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Steps for Getting Started as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Think of your profile as a brochure rather than a resum. Subcontracting is straightforward because the agency or platform usually sets the rate, carries the insurance, and handles the contracting and billing. You need to add an uplift to cover business expenses, health insurance, and non-billable time.)

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Your Complete Guide to Subcontracting as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Online Platforms Catalant TalMix Graphite LinkedIn Services Marketplace Pro tip: When using online platforms, upload the most detailed version of your resum that you can. You dont have to be an alumnus of the firm, and having a big-firm name on your resum is a good thing. Korn Ferry : Excels at filling interim leadership positions.

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Anyone Can Succeed - Celebrating 15 Years of Consulting Success with Dan Weedin

Consulting Matters

Dan Weedin is an author, speaker, consultant, coach, podcaster and founder of Toro Consulting , a firm that specializes in small business growth, particularly in the insurance/risk business. Dan Weedin: Well I'd been an insurance broker for pretty much all of my career. So I had been selling insurance but then I started thinking.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.” We offer resume editing and interview prep. Note -firmsodeling” done in case work may not be directly comparable to the financial modeling more common at investment banks.

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Reader FAQ – Switching gears: from intern to full-time, from IT to strategy, and from PwC and IBM to MBB

Management Consulted

Plus, it will be a bit of insurance to have a full-time offer if you do consider going through fall recruiting – it will relieve much of the stress. We offer resume editing and interview prep. A: If you can get an offer at IBM, by all means go for it! It’s a great firm, and as you mentioned, has a LOT going for it.

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Buck Consultants Firm Profile

Management Consulted

After being admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia, he became involved in the actuarial discipline of the life insurance business, which used statistics to determine life expectancy and calculate annuity premiums–pivotal considerations in life insurance and pensions field, where Buck moved and made his reputation.

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Hiring Algorithms Are Not Neutral

Harvard Business

These software systems can in some cases be so efficient at screening resumes and evaluating personality tests that 72% of resumes are weeded out before a human ever sees them. The result is that automatic resume screening software often evaluates job applicants based on subjective criteria, such as one’s name.

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