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Management Skills, Tips, and Tactics

The Importance of Managing Up and How Crucial It is in Your Career

As I’ve progressed further along in my career, the importance of being able to manage upward has become clearer to me. If you think your relationship with your manager is a one-way street with the manager doing all the delegating and you doing all the following, think again. At its core, managing up isn’t just […]

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Internships

3 Tips for Your Consulting Internship

The biggest difference between an internship at a consultancy and a “normal” internship is that, at the end of a consulting internship, if you perform well, you can expect a job offer. Pretty awesome, right? However, whether or not you get an offer depends on various factors. Below, I list three important points of advice that […]

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Career Advice

Consulting: Blazing your own trail

Apart from the rigorous selection process that consulting firms use to assess their potential candidates, securing a job and thriving within the consulting industry is not easy. The most frequently asked questions that consultants are asked by students include: “what is consulting”, “what do consultants do” and “what are the minimum requirements needed to get […]