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Don’t Give Up on Unconscious Bias Training — Make It Better

Harvard Business

There’s a growing skepticism about whether unconscious bias training is an effective tool to meet corporate diversity goals. Critics of such training contend that it doesn’t visibly move the needle on diversity numbers, and can even backfire. Clearly, not all trainings are equally good — and none are a silver bullet.

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Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume

Harvard Business

Specifically, we used a technique — known as the resume audit method — that is widely seen as the gold standard for measuring employment discrimination. All in all, we sent fictitious resumes to 316 offices of 147 top law firms in 14 cities, from candidates who were supposedly trying to land a summer internship position.

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Consultant Ninja: Classic Consulting Quotes. (Chapter 4, Part 1.

Consultant Ninja

In front of him is a pile of resumes, culled off of monster.com, of people who currently or recently worked at a particular division of a major CPG company, on behalf of the client, another competing CPG company in the same market. Was there good training involved?". How long did it take for you to get promoted? Timmy: "Mmm, I see.

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Simon-Kucher & Partners Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

Intern pay and training are on-par compared to what you will find at many other consulting firms, and prior interns have found it a good foot in the door for landing permanent positions. According to surveys, two of the most positive aspects of working at Simon-Kucher are the people and the flexibility. Internships. An additional perk?

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Analysis Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Surveys & Experimental Studies. Having Analysis Group on your resume communicates a brand that conveys intelligence and a driven, high-performing nature. There are lots of informal training opportunities, classes and support if you’re applying for grad school. How To Write a Management Consulting Resume. Industries.

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Towers Watson Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Employee Surveys. Even if you’re focused in just one practice area (and that can admittedly get boring and repetitive), you’ll get to touch multiple industries – often at the same time, which does offer great training and some skills-based flexibility. . Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. HR Software.

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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

A global firm with a very interesting history, they’re known for motivating, developing and training their clients’ staff as well as the for research they carry out on the companies they work with. 4. Employee effectiveness surveys. Reward information services. Enterprise sales effectiveness. Job evaluation. Industries . Healthcare.

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