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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

When seeking new talent, Oliver Wyman’s consulting team says they are looking for employees who are driven, risky, and innovative. In comparison to many strategy consulting firms, Oliver Wyman consultants tend to specialize earlier in their career. For Consulting roles, Oliver Wyman recruits in 60 top schools all over the world.

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When One Person’s High Performance Creates Resentment in Your Team

Harvard Business

Organizations face a dilemma in their hunt for talent. So they place their prized recruits in collaborative groups and tell them to fit in. That’s partly because high performance is relative and based on social comparison. In communities with frequent interaction, opportunities for such comparison increase.

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How the Best Global Employers Convince Workers to Join and Stay

Harvard Business

Companies spend a lot of time and money building strong brands to win over customers—but they often fall short when it comes to strengthening their employer reputation to win talent. If companies can’t attract, engage, and retain the right talent, they’re unlikely to achieve their business objectives.

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MBA vs Non-MBA Programs as a Pathway to Consulting

Tom Spencer

Yet, what about other graduate degrees in comparison to an MBA? Many consulting firms are trying to diversify the academic backgrounds of their talent pool to go beyond MBAs. In order to give some perspective, it is helpful to highlight what those MBA advantages actually are: On campus recruiting from a large range of firms.

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How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success

Harvard Business

.” The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring, and training and development. But ignoring talent processes and strategies can have unintended consequences and stall one’s scaling efforts. Recruiting. Talent matters.

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How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success

Harvard Business

.” The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring, and training and development. But ignoring talent processes and strategies can have unintended consequences and stall one’s scaling efforts. Recruiting. Talent matters.

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Virtual Interview Tips to Hire Top Talent: Unveiling the Secrets

LSA Global

Virtual Interview Tips to Hire Top Talent: Unveiling the Secrets The benefits of virtual interviews have caused most employers to conduct initial interviews online, rather than in person to open up their talent pool, inject flexibility into the recruiting process, test candidates remote technical savvy, and reduce travel expenses.

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