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The Training Phase in Management Consulting

Tom Spencer

The first step starts with training, the learning of technical skills, soft skills, and time management skills. In consulting, your training, adapting, and professional growth actually never stop. Training is important because your firm and clients are relying on you to deliver value efficiently and effectively.

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How to build an effective recruitment process

Asamby Consulting

When we work on clients’ recruitment processes, we strive to create a team of "A players'' for our clients to scale and optimize their business. Recruitment Process A good recruitment process can help cut time in the searching, interviewing, hiring and training process.

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How a Collaborative Culture Can Attract Young Professionals

Tom Spencer

Even if such initiatives are meaningless in practice, failing to include them as part of a firm’s recruitment talking points could result in top graduating talent flocking to other firms. Consulting firms also need to invest heavily in a range of educational and training opportunities. The reason for this is obvious.

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Top 6 Consultancy Recruitment Videos

freshminds

Recruitment videos can either be a bit bland and dull or they can be epic. Dramatic music always makes something awesome (just ask Hans Zimmer) though I have to say that plenty of the images seem really random and irrelevant for the daily life of a consultant mainly being sitting in meetings and agonising over presentations and paperwork.

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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

There is a high demand for employees with data analytics skills, and it is very challenging to source, recruit, and retain those who possess these analytical attributes. Culture Lever #4 : Deliberate role modeling and training. Simply saying thank you for presenting a decision using data analytics is a social reward.

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New Meets Traditional: How Project Teams Benefit From More Options 

PM Alliance

But though online tools can help to centralize communications and provide access to everyone regardless of their location, don’t overlook the value of impromptu discussions when face-to-face opportunities present themselves. You don’t need to forego one in favor of the other, and in fact the digital and analog realms can work well together.

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 “Additional Responsibilities” in Consulting

Tom Spencer

During both consulting recruiting and the initial months working in consulting, experienced by myself and my friends, the top priority for a consulting career which has been consistently emphasized has been delivering excellent client work. Recruiting support. Internal training / professional development. Thought leadership.