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In today’s entry, I’m presenting another edition of the “Conversations” interview series with Iain Lopata as our featured businessperson. Iain is a former Partner at Accenture who left Consulting a few years ago and moved on to launch a couple of businesses, including one called The Consulting Bench that kicked off in November 2010. The Consulting Bench offers services that are intended to help professionals and students looking to enter the industry or current Consulting professionals who are looking for a chance in employment (either to another Consulting firm or outside of the industry).

Iain reached out to me recently … Read the rest

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What’s good, folk. To start off this entry, I’d like to send a huge shout out to one of my Stanford GSB roommates, Rashad B., who recently launched his new company, Power Learning (Link to the site… Read the rest). Power Learning is basically an online community for teachers that provides value-added tools for lesson and curriculum development. At Stanford, Rashad completed the same MBA/MA.Ed joint degree program as me and he and I spent countless hours talking about his vision for the company. I’m so proud to see that he has finally reached his launch date. He’s going to do

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What’s good, folk. Looks like I’m mkaing up for lost time by making lots of posts in the month of August. I’m in the process of thinking through responses to some reader emails, but this entry isn’t one of those. Instead, it’s an entry to help a fantastic organization with some of its recruiting efforts. They’re looking for Consulting types and I guess I’ve got a good reader following among their target group, so they reached out to me

A couple of days ago, I received the following email from the Director of Talent Recruitment for Teach for America,… Read the rest

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I got this in an email from a friend of mine and thought some of you might be interested:
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Dear Colleagues:

The next President of the United States will face many challenges,
including that of appointing more than 3,000 individuals to
high-visibility jobs, such as the Cabinet and sub-Cabinet positions
(which are much more numerous yet with significant responsibilities) and
more entry-level positions which still wield enormous influence.

Whether the next President is Democrat or Republican, it is vital that
he have a diverse and talented pool of candidates to staff his
administration. Unfortunately, without an extensive outreach effort… Read the rest

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What’s up, y’all. This is post #300 and I’m using it to post this job opportunity that came my way. I hope it might be a fit for some of you. Take care.

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SVC Consulting (http://www.strategicvisionconsulting.com) has several openings for IT consultants and Project Managers interested in working with clients in the entertainment field (WB, Disney, FOX, etc are some of its clients) and specifically digital asset management. If anyone is interested in working as a consultant for SVC, please contact April McClain at amcclain-AT-strategicvisionconsulting.com (HR contact). A job description for the IT consultant role … Read the rest

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