Recruiting and retaining women has long been seen as one of the biggest issues for the consulting industry. In 2016 She’s Back, in collaboration with a number of consulting…
Landing your ideal candidate is as important as finding them. You might have identified or piqued the interest of a great candidate but can you actually hire them? In order…
For major corporates, be they in industry, commerce, or financial services, there are compelling reasons for hiring management consultants. The pace of change is accelerating and bringing consulting skills in…
There’s no such thing as a job for life so no one expects loyalty these days… Some believe that employer and employee loyalty is so last century and that it…
Within any organisation the leadership team and hiring managers can find themselves being advised about recruitment by internal staff with their own agendas which are sometimes in conflict with…
Relevance of brand in management consultancy. In a competitive environment brand is becoming ever more important. It is much more than simply a logo and a tagline. It is the…
The sky hasn’t yet caved in and the plagues of locusts have yet to arrive but what is the current state of the management consultancy recruitment market, especially for permanent…
Management consultancy firms should give as much consideration to rejected candidates as those they offer jobs to. Many of my friends, former colleagues and contacts are at an age where…
The results of Prism’s 2016 annual Management Consultancy Recruitment Survey. We canvassed twenty-three SME consulting firms, typically in the 15-250 employee range. Key findings: All firms participating in the survey aim…
Well the turkeys have voted for Christmas but the question on everyone’s lips is of course “what does it mean?” Prism is an Associate Member of the Management Consultancies Association…
A Management Consultancy firm’s brand is just as important for potential employees as it is for potential clients. Source for Consulting’s research suggests that 40% of senior executives view brand…
Recruitment giants LinkedIn and Indeed have both recently carried out major surveys looking at candidate attraction which, by implication, may also serve as a blueprint for staff retention. Indeed revealed that three-quarters of survey respondents to the…
Management Consultancies Association MCA round table: an entertaining perspective on the future of management consultancy. Prism, as Associate Members of the Management Consultancies Association, was invited to attend an MCA…
Consultants and tech geeks love to come up with daft phrases to confuse the rest of us. It makes them feel “in the know” and allows them to sell us…
This 2015 US survey asked staff at over 100 firms to comment on their work and rate the firms on a range of hard and soft points from work…