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Career Advice

How To Build A Thriving Business [Podcast]

Whether you’re a consultancy or candidate, at Ascent Professional Services, we always want to share great insights. In this interview, Michael Mahony, one of the founding partners of The Berkeley Partnership, discusses growing it from an idea to where it is today including: What led him and his co-founders to launch Berkeley and how they […]
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Recruitment Advice

Overcoming your critical talent challenges [Podcast]

Here at Ascent Professional Services, we’re always on the lookout for insights that can help consultancies and candidates. In this interview, Remco op den Kelder, CEO at Putnam lends his extensive experience over 20 years at the same firm sharing more on: How to manage a growing partnership Their move from the US to the […]
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Recruitment Advice

Four ways to beat the skills shortage and recruit the talent your consultancy needs

You’ve never been busier. Client demand is exploding and you could grow by 20, 50, or even 100 percent this financial year. But recruitment is holding you back. In this blog we share four tips to help you fix it. Over the past 12 months vacancy numbers have soared across the UK and most sectors […]
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Career Advice

What management consulting skills do I need?

A career in management consulting will be a varied, fast-paced, and exciting one, with the chance to work on a range of interesting projects for multiple clients. Management consultants are renowned for their ability to manage time efficiently, deal with stress and tight deadlines, and have a cool head and analytical prowess. Look at our […]
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Career Advice

How to secure management consulting graduate jobs

Graduating from university can be a nerve-wracking but exciting time, as students embark on the next stage of their journey and the start of their career. Competition for graduate consulting jobs can be fierce, as a career in management consultancy can bring high salaries and responsibility from the start, as well as a steep learning […]
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Career Advice

Which Management consulting qualifications will help your CV to stand out from the crowd?

A lot of candidates ask what qualifications will help them move into, or progress, within management consulting. As with most things in life the answer isn’t simple, there is no one size fits all rule, and everyone’s path to management consulting is different. Check out our recommendations below to learn which management consulting qualifications will […]
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Career Advice

How can I find my dream job?

We all know how important it is to find a job you want to wake up for everyday, as according to researcher Andrew Naber, we will spend over one third of our lives at work: that’s over 90,000 hours. It is therefore worth investing the time and really thinking about what your dream job would […]
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Career Advice

How to write a good resume

The jobs market is more competitive than ever now post COVID, and it’s therefore crucial that you stand out from the crowd with a well-written, informative and succinct resume. Writing a good resume is a skill that can take some time to master, but is well worth the effort, and enable you to show employers […]
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