Sun.Mar 10, 2024

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The Cliches of Consulting vs The Reality

StrategyU

The mystique of strategy consulting has inspired films such as Office Space and Up In the Air and TV shows like House of Lies. Often hysterically funny and uncomfortably close to the truth (the consultants’ whiteboard in Office Space with the title “Planning to Plan” is a personal favorite), Hollywood’s depiction of strategy consulting relies on an out-of-date perception of management consulting that looks nothing like the reality of the present.

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Challenging social inequality through career guidance

Adventures in Career Development

I’ve just been involved in a new OECD paper entitled Challenging social inequality through career guidance: Insights from international data and practice. In it we look at the evidence that suggests that class, gender and ethnic and migrant status inequality structures peoples’ careers and examine how career guidance can be used to challenge these kinds of inqualities.

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