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Conversation with Jullien Gordon, Serial Entrepreneur and “Purpose Finder”

Published on February 5, 2011 by Marquis in Business, Business School, career, career path, Conversations, entrepreneurship, job search resources, mba, my peoples, other sites, professional advice, Stanford GSB

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In this entry, I present a discussion with Jullien Gordon… Read the rest, a serial entrepreneur and “Purpose Finder”, as a part of my “Conversations” interview series. Jullien is a good friend of mine from time at Stanford GSB (he was in the class behind me) and we’ve supported each other over the years in our various ventures. My long-time blog readers will recognize Jullien’s name because I’ve written about him a few times times in the past. I wanted to profile Jullien earlier as a part of the this interview series, but he was busy launching the Career Change Challenge and

Conversation with Iain Lopata, Founder and CEO of The Consulting Bench

Published on December 18, 2010 by Marquis in Business, career, consulting, Conversations, Corporate executives, entrepreneurship, job opportunities, job search resources, other sites, professional advice

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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

Promotion from a career prep resource provider for registered members of this site

Published on October 26, 2010 by Marquis in career, career path, job search resources, my peoples, other sites, recruiting, Stanford GSB, Uncategorized

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During tough economic times like this, I’m sure that everyone could use as much information as possible about how to find the right career path. Please check out the video and text below to find out about a promotion for a really cool career prep resource that has been offered to registered members of this site.

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Graduate school may get you a good job, but it won’t guarantee you your D.R.E.A.M. job. Do you know what it feels like to D.R.E.A.M. awake? Do know how to make meaning and … Read the rest

Question about prepping for MBA summer internship recruiting

Published on October 10, 2010 by Marquis in career, consulting, interview advice, job search resources, mba, professional advice, recruiting, Uncategorized

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The email below comes from a reader who has been following my blog for a couple of years now. She reached out to me a few months back to let me know that she’d been admitted to Stanford GSB and we’ve exchanged a few emails since then. Now, she’s in the middle of her first quarter at the GSB and is a little worried as she approaches the summer internship recruiting process for Management Consulting. She’s asked for my advice on what she can do now to help prepare for her success in the process and, as my longtime readers… Read the rest

Strategic approach to the job search, Part IV – Managing job offers

Published on September 1, 2010 by Marquis in career, interview advice, job search resources, professional advice

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This entry is the fourth and final part of my “Strategic approach to the job search” series. The video below lays out my thoughts on how one should manage job offers at the back end of a job search process. When I considered my full-time job offers coming out of Stanford GSB, the process was somewhat straightforward, but that definitely wasn’t the case when I had to weigh my job offers as an experienced professional. Understanding the differences in these two situations has definitely altered the way that I will evaluate job offers in the future…hopefully, my words will help… Read the rest

How to Plan Your Resume Content

Published on August 25, 2010 by Marquis in career, interesting articles, job search resources, other blogs, professional advice, resume

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Recently, I came across a blog produced by a young lady named Karen Flowers, who calls herself “The Resume Chick” and provides resume writing services for clients. After reading some of her entries, I’ve become a big fan of her site. I know that she’s technically a competitor of mine because we both offer resume review and advisory services, but game recognizes game… Read the rest and her resume advice game is strong. She’s providing her readers with some great tips and, as my long-time readers know, I care more about passing along useful information to my readers than holding that info back

The Career Change Challenge – a new career search resource from Jullien Gordon

Published on August 7, 2010 by Marquis in career, interview advice, job search resources, my peoples, other sites, professional advice

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Hey, everyone. My long-time readers know that I’ve recently been trying to pass along job-related resources as I come across them. I’ve come across a new one that was developed my a good friend of mine that I’ve mentioned on this site before, Jullien Gordon. Jullien is one of my peoples from my time at Stanford GSB and, since earning his MBA in 2007, he has created several projects geared toward leading people to finding their life purposes and using them as guidelines for living. He recently launched a new one with a focus on the job search that is… Read the rest

USNews.com: More MBA Graduates Will Get Jobs in 2010

Published on July 18, 2010 by Marquis in career, interesting articles, job search resources, mba, recruiting

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As many of you have likely read, the job market was incredibly tough for MBAs from the Class of 2009. In fact, I know of several MBA2009 graduates who are still searching for their first post-MBA job. In some cases, those graduates are being incredibly picky and are holding out for the “dream job”. But, in other cases, kids are applying to a wide range of opportunities and are willing to take salaries in the same range as their pre-MBA compensation…and, even with that level of flexibility, many of these kids are still job-searching.

Fortunately, according to US News and … Read the rest