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How I used cold emailing to land an internship in Mongolia

Tom Spencer

Leading up to the summer before my senior year of college I was searching through Google for my next travel destination when a pop-up ad directed me to a website about Mongolia, the land of nomadic culture and once the largest contiguous empire founded by Genghis Khan. economic stabilization package.

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An Unconventional Path: One Medical Student’s Journey Into Consulting

Tom Spencer

standardized test, personal statement, shadowing, research, etc.). I decided to pursue a master’s degree alongside my current training in order to better understand how clinical research played a driving role in the pharmaceutical and medical device business world. Image: Pexels.

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From the Bench and Bedside to the Boardrooms (How to transition from academia into consulting, Part 1 of 2)

Tom Spencer

MD or PhD), is whether to pursue residency training for newly minted physicians or a post-doctoral research fellowship for PhDs. One of the hardest parts of the application process, especially for those coming from an academic background is putting together a strong business style resume. Focus on results (ideally quantifiable ones).

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

Management Consulted

Is my resume where it needs to be?” We’ve got your resume to go through, and as I gather you have a whole bunch of questions about consulting. Do you want to talk about your resume and your experience first, or do you want to talk about the questions that you have? Commercial Pilot’s Resume. Is that right?

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

This provided me with a steady income, a flexible schedule to travel and train and also helped me tap into my “inner entrepreneur” (I have started three businesses since this experience). My coursework was very informative and my research was in exercise physiology where I compared the fitness benefits of snowshoeing versus running.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

It was then that I found, after researching here, that my passion actually lay in consulting.! ” “Consulting struck me as my ideal future career after I quickly began researching everything there was to know about it after simply hearing about it through word of mouth. It was like “Oh!! Here’s my destiny!”

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

As consulting firms go, FTI Consulting is a newcomer – but at just over 30 years old, the firm has made impressive strides to become one of the most respected name in legal analysis and data-driven research to support major initiatives for law firms, banks and the majority of the Fortune 500. Strategy Consulting & Research.