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by Heather Townsend | Updated Feb 4, 2018
Firstly, well done for making it to partner! You have probably made the biggest and toughest step up you are ever going to do in your career. In the few months before your appointment to partner becomes permanent you have some essential activities to see to. In this...
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by Heather Townsend | Updated Feb 4, 2018
Your Sponsoring Partner is the person who recommends you for partnership, he or she is a crucial member of your support team. If this relationship has broken down or is weak, your partnership ambitions may be effectively blocked at your firm. This is the most...
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by Heather Townsend | Jan 8, 2018
Over the next few months many of the Big 4 firms will be conducting partnership panel interviews for their candidates on partnership track and also partner panel interviews for their senior managers wanting to become directors. Therefore, in this blog post I will...
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by Heather Townsend | Updated Jan 8, 2018
Most partner track processes for medium to large-sized firms will include a number of partnership panel interviews. These are where you are interviewed by a number of partner from your firm. The clue really is in the name. Typically in these partnership panel...
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by Heather Townsend | Updated Nov 14, 2017
Given how hard it is to make partner in a Big 4 firm, you can be forgiven for making this mistake. Creating the perfect Big 4 business case for partner (or director) will take a significant amount of your time. However, this mistake scuppered one of our client’s...
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by Heather Townsend | Updated Feb 3, 2018
Over the last few years we have been advocating using a tool called a one page talk sheet to communicate your business case for partnership. In fact, this tool is probably the most important tool you can use when on partner track (or if you want to get onto...
