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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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7 Reasons Why Your Clients Aren't "Getting It" When you Talk and Write About What You Do

Consulting Matters

But the truth is - our industry shop talk isn't their industry shop talk. You may feel that your industry-speak makes you come across as smart but what it does is it makes your clients feel dumb. Pro tip: Meet your clients are their point of departure. As former leaders, we are trained to speak corporate.

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Issues to consider as you build your consulting career

Tom Spencer

This article looks at some of the key questions to consider as you pursue a career in the management consulting industry. On the other hand, top global firms provide a more structured graduate program, formal training and development opportunities, and typically pay higher salaries. Is consulting for you?

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Internal Strategy: Lessons Learned (2 of 2)

Tom Spencer

Note that these observations are based on my personal experience and may not be common across the entire industry. This flexibility is one of the values of management consulting, which you are trained in, constantly practice, and are critically evaluated on. 7 differences between internal strategy and management consulting.

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Tour Recap – Day 5 (Yale)

Management Consulted

We’re recapping our lives as road warriors via planes, trains and automobiles…we visited Georgia Tech , Duke , Georgetown , and Columbia before rolling over to today’s campus…Yale. Our train ride was uneventful with the exception of the conductor, who was a joke-telling machine.

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Upskilling your Organization to Increase Engagement and Retention with Expert Instructional Designers

Clarity Consultants

Managers must keep these employees engaged and challenged within the company, or it will not be long before they update their resumes and look outside the company for professional fulfillment. . The confidence they gain can mean they are ready to contribute during meetings, share ideas, and mentor co-workers.

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Why Trying to Pivot to a Consulting Career through an Online MBA Might Not be the Best Idea

Tom Spencer

When I talk to online MBA students, the first thing that strikes me is that they are unaware about industry dynamics. Without having a grounded career understanding, online MBAs come to me unable to coherently decide if consulting is the right career opportunity to meet their professional and personal goals. The Bottom Line.