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Consultant, Contractor, Freelancer - Labels Matter!

Successful Independent Consulting

If you were a hotel chain, would you be a Motel 6, Courtyard by Marriott, or a Ritz-Carlton? By contrast, professional independent consultants operate as microbusinesses. Like independent consultants, they often operate as microbusinesses, and are hired as independent contractors rather than employees.

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. What else did you consider in the recruitment process, and why ultimately did you pick Altman Vilandrie?

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I'm a Rock Star.or just Insane. And this hotel doesn't have wireless.

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

Gotta be there for campus recruiting! Now I’m back at the hotel. I’m sitting in the hotel bar, and they don’t have wireless. I’m convinced that loud bar music is a covert government operation designed to make people with no life and sitting alone in hotel bars feel good about rationalizing why they’re not talking to anyone.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Facing interconnected operational issues, members of the eight-person senior leadership team were turning against one another. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

As usual getting into McKinsey is tough, but it’s even tougher in NYC – with many target recruiting schools nearby and hundreds of aspirants swarming to locate in NY, it’s a highly competitive office. The Boston Consulting Group. EY Consulting.

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Resolve Common Business Problems

Business Consulting Agency

From operational inefficiencies to strategic misalignments, these problems require expert intervention to ensure business continuity and success. They implement lean management principles and automation technologies to streamline operations. Example : A manufacturing firm struggled with high production costs and delays.

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Charting your consulting career direction

Tom Spencer

For those who have an interest in specific industries as well as how they operate, consulting can offer you unique access to key decision makers and real time data. Every year consulting firms hire new high achieving young graduates, meaning that recruits from last year must move up or move out.