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After two years with the firm, AlphaSights’ client service and specialist function associates across our Europe, Americas, and Asia regions have the opportunity to apply for Manager. Associates have six months to prepare their application before i...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

I originally discovered AlphaSights while scrolling through my school’s career portal, looking for entry-level recruiting roles. I hadn’t heard of the company before, so after seeing the job description I immediately went to their website to learn...

AlphaSights CTO Heath Hohwald is known for many things. He exhibits strong leadership on our software engineering team and has work experience at Amazon, Google, and Shutterstock. But what most people don’t know — largely because he keeps it und...

Heath Hohwald, AlphaSights’ CTO, discusses the software engineering team’s decision to transition from a Ruby on Rails to a Kotlin tech stack. Why did you move to a Kotlin-based platform from a Ruby on Rails tech stack? We’ve primarily b...

Last month, I was lucky enough to attend a +Acumen workshop (in collaboration with frog Design) to learn about design thinking, and was inspired to bring these concepts back to the Software Engineering team at AlphaSights. Acumen is an impact inve...

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...

Employee engagement is often overlooked or seen as the “final step” that companies think about after they’ve met key business objectives. In the context of communication and marketing, most firms initially prioritize a brand strategy that will app...

“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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

The summer before senior year is known to be stressful. Pressure’s on to land an awesome internship and secure that coveted offer before heading back to school for one last hurrah. I struggled a lot to figure out what I wanted to do. Growing up, I...

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...

At the start of my internship search, I found myself at a professional crossroads. I was unsure how my interests in business analytics and brand strategy would play into my career. As a business major, it was lonely navigating career options as a ...

Over the last month, AlphaSights has hosted 3 breakfasts with leaders of Corporate Strategy teams from over 30 companies in the Fortune 500. The geographical distribution spread from NYC to San Francisco and the companies ranged from multi-nationa...

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...

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...

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 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...

This November, we held our first AlphaSights Alumni event in Hong Kong. Five AlphaSights alumni, alongside current employees from the HK office, were invited to enjoy dinner and drinks at SPIGA HK. Throughout the evening, the group shared the diff...

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...

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...

This month we sat down with New York’s Izzy Spada to chat about her dynamic role at AlphaSights and how the two blend together. Read on for insights on her life as a second-year Demand Gen Associate and as President of the company’s global Women’s...

Last week, my team and I participated in a valuable professional development exercise. We each took the Strengthsfinder test to better understand our individual and team strengths followed by a team exercise led by Lauren Lipsky, Manager of Career...

On May 10th 2018, I represented AlphaSights and our Social Impact Business Unit at the Financial Times (FT) Investing for Good Asia Conference, which brought together diverse delegates to discuss the changing social impact landscape in Asia, with ...

Following our London MD Andrew Heath's talk with The Economist, we read up on the future of work and how essential it is to develop your soft skills in order to future-proof your career. The automation of labour has resulted in a reduction of p...

Although the goal is to get an interview, what you choose to put on your CV - and how you choose to put it - says a lot about you. You may not have studied grammar since school, but make sure you're not falling down at the first hurdle by forgetti...

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...

Connections, networking events, cold emails, and InMails. You’ve pulled all the stops to score one phone call or coffee chat with a person at your dream company in hopes that they’ll refer you. Congrats! You jumped the first hurdle and the call ...

The vast majority of people who graduate from their Bachelor’s degree in the Netherlands either continue studying or take up a board position in a student association. Neither of those options genuinely appealed to me, so I opted for something dif...

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...

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...

I remember when I was in college interviewing for jobs, I never knew what questions to ask at the end of interviews. I thought a lot about what to ask, because I wanted to ask questions that were not just good but also smart. As a part of the recr...

Your first interaction with an employer may well be at your University Career Fair. Although it is not an interview, it is definitely an opportunity for you to differentiate yourself from the rest of the crowd. The best way for you to make a good ...

Upon graduating college with a major in Biotechnology, I came to realize my professional passions lie in human communication and business, rather than research. This switch in my career trajectory posed a challenge this May as I was searching for ...

In April, I represented AlphaSights at the 2019 Skoll World Forum, through an event co-hosted by our social impact partner Acumen, and Business Fights Poverty. During this packed day of interesting lectures, breakout sessions, and networking oppor...

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...

Stefane joined AlphaSights' New York office in July 2014, where he worked on the Consulting and Capital Markets segments. In January 2016, he followed his desire to live and work abroad and applied for a transfer to the AlphaSights Dubai office (o...

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...

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 ...

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...

Up until my final year of college, I believed I would follow my father’s footsteps as an Engineer. I would work for a large, industrial company, follow a linear career trajectory and, through hard work, I would end up in a management position in a...

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 ...

Month six at AlphaSights and time has flown by. Taking a moment to reflect, I realise that there are a number of reasons why time has gone so quickly. Many of us, while at university, compile a mental list of things we hope to see fulfilled when s...

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...

It is widely known many of the qualities gained through playing sports are desired by employers and transferable to working life. This sentiment may ring true in particular for people who have played team sports, which naturally emphasise communic...

When I would tell people that I was going to graduate early, I would get mixed reactions. “Why do you want to do that?” my friends would ask, “you’re choosing to miss the best semester!” Others would ask me “how are you pulling that off? I wish I ...

Throughout your life, you will be asked to talk about yourself countless times: on first dates, at family gatherings, in application essays, and more. Likewise, throughout your professional career, and especially during behavioral interviews, you ...

As the calendar turns to Summer, we can officially celebrate the end of college graduation season. We’ve been treated to the wisdom that only celebrity commencement addresses - like one by the inimitably quotable Kanye West - can provide. And now,...

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...

Today, many young job seekers pursue a variety of different, perhaps less-traditional opportunities upon graduation. Gone are the days when large, multinational corporations, with decades of history, gobbled up all of the college graduates and enc...

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...

"Entrepreneurs right now are like the rock stars of the '80s." This analogy was recently posed to me by the founder of a successful wine and spirits delivery startup based in New York City. He continued, "In the '80s, everyone wanted to be a ro...

After joining AlphaSights, coming from a corporate mid-sized publicly-traded organization, I quickly realized that this company was an incredibly special organization. Every organization talks about their "culture", features it in marketing materi...

Connect+ Event Cologne/Köln It was early summer 2014, the day after the most intense storm of the year. I had been selected to participate in AlphaSights’ Connect event in Cologne and was determined to make an impression on the team – I knew I ...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

At AlphaSights, we have unique range of clients, from Corporate Strategists to Fund Managers. My team is part of the Capital Markets (CAP) segment in London and we work specifically alongside hedge fund and credit fund clients. What marks out hedg...

In my previous post, I wrote about my unconventional journey from a teenage entrepreneur to a college student to helping start the AlphaSights New York office. What I left out was why I chose to join AlphaSights over the other companies I was inte...

We often lose sight of our future vision and long-term goals in the daily grind of everyday life. Recently, however, I read an article which helped me take some time to reflect on the work I do at AlphaSights. I am fortunate to have worked with co...

In my sparsely decorated New York apartment, there's a large world map framed on the wall above my bed. Across this map, there are a number of black, red, and white-colored push pins in sporadic locations. Black pins symbolize the places I've been...

What many young graduates tend to ignore is the fact that a successful career depends not only on an individual’s skillset and virtue, but as much on your company’s willingness to let you use them to the fullest. There have certainly been countles...

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...

What's "happily ever after" to a college student? For most, landing a job. After roughly sixteen years of toiling over books, exams, papers, and projects, the elusive end of the tunnel has finally come into sight as students begin their senior yea...

I joined AlphaSights in May 2014 after three years in Fixed Income at a large British Investment Bank in London. Having graduated with a MSc in Finance from HEC Paris and a BSc in Maths & Economics, plus two internships in banking (M&A and...

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 ...

Andy Cipolaro, the Head of Technical Talent at AlphaSights, spoke to Flatiron School about the special combination of past work experience and programming abilities that AlphaSights looks for when hiring junior developers. Check out the intervie...

My first 6 months at AlphaSights has flown by — it seems like only yesterday when I first applied to the Associate program last September. I joined AlphaSights in January 2018, after studying Economics at The University of Exeter. Since then, each...

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...

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...

After the founders, the next two employees of AlphaSights were software engineers. From the beginning, AlphaSights was built on a foundation of exceptional employees enabled by great software. Our engineering team of two was located in a startup h...

“Onwards and upwards,” has been our founders’ day one catch-phrase and it doesn’t just apply to our firm’s growth but also for our professional development. Since our founding, we’ve prided ourselves on offering an accelerated career path t...

Let’s face it. The job market is tough for today’s college seniors. Since the 2008 economic downturn, job growth for millennials has been flat or down, and the average young graduate holds debt hovering somewhere around $30,000 in the US and £44,0...

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...

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...

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...

DISCLAIMER: I’ve only been to 2 conferences ever. This is what I learned. I’ll write an advanced guide when I become a well seasoned conference goer. Also, let’s assume money is not important here. ;) .   .   . I think we can all agree tha...

There’s not much debate that Computer Science is currently one of the most desirable degrees to have outside of college. In an article written by Forbes Magazine, an undergraduate, master’s or doctorate’s degree in the field of Computer Science ...

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...

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...

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...