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Today marks the first day of AlphaCamp for a new hire class. I arrive at work, excited and ready to lead a week of training sessions that PD has been prepping for the last few weeks. I get in early to greet the new joiners in the kitchen and get t...

Growing up in a technology-focused generation, I’ve always enjoyed learning and imagining how technology would improve our everyday lives. As a kid, I loved to take electronics apart to learn how the internals functioned, understand design element...

COVID-19 has brought hardship for people around the globe, unfolding at a rapid rate. For many businesses, government mandates have forced them to work remotely. Companies across the world are asking the same question: how do we adjust to a WFH en...

Even after many years, AlphaSights employees are still excited to be involved in iMentor. Why? Because our people see the value in mentorship and knowledge that can be passed from person to person — in essence, that’s AlphaSights’ business model. ...

Jillian serves as the Campus Recruiting Lead on our recruiting team, overseeing our target schools to recruit for our client service team. She graduated from Cornell University and started at AlphaSights in 2017. 7:30 AM: My alarm clock rings...

When your business is built around unlocking knowledge that can only be accessed via direct interactions, communication is key. Therefore, our Communications Engineering team is tasked with building a first-class communication platform to facilita...

  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...

Context  Our employees need high-quality company data to successfully serve our clients. AlphaSights didn’t have that, so the software engineering team dedicated time in our roadmap to solve that problem and deliver value to our employees and c...

Luna is a manager on our Client Services team for strategy consulting clients. She started in AlphaSights’ Dubai office in 2017 after graduating from the American University of Beirut with a degree in architecture.  7:30 am - I usually wake up ...

We live in a world where data is at our fingertips. Technology allows us to search practically anything, but the sheer amount of information available makes it difficult to discern what’s important and what’s not. For businesses, finding the right...

No doubt the pharmaceutical industry is intricate; there are complexities and third parties that directly affect the success of your product, and for corporate strategy teams working cross-functionally, it can be labyrinthian to navigate. From ...

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...

A few weeks ago, we hosted our first Strategy Leaders’ Breakfast in Boston where 15 senior strategy executives from the F500 in corporate strategy and internal consulting roles networked and shared the challenges their teams face across industries...

We convened 45+ strategy leaders for breakfast across the country representing Fortune 500 companies in Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. Several themes emerged from these conversations including organizational alignment, team...

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...

Now a manager on AlphaSights’ fast-growing Finance team in London, Merel Peters had a rather unique path to her current role. After her internship on our Client Service team (CST), she sat down with Co-founder, Andrew Heath, to figure out her next...

After nearly eight months into the world of work, I can only describe my feelings towards working life as a pleasant surprise. As expected, my initial dive into the adult world in a busy London office came as quite a shock to the system after sunb...

When I went to the Boston College Career Fair, I walked into the large gymnasium and was immediately overwhelmed by the sea of black suits! I first found AlphaSights when I saw Hadley Riegel, a VP on the client service team, dressed in a bright or...

Application support is crucial in ensuring that our Client Service team has the technology and support to deliver value to our clients everyday. We sat down with App Support engineers, Haris and Justin, to learn more about the growing team. Can...

At AlphaSights, I speak with people in senior management across Fortune 1000 companies on a daily basis. From these conversations, its come to my attention that an increased number of them, especially those in the tech industry, are in the early s...

How do you bring your whole self to work? AlphaSights Vice President and member of the LGBTQ+ community Sloan Danenhower ventures to say that it’s only possible if your workplace welcomes your whole self — no matter who you are, your background, o...

How many times in our academic careers have we been called “Future Leaders”? Every Business School, Social Sciences Department or Graduate Programme likes to market themselves as being best in class at developing the next generation of business an...

I joined AlphaSights in September 2017 as an Associate in our Hamburg office. I’m originally from Munich, Germany, and after I received my Masters in Management having studied in Lisbon, Portugal and Sao Paulo, Brazil, I knew I ultimately wanted t...

Everyone at AlphaSights has the opportunity to volunteer for Knowledge for Good (KFG), our social impact business unit. We partner directly with impact investors, social entrepreneurs, or nonprofit consultants, providing our knowledge-search servi...

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...

Anna, Danielle and Max decided to take a gap year between school and university and joined AlphaSights in September 2016. Here are their reflections on their time so far. Taking a year off before university can be an unnerving step into life af...

Patricia is part of our Alpha-X team, which runs an Inspirational Speaker Series, amongst other projects. Here she writes about our most recent Lunch and Learn on entrepreneurship and building growth. Last month we invited Laura Parker, Strateg...

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...

Not-for-profit organisations tackle some of the world’s toughest issues, from access to education and healthcare, to poverty and human rights. The AlphaSights Knowledge For Good initiative (KFG) aims at leveraging AlphaSights’ core capabilities - ...

At the end of the school year, I watched proudly as my class of 5-year-olds marched out of the door for the last time. They were small in size, but enormous in personality. Fast forward two weeks, and I found myself beginning an internship at A...

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 ...

It was never really in my plan to spend much time abroad - I’d spent most of my life in Singapore, and was really comfortable and settled there. My overseas journey formally began when I moved to the UK to pursue my studies in Experimental Psychol...

As a firm, we promote AlphaSights as a platform upon which ambitious young professionals can launch their careers. As I prepare to take my next step following 3.5 years at the company, working across both our Consulting and Capital Markets segment...

I joined AlphaSights four and a half years ago, when we were a significantly smaller team with far fewer offices but growing extremely quickly. We were all commercially focused and our primary goal was to provide an outstanding, quality-focused se...

Diversity In People As a second generation Hong Konger, raised in Australia, you’d think that it would be hard to beat the diversity that I was exposed to in ‘the lucky country’ renowned for multiculturalism and social diversity. Wrong. When I ...

I have always thought of myself as part of a team. In March of my senior year, during the last play of my last basketball game, I felt a slight panic when the clock stopped at the 10-second mark. Ten seconds later, I wasn’t going to be a part of t...

When I think about Pride, I’m reminded of a younger Ciarán, in a previous job, who went back into the proverbial closet. I came out early on in university but after I graduated, there was always a fear or worry that showing my full self would be t...

On August 10, 2010, a bright-eyed, blonde-haired 22-year old from suburban America began a 38-hour voyage from Seattle, Washington to Ndejje, Uganda to change the world. It was her first trip outside of North America, and she was filled with all o...

I recently joined AlphaSights as an experienced hire, with a little less than eight years of direct sales experience. I came from a firm where the average age of the field sales organization was over 40. Tenure was everything at my previous compan...

There are countless articles detailing the new age of career mobility for restless millennials with "job ADD". They cringe over stats that show that we stay in jobs for less than three years on average, and try desperately to align traditional com...

No more practice after class. No more early morning lifts. No more constant travel, well maybe a little… If you were a student-athlete in college, then your life has most likely been defined by tryouts, practices, and competitions for the last ...

Prior to embarking on the journey to find a full-time, postgraduate opportunity, it's important to take advantage of summer internships to cultivate your interests and develop real-life working experience. When searching for prospective internship...

Salary. For some, that’s the most important factor when evaluating a potential position. What is my base pay? How big is the potential bonus? How quickly will I be eligible for a raise? These are entirely rational questions to ask yourself while g...

As college students, we do nothing but continuously wreak havoc on our own bodies - we don’t sleep enough (and when we do, our sleep schedules are erratic, at best); we “nourish” our bodies with unhealthy foods and obscene amounts of caffeine; and...

When starting your first job, you might expect to spend the majority of your time learning and mastering your core responsibilities, while making sure you do not distract yourself with any additional tasks. Work, work, work - this is often what yo...

When I told my friends and family I was leaving Apple, the reactions were everything you’d expect. Some questioned my sanity; others were simply stunned that I would leave my dream company after only 18 months. I’m an unabashed Apple geek - in fac...

Finding your first job out of college does not begin in the fall of senior year. In fact, it starts much earlier. It is built on your past experiences: internships, classes, and summer jobs. It is a process of identifying the attributes that make ...

During the week of August 25th, AlphaSights employees across three of our global locations - Hong Kong, London, and New York - accepted the #IceBucketChallenge and came together to #StrikeOutALS. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, attacks th...

 I’ve always been interested in and impressed by working with Acumen, one of Knowledge for Good’s biggest partners. So I was extremely excited when Adam Thurland, a Shanghai-based branding consultant, reached out about starting a community in Shan...

Kalani is a New York CST Manager focusing on clients in the strategy consulting space. She started at AlphaSights in 2016 and is a graduate of Colgate University. 6:30 am - I usually set my alarm around 6:30 am, but it takes me a little whi...

Growing up in Ecuador, I witnessed firsthand the importance of giving back to the community. I learned from my parents that one should always take time to help others in need. With their example in mind, I became involved in social organizations a...

“You’re too young to worry about that, I’ll tell you when you’ve grown up.”  Although I don’t remember the finer details, I do remember hearing that phrase over and over again—“when you’ve grown up.” From a child’s standpoint, becoming this ide...

Lexi Zavras joined AlphaSights in September of 2013 after graduating from Dartmouth College with a degree in Government and Arabic. AlphaSights caught her attention right out of school because it offered the opportunity to see your immediate comme...

After graduating from the London School of Economics, Jakob Muratov began his career as a Client Service Associate in AlphaSights’ London office. He serves AlphaSights’ consulting accounts, focusing on Nordic-based clients. Initially drawn to Alph...

This quarter, AlphaSights selected  Access Institute for Psychological Services as its charity partner. AlphaSights Client Service Managers, Natalie Rasmus in our SF office and Eve Thomson from our NY office, sat down with Azita Ghafourpour, Direc...

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...

One of the most popular scam techniques in the business world is sending emails posing as internal employees (i.e. the CEO or a member of accounting) and requesting a transfer of money or the opening of an attached file. This type of scam and othe...

At AlphaSights, the core of our business grew from our desire to serve as the world’s knowledge partner. Our co-founders, Andrew and Max, recognized that the most valuable information lies within people’s heads, despite the fact that we have acces...

Over the past year, we've spoken to many corporate strategy leaders about their pain points when it comes to supporting their stakeholders through fact-based insights and actionable recommendations. Most recently, we hosted a dinner in New York wi...

Searching for a post-grad job is exhausting. You spend hours scouring LinkedIn, submit dozens of applications, sit through countless interviews, and attend networking event after networking event. The hardest part? Sometimes, you don’t even know w...

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 ...

Walk into any office with developers in it, and chances are you’ll see some sort of system status dashboard. For historic reasons that no one can remember, ours is called Walnut. Walnut. No one knows why. First, a history lesson. The p...

Serving as a member of the Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) at AlphaSights was a highlight during my time with the firm. WIN’s mission is to enhance women’s careers at the firm by providing opportunities both inside and outside the office to netwo...