Tom Spencer

APRIL 22, 2017

Most consultancies hold company presentations, networking events, or workshops for students at target universities, which enable you to get to know them better. Consultants and recruiters often spend no more than a few seconds looking at your application when shortlisting interview candidates.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 25, 2014

He did this because research shows people tend to withdraw from the hiring process because they feel they don’t meet the criteria sufficiently. So he started with a Happy Hour, and then invited people to come to a all-day workshop to work on problems important to SFDC. 100% recruiter efficiency. The results?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2017

There’s a growing skepticism about whether unconscious bias training is an effective tool to meet corporate diversity goals. We found that, months after attending the workshop, employees reported engaging in more of the research-backed strategies for mitigating bias highlighted in the workshop than they had prior to the workshop.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Director Recruitment and Skills. Recruiting directors with technological expertise is one avenue through which boards can boost their innovative capabilities. Directors should also take stock of how time is spent at board meetings and reallocate discussion time as needed. — [and] not much on risk, people, innovation.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. Weak ties are the people you know, but not terribly well: your child’s teacher, or the friend of a friend you happened to meet at a party.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 15, 2019

Ever notice that when you meet someone casually, you naturally try to make connections? Did you go through his workshop?”. What Ted told me was that you want to establish a connection that is somewhat more meaningful – so that something might actually happen. There are a few ways to do this. And a little conversation ensues.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 20, 2015

You are likely to visit clients for client meetings and workshops. Tom: Does IMS Consulting Group use the case interview as part of its recruitment process? Project teams are made up of people from each level, and each person would be assigned a coach. Tom: Do IMS consultants work remotely or on site with the client?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. The rallying cry for new ways of working in the digital age must start at the top. One of us works for and the other advises General Assembly.)

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Pick an example of a work activity that happens regularly, like a daily or weekly standing meeting. For the attribute “location,” for example, you could ask your team: Is the meeting best facilitated if it’s held in an in-demand central meeting room or near where other people are likely to gather?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2018

Shipping people off to a development workshop or to a coach to “work on” their insecurity does the same thing. Take the insecure overachiever, a type of person that many firms intentionally recruit and cultivate. This approach suits the insecure, who often quietly agree that something is wrong with them.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. We asked about employees’ hopes and concerns.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 9, 2019

1) On campus / Send in your Application - Recruiting. Here's the principle: Meet as many people who work in the management consulting firm you are trying to get into, and eventually good things happen. When I was at Stanford, McKinsey would come on campus to recruit in December or January each year (I forget the exact month).

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Back in the days, I’m talking about the words ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ weren’t terms yet but in essence that’s what the workshop we were doing would have been called. I think their recruiters love that because it’s an annuity for them. Or “Can you come and speak at my sales meeting?”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

The program also included workshops that explored management trends and insights into the future of the advisor industry. ” Customers come armed with information and questions to meetings and they check on credentials and reputations online, he said. And leading a team of younger advisors also demands new skills, Hockey said.

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