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“How are you getting to the Voice of the Customer?” It’s a question that has come up time and again in AlphaSights’ Strategy & Innovation Leaders breakfast series. As we closed on our fifth series, it was still one of the biggest questions ...

In 2014, I joined AlphaSights right out of college as a client service associate, a demanding yet rewarding role. My job was to understand my clients’ unique needs and knowledge gaps, and then identify experts with highly-specific knowledge to fil...

Over the last year, clients within the healthcare space have sought to learn more about the future of Immuno-Oncology and how recent acquisitions, FDA approvals, and pending product releases could impact their business. Regardless of their positio...

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...

Wesley Lemieux joined AlphaSights as an HR manager in November 2016 after starting her career at a tech startup.  Majoring in Human Resources in her undergrad and then earning a Master’s in Human Resource Management at Rutgers University, Wesley a...

Alright, so we’re not professional athletes, but the AlphaSights FC team is not too shabby. To celebrate the FIFA World Cup, we sat down with Hong Kong’s Hassan Nasser to shed light on the office’s four-year old team and how that has influenced hi...

In July 2014 I moved from Boston to San Francisco, trading snow and brownstones for palm trees and the Sierras. If that’s not cliché enough, just wait, because I went to work at a startup. OrderAhead hired me to help expand sales and operations fr...

As I picked up my copy of The Sunday Times last weekend, I was delighted to see AlphaSights appearing for the 3rd year running on the Virgin Fast Track 100, this time in 21st place, confirming our status as one of the UK’s fastest-growing firms. H...

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...

According to recent statistics, more than half of the UK’s top employers now offer industrial placements to undergraduate students for a period of six to twelve months. From the employer’s perspective, such opportunities are put forward with a vie...

Lea joined the London office in 2014 following her Bachelor's degree in Germany and focuses on recruiting in the DACH region. As a 23-year-old, you might wonder (and so did I) what advice I could possibly give other twenty-somethings. When I gr...

Since joining AlphaSights full time a year ago, the explicit benefits of the entry-level role have always been obvious to me: ability to enjoy AlphaSights’ terrific culture, chance to develop crucial project management skills, and opportunity to d...

Ever since I've been old enough to tie my own shoes (okay, more like Velcro strap my toddler sneaks), I've been known for being fiercely independent. "I. do. it. MAHSELF," I'd retort to my Mom as a stubborn 2-year old getting ready for preschool. ...

Ironically, the challenge of my job has nothing to do with the fact that I am hiring for Software Developers, a population with an exceptionally low unemployment rate. It's not even the high demand for experienced Ruby on Rails developers that mak...

There are many people in this world who are planners, who thrive in structure, who schedule every moment of their day, and who fear unexpected changes to any predetermined path. However, even those who find themselves clinging to rigidity can bene...

When I graduated from Vanderbilt in May 2013, I took a job in Finance. It was a job I had basically signed on the dotted line for two years before when I was just 20 years old and received an internship offer at that company. The summer internship...

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...

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 ...

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...