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I’m not a designer, but I consider myself a problem solver and in order to solve problems I always feel the need to gather as much knowledge as possible around my area of expertise. So I decided to go to a design conference this year and expand ...

  The Client Protection (CP) team at AlphaSights is here to do just what its name entails: protect our clients. They ensure that clients use our services and access the knowledge they need safely. Therefore, it’s important that our CP team is a...

3 learnings from Natanya Meyer at Global Goals Week: developing countries are open-minded, choose cutting-edge wireless technology, and are leapfrogging high-income nations with outdated infrastructure. Biggest “con” of the UNGA? No cell servic...

Last week, London Client Service Associate Connie Van Stroud sat down with Natasha Bhana, AlphaSights’ Head of Recruitment for Europe, to pick her brain on all things interview related, and find out what she enjoys most about leading our recruitin...

After spending just shy of two years on London’s Client Protection team, Joe Docherty reflects on his time at AlphaSights and the role this experience played in securing his next opportunity. After graduating with a law degree from the Universi...

AlphaSights wouldn’t be where it is now without our Office Experience (OE) team. From event planning to improving the firm’s environment to office maintenance, OE is a well-oiled machine that keeps our offices across the globe up and running. They...

  Recent graduate and Client Protection associate, Brittany Spinelli, discusses her application process and path to AlphaSights The Application Process When my parents asked what priorities I had in mind when I envisioned my career, I fel...

At AlphaSights, we believe that career development is a top priority. When people move jobs, they shouldn’t necessarily lose the relationship they’ve formed with their previous employer or coworkers. Therefore, we welcome alumni back, allowing emp...

One of the newest members of the AlphaSights team, Celine Zoetelief-Tromp, shares her perspective on our Associate Program application process: What initially interested you about AlphaSights and the Associate role? The more I learned about ...

More than 50 years on from the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales, Stonewall’s 2018 report LGBT in Britain is not all rainbows and butterflies. The report is worth reading in full, but to pick out some headline points: “M...

I’ve often heard the phrase, “Perspective is everything.” As a rising pre-law senior entering the last summer before graduation, I thought about this as I explored internship opportunities to help plan my career path after college. I had previo...

Though there have been countless, unprecedented challenges across the world over the past few months, one positive outcome is that we've all had more time this summer to slow down and learn new things. We caught up with a few of our leaders at Alp...

After roughly eighteen months as a legal assistant at a corporate law firm, I gave my two weeks notice with excitement. I was confident that I would never again compile a binder or be tapped to print an “urgent!!!” document.  I felt burned ...

Coming from Belgium, I moved to London two years ago to read a Masters of Law at the London School of Economics. At the end of my year at LSE, I started to think about my first career step. Having studied Law for several years, the classic career ...

Life as a lawyer offers many things: a long-term career path, a clearly defined day-to-day role, and an easy way to explain what you do for a living. Having read Law at Cambridge and trained at a leading global firm, the legal treadmill was alread...

The last thing I wanted going into my first job was a standard entry level position where I was stuck behind Excel or filing documents on behalf of my manager. I thought consulting sounded interesting, was a bit worried by the fact that you could ...

Because the world of on-demand professional knowledge is young and often behind the scenes in today’s business world, one doesn’t go through life preparing to be a part of it. As such, the path to AlphaSights is often unique and paved with lessons...

As a recovering history major with a five-year college reunion on the immediate horizon, I’ve come a long way from what my 22-year-old self obsessed over during his inaugural job search. Back then, it seemed like a daily occurrence that I would co...

Having grown up as a Korean girl in the UK, I am a product of two polarising cultures. This brings about complexities when making milestone decisions in my life and it was no different when I had to choose my career path. My Korean side would want...

Clock in at 9:30am, receive an assignment, execute what’s been asked of you, clock out. Certainty. Or in other words, my life before AlphaSights. After college I took a job at one of the largest, most established corporate law firms in the coun...

Hello world! My name is Eamon, and I’m a Software Engineering Intern at AlphaSights. During my summer internship at AlphaSights, I've been able to work on existing and brand new web applications as a full-stack developer, using Ruby on Rails, C...

What does it mean to be the “world’s knowledge partner?” At AlphaSights, we connect key decision-makers at corporations, private equity firms, investment funds, and top consulting firms to industry experts with the knowledge they need to make info...

Over the summer I had the opportunity to work at AlphaSights and I must admit that I could not have asked for a better opportunity to work on real-life problems. So let the fun begin… Before my internship had even begun, I thought that web d...

Replicating a database can make our applications faster and increase our tolerance to failures, but there are a lot of different options available and each one comes with a price tag. It’s hard to make the right choice if we do not understand how ...

The title of this article should be ‘Web Performance for Someone Who Has Developed Applications For Quite a Long Time But Still Has No Idea Really’. That would be me a couple of days ago. I realised I had no idea how a browser worked. My genera...