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Fatigued by rejections? Try a personality test!

Tom Spencer

This article was inspired by a recent conversation with an IT prodigy who specializes in building virtual games used for recruitment purposes. Online assessments, aptitude tests, and gamified problem-solving tasks have become ubiquitous in the recruitment processes of top companies, with consulting firms being some of the earliest adopters.

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ESG’s Impact on Professional Services

Prudent Pedal

How firms use ESG to position their businesses is of strategic importance to a firm’s brand, demand generation, client relationships, recruiting, and culture. According to Forbes, “The Davos Manifesto highlighted a set of 22 quantitative core ESG metrics and then added a more advanced phase two aspirational set of 34 metrics.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

Every business is, willingly or unwillingly, a competitor on a software playing field, no matter which sector it’s in. You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on.

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3 Major Forces Disrupting and Transforming the Professional Services Landscape

Progressus

Workforce Strategies Need to Change From relationship-building and recruiting to billing, culture, and the use of new technologies, workforce strategies across the entire organization are changing in big ways to cope with the impact of disruption. What have they achieved for the business and their clients?

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

I learned several software applications, including Final Cut Pro, and After Effects, and other things of that nature. So I started searching for programs that consulting firms recruit from. Georgia Tech is a program that two firms recruit from that I would be interested in. One is Bain, and the other is McKinsey. Let’s see here.

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Hiring Algorithms Are Not Neutral

Harvard Business

These software systems can in some cases be so efficient at screening resumes and evaluating personality tests that 72% of resumes are weeded out before a human ever sees them. For example, in a famous experiment , recruiters reviewed identical resumes and selected more applicants with white-sounding names than with black-sounding ones.

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Job Hub: Uber Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

First off, you can expect to connect with a recruiter for a general phone interview. If you are applying to be a Senior Software Engineer, you can expect the in-person interview round to consist of two coding questions, an architecture question, a business case question, as well as a fit interview. Expect this to take up to 30 minutes.

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