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Consulting Resume Review – Jenny Rae and Chris

Management Consulted

Interested in seeing how a MC resume review works? Meet Chris, a lawyer interested in breaking into consulting. Pay careful attention to how Jenny Rae tweaks his resume and gives him invaluable advice for his next steps. Want your resume reviewed or career path advice? Want your resume reviewed or career path advice?

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

I started this series by discussing why managers didn't perceive the value of agile coaches and Scrum Masters in Part 1, resulting in layoffs.) If you have sufficient functional skills, domain expertise, and agile expertise, use the advice in Part 1 to iterate through your resume. These practices are the most effective ways to manage.

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3 Ways Management Consulting Applications Differ from Traditional Ones

Management Consulted

If you’ve been around the management consulting industry for any amount of time at all, you know how different of a beast it really is to conquer than nearly any other industry. Even if you’ve done a masterful job of networking , you still have to jump through the hoops and meet the stringent criteria of consulting firms.

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Rescue from the trash…avoiding key resume errors that get your consulting application tossed aside

Management Consulted

Paper airplanes are fun, but you don’t want your resume to become the vehicle for a recruiter’s mid-afternoon horseplay because you’ve bored them to death. That’s why we’re giving you some guidelines on key resume errors to avoid and things you can do to make it past the first round of reviews.

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Reader FAQ: The one-page resume rule, applying overseas, and why our phone number is unlisted

Management Consulted

We offer our time to paying clients for assistance with resume reviews (Power Half Hour), personalized networking advice (1-hour sessions), and Case Interview Prep (Prep Packages). We are entertaining the possibility of doing a monthly meet-and-greet webinar for prospective clients – perhaps launching in early 2013.

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5 Tips for Freshmen to Tackle the Recruiting Process

Tom Spencer

Build out your resume. The most important tool at your disposal in the recruitment process is your resume. All the case prep, interview practice, and networking in the world will be for naught if your resume lets you down. In describing your experiences, make sure to use action verbs: “developed”, “managed”, “created”.

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5 reasons to sign up for a Management Consulting Bootcamp (registration now open!)

Management Consulted

Management Consulted is taking consulting bootcamps on the road – live and delivered straight to you. What is a Management Consulting Bootcamp? For the low price of $575, each participant receives a complete resume / cover letter edit ($350), the MC Book Bundle ($195) and 8 hours of group instruction (priceless).