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It’s Time to Prioritize Employees’ Financial Health

Harvard Business

Today’s workers must navigate complicated benefits packages and make critical decisions about their personal finances with limited or no guidance from their employers. Unfortunately, 80% of employees report being financially stressed, and only 28% of employers offer financial wellness programs.

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How Geography Affects Where Elite Consulting Firms Recruit

Harvard Business

Research has shown that attending an elite university can make or break a student’s chances of being recruited by the best firms ( whether or not that strategy makes sense for firms ). Since firms tend to recruit where they can find the most candidates, students in regions with many top schools may have a harder time being found.

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2 Years of Networking Results in Consulting Job at PwC

Management Consulted

I realized I didn’t have a future in football after college so that prompted me to focus more on my education and gaining experience in internships outside of the classroom. I then took another internship in finance with Merrill Lynch. This was a pretty ambitious goal considering no banks recruited from my school.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

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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You’ve been rejected from all consulting jobs. What’s next?

Management Consulted

Practice will only help for future interviews or next year’s recruiting cycle. Explore alternatives such as grad school, finance, and entrepreneurship. Suggested areas include finance (eg, investment banking and sales & trading) and the corporate track (eg, corporate management and product management).

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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business

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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The Top 5 Reasons why an MBA will help you break into McKinsey

Management Consulted

1) You’re making it easy for recruiters. McKinsey recruits MBA candidates for 2 reasons. #1, When you’re an MBA candidate at a target school, you’re already part of the recruiting pool. You’ve been automatically granted access to the secret recruiting system of the firm. 2) Strong undergrad education.

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