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Employee Surveys Are Still One of the Best Ways to Measure Engagement

Harvard Business

Once upon a time, surveys were a staple for every leader to solicit feedback and every company to assess engagement. But now, surveys are starting to look like diesel trucks collecting dust in the age of electric cars. Surveys are still great predictors of behavior. Surveys give employees the chance to feel heard.

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Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume

Harvard Business

Specifically, we used a technique — known as the resume audit method — that is widely seen as the gold standard for measuring employment discrimination. All in all, we sent fictitious resumes to 316 offices of 147 top law firms in 14 cities, from candidates who were supposedly trying to land a summer internship position.

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Networking How To – Building Your Consulting Asset File

Management Consulted

In May, we did a survey of our subscriber list and the #1 topic you want to know more about is networking. who are in a position to offer you an interview or at the very least give you up-to-the-minute information on recruiting cycles or tailoring your resume/cover letter for their specific firm. resumes, interviews, etc.)

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Employers Struggle to Find Qualified Graduates: Poorly Written Resumes to Blame?

MishTalk

Are poor resumes to blame? Nine out of 10 companies surveyed by the Association of Graduate Recruiters are struggling to fill all their vacancies, it concludes. Nine out of 10 companies surveyed by the Association of Graduate Recruiters are struggling to fill all their vacancies, it concludes.

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Consultant Ninja: Classic Consulting Quotes. (Chapter 4, Part 1.

Consultant Ninja

In front of him is a pile of resumes, culled off of monster.com, of people who currently or recently worked at a particular division of a major CPG company, on behalf of the client, another competing CPG company in the same market. I work for a research and consulting firm, and we are doing a survey to understand some broad trends.

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Why Companies Should Add Class to Their Diversity Discussions

Harvard Business

As a banker asked to evaluate a series of resumes said, “ Anyone who plays squash I love.” They sent fictitious resumes to 316 offices of the top 147 law firms in 14 cities, from fake law students looking for a prestigious summer associate position. The resumes were identical in terms of education and work experience.

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

Harvard Business

It turns out that trainings can be an effective mechanism for educating employees and inspiring behavior change: our post-training surveys indicate that 96% of participants leave intending to engage in behaviors to reduce bias. This method of structured interviewing has been shown to promote more objective, less biased decision-making.

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