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Recruiting versus reality

Tom Spencer

Consulting firms are very good at selling themselves to potential recruits. But, like any sales pitch, there’s a degree of exaggeration behind the polished smiles. insurance) or types of work (e.g. transformations) as your limited experience means you add most value in areas you’ve worked on before.

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Wealth Management 101: The Hidden World of Private Banking

Tom Spencer

The financial services industry comprises firms that operate across a range of sectors: Asset & Wealth Management, Banking & Capital Markets, and Insurance.

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How to Approach the Layoff Conversation with Respect and Congruence, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In the US, the company no longer pays health insurance, matches retirement funds, or offers any of the other typical perks of working for a company. Worse, when companies have record sales and cut bonuses or salaries for regular people, but keep the money in place for the senior leaders. ” (What a crock.).

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Job Hub: Chick-Fil-A Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

. – has grown to be the largest quick-service chicken restaurant in the United States based on domestic annual sales. Your resume and cover letter has to impress the recruiters and you only have one chance to make an impression on a firm. Are you an employer, recruiter, or hiring manager? Don’t get looked over.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Now a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, Oliver Wyman is known to give MMC its strong reputation as experts over other insurance providers because of the firm’s focus on strategy. Burrows, Marsh & McLennan began in Chicago in 1905 and became the world’s largest insurance agency. Corporate and Institutional Banking.

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Business intelligence vs. predictive analytics: Turn key differences into advantages

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Uses of predictive analytics include workforce forecasting, sales forecasting, and brands’ suggestions for what customers may want to purchase next. Business intelligence supports numerous functions across an organization from recruitment and hiring to training and compliance, as well as marketing and sales.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

I seriously considered sales & trading (in fact, I spent a summer at Credit Suisse First Boston in NY), and was tempted to continue in that line of work post-graduation. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.” 5 EXIT OPPORTUNITIES.

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