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Managing Career Transitions

Brimstone Consulting

Take the time to write the answers down in a journal or somewhere where you can refer back to them. Define Your Leadership Model. Take the time to define your leadership model and to make it explicit. Ask yourself the following questions: What’s your leadership model – how you think, how you lead, what processes do you use?

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

You think you’ve found the right candidate to fill your open position and now it’s time to check references. Checking references is often seen as one small piece of the hiring protocol—the final motion to go through before you extend a formal offer to a candidate. Should you ask each person the same questions?

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How to Break Into Consulting – Guide for Non-MBA Graduate Students

Tom Spencer

Before you seriously consider a consulting career, you should answer three questions: Is consulting the right fit for you (consider your skills and talents as well as preferred lifestyle)? Are you actually competitive for a consulting role (consider your academic history, professional experience, as well as social and leadership skills)?

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BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?

Management Consulted

Peter Mockler and his management team, who had been the EMEA leadership for BearingPoint in 2006, continued to lead BearingPoint. This leadership has brought much better stability and continuity to the business. It is a young, fast-paced environment seeking interns with great analytical, leadership, creative and social skills.

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What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest

Harvard Business

By the end of that year, we had hit or exceeded most of our goals , improving hiring rates of underrepresented engineers from 1 to 9% and increasing underrepresented talent from 7% to 12% in other roles. We created a playbook and training for managers focused on inclusive leadership. It can’t just be left up to HR , either.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The firm also launched their Talent Development Division – The Advisory Board Academies – to address “the leadership gap in health care” In 2003, The Advisory Board began to branch out into business intelligence and analytics launching the business Compass in the process. Felsenthal), a Chief Talent Officer (Mary D.

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Fireside Chat – Consulting Recruiting at Target and Non-Target Universities

Tom Spencer

Essentially, he referred me to the hiring lead and was able to get me an interview. To stand out, some of my friends started clubs or side businesses; others spent time strengthening their musical or artistic talents. Got a brand name on my resume by doing my initial batches of co-op at banks.