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

Consulting Matters

So unless you're cool with your words coming across as Charlie Brown's teacher (wa wa wa wa wah.) - you need to figure out how to meet your client's at their point of departure and speak their language.not yours! Pro tip: Meet your clients are their point of departure. Try handwriting your ideas in a journal.

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Consulting’s Unofficial Interview Hurdle – The Airplane Test

Tom Spencer

If you are just starting out, you will find yourself editing your resume, preparing answers for experiential questions, and practicing business frameworks to use in the case interview. Before an interview, you should receive the names of those you will meet. Mastering these will help you be prepared for this unofficial social test.

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Keep Calm (and practice self-care)

Kai Davis

Expect the business-, marketing-, and freelancing-focused letters to resume on ~Friday. Journaling. I use a mixture of Notion.so (business/workday journal) and a paper notebook (personal/life journal). Their guided meditations (and daily ~10-minute meditation) make building a meditation habit very graceful.

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Demographic vs. Situational Gravitas

CaseInterview.com

For example, if you take two identical resumes -- one with an obviously man’s name versus one with an obviously woman’s name, the man will get more interview invitations. The big lesson learned from that class is your social status determines a large part of your influence. Instead, situational gravitas is a.

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Experienced Hire from Harvard breaks in to Healthcare Consulting (Part 2)

Management Consulted

I think I have the idea of the final-round process down, where there is the screening portion, and then you come in and you try to view the culture of the company and meet the interviewers, and you already may be connected with some people inside the firm which will help you a lot. More just “I really enjoyed meeting you.

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Why Write and Publish Business Articles? For 5 Good Reasons!

Emerson Consulting Group

In a world filled with tweets, ever-breaking news, a thousand TV channels and podcasts galore, is there any point to toiling away at an article, then seeking a journal or magazine willing to publish it? That would only send them slipping out the door with updated resumes in search of positions more secure elsewhere.

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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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