Tom Spencer

MAY 16, 2020

However, the novelty of weekly business trips and lonely hotel rooms is likely to wear off quickly unless you stay organised and make the most of the wonderful experience this offers. Every year consulting firms hire new high achieving young graduates, meaning that recruits from last year must move up or move out.

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Consulting Industry Case Interview Culture 88

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

OCTOBER 11, 2007

Gotta be there for campus recruiting! Now I’m back at the hotel. I’m sitting in the hotel bar, and they don’t have wireless. I’m convinced that loud bar music is a covert government operation designed to make people with no life and sitting alone in hotel bars feel good about rationalizing why they’re not talking to anyone.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 11, 2018

Fancy hotels and dinners, social contacts in the business world, and a reputation as a high achiever can tip the scale for some people. It also helps to recruit or retain talented employees who might otherwise not opt for the consulting lifestyle.

Consulting 76

Consulting Consulting Lifestyle Hotels Enterprise 76

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

As usual getting into McKinsey is tough, but it’s even tougher in NYC – with many target recruiting schools nearby and hundreds of aspirants swarming to locate in NY, it’s a highly competitive office. The Boston Consulting Group. EY Consulting.

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Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

Benchmarking in the process of creating a culture of innovation in hotel companies. Life-changing leadership habits: 10 Proven principles that will elevate people, profit, and purpose. Organizational Talent Consulting. Gierczak-Korzeniowska, B., & & Gołembski, G. Economics and Business Review, 3 (17) (2), 101-113. Hjeltnes, A.,

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 20, 2023

And after picking up our rental car at the airport, we realized we didn’t have the address to our hotel. Getting to where you are going I learned an important life lesson on a business trip to Puerto Rico, traveling with a good friend. I could count on him for directions. The GPS could tell us where we were in the world.

Leadership 59

Leadership ROI Survey Hotels 59

Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. The space makes use of a set-up known as “hoteling,” in which staffers aren’t assigned a designated work space. They reserve one only on days when they plan to come to the office. Cool, or not?

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Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Bain 100

Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

The consulting perks of fancy dinners and luxury hotels kind of lose their appeal over time. Lifestyle Preferences By the time most grad school-sourced consultants hit their 2 nd year in consulting, they are 30-something, and the world begins to look slightly different.

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Consulting Hotels Travel Groups 78

Management Consulted

JUNE 17, 2015

The original site offered short-term living quarters, breakfast and a unique business networking opportunity for attendees who were unable to book a hotel in the saturated market. Are you an employer,recruiter, or hiring manager? Again, depending on the position for which you have applied the interview process can vary slightly.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

Checking into a hotel for a conference several years ago, I asked the receptionist where I could get some dinner. There was no restaurant in the hotel, I was told; my only options were ordering delivery from a fast-casual chain or a pizza joint. Eric Raptosh Photography/Getty Images.

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Travel Data Hotels Exercises 29

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. In the case of the recruiting issue, we made faster hiring a competition, rewarding individuals and teams that showed the best results.

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Operations Hotels Case Interview Finance 31

Women in Consulting

MARCH 25, 2014

Oh, and they will pick you up at the airport for free, take you on a tour of Zappos and then back to your hotel. 100% recruiter efficiency. Takeaway: Becoming a big company allows you to give back to your community in a big way. Nicely done marketing! By the next day, job offers went out to those they wanted. The results?

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Conference Deloitte Hotels Education 108

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Director Recruitment and Skills. Recruiting directors with technological expertise is one avenue through which boards can boost their innovative capabilities. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 37

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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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 30, 2019

Sure, it was a very nice hotel, and it's really, really cool for the first four weeks. And finally, how good are you at recruiting clients to do the work for you? I recruited four clients to do the analysis for me. They all worked until 5pm, I stayed until 6:30pm and then went back to the hotel. But I was never home.

Management 75

Management Consulting McKinsey How To 75

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

We recruited a total of 1,337 participants to engage in negotiations, and we found that gender played a role in how we negotiate for ourselves and others. We told them that buyers wanted to build a commercial high-rise hotel on the property, but that the seller would reject their offer if they knew about this intent.

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Ethics Study Research Hotels 38

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

Show up earlier to the airport than you’re used to, so you can pump before you take off, and reserve early check-ins at your hotels to facilitate pumping on arrival. Call your hotel in advance and ask about refrigeration options. The parents I talked to offered some other hard-won tips: Be early to everything.

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Travel Hotels Transportation Policies 34

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 30, 2020

The investment banking sector became so big, so powerful, and so profitable that it started recruiting talent out of other industries. If you’re in a job function that is no longer valued (or legally allowed) in this economic environment (such as restaurant waitstaff, hotel room cleaners), you can control noticing whose hiring and why.

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Financial Energy Real Estate Government 145

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

We’ve seen how dramatically digital platforms have upended long-established industries across the spectrum from hotels (Airbnb and VRBO) to music (Apple and Pandora) to recruiting (LinkedIn) to retail (Wayfair and Amazon). Despite all these risks, digital initiatives are on the slate, and should be, for most firms.

How To 35

How To Metrics Pharmaceuticals Hotels 35

Confessions of a Consultant

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Perhaps a more realistic telling of the tale was that I’d blagged my way into a paying gig (€200) for an afternoon session in the Hollybrook Hotel in Clontarf. On the Investment Banking side, new recruits regularly work 80+ hours each week (my nephew often slept under his desk or in a conference room in New York).

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Fashion Trends Banking Hotels 45

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2016

Hotel bar @ 7? Still, when just a few days after their drinks in the hotel, he’d asked her out on a “real date,” Elizabeth initially demurred, wondering if it was a good idea. Claudia was the newest recruit to the sales team—young, eager, pretty. FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. Brad: Just me.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Conference 28

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

I would strongly encourage you to reserve flights and hotels in advance. The recruiting coordinator will usually hand these folders to you. This was a very pleasant surprise coming from academia where most people have to cover their own expenses when interviewing for graduate school and post-graduate residences and fellowships.

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Case Interview Interviews Consulting McKinsey 60

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

Instead, they recruit participants, and then sell each group of participants access to the other group of participants. Airbnb, which seems to have come out of nowhere, is challenging the global hotel industry. They operate platforms that make it easy and efficient for participants to connect and exchange value.

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Operations B2B Groups Software 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Westin, the hotel chain, awards its top innovators a five-day exotic trip each quarter. this was an HR innovation that transformed how we do college recruiting and now we have a flock of new innovative employees). Other companies give experiential rewards to reinforce innovative behavior.

Culture 28

Culture Talent Industry Financial 28

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.

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Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 53

Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 7, 2022

recruiting, rewarding, recognizing, and developing innovation champions. Cultures that produce innovation create innovation teams, address the "lack of time" barrier, hold employees accountable, provide persuasive prompts for innovation, and recruit, reward, recognize, and develop innovation champions. Space News. & Golembski, G.

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Culture Boston Consulting Group Leadership Recruiting 52

CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As an experiment, I invited a few dozen CIBs, 1Y, 2Y to a last-minute, impromptu Q&A session in the lobby of my hotel. I was hoping 5 people would show up, but when close to 30 did, the hotel kicked us out. Q: Do you know what the campus recruiting schedule is for this year? Lesson learned.). new clients). A: 2 years.

How To 75

How To McKinsey Hotels Meeting 75

Tom Spencer

JULY 6, 2019

Amid the intensity of recruiting for consulting, few stop to think what it will really be like once they’ve achieved their mission to get into a top-tier consulting firm. Anything you don’t get to see on the company dime, you can still probably see for free – just in exchange for a portion of your accumulated airline and hotel points.

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Consulting Travel Case Interview Hotels 60

MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2015

The cost of finding, recruiting, training and keeping drivers is steadily rising,” Shevell says. That’s clearly a threat to the hotel business, which is using whatever political and regulatory connections it can to put limits on the company, even as it grows larger. Hotels fight Airbnb. Equipment costs are through the roof.

Education 28

Education Hotels Transportation Industry 28

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

APRIL 15, 2013

We declare ourselves experts and recruit a choir to sing our praises. Truthfully, the difference between success and failure of a project has much more to do with charisma and salesmanship than content! Theres a great deal of posturing involved in consulting. We dress better, speak better, and are far more worldly than our customers.

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Consulting Hotels Airlines Recruiting 53

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2008

Furio, you need a great executive recruiter who focuses on industry opportunities for recovering consultants. Furio DOES need a good recruiter, because he is STUCK on a terrible project. 2 comments: Noah D. Head over to [link] and see if we are right for you. January 29, 2008 at 5:04 PM. Anonymous said. HOOK HIM UP! Consultantese. (8).

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Consulting Hotels Recruiting Recruitment 40

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

APRIL 14, 2009

they are: 1) watching those luggage cart trains speeding across the airport tarmac 2) getting free watery coffee at my clients offices 3) boarding my flight ahead of the common people 4) hotel upgrades 5) airline upgrades 6) eating out without having to pay for it 7) new laptop every 2, er, 3, um, 4, ah. Recruitment Consultants Chandigarh.

Hotels 40

Hotels Airlines Consulting Recruiting 40

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Every business is, willingly or unwillingly, a competitor on a software playing field, no matter which sector it’s in.

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Software Company Intellectual Property Airlines 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

But this is also happening across the economy, with women in tech and law, saleswomen (particularly in retail), waitresses, hotel maids, and many others. Male-dominated management teams have been found to tolerate, sanction, or even expect sexualized treatment of workers, which can lead to a culture of complicity.

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Training Training System Report 28

Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Some companies now use a Hot Desk system where people don’t have individualized spaces but ‘plug and play’ from a free slot – in much the same way as we rent hotel rooms for a single night. Lower Costs : 70 Square foot per person costs between €4,000 and €16,000 per annum, depending on the office location and fit out.

Exercises 40

Exercises System Banking Talent 40

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

If KPMG isn’t visiting your school, contact a KPMG recruiter in the city of your choosing – but first, network with someone who is a manager or above who is an alum at your school. Richard Solomons – Chief Executive of InterContinental Hotels Group. KPMG CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & RECRUITING. Internships.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

APRIL 14, 2018

UBER and Air-BNB are the companies who have perfected this model and have radically democratized the taxi and hotel industries, tapping into un-utilized excess capacities and ultimately making the economic system more efficient.

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Consulting Talent Enterprise Industry 84