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Top 5 Consulting Resume Mistakes by Ph.D’s, Postdocs, and Other Advanced Degree Holders

Management Consulted

engineers, med students, JDs, post-docs, interns, practicing MDs or residents, these magical BCG and McKinsey consulting seminars are crash courses, extended job interviews, and sell weekends all rolled into one. 3 – Too long and not metrics-driven. Aimed at Ph.D.s, Can you guess a really easy way to show you can do that?

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? For some managers, this seems initially like putting the cart before the horse. Alicia Llop/Getty Images. It was seat-of-the-pants stuff. .”

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Make Data a Cornerstone of Your Team

Harvard Business

You can also encourage team leads and managers to be more deliberate about highlighting successful outcomes from using data. Is real-time web traffic an important metric for the team to keep an eye on? Train managers to focus on providing private recognition to exceptional employees. Install a TV showing a few data dashboards.

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Duke University undergrad prepares for BCG Interview Superday

Management Consulted

The behavioral part, he looked up some of the things that I’m involved in on-campus as I was sitting there, so I was very happy that he brought up the case and it was just pension, wealth management, something very financial and technical like that. I thought I bombed the case. Those are fine, but it doesn’t have to be that.