Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

I vividly remember the last consulting interview during first-year MBA recruiting season. The recruiting coordinator mentioned she’d get back to me by the end of the day. The recruiting coordinator mentioned she’d get back to me by the end of the day. I was tense. My confidence was dwindling. 5pm rolls by, no call….

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2016

The Class of 2015 had a full 35% of its graduates accept offers in the consulting field, and Kellogg has become a hot recruiting spot across top firms – but especially for McKinsey. Kellogg has also recently placed a focus on recruiting more women in to its program, and women made up 35% of the Class of 2015.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Bridgespan’s Leading for Impact is a six-month-long course that brings together nonprofit executive directors/CEOs and their senior staff to build capabilities across the critical dimensions that enable nonprofit leaders and their teams to become highly effective. BRIDGESPAN INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Networking Groups.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 6, 2022

By articulating the problems you solved in your resume and during future interviews, recruiters will be better able to understand your professional skillset. Student Organizations focused on Consulting, Finance, or Technology. These experiential learning opportunities are great ways to unlock new career pathways and opportunities.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2023

If you’re concerned about lending credibility to your quantitative abilities, you can consider prioritizing courses that provide relevant certifications. An MBA program will provide you with a strong foundation in business principles and give you the opportunity to specialize in areas like strategy, marketing, or finance.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Self-analysis alone won’t give you a holistic picture of why you did not get an offer, so start by getting feedback from the recruiter and the interviewers. For example, doing a course on LinkedIn on ‘ Communicating with Confidence ’ could help you develop your interview skills. Refine Your Search.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 9, 2019

So maybe you’ve gotten to the second round, maybe you’re still waiting to hear back, or maybe you’re hoping to interview again in the next recruitment cycle. Similarly, if you happen to go down the wrong path and the interviewer course corrects you, they want to see that you’re able to adjust based on their feedback. Image: Pexels.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2024

Value for Money: Calculated using alumni salaries and course costs. The Economist New Career Opportunities: Based on the diversity of recruiters, placement success, and student assessment of career services. Higher-ranked schools often enjoy better brand recognition, which can influence employers and recruiters.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

We’re talking about the basics like 100% employer paid health, medical, and dental insurance, but also fun stuff like an onsite gym and fitness center, free healthy meals prepared by an on-site crew of chefs in their corporate cafeteria, subsidized daycare, employee scholarships, and, of course, major restaurant discounts.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 27, 2009

In it, you’ll find: Over 50 key fit questions that will arise specifically in consulting interviews (there are important differences versus finance interviews). What you should never say when asked questions about your recruiting status (pg. Of course, nothing’s perfect. Why 50 and not 500? 50 case studies.

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Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 9, 2024

From managing finances to navigating competition and adapting to market changes, small business owners often wear multiple hats, which can be overwhelming. Financial Management One of the most significant challenges for small businesses is managing finances effectively. Running a small business comes with its fair share of challenges.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

A desired response from a recruitment manager would be “most cover letters I’m falling asleep. Stage two of the process may find you in front of your webcam, coming face to face with the recent recruiting tool developed be Hirevue. You’re going to want to have top grades and a diverse range of life experiences.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

In later-stage ventures, important skills include recruiting specialist employees, communicating vision to new employees, and managing company culture. A founder must be able to assess their own strengths and weaknesses and know how to recruit and motivate complementary founding team members.” ” Finance is less important.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Well, I grew up in Bethesda, MD, and attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT for – BS (finance), MS (nutritional sciences), and PhD (cell and molecular biology). A few years later I was recruited for a position by one of the government consulting companies who had previously made me a contingent offer.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 23, 2015

We’re not going to send you to Canary Wharf to work in finance. We have a curriculum of four or five particular training courses that we send people on over the first two years. In terms of the training courses we offer, for example, a three day strategic problem solving course, and a two day course in performance improvement training.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Specializing in economic, financial and market analysis, specifically for cases in litigation, Cornerstone Research touts itself as the one player major law firms turn to when navigating the obstacle course that is the American and European legal systems. Many former employees go on to programs in business, finance, economics and law.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 8, 2024

Another challenge for us was that we tend to attract people during recruitment who have great values and behaviours. Chris: The programme we implemented covered commercial thinking, finance skills, and innovation. Thinking about impact, strategy and being commercial is an area we wanted to stetch people into.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

Of course, competition for these plum positions is growing. Even if you prefer not to tell colleagues about your intentions so far in advance, creating your own internal timetable can allow you to plan your finances and any life changes (moving, selling your house, etc.) Start recruiting clients. Do a skills analysis.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 5, 2016

It started off with contacting – actually, I reached out to recruiters specifically and sent in my application, and they were mostly very quick to respond to me. Because sometimes, for example, for a great recruiter, that might actually matter more to them than it would to a junior level person. All for the Boston practices, exactly.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 1, 2024

Knowledge of accounting or finance is not necessary, as the calculations and formulas are generally straightforward, involving concepts such as weighted averages, probabilities, and compound percentages. For example, “Which of the following courses of action would LIKELY MAKE you more rich?

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. Of course, the journey isn’t over.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

Of course, we all want to make good decisions, and it makes for an appealing can-do story to identify the job you want and land it. He tried tech, finance, and real estate — all to no avail. Veterans often place an inordinate amount of pressure on themselves to identify the “perfect job” after they leave the service.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

High turnover incurs costs for recruiting, training, and onboarding new employees, as well as potential disruptions to workflow and productivity. Of course, this is ignorance and not a viable excuse. Poor Leadership: Many leaders at the top come from a finance background and this inhibits their focus on people.

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The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Then he writes about how he does it: HOW I DO IT: I provide “do it yourself” online courses, 1-on-1 private and group coaching and written materials that help Business Coaches & Consultants discover how to generate more business for themselves using LinkedIn and Webinars. __. Pretty clear and simple right?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

That’s not unique, of course. ” During the first week of work at Twilio, every new employee is asked to sign up for a week-long crash course that teaches them to code. But as a company created by developers for developers, early on we all had the job of talking to customers constantly.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Niklas took the first step and recruited his advisors at the university, Dirk Neumann and Tobias Brandt, to help them set up a lab for the company. Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, as well as Production and Quality all produced large amounts of data that could be interesting for data science pilot projects.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Back in my GE days, the Finance Director was skeptical about the merits of the HR function which he labeled the ‘Health and Happiness Department.’ As the doors opened in Hell she stepped out onto a beautiful golf course. The Devil looked at her and smiled: “Yesterday we were recruiting. Ensuring HR adds real Value.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn. Ritz Carlton and Zappos follow a similar model.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Marketing and sales, manufacturing, recruiting (including people assessment), customer service, and support are all fields that can benefit from artificial intelligence according to McKinsey’s recent research. Of course, traditional consultants and other providers of corporate advice are unlikely to disappear.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. A well-respected HR manager in the public sector, leading his own recruitment team and earning a decent salary. Of course, living frugally requires a lot of motivation. anniepaddington/Getty Images. Dependable. Take Steve. It sounds dreadful.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

And, of course, their claim to fame, Financial Services , is broken down into even more practices including: Finance and Risk. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. Risk Management – assists CFOs and other finance executives on matters of finance and risk, global risk and trading, and compliance and governance.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

Over the course of a couple of decades, meditation has migrated from Himalayan hilltops and Japanese Zendos to corporate boardrooms and corridors of power, including Google , Apple , Aetna , the Pentagon , and the U.S. Is the answer to simply recruit leaders and board members who engage in contemplative practices? It can’t hurt.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Real-world applications range from medical diagnoses and judicial sentencing to professional recruiting and resource allocation in public agencies. ” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2014

I then took another internship in finance with Merrill Lynch. I also explored other areas of finance and ultimately decided that I wanted to give investment banking a shot. This was a pretty ambitious goal considering no banks recruited from my school. My senior year I continued my work as a research assistant.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2016

He led the finance team. Claudia was the newest recruit to the sales team—young, eager, pretty. The CEO even seemed to reference them at the all-staff meeting he’d called to announce the new rules—“Of course, we’re not trying to break up any happy couples!”—which They left together.”

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Asamby Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This blog post gives you the comprehensive answer: Why compensation is important How to structure your fixed salary components What options for variable pay are there How to pick the right perks and benefits What allowances are and what to pay them for What long-term incentives are out there How strategy and finance influence compensation Let's go!

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