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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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Why Trying to Pivot to a Consulting Career through an Online MBA Might Not be the Best Idea

Tom Spencer

MBA consulting recruiting season starts every fall. I am commenting purely on recruiting for a post-MBA consulting position. Without having a grounded career understanding, online MBAs come to me unable to coherently decide if consulting is the right career opportunity to meet their professional and personal goals.

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Welcome to new readers plus a few questions answered

Management Consulted

Top 10 Resume Tips. Overview of the Management Consulting Recruiting Process. It showed me the “benchmark” that I need to meet in order to be successful in business. The training – both on the job and formal – was continuous and applicable far beyond management consulting. Top 10 Interview Tips.

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Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories

Harvard Business

Updating your LinkedIn profile and resume. But for the most part, recruiters aren’t calling. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? What were their biggest challenges, and how did you help meet them? You’re searching for a new job. You know the standard advice.

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Don’t Give Up on Unconscious Bias Training — Make It Better

Harvard Business

There’s a growing skepticism about whether unconscious bias training is an effective tool to meet corporate diversity goals. Critics of such training contend that it doesn’t visibly move the needle on diversity numbers, and can even backfire.

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Issues to consider as you build your consulting career

Tom Spencer

Of course, the challenges of the management consulting industry are offset by many benefits: an attractive salary, formal training, real world business experience, variety of projects in different industries, and strong networking opportunities. At the same time, you don’t want to oversell your work, and then fail to meet expectations.

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The undisputed importance of appearance and how to get it right

Tom Spencer

When you walk into an interview, even before you speak, shake hands or talk through your resume, something else is doing a lot of talking in your behalf: your appearance. In his study, 100 business students got interviewed by trained interviewers just as if they were competing for roles at large corporations. Reading Time: 4 minutes.