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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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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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7 Reasons Why Your Clients Aren't "Getting It" When you Talk and Write About What You Do

Consulting Matters

Try handwriting your ideas in a journal. Just because you know how to put a resume together or create executive presentations doesn't mean that you know how to write copy and content. Pro Tip: To get over this challenge, you have to bypass your internal editor who stands between what you want to say and getting it out on paper.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

Here are a couple that we’d recommend — The Wall Street Journal , Harvard Business Review , Business Week , Fortune , and The Economist. How to Write a Consulting Resume From Scratch. On Competition by Michael Porter. Side note: Aside from reading books, we highly recommend following the latest online news publications.

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Power Begets Power

CaseInterview.com

For example, I’ve appeared in the Wall Street Journal several times. If anything ever goes wrong as a result of quoting me, they can say to their editor… “But The Wall Street Journal quoted him on four different occasions.” When I had no media resume, it was difficult to get anyone to quote me. I’m a “safe” expert to quote.

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Power Begets Power

CaseInterview.com

For example, I’ve appeared in the Wall Street Journal several times. If anything ever goes wrong as a result of quoting me, they can say to their editor… “But The Wall Street Journal quoted him on four different occasions.” When I had no media resume, it was difficult to get anyone to quote me. I’m a “safe” expert to quote.

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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. Starting a task means you’ll continue to process it — and this makes you more likely to resume the work later on. Why we procrastinate. List the costs of procrastination.

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