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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. These managers might not know how to ask for what they want, but that's what they want.) The conditions in which you've used flow efficiency thinking to help the team and/or the managers collaborate more.

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Top 5 Consulting Resume Mistakes by Ph.D’s, Postdocs, and Other Advanced Degree Holders

Management Consulted

5 Resume Mistakes Advanced Degree Holders Should Avoid At All Costs. All power to you for your impressive brain, but all those brains don’t mean your resume is good. But if you’re one of the chosen few who can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 6 seconds, should you make it a featured section of your resume?

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

If you have sufficient functional skills, domain expertise, and agile expertise, use the advice in Part 1 to iterate through your resume. Instead, we can invite them to change, by showing the value with the pirate metrics. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress. I strongly recommend you get a line job, not a staff job.

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Decision Filters: Finding, Evaluating, and Taking Action on Opportunities

Tom Spencer

You should establish metrics that are specific to the scenario, aligned with your goals, and easy to understand or calculate. The filter can be a single metric that results in a yes/no decision, or a multistage process that results in an absolute yes/no or a conditional yes/no. How to use a decision filter .

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3 Ways Management Consulting Applications Differ from Traditional Ones

Management Consulted

You know how important your resume is in getting your foot in the door for an interview. Actually, your resume is all-powerful. You need to hear it from us first: y our metrics really matter. The whole point of your resume is for the firm to see clearly and quickly what makes you special.

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Consultants and Candidates: No Free Work. Ask for Reasonable Compensation

Johanna Rothman

Then ask several senior staff to use those phone screens in parallel on all the candidates who pass the first resume review. (I When you ask the elimination or dirt-bag questions, you can see how well the candidate fits in the organization. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) I wrote about this in Hiring Geeks That Fit.)

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How to Hire with Algorithms

Harvard Business

The sheer number of resumes can be overwhelming. When a manager reads through resumes of job applicants, she is implicitly trying to predict which applicants will perform well in the job and which won’t. The question is not whether to use algorithms for hiring, but how to get the most out of them. Other Interests?).

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