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

Johanna Rothman

If you have sufficient functional skills, domain expertise, and agile expertise, use the advice in Part 1 to iterate through your resume. Instead, we can invite them to change, by showing the value with the pirate metrics. I'm not blaming the manifesto writers—no one invited a manager-type person to the meeting.

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3 Ways Management Consulting Applications Differ from Traditional Ones

Management Consulted

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. You know how important your resume is in getting your foot in the door for an interview. Actually, your resume is all-powerful. Well, that’s what we’re here for!

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Create a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts, Part 5: Write Your Bio

Johanna Rothman

Along the way, she's learned about vanity metrics and metrics that work. I love the line about vanity metrics and metrics that work. He's also coached his managers into using flow metrics, not resource metrics. The flow metrics? Jill has built her speaking experience in several ways. Working together?

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Elite Performance - What It Really Takes

CaseInterview.com

the key is to actually do a reasonableness test by finding some other metric that should be correlated to the number you're estimating. (By Finally, if you do this in a staff meeting in industry, you will blow your boss away. There are numerous ways to check reasonableness. this kind of thinking rarely happens in industry.).

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Top 10 Reasons your Sales Reps Struggle with Social Selling

LSA Global

Goals and Success Metrics are Unclear or Misaligned. A buyer-centric LinkedIn profile is the result of transforming a resume style profile into a resource page on LinkedIn. The Top 10 Reasons your Sales Reps Struggle with Social Selling. Generic Sales Playbooks Are the Norm. Generic or Company-Centered LinkedIn Profiles Are OK.

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How to Ask for a Promotion

Harvard Business

” The memo’s bullet points ought to “provide concrete metrics of the impact you’ve had,” descriptions of “solutions you’ve delivered” and financial outcomes for which you’ve been responsible. Case Study #1: Create a “ resume of accomplishments” to bolster your argument.

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