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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

You think you’ve found the right candidate to fill your open position and now it’s time to check references. Checking references is often seen as one small piece of the hiring protocol—the final motion to go through before you extend a formal offer to a candidate. Should you ask each person the same questions?

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Research: Black Employees Are More Likely to Be Promoted When They Were Referred by Another Employee

Harvard Business

Hiring firms can get “inside” information about a candidate from their referring employee, while the referral itself serves as a vouching mechanism that signals a candidate’s competency or trustworthiness. But firms that rely on current employees to refer new hires could end up with a less diverse workforce.

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Managing Career Transitions

Brimstone Consulting

Take the time to write the answers down in a journal or somewhere where you can refer back to them. How do you fix operational problems, political conflicts, interpersonal issues? Even if you’re not actively looking for a job, take a few hours each year to update your resume. What kind of leader do you want to be?

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Job Hub: Chick-Fil-A Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Though this decommissions 1/7 of the firm’s operating days, it has done nothing to harm Chick-Fil-A’s growth, with the company continuing to post impressive same-store-sales numbers over multiple consecutive years. The most famous of its values is its weekly Sabbath, or closing every Sunday. and the rest is history. Led by the S.

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Experienced Hire from Harvard breaks in to Healthcare Consulting (Part 2)

Management Consulted

Here’s how to do it – ask a few good questions in your first interview, and then you can always refer to those insights in later interviews. For example, “What is one thing that you’ve learned since you’ve started this job that surprised you in a favorable way about the way that your company operates?”

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BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?

Management Consulted

However, today BearingPoint is emerging as a player in the operations and technology scene, especially in Europe, and has re-established an impressive growth trajectory. Now, BearingPoint is operated as a Netherlands-based partnership which consisted of 120 partners in 14 countries throughout Europe. Supply Chain & Operations.

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Archstone Consulting Culture and Interview Tips

Management Consulted

Founded in 2003 by two former Deloitte partners, Archstone Consulting specializes in helping companies eliminate operational inefficiencies, cut costs and invest resulting savings back in to the growth of the firm. The practice areas at Archstone Consulting reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Business Strategy.