversity in leadership.

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The Kinds of Data Scientist

Harvard Business

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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