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Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories

Harvard Business

Updating your LinkedIn profile and resume. But for the most part, recruiters aren’t calling. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive. You’re searching for a new job.

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Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume

Harvard Business

We set out to answer this question in a series of studies reported in the December 2016 issue of American Sociological Review. Specifically, we used a technique — known as the resume audit method — that is widely seen as the gold standard for measuring employment discrimination. Who gets invited to interview?

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

Harvard Business

When a global technology company engaged us to train its entire workforce over the course of 2016, we took the opportunity to more thoroughly evaluate the impact of our trainings by surveying employees about their actual behaviors before, immediately after, and as much as eight months following our training.

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What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest

Harvard Business

and almost no companies report engineering data specifically), Pinterest’s goal in 2016 was to hire women engineers at nearly twice this rate. I joined Pinterest as the company’s first Head of Diversity in January of 2016. My team and I worked alongside recruiters to ensure we would help them test new strategies for hiring.

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How Taekwon-Do Prepared Me for Consulting Interviews

Tom Spencer

Flying leg break during a black belt test in 2016. To receive a job offer you must write a resume and cover letter, attend recruiting sessions and coffee chats, network with current consultants, and practice interview questions. I do not even think I felt the boards with my foot as my kick sliced clearly through them.

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A Platform Strategy Won’t Work Unless You’re Good at Machine Learning

Harvard Business

before we had Twitter, and recruiters before we had LinkedIn. Because what do you get when you pile up a million resumes, dating profiles, or 280-character thoughts? In 2016 it was acquired for $429 million, a mere 5% of its peak value. The network-based business model, the role of being a “connector,” is not new.