Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with another blog contributor to the SpencerTom community, Jason Oh, to share our experiences about the consulting recruiting process. How is recruiting done at your school? Jeff : There are many advantages of campus recruiting at a target school.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Tune in and discover: [0:04:55]: How talent fit is the key to culture quality (and a satisfying career) [0:31:19]: Why the pandemic didn’t create but accelerated existing trends (and what those trends are) [0:33:59]: The psychology of recruiting and how it’s a lot like dating [0:40:16]: Why being choosy about who you work with as a consultant (..)

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2023

Recruiting isn’t going to get any easier in 2023.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A study of 51 million job postings shows a trend of companies moving away from degree requirements for many roles.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2022

Five forces driving the long-term trend.

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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Employers may have just started to understand the needs of the millennial workforce, and now the thought of needing to recruit an even newer group of workers can be a lot to wrap your head around. Generation Z kids grew up surrounded by the latest technological trends and devices. The Clarity Difference.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Deloitte, a provider of advisory services to firms around the globe, including 85% of the Fortune 500 , encapsulates the trend, noting, “Up to now, diversity initiatives have focused primarily on fairness for legally protected populations. Director and recruiter interviews confirm evidence procured from company disclosures.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 12, 2025

With advancements in instructional design consulting and AI-driven personalization, companies can achieve more precise ROI calculations by tracking performance trends over time. They deployed a recruitment strategy that quickly identified and onboarded consultants adept at integrating into the client’s operations.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Know: Observe and Seek Trends. Because of the amount of work she had and the pace at which she needed to get it done, she often took a “heads down” approach to her job and failed to “lift up” and observe both internal and external trends. Lisa wasn’t seeing the big picture. Think: Ask the Tough Questions.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

Here are our small business trends for 2023. Recruit smarter, not harder The shift in the labor market is here to stay. Working with recruiting firms can boost both speed and reduce cost of hiring. This trend is even stronger in B2B, where the importance of ESG efforts trickles down from larger corporations to small business.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Employee Experience encompasses the entirety of an employees journey with the organization from recruitment, to interviews , to new employee orientation all the way to exit interviews and offboarding. It also involves the workplace environment and the quality of interactions with managers and peers (e.g.,

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Effective Managers

JUNE 24, 2024

Predictive analytics, a field within AI, can forecast market trends, consumer behavior, and potential risks, providing businesses with a proactive approach to decision-making. The potential for bias in AI algorithms, particularly in HR and recruitment processes, is a significant concern.

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Comatch

JUNE 21, 2022

As the CTO at COMATCH, part of my job is to help our businesses formulate strategies to attract, find, and recruit top talent to fill high-skill digital positions. Various new trends and cultural shifts have led to a demand-heavy market. Challenges in the Recruiting Space. However, the marketplace is changing.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Economists have recently begun to suspect that the shift was caused by a decrease in “ recruitment intensity.” Lower recruitment intensity increases the time it takes to fill a job, which means more unfilled jobs and a higher job openings rate for a given level of unemployment.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 6, 2018

The right recruiting strategies are crucial. As a job and recruiting site, Glassdoor has a unique vantage into these near real-time migration trends happening among job seekers today, with nearly 40 million reviews and insights on workplace factors at more than 770,000 companies around the world. Movers Are Less Diverse.

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Comatch

JUNE 21, 2022

These are the trends I advise my clients to look out for to drive meaningful action and change. . Purpose-driven Recruiting. In a global competition for talent , employers need to understand the major recruitment drivers for employees. The post The 5 Key Corporate Sustainability Trends in 2023 appeared first on COMATCH.

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Comatch

JUNE 21, 2022

These are the trends I advise my clients to look out for to drive meaningful action and change. . Purpose-driven Recruiting. In a global competition for talent , employers need to understand the major recruitment drivers for employees. The post The 5 Key Corporate Sustainability Trends in 2022 appeared first on COMATCH.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

Know that funding alone is not going to solve the recruiting problem. Just as entrepreneurs of all kinds need to anticipate consumer trends and product development, they also need to stay ahead of their hiring needs. But entrepreneurs have more control in this area. Here are three things they can do now, by themselves, to do better.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Director Recruitment and Skills. — [and] not much on risk, people, innovation.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

And the much-documented job hopping trend might seem to indicate that employees have left company loyalty in the rearview mirror. However, LinkedIn’s recent Talent Trends study, conducted between January and March of 2016 with more than 26,000 professionals, showed that 25% of professionals today have their eye on a promotion.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2017

Based on our experience in recruiting CIO directors for Fortune 100 companies, here are a few guiding principles. While boards may define their need for a technology director somewhat differently, “every board should have access to someone who knows what technology can do for the business and what the trends are,” says Theriault.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

You experience a cocktail of emotions ranging from fear about how the rest of the team will react, to frustration at having to add recruiting to your already hectic calendar. How you respond will influence whether the person’s departure becomes a typical bump in the road or the inflection point to a downward trend for your team.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 2, 2023

Copying your resume verbatim can irritate recruiters and end up being counterproductive when they visit your LinkedIn profile looking for additional insights into your fit for the role. While this is not a deal-breaker, it will make a seasoned recruiter cringe. However, posting about politics should be avoided.

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SkillQuo

APRIL 3, 2018

In analyzing events that have recently occurred, some trends are apparent. Below is an examination of some key consulting trends that 2017 may bring. One especially welcome trend may be the increase in the hiring of consultants within 2016. Share This: The post What’s in Store for Consulting Industry Trends in 2017?

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 15, 2021

MBA consulting recruiting season starts every fall. I am commenting purely on recruiting for a post-MBA consulting position. They don’t know what careers in consulting firms look like and what are trending consulting career trajectories. Firms are constantly changing their recruiting processes and sometimes they vary by office.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

The trends shaping the automotive industry in 2022 will certainly have an impact on its companies’ projects. Its current development is primarily driven by 4 major trends: connectivity, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and electrification. Read more: How to Handle the Issue of Slow Recruitment with Resource Management Techniques.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

As fall recruiting season is on the horizon, it’s inevitably a busy time for many students looking to recruit into consulting. By understanding the latest trends, you’ll gain diverse viewpoints on topical issues that you can incorporate into your case recommendations. I wish you the best of luck!

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 23, 2013

were considered the intellectuals of business and MBAs weren’t sought after as much – whereas MBAs form the core of every major consulting firm’s recruiting efforts today. In the case of business, it is ever-changing with culture, climate, politics, technology, trends, etc. It used to be that only Ph.D.s

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 29, 2009

In my spare time, I enjoy basketball, observing original stuff and hit trends in China. As long as you take care of your GPA , these experiences show initiative, build your network, and are extremely valuable during the recruiting process. What is the recruiting process like in China? At my time in A.T.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

This is something of a recent trend. Exacerbating this problem, elite professional organizations deliberately set out to identify and recruit “insecure overachievers” — some leading professional organizations explicitly use this terminology, though not in public.

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 8, 2018

The trends that are impacting 2018 include how we work, the what and the why of work and the technology impact. Check out this week’s video on the 3 trends/focus for 2018. What do you see as the trends in your workplace for 2018 ? The post 3 Work Trends for 2018 appeared first on Cheryl Cran.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When one speaks with business owners, executives, or recruiters, about and during the hiring process, the message has become more pointed post-Thanksgiving from “We’re not sure when we will make our decision” to “We’ll make a decision after the holidays.” Indeed & Glassdoor’s Hiring and Workplace Trends Report 2023.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

It’s worth finding out whether there is a typical age or gender for the attendees (for instance, if it’s an event for female executives, or for recruits straight out of college), and any commonalities in geography, functional role, industry, etc.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It sometimes appears that the traditional rules of business are being upended by today’s mega-trends of multisided platforms, big data, machine learning and AI, crowdsourcing, the internet of things (IoT), and more. These trends have transformed the world of business immeasurably. ilyakalinin/istock.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

During recruitment and hiring, job seekers may never be told explicitly that working abroad is required for advancement. For instance, during recruitment and hiring, applicants who are told about international assignments may see them as an opportunity rather than a requirement. Those reasons are often deemed justified.

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