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Top 5 Consulting Resume Mistakes by Ph.D’s, Postdocs, and Other Advanced Degree Holders

Management Consulted

5 Resume Mistakes Advanced Degree Holders Should Avoid At All Costs. All power to you for your impressive brain, but all those brains don’t mean your resume is good. But if you’re one of the chosen few who can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 6 seconds, should you make it a featured section of your resume?

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. Here are a couple that we’d recommend — The Wall Street Journal , Harvard Business Review , Business Week , Fortune , and The Economist. management consulting'

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Write a Failure Resume to Learn What Makes You Succeed

Harvard Business

In the introduction to the unusual resume, Haufhoser notes that he didn’t come up with the idea himself. At Bessemer, they are entries in its publicly available “Anti-Portfolio” — basically a Failure Resume for its partners. Go ahead and write your Failure Resume. billion acquisition by eBay.”

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Evidence That Minorities Perform Worse Under Biased Managers

Harvard Business

When identical resumes — one with the name Emily and one with the name Lakisha, for example — are sent to job openings, Emily’s resume gets substantially more callbacks. In other words, managers’ biases can become self-fulfilling prophecies.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The Advisory Board Company also offers technology, management, and consulting services. H*Works was the first of many steps the company took towards building its prestigious (in the healthcare consulting world) consulting and managing services. EMR and practice management IT selection and implementation. Supply chain.

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5 Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination

Harvard Business

To answer these questions, I spoke to researchers, and spent time digging through dozens of academic journal articles. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Starting a task means you’ll continue to process it — and this makes you more likely to resume the work later on. Staying Focused.

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Do Longer Maternity Leaves Hurt Women’s Careers?

Harvard Business

Evidence from a variety of countries reveals that the longer new mothers are away from paid work, the less likely they are to be promoted, move into management, or receive a pay raise once their leave is over. We found those who noted a longer maternity leave on their resume were perceived as less desirable.

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