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Once You Get the Job, Does Networking End?

Tom Spencer

You connect with company recruiters, university alumni, and your peers and classmates to build a vast community of connections. To build your network, hand out your business cards to recruiters at conferences and meetings, so that they may contact you if there is a good opening for you. As a result, you land your first consulting job.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. ” asked the clever riff aimed at Uber workers.

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Volunteer Consulting: The Ultimate Consulting Career Gut Check and Primer

Tom Spencer

Looking back, that experience significantly shaped my successful recruiting strategy and confirmed my desire to enter the consulting industry. That confidence made me more motivated to recruit for consulting, and also a lot more coherent in explaining to others, from recruiters to my parents, why consulting was right for me.

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When New Products Should Make Customers Feel in Control

Harvard Business

Conventional wisdom suggests that marketers should emphasize the novelty of new products to get people to buy them. Despite the fact that firms spend billions of dollars on developing and marketing new products, these products face persistently high failure rates — often up to 40% to 90%, depending on the product category.

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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

Just talk to any executive recruiter. Here are some statistics from an executive recruiter, which explains why it’s tough to find good people. By being larger you can reduce most or all of the following: Customers Employees Management abilities Product Owner. Customers (efficiency vs. make more calls) Yes, we can!

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OC&C Strategy Consultants Interview and Culture

Management Consulted

Industrial Products. As part of their cultural focus on fostering a sense of community and camaraderie, OC&C Strategy Consultants regularly organize office lunches, drinks and sporting events – so you have that to look forward to as an intern! OC&C STRATEGY CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Target Schools .

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Consumer Products. ALIXPARTNERS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . In keeping with what we’ve already said about recent graduates and AlixPartners, it’s worth noting that the firm does next to no recruiting through university campuses but instead mostly uses recruitment firms. Automotive. Business & Consumer Services.