I spent $46,000 joining a Florida country club, but didn't fit in. It's my biggest financial regret.

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Layton Cox and his wife joined a country club in Florida.

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One lesson took the CEO of Habit Burger's career from consultant to the C-suite

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Habit Burger CEO Shannon Hennessy poses in the company's test kitchen.
Habit Burger CEO Shannon Hennessy told Business Insider that her favorite piece of career advice is to invest in your own confidence.

Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert

Baby naming is big business, with consultants charging up to $10,000 to find the perfect name

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A stock image of a newborn baby with a "Hello, my name is..." sticker.

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McKinsey tried to boost the morale of senior staff by blasting Eminem and Bob Marley at an internal event, report says

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Eminem
Eminem was on the playlist when McKinsey partners met earlier in April in Denmark.

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Consultant. Analyst. Strategist. But what does that mean? Here's a guide to some common job titles

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Your guide to cutting through the corporate job title jargon.

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KPMG is making a $2 billion bet on AI. It's another example of big changes that are coming to the workplace.

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KPMG
KPMG is investing $2 billion over five years in a partnership with Microsoft through which the companies plan to jointly develop AI tools, the companies said.

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Consulting firms like Accenture are giving recent grads $25,000 stipends to push back their start dates

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Some undergraduates who were set to work at consulting firms after graduation are seeing their start dates pushed back amid a business slowdown.

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Consultants make $175,000 right out of business school. But some of them have nothing to do — so they're just sitting around getting paid.

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Recent hires, fresh out of business school, at some big consulting firms don't have enough work to do. They're spending the idle time meal-prepping, taking naps, and even applying for other jobs, the told The Wall Street Journal.

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Meta hired consultancy firm Bain & Co. before Mark Zuckerberg's big 'efficiency' push, foreshadowing layoffs and cost-cutting

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company's first conference dedicated to messaging
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company's first conference dedicated to messaging

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I turned my consultancy side hustle into a full-time business and book using these two strategies

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Ashley Stoyanov Ojeda
Ashley Stoyanov Ojeda is a consultant and author

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