Ten years ago, what were you doing? … Ten years from now, where will you be if you keep going in the direction that you are heading?
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A résumé is a document which summarises your background and accompanies your cover letter as part of your job application. The résumé is important because it helps you to win an interview and will probably be used by the company to compare you against other applicants.
Following on from the previous post which considered whether consultants are just highly paid scapegoats, let’s consider a common consulting stereotype which sheds some light on where consultants add value.
Consultants are people who borrow your watch, tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.
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Management consultants are often loudly criticised. Why is this so?
A large part of the reason is that consultants are paid a lot of money to provide recommendations which may or may not be implemented, and may or may not work. They get paid regardless …
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Former McKinsey consultant Victor Cheng provides us with an interesting insight. The skills that get you hired as a consultant are not the same skills that get you promoted, and the skills that get you promoted are not the same skills that take …
A week ago today, an aspiring management consultant started blogging about the consulting application process – he has already written 27 posts!
Wait a second, I hear your say, there are dozens of consulting blogs, why does this blog rate a mention?
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