Would-Be Bankers Turn to Consulting

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A really interesting article from Business Week which shows one of the recent trends following the financial crisis. As students are not able to find jobs in investment banks, some of them are swithcing to consulting. That’s why the competition to get into consulting is going to be tougher this year… http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/oct2008/bs2008107_579554.htm Popularity: 29% [?]Share [...]

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7 + 3 ways to boost GPA

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GPA or Grade Point Average, is the one deciding factor that compares the quality of your work with your classmates and ranks you accordingly. The higher your GPA the better. But sometimes it is much harder to increase this simple number than it first seems. Thankfully, there are some simple steps you can take to [...]

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6 Tips for Organizing Research

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Intro/Hook. Download the articles you plan on using, and save them in a single folder. You don’t want to pay the penalty for someone else’s site going down, or free content being transferred to a paid archive. If the source website doesn’t allow you to save the article to your website, there are two workarounds. [...]

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Research Using Journal Articles

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It is very useful to use the internet to make a research… You want to make a study on the financial crisis (common at the moment…)? Well, it could be useful to have a look at what the best journalists and professors say about the current financial crisis. It could be useful to have their [...]

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Simplification – The Key to Success

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Taking notes during lectures is perhaps the most important part of retaining knowledge throughout your university semmester, but most students are simply not that good at it. They tend to focus on either writing down every word your lecturer says, and just the important points. There is a much easier method which will definetly pay [...]

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