Thanks to AI, junior employees at major firms are spending less time prepping paperwork and more time pitching clients

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Major consulting and law firms are beginning to implement AI, which could help junior workers climb the corporate ladder faster.

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Inside the consulting industry's race to become AI rainmakers

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Many big consulting companies are building out their services around artificial intelligence.

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Why KPMG's head of AI strategy isn't worried consultants will become obsolete

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KPMG US expects it will need more people as it looks for its employees to work more with AI.

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I was put on a PIP in my director-level job and fantasized about quitting. So I quiet quit for 3 months before actually walking out.

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"Michael Phelps is a really good swimmer, yet he'll still drown if you chain him to the Titanic. That was the situation I was in — it felt like no matter how hard I swam, I was going to drown," John Garvens 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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Clarence Thomas' wife Ginni was paid nearly $100,000 for 'consulting' by a nonprofit that ended up filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court: report

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Virginia “Ginni” Thomas at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 23, 2017.

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These 25 companies have the highest-paying internships of 2023 — with some paying more than $9,000 a month

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Tech, finance, and consulting firms dominated Glassdoor's list of the highest-paying internships of 2023.

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Blue-chip consulting firm Bain is reportedly offering new hires $20,000 to become yoga instructors or go on safari for a year

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Bain is reportedly offering new MBA hires tens of thousands of dollars to delay their start at the consulting firm.

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Walmart could expand into consulting and website design for other businesses as it continues to look beyond traditional retail, trademark filing suggests

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Walmart filed a trademark application for the term "CLUBHOUSE" on April 6.

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