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OC&C Strategy Consultants Interview and Culture

Management Consulted

OC&C STRATEGY CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of OC&C Strategy Consultants. Known for its incredible family-style and entrepreneurial culture, relaxed work style, and long retention of employees, OC&C competes not only on strategy but also on culture.

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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. Looking for Millennials?

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Is Peter Mandelson really a strategy consultant?

Tom Spencer

But the House is rather an unworldly place and its members and staff may not know what a recognized, professional strategy consultant is expected to do. Formulating strategies. Implementing strategies. A genuine strategy consultant will provide advice to clients on at least the first four steps of this process.

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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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2 Years of Networking Results in Consulting Job at PwC

Management Consulted

This was a pretty ambitious goal considering no banks recruited from my school. I moved back to Portland and started looking for analyst jobs in banking, consulting, and corporate strategy. Through the formal recruitment process I was introduced to another Director with whom I stayed in very close contact.

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Consulting Bound – Personal Life Management

Tom Spencer

Throughout the consulting career recruiting process, I found it memorable that in both informal conversations and formal presentations, the issue of personal life management did occur as a poignant topic of conversation. It is also important to help others visualize what this means. dinner at 9PM) and on shorter notice.

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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. It’s very much like sports, the more the team wins, the greater the number of fans it has. It’s the few that do apply that are the reasons why this strategy may make sense.