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Coronavirus: Leadership during a Crisis

CaseInterview.com

The need for effective leadership is especially acute during a major crisis. My guidance has usually been in the context of a client seeing major drops in sales, engaging in layoffs, and redirecting the team in a productive direction (as opposed to being paralyzed by fear or working on their resumes). Coronavirus Crisis Leadership.

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Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories

Harvard Business

Updating your LinkedIn profile and resume. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive. You’re searching for a new job. You know the standard advice. ” Résumé Story.

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Managing Career Transitions

Brimstone Consulting

Define Your Leadership Model. Take the time to define your leadership model and to make it explicit. Articulating and codifying your leadership model will help you better understand where you excel, your focus, and what you enjoy as a leader. How do you fix operational problems, political conflicts, interpersonal issues?

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Internal Strategy: Lessons Learned (2 of 2)

Tom Spencer

For example, after my team created the 5-year strategy, which involved downsizing certain business units and investing in certain others, we hired a managed consulting firm to validate our findings, pressure-test our thinking, and communicate this to the executive leadership team to avoid any political blowback. Profit and Loss Ownership.

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Personal Experience Interview - McKinsey PEI

CaseInterview.com

Despite the emphasis I and others places on the case interview, it is important that you be prepared for the more general interview questions that are based on your consulting resume. The important thing to realize is that consulting firm interviewers ask resume-based questions differently than employers from other industries.

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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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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

You’ll need a sexy minor, some unique leadership experience or a great summer internship to stand out. Having an impressive leadership item on your resume or showing membership in a fraternity or sorority will go a long way in dispelling any stereotypes about your social skills. P&G, Coca Cola etc.).