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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 See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) Based on a little investment from you and the candidate, you have enough information on a candidate's skills to know whether or not to proceed.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

Is my resume where it needs to be?” We’ve got your resume to go through, and as I gather you have a whole bunch of questions about consulting. Do you want to talk about your resume and your experience first, or do you want to talk about the questions that you have? Commercial Pilot’s Resume. Is that right?

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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. Often the right metric will be a combination of characteristics. Choosing the right person for a job can be challenging.

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Elite Performance - What It Really Takes

CaseInterview.com

the key is to actually do a reasonableness test by finding some other metric that should be correlated to the number you're estimating. (By And I wanted to let you know about a new video I recently put together titled The Top 5 Consulting Resume Mistakes. There are numerous ways to check reasonableness. Additional Resources.

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Top 10 Reasons your Sales Reps Struggle with Social Selling

LSA Global

LinkedIn’s recent State of Sales report found that 62% of B2B decision makers look for an informative LinkedIn profile when considering talking with a sales rep. Goals and Success Metrics are Unclear or Misaligned. Why Social Selling Matters. They also tout that modern selling leaders are: 51% more likely to achieve quota.

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Hiring Algorithms Are Not Neutral

Harvard Business

These software systems can in some cases be so efficient at screening resumes and evaluating personality tests that 72% of resumes are weeded out before a human ever sees them. The result is that automatic resume screening software often evaluates job applicants based on subjective criteria, such as one’s name.

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Case Interview Foundations: 6 Types of Case Interviews

Management Consulted

So, after writing the perfect resume and cover letter, and preparing at least 6 Hero Stories, it’s time to face the music. Profitability is the ultimate business metric , and profitability cases can address a business in any industry. The 2 case interview styles are Interviewer-led and Interviewee-led cases. Profitability.