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Rescue from the trash…avoiding key resume errors that get your consulting application tossed aside

Management Consulted

Paper airplanes are fun, but you don’t want your resume to become the vehicle for a recruiter’s mid-afternoon horseplay because you’ve bored them to death. That’s why we’re giving you some guidelines on key resume errors to avoid and things you can do to make it past the first round of reviews.

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Reader FAQ: The one-page resume rule, applying overseas, and why our phone number is unlisted

Management Consulted

We offer our time to paying clients for assistance with resume reviews (Power Half Hour), personalized networking advice (1-hour sessions), and Case Interview Prep (Prep Packages). If you were a banker, it would be even better so you’ll need to really nail the presentation of your MS time as relevant to consulting.

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Don’t Give Up on Unconscious Bias Training — Make It Better

Harvard Business

There’s a growing skepticism about whether unconscious bias training is an effective tool to meet corporate diversity goals. Critics of such training contend that it doesn’t visibly move the needle on diversity numbers, and can even backfire. Clearly, not all trainings are equally good — and none are a silver bullet.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

Managers rarely yell, coworkers try to help each other out whenever possible, and companies are organized to provide consultants support with training, expertise, etc. Call me biased, but I received the best years of business training possible in my time at McKinsey. Very little experience in building a presentation from scratch.

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Networking 102: It’s Never Been More Important – And It Truly. Does. Work.

Management Consulted

Say it’s May and there’s only one month left before Analyst training which effectively closes the window of opportunity. ” Firm Presentations. How would you prepare for a firm presentation and networking mixer? ” “For organized networking events, is it appropriate to carry a resume on you? What do you do?”.

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Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories

Harvard Business

Updating your LinkedIn profile and resume. So how can you make your resume, profile, and interview more effective? Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive. VP, Marketing, Communication, and Strategy 2011 – present. You know the standard advice.

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

Consulting Matters

As former leaders, we are trained to speak corporate. Sure, we got credibility when we put together a "deck to present optimal approaches to enable teams to synergize and innovate in order to take the business to the next level" which can work when you're a corporate citizen but is death to marketing copy. Which is NEVER engaging.